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Flair posted:Yuna has never heard about the Streisand effect eh, maybe she'll get lucky and when the world comes back, the news station affected will try and fail to ditch the recording so fast it ends up working in her favor. or the signal for the station won't come on until after they've already thrown the tape out unwatched.
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Catching up since I fell behind. Episode 11: I actually liked the Bear Clock blackmail. That was a somewhat cute-funny scene. When Min is just repeatedly being used to break a barrier, that animation of hers just restarting to fire pellets honestly looks really bad. They gave her too much motion, so the repetition makes it look really weird. Chani's disappearance from the story is also weird to me considering how small the recurring cast is. I can sort of get the idea of a mostly normal person being stuck in the midst of this, but they have him so absent that the idea of that doesn't really work. And yeah, I was severely bored with the social links too beyond the bear clock. It's so bland.... Looking forward to the last character apparently having actual writing to him. I want to say I liked the running scene one with Min, but I don't know if it's actually good or it's just simply better than the average bar she's set prior..... How does the dancing in this game look so consistently wrong in different ways every time. It's hilarious.
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Dec 5, 2023 11:56
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Dancing in video games is apparently really hard fo animated. See the legendary Shepard Shuffle from Mass Effect.
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I've caught up fully to the videos now. It's funny how Yohan starts at Stage 3 and theoretically has less time than the others, but probably has the most actual content to him. Just from one, we see that he has trouble sleeping with some PTSD due to witnessing his brother die in front of his him, and his regrets over the harsh last words he had. In terms of his training, as badly designed as the actual minigame is, I do find it to be a nice story-writing point that he's practicing how to manage his feelings, given what his social link had just gone over. Though I think Yuna's content is generally fine overall. Her stress over the pressures of idol-dom, and how she didn't defend her friend because she was afraid of getting caught up in the public media shitstorm that was brewing. Add on the pathos of her dealing with someone using her name and image to maliciously harm her fans, and she has some meat on the bone as well. I do agree that her Stresand-ing her friend by accident is a really dumb move, but it feels like a dumb move that she would actually commit. Though yes, she really should be addressing the trap people set for her fans first.... That part of the writing just forgetting that was an existing plot point isn't great. Min.... has one plot point that isn't executed well. Her friend's spirits coming out to support her is all well and nice, but it's impossible to take seriously given that she's tied to the front of a train as a battering ram at the time. As for her social links, they're memorable for how batshit they are overall. Sia.... has done.... something.....? I don't remember poo poo about her content either. Min and Sia are interesting counterpoints. One is memorable as a train wreck, the other may as well not exist.
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 Part 14: Plushyboy   I regret to inform you that this video contains two horrifying scenes, only one of which is the Min romance.
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The Yohan link was really good. I like how his brother refused to let the conversation get too heavy, and allowed Yohan to get some real closure over the events.
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Dec 9, 2023 01:12
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Was this what Aria was originally going to look like? She looks somewhat different in game.
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Flair posted:Was this what Aria was originally going to look like? She looks somewhat different in game. For some reason she has white hair in the hologram and blue hair in person. It's weird.
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What's really weird to me in terms of this game is that this game's cast dating setup with the NPCs is the typical anime-esque array, complete with creeper-pervert best friend figure. But yet the singular dude interest has the social links with the best effort put forward. Which feels very at odds with how you'd expect the typical priorities to be?
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nine-gear crow posted:For some reason she has white hair in the hologram and blue hair in person. It's weird.
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That was post-curse, after recovering enough that she could remove the full body cast. I think her hair turning white sounds like a symptom of being turbo-cursed. 
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Part 15: Dreamboat  It is officially time to pick our beloved from among this star-studded cast. Technically we still have to see the rest of Sia's link, but I think at this point we've seen enough of her to know what that entails. If you truly want to hold off until she gets her major plot moment, that'll be in Friday's video. For everyone else, you can vote here until Saturday.
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The regular writers seem like they're very experienced at poo poo-posting, but not so much actual character writing. They lack the courage to follow-through with the Sia joke though.
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That explains the tentacle arm in the beginning
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Artix, I just want you to know that I didn't vote for the person I liked the most, but instead voted on who Yajirobe deserves.
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I almost think this game would be better if there were fewer stakes in the main plot.
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Shei-kun posted:Artix, I just want you to know that I didn't vote for the person I liked the most, but instead voted on who Yajirobe deserves. But Chani's not on the list?
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Cloacamazing! posted:But Chani's not on the list? Yep. Min might work as a second choice but at that point I'd sooner flip it around into "who is most deserving of the smooches" and that's Yohan by a mile.
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Dec 12, 2023 18:20
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Oh, Yohan deserves the world (at least compared to everyone else in this cast), and Chani wasn't on the list for Yajirobe, so I went with Min. I'm guessing Min and Yohan will get the most votes between the two of them depending on the reasoning behind the voting, and Yohan's votes will be done mostly for positive reasons.
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The vote is going to be a war between the shitposters and the people who are earnestly voting.
