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Kanfy posted:Chiaki to the right there still looks really silly, though. Like someone bumped her cardboard cutout to the side by accident. Everyone's "shadow" is a set distance behind them. It's how they get their outline when you look at them straight-on, but can get a weird double effect when you see them from a sideways angle, like you've noticed here.
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clockwork chaos posted:Ibuki is reminding me more and more of Excel - I've started reading her lines in Jessica Calvello's voice and it fits way too well. Not that you can map English voice actors to Japanese ones with any level of sanity, Excel's voice actress actually is in this game-- that would be Peko, though as has already been pointed out she's sounding a lot more like Juri from Utena than Excel or Sailor Moon. Still, it's neat when you think of the range involved.
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Requested_Username posted:Well, thank god we have a SHSL mechanic! Too bad he's a coward. Not to mention that bomb, if it is even a bomb at all, will probably go off as soon as someone tampers with it. Just because Monobear is a goddamn troll.
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I think sonia might...like Togami. Just a hunch right now. Though there could be a surprise twist with Machiru. Well, this is Anime-style story-telling after all. I'm sure its possible to flip over like that... orenronen posted:
Why is he so awesome? orenronen posted:
orenronen posted:The rest followed suit, and left the restaurant, complaining. Joenen fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Jan 18, 2013 |
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Come, my Four Dark Gods of Destruction! Our destination... Jabberwock Park!
Don't worry about me, just go ahead...! I'll catch up in no time!
And we should leave too... but not before seeing what the two that are still here have to say.
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Okay, something's bothering me here. I can understand apprehension to Togami being the leader (and not just because dude's all but posted a "MURDER ME" sign on his back with his posturing to protect everybody in the role of being the boss,) but ...Why the hell did Koizumi forcibly try to elect Sonia? Just cause she's a princess? Hell, why didn't she volunteer for the job? She's proactive, clearly trying to move things along, and she didn't think to nominate herself? Gundam's a bit of an Egomaniac, but off in his own little world so I can see why he wouldn't, but is it just me or is it weird nobody else volunteered? Especially Koizumi.
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Joenen posted:Well, this is Anime-style story-telling after all. I'm sure its possible to flip over like that... Did you really have to copy paste practically the entire loving update so you could make make pithy one line remarks about 5 things? E for content: I find the characters in this game easier to immediately identify than in DR1, but I still have a hard time telling a couple of the girls apart. I mean, I got their archetypes in both games pretty much immediately, but with such a large cast I find it hard to immediately differentiate Tsumiki, Koizumi, Nanami and to some extent Sonia. Ok, part of it is that I have trouble remembering their names, and linking the names to the images, or their SHSL... Minister Robathan fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Jan 18, 2013 |
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Jan 18, 2013 21:40
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Joenen posted:Why is he so awesome? quote:She's....just not normal. In a way that is very funny to watch. quote:I think sonia might...like Togami. Just a hunch right now. Though there could be a surprise twise with Machiru.  quote:Finally! 
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Happy Blue Cow posted:Fanservice, what else? There is one reason I can think of and doesn't involve fanservice: defusing the situation. Before the fall Souda was freaking out. Mikan interrupted him by falling, and it was such a weird way to fall that after she was helped back up nobody was thinking about Souda freaking out anymore.
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TKMobile posted:Okay, something's bothering me here. I can understand apprehension to Togami being the leader (and not just because dude's all but posted a "MURDER ME" sign on his back with his posturing to protect everybody in the role of being the boss,) but ...Why the hell did Koizumi forcibly try to elect Sonia? Just cause she's a princess? She doesn't like Togami, so she nominated someone she does like who seemed to have the qualifications instead. Unless she has issues with men or fat people in general (it is really much too early to say), that is all it is. Well, unless of course Koizumi is trying to install an incompetent leader so that she can kill someone more easily. That doesn't seem terribly likely, though.
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CandyCrazy posted:Oh hey Souda brought up the "hole up in your room" strategy. The idea that Mikan intentionally tripped that spectacularly is interesting, though what purpose it would serve I'm not sure. Coach is also still awesome. They might be setting up Mikan's clumsiness as a plot point. For instance, maybe she ends up falling off a balcony, and we have to figure out whether it was an accident, or she was pushed. Knowing Monobear, it'd be perfectly in-character for him to call a trial for a fatal accident, just to make everyone paranoid that a murder happened.
