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The S.O.S. Brigade. If that's too long, call it SOS or SOS Dan.
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The Arm-y. 
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Oct 31, 2023 01:54
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Einander posted:The Arm-y. Goddamn, I’m throwing my vote behind this one.
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Oct 31, 2023 01:59
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Einander posted:The Arm-y.
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Oct 31, 2023 02:06
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Einander posted:The Arm-y. 
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Oct 31, 2023 02:11
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Einander posted:The Arm-y. 
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Oct 31, 2023 02:16
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That fresh NG boss fight really made Artix's point, oof. I think shields regenerating at fixed health percentages would have been better (with an upgrade stopping it); similar effect but Yajirobe has a partial Einander posted:The Arm-y. gently caress dammit this is good now and will become cringe 3 videos in, it's  for this game.
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Oct 31, 2023 05:33
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Einander posted:The Arm-y.
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Oct 31, 2023 05:35
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This game wears its Persona inspirations on its sleeves: social links, specific in-game deadlines, puzzles ripped straight from Persona 5, a god-like deity advising you to strengthen your bonds, and an in-game meter that seems to demonstrate how far you are into the narrative. Also, since this was brought up in commentary, if these kids are in Japan, they can live by themselves: a common and convenient trope in anime, but a rare yet real thing in Japan. According to this study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6177267/, on figure 3, five percent from the 15-19 age group live alone. (Though who knows how many of that is mostly aged 18-19; I found the source if anyone wants to do a data analysis for 2023: https://www.ipss.go.jp/p-info/e/psj2023/PSJ2023.asp)
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Oct 31, 2023 08:12
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They really should've picked any other name than The Stone for their mcguffin. Anything else. Also yeah, joining the Arm-y bandwagon.
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Oct 31, 2023 12:52
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Glad people enjoy the terrible pun!Cooked Auto posted:They really should've picked any other name than The Stone for their mcguffin. I'm just waiting to discover that actually the protagonist had the Stone all along as part of some clever plan of Lux's, and that it's actually what's taking the form of the energy arm. That's why Yajirobe has that default weapon! Because the Sword is in the Stone, you see.
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Oct 31, 2023 17:41
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I'm just glad Chani's "I am suddenly super jealous of my buddy and am going to bitch about it because that was a thing that happened in Persona 3 and 5 and maybe 4 I'm not sure right now" arc ended as quick as it began.
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Oct 31, 2023 19:19
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Einander posted:The Arm-y.
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Oct 31, 2023 21:27
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 Part 4: The Toothpaste Conversation Being an idol, Yuna has had extensive practice making banal small talk with weirdos at meet and greets. But how will she handle the one and only Tentacle Boy?
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Nov 3, 2023 22:08
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The sparkling water that the train sells being called "Touch of Blood" has a lot of "Liquid Death" energy, which is, as far as I can tell, an actual brand of sparkling water.
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Nov 4, 2023 00:01
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So, the social links realistically get too apprehensive about the metagame late minute dungeon diving and will refuse to hang out because of that anxiety(?) I guess that is innovation...
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Nov 4, 2023 00:52
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Flair posted:So, the social links realistically get too apprehensive about the metagame late minute dungeon diving and will refuse to hang out because of that anxiety(?) I guess that is innovation...
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Nov 4, 2023 02:05
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Chani is growing on me. He may be a doofus horndog, but at least he seems supportive of Yajirobe.
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Maigius posted:Chani is growing on me. He may be a doofus horndog, but at least he seems supportive of Yajirobe. Like a lot of the Persona-style Best Friend archetype characters (looking at you Yosuke and Ryoji), Chani also puts his worst foot forward immediately and then slowly works his butt off to become an "acceptable" character over time. Ryouta from Tokyo Xanadu would also count if not for the fact that he's neither relevant to the plot or gameplay in any way and also doesn't really get a (believable) redemption arc.
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Nov 4, 2023 08:06
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Part 5: Cloud Computing We're heading for the first proper dungeon today, which means we get to learn what Eternights considers a "puzzle".
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Nov 6, 2023 22:52
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I dunno if this counts as a "hot take" or not, but I actually hated the rhythm minigame in FF7R. Yeah, it had a lot of flash and style, but in a way that made it kinda hard for me to tell what the game wanted me to do. I'll admit I'm not great at rhythm games to start with, so I missed a few prompts just because I couldn't tell what they were or when they were coming up until it was too late. Just give me button icons moving linearly and predictably across the screen dammit! On topic, I'm sure adopting a half-zombified child will cause no problems whatsoever.
