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Literally JUST found out about this game, and I'm excited to have a go. The non-spoiler reviews and things are very promising.
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So apparently you were wrong somewhat. If you try to go to sleep with zero stamina it will affect you in a presumably negative fashion. I chose not to risk it and there's a rather easy workaround it seems: Buy a fishing rod at the pawn shop and fish at the pond, easy food and apparently no time wasted. EDIT: I did it inside the apartment, not in an outside bed. Blackray Jack fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Jun 11, 2014 |
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Jun 11, 2014 22:05
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Favourite detail so far (in the first town): In the Vagabond Dogs' building, taking the money - AKA the funding for this actual game - from their safe triggers a (fake) error screen and makes you reload your save. All of the meta.
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Jun 12, 2014 11:53
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This game looks more like "fanfiction.net meets RPG Maker 2000" than it does "Hotline Miami meets The Sims".
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Jun 13, 2014 07:02
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The writing for this is pretty good. Like, at the point of the reveal poo poo just started hitting me kinda hard and I got legit angry. Decided to name my characters and his love interest after me and my boyfriend... It's rare for games to get an emotion out of me like these days.
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Jun 13, 2014 12:28
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I'm trying to just mess with the game now, and stalled as long as possible before going to the wedding. If you leave Salt City on day 28 or 29, you'll arrive in time to catch the wedding, but you won't have enough time for Sam's Los Vargas drama. You still get the usual breakup question and flashback dream as soon as you arrive and talk to Casey. It just gets condensed into less time if you arrive right on day 30. Casey tells you to take a quick nap and clean up before going to the wedding, so that's when you have the flashback, rather than overnight. In both cases, I woke up on Day 30 with Casey standing right there reading the journal. There was no balcony scene with Sam, or any sign of Sam at all. So I was guessing this would end the same way as if you'd refused to come with on the bachelor party. But no, Sam was still alive. His sprite wasn't displaying in the wedding scene, so I thought it was just a bug. But they did actually put some different dialogue in the ending. In this scenario, Sam must have never gone to Los Vargas because the casino dudes don't know him when he shows his face. Turns out this would be a handy way to get the best ending without having to save up 10 grand to save your journal. They just still need to iron out some of those bugs in the ceremony.
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Jun 14, 2014 07:06
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Archer666 posted:The writing for this is pretty good. Like, at the point of the reveal poo poo just started hitting me kinda hard and I got legit angry. Decided to name my characters and his love interest after me and my boyfriend... It's rare for games to get an emotion out of me like these days. I got angry too on my first playthrough. Now I'm kind of over the love interest idea, but the game can still get emotions out of me when I try and purposely see what happens when I pick the absolute worst things to do. It actually makes me feel like a piece of poo poo. I picked a character that looked nothing like me and literally named her "Cruella" just to show this was the evil run. But I still had to stop and regroup for a while before I could go through with robbing the old lady. But then I was able to pay my rent on day 1 and that seemed pretty sweet, so I thought okay, I can do this! But then I saw that poster for selling the stray dog and I just turned into a pile of mush and gave up. 
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Jun 20, 2014 13:31
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I'd been meaning to pick this up for a while, and since it never went up as a daily I decided to just go ahead and grab it. It's... interesting. I'm still kind of unpacking how I feel about the ending and the way things played out. I went through the first time as someone who was doing their best to be a good person and put their life back together, which makes it either fittingly ironic or disappointingly railroady that she ended up a sad hobo trying to get herself shot by a hitman in the end, I'm not sure which. I like to think she tried to get a new start and pull herself together after the wedding but failed miserably. Maybe after she walks away from casino goon and his goon she'll give it another shot, maybe even pull it off this time. That's how it plays out in my head, anyway. I'm gonna give it another playthrough, try something different, see what can change when you're more of a gently caress-up. I feel like there's a lot of potential in here, but I'm still not sure how well it all comes together. I will say, though, that in both of the first two towns I reached a point where I was spending every day grinding jobs and, particularly in Beaton, felt like I was missing out on some major subplots. Specifically I think I missed a bunch of stuff with Larry and his wife, a whole other side of the union/strikers conflict (Casey made it sound like there was a way to work with the strikers at least), and I strongly suspect there was a longer subplot with the transwoman NPC that I lost the thread of after running into her at the pharmacy. Information on this game seems pretty scarce, which is a little frustrating.
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Jun 30, 2014 04:55
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The game's 25% off right now if anyone was waiting for a sale.Opposing Farce posted:Specifically I think I missed a bunch of stuff with Larry and his wife, a whole other side of the union/strikers conflict (Casey made it sound like there was a way to work with the strikers at least), and I strongly suspect there was a longer subplot with the transwoman NPC that I lost the thread of after running into her at the pharmacy. Information on this game seems pretty scarce, which is a little frustrating. I can give some more info on the last part you mentioned: After the pharmacy, the next time you can run into Morgan is only during night time. He or she (this actually seems to change based on the apparent gender of your character!) will be just hanging out sitting at these tables somewhere near the middle of town. Sorry I can't describe it better, cause I don't have a save anywhere close to there right now.
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Jul 3, 2014 11:02
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