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How do we not know it was the other way around? This Togami could have lost weight. What I'm saying is that there is a possibility that this Togami was fatter than he is now. Like Jabba the Hut level fatness.
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It'd be a neat twist if she was trying to pull that, but again, it still feels strange that Koizumi wouldn't nominate herself; even if she just doesn't want someone she dislikes to not be the leader, her proactive nature thus far makes it seem like she'd try to take charge.
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She's proactive but not stupid -- as has already been noted, declaring yourself the leader puts a target on you. It's possible that she thought Sonia was stupid, but that the considered speech that Sonia gives demonstrates that she's wrong and gets Koizumi to back off and start looking for another patsy.
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Case in point: Mikan.  Jesus Christ, how the gently caress did that even happen? Did someone trip her? Did she feel like she needed attention? Is she just really loving unlucky? Oh, wait, I meant to say "Is she really a Super High School Level Unluckster?" That's the proper translation, obviously. The fanservice has really started to get out of hand. We just had a cliffhanger for a panty shot. A cliffhanger. For a goddamn panty shot. At least there's a bomb now to get things moving.
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Serious Frolicking posted:She doesn't like Togami, so she nominated someone she does like who seemed to have the qualifications instead. Unless she has issues with men or fat people in general (it is really much too early to say), that is all it is. Her "quirk" apparently is that she's blatantly sexist (against men anyway). She's already made at least two comments about how REAL men should act. So I think when she nominated Sonia she was just trying to be all "Gurrrrl Power!" orenronen posted:
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Ah! Hey, you're the guy who lost his head back on the beach, aren't you?
A man shouldn't be so fragile, you know? It's your job to protect us girls at times like this, isn't it?
...Hinata-kun. I think your wife is keeping you on a short leash.
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Joenen posted:I think sonia might...like Togami. Just a hunch right now. Though there could be a surprise twise with Machiru. Admiration != infatuation. Please understand this, if nothing else. The fact that Sonia recognizes herself as a figurehead and Togami as someone used to taking charge of a situation means that she respects the abilities he has claimed ownership of. Not that she has a crush on him. Ghost Kitten posted:Her "quirk" apparently is that she's blatantly sexist (against men anyway). She's already made at least two comments about how REAL men should act. So I think when she nominated Sonia she was just trying to be all "Gurrrrl Power!" She also did it to Souda in the update before this.
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TKMobile posted:Okay, something's bothering me here. I can understand apprehension to Togami being the leader (and not just because dude's all but posted a "MURDER ME" sign on his back with his posturing to protect everybody in the role of being the boss,) but ...Why the hell did Koizumi forcibly try to elect Sonia? Just cause she's a princess? I might just be looking into it too much of course, but that is what I've taken from her actions and dialogue so far.
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lotus circle posted:I think a lot of things about Koizumi are interesting in this regard. I think she has a lot of views on ingrained society roles and that people should act as expected of them. She thinks the men should act like men and berates them when they act weak. When Togami decides to be the leader she declares him as too aggressive and says Sonia should be leader because she has the highest role in society of everyone (princess easily trumps heir to a corporation). So when Sonia denies wanting to lead, Koizumi thinks it's wrong because she should want to lead everyone as the highest authority from a societal point. So basically, she believes in the status quo. This is going to end so well for everyone.
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How on earth is the end of his flowing scarf supporting a hamster sleeping on it? I can see the others being balanced/perched around his body, but that one ought to go crashing down to the floor.
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Vil posted:How on earth is the end of his flowing scarf supporting a hamster sleeping on it? I can see the others being balanced/perched around his body, but that one ought to go crashing down to the floor. It obviously has steel wire inside of it to allow for dramatic posing/snug hamster beds.
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Vil posted:How on earth is the end of his flowing scarf supporting a hamster sleeping on it? I can see the others being balanced/perched around his body, but that one ought to go crashing down to the floor. This is something a normal animal breeder would have to worry about. He's a Super High-school Level animal breeder though, so his scarf floats in order to support a sleepy hamster.
