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Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

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Damning with faint praise though it may be, I'm glad to see they came up with a death game that makes sense for the genre of work (ie a game where the best way to get ahead is to pair up with someone, in a game with dating sim elements).

Also that thing Beatrix is wearing is a uniform?

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Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
There's also the simple fact that we currently contribute the least to the ship, and it would be very likely to end up with us voted off.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.

mycelia posted:

At the risk of self promo, the one that's already out is called Retrace and it's inspired by the same games as this one. It's kinda (very) janky but I did my best :v:

I'm curious what, if anything, Ai will turn up from her investigation. I'm kind of expecting some ghost in the machine where Dai isn't actually an AI, as such, but a person-turned-AI. A very sadistic one. I'm also not sold on Ai's innocent routine, but we'll see.

Oooh, I had a friend recommend this to me. I should give the demo a shot.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Melody and Shizuka

this game is intriguing enough that I can't wait to see it go off the rails as promised.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
I'm assuming the way the timelines work is that a shot from Jordan on a character will always be the kill shot on that character.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.

GiantRockFromSpace posted:

That would mean there are 7 different branches, one for each death, and either the deaths would have to account for who is alive if they can happen anytime or they're just generic lines which would suck. The logical thing is 2-4 branches and some shots lead to the same result.

Not necessarily - you could theoretically have a route where X or Y died and it had the same end result (one of the twins dying and the other doing something that would cause Dai to retaliate, for example). This is all speculation, but 'there are seven routes, or slightly fewer with similar end results' is more believable to me from a game standpoint than 'you make a decision that doesn't actually matter in a visual novel'.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
we're gonna have to go with the twins eventually, and M!Jordan is less guarded than his female counterpart

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
oh. :V

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Dai is extremely terrible, but at least she's not boring

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
um?

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
:goleft:

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
the railroad tracks are starting to get a bit visible huh

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
now I'm wondering if Dai's deal is that she promised Kimiko's mom she'd keep her alive... but with no restrictions on just how she'd accomplish that.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.

Quackles posted:

Keep her alive, meaning protecting her from... what, exactly?

The resources crunch on the ship? don't have to worry about that if everyone else is dead.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.

Quackles posted:

Yeah, uh, the resources crunch as an excuse feels... made up, to me.

I would not be surprised if it was, given how many scenes we've had of people snacking, but I'm going with what the game's given us so far.

Either way, I guess.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
So, uh, that sure happened.

My theorizing: Ai's deletion brought on a containment breach between dimensions that allowed murdery Kimiko to pass through and do some murdering.


also but less related: Yoshiki has fast gone from 'tee hee quirky' to 'if the writers thought this character was charming, it speaks badly of them and their writing ability'.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
sometimes it's good to just wander into a trainwreck with eyes open and your manic pixie dream engineer at your side

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
That blanket lump sprite is a cute touch.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Good luck to the kitty and to you!

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
uhhh?

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
There's way too much text in this game that's not dedicated to the service of the game or of the dating bits.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
There was that 59 41 thing at least

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
eugh, that one's pretty skeevy

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
lol

edit for actual content: so the 59 41 thing is coordinates to another dimension, makes sense.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
I don't mind Shizuka that much because she shows hints of character growth and thinking beyond her one gimmick and also because she is not as dumb as a sack of hammers. She's impulsive and thinks of everything in terms of video games, which is obnoxious, but that's a step up from Yoshiki who is so dumb it strains credulity.

Will be very happy to spend some time with other people. Can't wait to see how Vlad is actually a manic pixie dream man too.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
How old's Katashi supposed to be, relative to Shizuka? I forget if it's been mentioned.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Genuinely surprising to me.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Yep, let's!

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
so glad that most of this section of katashi's route was about yoshiki being once again too dumb to live

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

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wait, we're not basically over? I figured since we were at the point where most of the endings happen, we were getting close.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
It's not your pace, it's the game's writing, because it's like 'okay vampire children is where all the button deaths and the vampire deaths and the betrayal deaths happen'

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
:shepface:

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Katashi still is a good character.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
I also like how the resources issue they mentioned at the start goes away basically immediately and there's always fresh food and cake and alcohol around.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
this is just about the least sexy fanservice I've ever seen in anything

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

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mycelia posted:

God, why did you remind me. :shepicide:

I just...man. Tonal shifts can be cool, but it doesn't feel intentional at all here, just "here's Dating Scene 1 followed by Death Game Scene B", with no connective tissue whatsoever.

yep. doing it once or twice would be genuinely shocking, like you're enjoying a tender/sexy moment and then it's all ripped away from you - but this is just formulaic.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Yeah, we haven't hit game over. Chances of a rampage are Pretty Good.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Ah, so that's where they're going with the captain. Cool. cool cool cool cool cool.


let's get outta here

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Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
There's something unsettling about beta shizuka that I can't put my finger on, but deffo agreed on beatrix.

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