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Visual Novel Sports Club: A Group LP of Pyre Hello LP subforum, it's been a long time since I've posted but I've got a new LP I'd like to share. What is Pyre? Pyre is Supergiant's third game, after Bastion and Transistor but before Hades. It is, in my opinion, their amazing sleeper hit that often gets slept on in favor of quicker, more well tuned games like Hades. Pyre is a hybrid visual novel/sports RPG where you manage a team of athletes attempting to be the best ballers they can be. But a lot is at stake! Every participant is actually a prisoner of the Downside, a fantasy hellscape that sucks to live in, and all prisoners are exiled from a fantasy city known as the Commonwealth. Only the best ballers can be freed from the Downside, and to do that we must observe the sacred Rituals of the Rites! What are the Rites? The Rites are a combination of football/basketball played 3-on-3 with a goal for each team. The idea is to get the ball into the opponent's goal to do damage to their Pyre. The first team to snuff out the opposing team's Pyre wins, and the best teams are eligible to win their freedom! Or so we hear. Following the traditions of the Rites is paramount. How Will This LP Work? This is a group effort LP, inspired by Slowbeef's Visual Novel Book Club. In that series Slowbeef would gather several people blind on each visual novel game to talk about it in depth. For this LP I've gathered three blind players to go on the journey with me and talk about their experiences. They are: Minimatt Ryyudo TurboC Each of us will have a similar but different road trip across the Downside that we'll discuss, and when it comes time to conduct the Rites we will view the highlights of everyone's game and do some sports commentary for the audience. Couple of Rules for the Players Involved: All games are final! No Restarts are allowed! Any difficulty is allowed, and you can change diffculties at any time, but Normal difficulty is recommended for a first playthrough. I will be playing on True Nightwings, the hardest difficulty and will discuss in detail what that means for me in the video. Without further interruption, let's get going! Episode One  https://youtu.be/N165ZOtL4c4
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Episode List Episode One Rites 1-3 Episode Two Rites 4-6 Episode Three Rites 7-8 Episode Four Rites 9-12 Episode Five Rites 13-16 Episode Six Rites 17-19 Episode Seven Rites 20-22 thevoiceofdog fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Dec 2, 2023 |
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Hey y’all, sorry about the lack of updates, we’ve been having trouble finding a time to get together to record the next ep. Gonna try for this Sunday though so here’s hoping I can get ep2 out around Christmas time. Thanks everyone for waiting!
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Dec 16, 2022 19:00
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Audio for the next ep is recorded and I’m making progress on the episode. Expect an upload this week 
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Dec 21, 2022 16:49
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Scaramouche posted:For anyone not quite sure what's going on here, it's not quite a classic LP, but I'm into it. I actually kind of gave up on VNBC because as entertaining as the cast is, there's too little going on on the screen, and not nearly enough sports talk. And this delivers both in a similar format. Yeah, kinda what I was going for. I wanted to highlight how goddamn fun this game’s gameplay can be. Originally I had slowbeef, Jim and Dvac from VNBC in mind for the LP but they were all quite busy. Glad I could find some pro esports people though I like how things are going so far.
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Jan 5, 2023 06:18
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New episode, and the End of Season One! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNbi9M3R_eo
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Feb 6, 2023 23:59
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That’s correct, any team you lose the liberation match to gets removed from the rotation entirely. You will never see them again in the game. So if Iggy gets liberated the Tempers disappear.
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Feb 21, 2023 03:04
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It's time for Season 2! This one's our biggest episode yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbMG_58tFpQ Also need to actually, yknow, organize some poo poo in the OP. I have been a little neglectful tbh edit: done, a basic episode list has been added. thevoiceofdog fucked around with this message at 23:14 on May 11, 2023 |
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May 11, 2023 23:00
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Yup, once you’ve seen (most) of the world the game gets streamlined and a bit more SPORTS focused. Still plenty of plot points left to go though that’ll get drip fed to us between games. And honestly, the most important plot thread we haven’t really gotten to yet 
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May 15, 2023 17:45
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Episode 5 is out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43wDXgVNEUI
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Jul 7, 2023 22:47
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I have to apologize for the update schedule, a month (or longer!) between episodes is a bit much. But I like to give the participants time to record at their leisure, and it usually takes us a week or two to find a time to get together, and editing it takes another couple of weeks, etc etc. Wrangling four people in a consistent schedule is actually very challenging! It's been a long time getting here but next update will start to get into endgame stuff. The LP will be coming to a close with the last few remaining Seasons, which are getting shorter. So maybe we'll be able to do updates slightly faster as we get towards the end? Oh but the last episode will definitely be huge. Lot of final discussion about endings and stuff to be had. AND I had an idea for a bonus episode where we attempt to Parsec (remote play) and play some Verses Mode! Close out the LP by finding out who can 1v1 me! This might happen as a stream but I definitely want to attempt it, should be good for a laugh at the very least.
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Jul 12, 2023 02:25
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I'm back from an unplanned hiatus! Life has been complicated lately. Nevertheless the show must go on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neWgzPbZUzo
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Oct 7, 2023 12:25
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Season Five is here! We're getting close to the end. Only a couple episodes remain! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRXA3x1jb3o
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Wanted to apologize for the lack of updates the last couple months, a lot has happened. Health issues and scheduling issues are mostly to blame. I have all the footage for the rest of the LP so from here on out it’s all editing and recording commentary with the crew. Currently trying to find a good time to meet to record the penultimate episode. Thank you everyone for bearing with me.
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Feb 2, 2024 17:35
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Okay! We're back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3WID8Wg6ZM
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Feb 23, 2024 05:10
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Yeah you’re not gonna want to miss the last game of the ep, might be the best one I had all LP
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Feb 23, 2024 18:28
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Update! We are set to record the final episode this Monday! Thanks everyone for being patient.
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'Nother Update! We have recorded the final episode (twice actually due to tech issues) and audio has been processed! Time to start assembling the video!
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