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Minister Robathan posted:Did you really have to copy paste practically the entire loving update so you could make make pithy one line remarks about 5 things? Sorry, didn't intend it to be that long....I'll cut it down. The "Sonia liking Togami" thing was really only a hunch or prediction of sorts. She At least has respect for him. Togami may still be an arrogant tophat kind of guy, but he knows what he's doing, and she recognizes that. Though yeah, I guess its too early to speculate on future relationships and the like. That bomb-looking thing is more important. And of course our mechanic is probably too scared to even look at it, let alone physically making contact with it. Not that Monobear would even let him try, but still. Joenen fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Jan 18, 2013 |
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Zhauth posted:Case in point: Mikan. There is one other possibility. Perhaps Mikan's timid and clumsy exterior is a front which conceals a cold and calculating mind. Many people pointed out when she was introduced that her personality fits neatly into a certain annoying archetype; the sort of character who makes lonely neckbeards feel like they could protect her and be her white knight. It's possible that she knows this and is deliberately trying to elicit this reaction. It's definitely a good way to make her seem harmless, and it may allow her to exert some control over some of the cast. That or I'm completely over-thinking this and it really is just fanservice. I just want to give the writers the benefit of the doubt after DR1.
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Man, Monobear did sure step it up in his motivations for murder, huh? I mean at first it was just threatening friends and family, now it's just straight up blowing up the drat island. On the subject of the characters, Koizumi is the first one annoying me, surprisingly enough. I thought it was gonna be the chef or Gundam, but after she just shat on Souda for being scared that just annoyed me. I also hope that Mikan's clumsiness and Peko's thong do not become running gags (They probably will).
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I think that's the point, that she managed to somehow trip so hard that she tied herself up in wires and managed to kick off both a shoe and sock. She might also be a SHSL Klutz.
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Oh man Togami stop doing stuff like that! You were tied with Nagito as the most likely to die first in my eyes but now you just went to the top real fast, this will suck. And I guess the Mikan scene is some foreshadowing for something that will happen later (I also guess that this is the fanservice scene oren mentioned on the podcast) because, unless you are Hagakure, you don't get a special CG for no reason, and I don't buy this game pulling the fanservice card so soon when there is no need to. Zhauth posted:The fanservice has really started to get out of hand.
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If SHSL Hamsterlord bites it I don't think I could handle that. Those hamsters are just SO drat CUTE  And it turns out our mechanic buddy is Shaggy. Dude needs some "Scooby Snacks" or something, drat.
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Regy Rusty posted:I think Souda is going to be involved in the first murder somehow. He's acting extremely frightened and paranoid. Not sure whether it's more likely he'll be the first killer or the first victim though. You know, I'm kinda thinking he won't be involved in murders, the first one anyway. There's a bit too much comparison to be made to the first murderer/victim of the first game for me to think the game won't throw a curveball at us (as it so loves to do), but more importantly, there seems to be too much room for Souda to grow as a character for him to just be offed at the beginning like that. I've been trying to draw a common theme between all the survivors of the last game, and one of the main ones seemed to be character development. All the characters who killed in the last game were kind of static and kinda had nowhere to go as characters within the framework of the story. But Naegi, Togami, Fukawa/Syo, Hagakure (who you'll remember was also cowardly for a while), Asahina... they all changed drastically as the story developed, and evolved beyond their gimmicks. Of course, it's far too early at this point to tell everyone who's going to do that, and of course, the game does love its curveballs. But I think Souda may make it till tomorrow.
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Bellmaker posted:If SHSL Hamsterlord bites it I don't think I could handle that. Those hamsters are just SO drat CUTE Nope. He dies first, and we find out that the audience actually works through the hamsters. They are our audience insert. What I think will seriously happen: A) Hamster lord dies, the hamsters help the user solve his murder. B) One of the hamsters dies, there is a murder trial for it. C) Somebody accidentally sits on a hamster. They are murdered because of it.
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The problem with that train of thought is that DR1 killed off Ishimaru in the middle of his character development, robbing him before he could fully come to terms with his Aniki loss and be the better for it. If the games only killed off one note characters, or characters who had finished their character growth, the dead and dying would be alot easier to spot.
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Serious Cephalopod posted:What I think will seriously happen: A) Hamster lord dies, the hamsters help the user solve his murder. B) One of the hamsters dies, there is a murder trial for it. C) Somebody accidentally sits on a hamster. They are murdered because of it. The hamsters better get separate death placards if Gundam does bite it.
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Personally, I'm kind of wondering if this wasn't a failed stealthy murder attempt with someone using the fact that literally everyone is in the same place as cover- no one has any better alibi than anyone else, with Mikan targeted because if it failed and then people would just be "OH MIKAN, SO CLUMSY <  v" as they were. Imagine if those wires were to go around her neck or something instead.
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