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 I grew up on Youtube Poop so of course I had a CD-I Zelda phase. This game is basically "What if the CD-I Zelda games had enough time and budget to actually make the games instead of just whipping the devs to get two games out in a year" and it turns out it rules and also jump is on a normal button now If you're clicking this thread to see if the game turned out good, it turned out very good and you should play it. that's my review  Episodes!Let's Play Arzette: The Jewel Of Faramore Episode 1 - Golly!
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Oh yeah, this game. I already followed three other LPs of Arzette, but the game is just so charming, it's addictive. I've already wishlisted it, so I won't forget to get it as soon as my titanic backlog becomes more manageable.
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Apr 1, 2024 20:39
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I have no idea why anyone would painstakingly recreate those games' design and cutscene style, but I'm glad they did 
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Apr 2, 2024 04:17
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Captain Hygiene posted:I have no idea why anyone would painstakingly recreate those games' design and cutscene style, but I'm glad they did I mean the gameplay of the original game (if you ignore the controls being non-functional) was actually an okay basic idea basically a sidescroller metrovaniaish exploration game with zelda items and themes is salvage albeit not ultra exciting idea. The voice acting, animation and dialogue while not good in a technical sense are very funny in an interesting way that is memberable (as youtube poops are quick to point out). What's funny is that the fast paced exposition heavy nature of the dialogue in the original CDi game is definitely the nature of the fact that wanted all dialogue to be animated cutscenes which combined with a rushed production schedule likely made them a tight squeeze on the disk, they'd likely be awful in a less funny way if they made like stuff like talking to the merchant meeting friendly npc just text instead of an entire scene, and reserved the animated scenes for (much like modern pre-rendered cutscenes) like the beginning the end and major plot events. Also I love how this game pays tribute to those CDI games in a way where nintendo could absolutely not sue for this product if they wanted to (you can't sue for mechanics really, none of the characters map perfectly enough to CDI characters in ways be legal problem at all, and voice actors and backgruond artists are allowed to work on more then one project and it has the giant level of the parody defense fair use to back up).
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Captain Hygiene posted:I have no idea why anyone would painstakingly recreate those games' design and cutscene style, but I'm glad they did Not just the game itself, but Limited Run also put out a loving modernized CD-I controller for the Switch and PC if you want to fully complete the experience of the game being unplayable garbage just like Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon were on original hardware.
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Apr 2, 2024 08:24
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For something that is essentially a shitpost manifest, this game is incredibly charming.
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Apr 2, 2024 11:26
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This is an dedicated work of beautiful animation to make something that looks incredibly terrible. I am impressed, and yet repelled. Amazing.
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Apr 2, 2024 15:32
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New Episode! Let's Play Arzette: The Jewel Of Faramore Episode 2 - Why Can I Kill This?
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disposablewords posted:This is an dedicated work of beautiful animation to make something that looks incredibly terrible. I am impressed, and yet repelled. Amazing. Oh boy does this ring true re. the desert fairy. Also, I think the Princess 'lies' because (before a patch corrected it) if you had the item a person wants before finding out from them what they wanted, the 'resolved' animation played, meaning the players lost out on some of the wonderful animation. And I think we can all be agreed that seeing as much of this animation is the preferred way of experiencing this game.
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Apr 2, 2024 17:20
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jesus christ, that thumbnail
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Apr 2, 2024 17:28
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This is incredible on so many levels and I love it.
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Apr 2, 2024 18:19
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:This is incredible on so many levels and I love it. Yeah, you WOULD.
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Apr 2, 2024 18:59
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New Episode! Let's Play Arzette: The Jewel Of Faramore Episode 3 - The One That Beefed It I really love how often you can get a new thing and be like "oh poo poo I can use this in X level", but much like in real Zelda games I will forget like 75% of the time
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New Episode! Let's Play Arzette: The Jewel Of Faramore Episode 4 - The Bee Hole Fair warning I uh get a little sloppy for the next episode or two, so don't be surprised if I forget what character wants what item
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Love how theres 0 consistency in animation between all the cutscenes, except for the choppy framerate. Ones rotoscoped 3d, ones just demented like the original cd-i, and others are just good animation at low framerates. Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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Apr 4, 2024 16:56
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Love how theres 0 consistency in animation between all the cutscenes, except for the choppy framerate. It's brilliant, isn't it?
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Apr 4, 2024 17:45
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It's so much effort to recreate a jumbled mess of bad animations and it's amazing.
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Apr 5, 2024 01:26
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They really understood what was captivating about the original work and recreated it well. For how shooting for "so bad it's good" intentionally usually goes they did a really drat good job.
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Apr 5, 2024 02:17
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Danaru posted:Fair warning I uh get a little sloppy 
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Apr 5, 2024 03:56
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Whoever voiced that snail was channeling their inner Meatwad for sure.
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New Episode! Let's Play Arzette: The Jewel Of Faramore Episode 5 - Snow Lesbian, Please Apparently Skelvis is voiced by the same guy who voiced CD-I Link, and the narrator in the beginning was CD-I Zelda This game rules
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Apr 5, 2024 21:06
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"Pam from Stardew Valley" was also Zelda's voice actor, I believe 
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Apr 5, 2024 22:24
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I know I'm unfair here, but the way you managed to keep missing very obvious treasure while standing right in front of it gives me physical pain. The only way I could make it stop was by buying the game and playing along, hovering up everything you missed.
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Apr 5, 2024 23:07
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Snesbian, surely.
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Apr 6, 2024 07:30
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New Episode! Let's Play Arzette: The Jewel Of Faramore Episode 6 - Beeves And His Lads I swear I improve a bunch next episode
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Apr 6, 2024 15:39
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New Episode! Let's Play Arzette: The Jewel Of Faramore Episode 7 - He Didn't Use The Ladder It took so drat long to get my PC back 
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Apr 7, 2024 17:09
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New Episode! Let's Play Arzette: The Jewel Of Faramore Episode 8 - Sword Electricikcize Doing some cleaning up before we go kick Daimur's dick off
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Apr 9, 2024 16:58
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Don't worry, I'm still here watching the videos! You haven't lost me yet!
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hey that snail is mario
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That fishmonger lady is a terror with the salt 
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:That fishmonger lady is a terror with the salt TBF a lot of people would go nuts over it if they'd never had any salt before, and she's not wrong to salt the ice cream either. She might have a hosed up palate with the way she pours it on stuff, but without her cleaver it's probably safe to recommend she go easier on it if she's serving stuff to other people.
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Apr 10, 2024 00:18
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if she eats any of that stuff she's salted, she's fucken' dead
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That's just a tiny pinch for anyone who's been on the internet since the 00s.
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The game is on sale for $16 right now and is a real good time, by the way 
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New Episode! Let's Play Arzette: The Jewel Of Faramore Episode 9 - Thanks Gloobert This game fuckin' rules
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Uh uh uh uh uh uh huh huh uh uh uh uh huh huh uh If you know, you know
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Hurray! We saved the Republic of Faramore!
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Just binged this. What a fascinating game! Thanks for LPing it.
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