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Nov 7, 2023 02:26
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Commander Keene posted:I dunno if this counts as a "hot take" or not, but I actually hated the rhythm minigame in FF7R. Yeah, it had a lot of flash and style, but in a way that made it kinda hard for me to tell what the game wanted me to do. I'll admit I'm not great at rhythm games to start with, so I missed a few prompts just because I couldn't tell what they were or when they were coming up until it was too late. Just give me button icons moving linearly and predictably across the screen dammit! Yeah, 7R's dance minigame is clearly a cutscene that they decided to make playable and didn't actually do it that good of a job at it. It's still one of the best sequences in the game though.
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Nov 7, 2023 02:32
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So what's the betting odds on that child surviving the rest of that cutscene at the end of the last video?
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Nov 7, 2023 04:53
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I really enjoy that Chani said "See, Yuna? Not everybody died!" both 1) because this provides an opportunity for him to be wrong about that, and 2) because that's what he should be implying but not in those words because saying it out loud like that will probably just make her feel worse. He is just so bad at this.
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Nov 7, 2023 06:47
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Look, if the apocaplyse happened and the only four people who survived were you, your unlucky-with-love best friend, a scientist helping you survive and Olivia Rodrigo, would you act 100% normal?
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Nov 7, 2023 07:35
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Love how they didn't even change it to legally distinct Twitter for those screens. It just says 'Pinned Tweet' and all.
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Nov 7, 2023 07:41
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Geemer posted:Love how they didn't even change it to legally distinct Twitter for those screens. It just says 'Pinned Tweet' and all. Twitter is literally no longer Twitter anymore thanks the world's richest imbecile, so it's fair game to rip that poo poo off wholecloth now if you feel so inclined
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Nov 7, 2023 08:07
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Why are they taking Chani with them into dungeons? Yuna, sure, she can heal and set stuff on fire, but Chani's only use is upgrading social stats for Yajirobe. He has no way of protecting himself if one of the zombies decided to check out those non-glowing people.
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Nov 7, 2023 12:25
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Cloacamazing! posted:He has no way of protecting himself if one of the zombies decided to check out those non-glowing people. I think you answered your own question.
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Nov 7, 2023 12:42
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IIRC the glowing hologram lady upgraded him with combat stat buffs for Yajirobe. Artix doesn't seem to be very interested in using them though, which is probably caused by the mana scarcity issue he mentioned in one of the earlier videos.
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Nov 7, 2023 13:40
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Part 6: Breaking Free For as much as we rag on it, sometimes the game does manage to pull it all together and make a sequence work. This is one of those times. It's...one of the only times, but that's a topic for another day.
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Nov 11, 2023 00:01
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Once again, we return to various text transitions that could have been replaced with 1-5 second in-game animation.
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Nov 11, 2023 01:39
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That cutscene probably has the most stuff happening so far. Which says a lot I feel. It also feels... misplaced. It has the air of an endgame cutscene, with all the music and everything. Or something you kind of do an instant "End of chapter 1" fade out. Or after the landing. The whole "I can't sleep" part, would, in any other game, would be a perfect chapter opener, but here things trundles along until the next chapter break happens.
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Nov 11, 2023 02:54
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loving "white essence". I bet the game called it that on purpose.
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Nov 11, 2023 02:57
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I appreciate that Argate said exactly what I was thinking at the end of the video.
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Nov 11, 2023 06:12
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Just finished the 4th episode, and the idea of the scavenging missions honestly drives me nuts. The fact that these dinguses are going out for an entire evening to grab one singular item at a time is frustrating, when there's honestly quite a few things you wouldn't mind having. For example, if the train is missing towels, maybe the pillows also wouldn't be amiss? It's just ughhhh.
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Nov 13, 2023 01:39
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Part 7: The Power of SCIENCE! In which we meet our next two party members, an arrangement that we will surely not regret in the days to come.
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Nov 13, 2023 22:40
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Sia ended up being my favorite. Kira Buckland does a great job with her.
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Ah yes, just what we need in our not-Persona. A not-Little Fears segment. Or that's what made me think of that 'stealth' segment at least. Also, the Totem.
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