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And once the dust has settled, Sia will walk in and take the victory.
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Dec 13, 2023 11:56
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Keldulas posted:The vote is going to be a war between the shitposters and the people who are earnestly voting. That has always been the story of any vote.
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Would you say that this game is, while weak on it's own, a decent enough showing of potential for future projects? Like, the guy made it mostly on his own and the other people came in late. Would you be interested in seeing what he does next with more teammates, using the feedback he got from Eternights itself, etc?
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Junpei posted:Would you say that this game is, while weak on it's own, a decent enough showing of potential for future projects? Like, the guy made it mostly on his own and the other people came in late. Would you be interested in seeing what he does next with more teammates, using the feedback he got from Eternights itself, etc?
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Dec 15, 2023 20:40
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An editor and more writers who doesn't seem to be stuck on the same anime character clichés.
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Junpei posted:Would you say that this game is, while weak on it's own, a decent enough showing of potential for future projects? Like, the guy made it mostly on his own and the other people came in late. Would you be interested in seeing what he does next with more teammates, using the feedback he got from Eternights itself, etc? It is a promising start for any solo development, though I would like if he hired a dedicated animator. I don't want the next project to have 1-5 black text over what could have been half a second to a second animation.
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Junpei posted:Would you say that this game is, while weak on it's own, a decent enough showing of potential for future projects? Like, the guy made it mostly on his own and the other people came in late. Would you be interested in seeing what he does next with more teammates, using the feedback he got from Eternights itself, etc? Someone in the thread said that while their shitposting is strong, it's pretty clear that they don't have a lot of interest in actual character writing (a statement I agree with) and as long as that's true, I can't say I would be very interested in anything else this studio puts out. The fact that he made this game at all is extremely impressive, the fact that he wanted $30 for it is...not. Part 16: The Kafka Lab Prepare yourselves, it's time for the dramatic confrontation with Delia over THE STONE.
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Oh no, an enemy Stand.
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Kinda sad when the boss fights nearly all take less time than the larger trash mob encounters.
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I'm kind of hoping for a better final boss fight, but I've learned not to expect that from this game.
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Shei-kun posted:I'm kind of hoping for a better final boss fight, but I've learned not to expect that from this game. I am almost dreading the prospect of what this game considers to be a final boss. It's going to be some weird Unity Store asset flip, but WHAT is still unknown to us. Though I don't imagine we (being me and Argate) have much longer to wonder because Artix has promised that as soon as the poll wraps up we're putting the game out of our misery in one final shot.
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Artix posted:Someone in the thread said that while their shitposting is strong, it's pretty clear that they don't have a lot of interest in actual character writing (a statement I agree with) and as long as that's true, I can't say I would be very interested in anything else this studio puts out. The fact that he made this game at all is extremely impressive, the fact that he wanted $30 for it is...not. I'll say that this was overall amusing to follow, but the idea of actually spending money on it in terms of value is not so much.
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Shei-kun posted:I'm kind of hoping for a better final boss fight, but I've learned not to expect that from this game. What makes it worse is that the games Eternights take inspiration from usually have their narrative show or develop the final bosses or antagonists ahead of time. Delia slashed the protagonist's arm in the beginning and finally shows up now; Umbra is just there, but we do not really get to know much about Umbra aside from Umbra's objective. The final bosses or antagonists usually embody a rivalry to or the antithesis of what the protagonist represents. Unless Umbra (or whoever the final boss is) is the opposite of horny, I am not hoping for much.
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A small part of me hopes the final boss is Umbra, but just as a tree. You just have to wail on Umbra and break barriers while Umbra exists there. Because I'm actually afraid of what I'll feel if the final boss fight is actually good.
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It's amazing to how just how empty all of the character pathos feels here. Trying to make Ran's death a sad thing was just hilarious. Just like how Delia basically doesn't exist except to chop off your arm (and therefore her arc falls incredibly flat too), we literally only learned anything about Ran this episode. The pacing is amazing. Granted, the game is also just doing the general thing of falling apart at the seams. It kind of started with the Min train scene, but given that's also around where Yohan's introduced, his scenes did a lot to make the game feel more coherent than it is.
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Was the walkie talkie thing just to ensure they could give Johan lines without heavy handed forcing off your party composition? Does it play out significantly different if he's actually part of the party?
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Geemer posted:Was the walkie talkie thing just to ensure they could give Johan lines without heavy handed forcing off your party composition? Does it play out significantly different if he's actually part of the party? The game seems to be trying to enforce the harem aspect of things by making sure the party is the protagonist plus the three girls for most of its runtime. Notice how quickly, for example, Chani just disappears from both the plot and gameplay the second Min and Sia arrive.
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nine-gear crow posted:The game seems to be trying to enforce the harem aspect of things by making sure the party is the protagonist plus the three girls for most of its runtime. Notice how quickly, for example, Chani just disappears from both the plot and gameplay the second Min and Sia arrive. To be honest, I figured Chani disappearing from gameplay was just Artix dumping his chump rear end the moment the chance presented itself.
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