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Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
Hey, look at that weird dog!

Welcome to Cubivore. It's a weird dog eat weird dog world out there, and we're here to eat them all.

Well, at least, I am. I'm playing. With me are Faerie Fortune and Liquidypoo, gigglers extraordinaire. They are entirely new to the world of Cubivore.

I feel like Cubivore is a game best experienced. I could go into the mechanics and story, and talk about the ontological implications of a continual consciousness, but really we're just here for the weird dogs and you should be too.

Episode 01:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98XGHAMpmUE

Episode 02:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rjCGjhY_ss

Episode 03:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZjh5CNreH8

Episode 04:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZtibqoJQz0

Episode 05:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbVqs10YOEU

Episode 06:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WELh8spI4s

Episode 07:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rebJp30M0TU

Episode 08:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyZtYdYkisY

I'm startingcontinuing to think I should make banners for these links, hmmm.

Casnorf fucked around with this message at 03:51 on May 12, 2016

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Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
It turns out I remember a lot less of this game than I thought I did, so it will at times be a learning experience for us all.

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
This is wonderful and you are wonderful too.

quote:

Are you basically supposed to plan out later levels' fauna and plan for an order of devouring so you can optimize colour saturation (dark meat) and limb orientations to take into next levels and for your offspring?

Without going into it too much, yes. There are a few curveballs in there, and I'll get caught by surprise once or twice because I don't remember as much as I thought.

Also, gameplay optimization, despite showing off as many weird dogs as possible, isn't nearly as fun as winging it. I'll largely leave my dumb mistakes in, though I'll edit or fast-forward slowtime.

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
I'm excited for more weird dogs! We get a little off-target on the weird dog front, but I'm sure we can right the ship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rjCGjhY_ss

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
It just means he ain't seen nothin' yet.

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish

GlyphGryph posted:

What do you mean by you don't have the "roar" ability the enemies had? You specifically had it come up in a tooltip as an ability you have.
You know, it took me until just now to realize I was talking about the Boyscout Beast's (and friends') ability to duck under the water, which little piggy casnorf certainly cannot do. It's just that we got distracted by their attempt to intimidate me. Roaring, like blocking, is just something I don't really think about. I'll try to make some adorable squeaks in the next one I record to see how useful it is.

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
Things take a tiny turn for the...weird? Can things get any weirder? It turns out they can!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZjh5CNreH8

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
All these years and I thought it was just the one pun!

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
What a beary nice form we've discovered! Exciting though it may be, remembering the grizzly fate of our predecessor leaves us feeling a bit bi-polar. Let us paws a moment and reflect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZtibqoJQz0

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish

Zanzibar Ham posted:

A Cubivore tip- you can release a cube's limb. This is useful if the prey has a mix of pale and dark so you can pounce again and hopefully catch the dark limb next time.

Might make the videos less fun to watch though, sometimes you need to be real determined to latch on the right limb.

I did totally forget you can let go! I haven't had much need for it except the once, but later on if I'm trying for new mutations I'll probably need to be reminded I can do that. There are, after all, some things we haven't seen yet and some of them will require a certain amount of planning. We'll see how "carefully selecting our prey" looks or I'll forget and eat everything indiscriminately.

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish

GlyphGryph posted:

He's pretty bad at the combat (as are all LPers at every game ever, based on my experience), and in this case specifically opted not to eat the wildabugs and then go get a better form like he was supposed to. It normally isn't nearly that time consuming, because you aren't normally supposed to fight him at that point.
I didn't realize what would happen when I beat Scoutmaster. In retrospect it should have been a little more apparent but the sudden end of Piggy casnorf caught me entirely by surprise.

But yes. You can use positioning and attack when the enemies are not blocking to make fights happen faster. I may or may not ever figure that out in practice.

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
It's that time again: Your dose of gigglefits and weird dogs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbVqs10YOEU

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish

FPzero posted:

I must know what that block is!
Me too! I'll grab it in the next video. By which I mean I did, and sort of got lucky that it was still there. It does what I thought it did, and so you probably know too.

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
Fae may have linked that twitter to me, but I immediately forgot. I will likely continue to do so because I have already peaked on Twitter.

Episode 06:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WELh8spI4s

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish

FPzero posted:

So aside from just trying out new mutations for variety, is there a gameplay reason to mutate a lot and often? Like, you had the GrayDark Scentaur form which destroyed the Parental Guardian Beast but you gave it up as soon as you hit the new area for a Pale form. I did notice that the game mentioned how many mutations you'd undergone when mating; does it affect how many females are attracted?
Yes. Also every twentieth mutation is an EZ-Mutate, I think. Plus, more weird dogs.

Honestly it's kind of difficult to get into an unwinnable situation because with enough patience you can whittle down anything you can actually damage. So it doesn't hurt that much to go to a less powerful form.

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
If it looks like a bear and squeaks like a bear and has googly eyes like a bear then it probably shits in the woods.

Q. E. D.

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
All these herbibeasts really need some lessons in manners. And Grizzly casnorf is just the guy to teach'em.

Episode 07:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rebJp30M0TU

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
Once more into the breach, dear friends!

Episode 08:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyZtYdYkisY

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish

Demerine posted:

Though Fae did get it in one: stop drinking or stop talking. :)
Never!

Clash combinations are for all but Grey really simple, actually. What the game told us in rainbow heaven is generally true, and the order of rage colors doesn't really matter. For Grey, order matters, but Grey clash mutations are basically the best of their tiers. I may or may not get any, because I think it might be a bit tedious to diet plan and regrab and all that jazz to get the powerful mutations I'll just swap out of immediately to increment my mutation counter by one.

It seems like ebay prices are insane for this little gem of a game, and they probably are, but I can tell you I have thoroughly enjoyed just about every part of playing the game and making this goofy series of videos so far. That might make it worth it. Fortunately I already had a copy, haha.

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
It turns out that both of my costars in this fun thread are going on vacation in successive weeks (specifically, the next two or three), so there will be a short hiatus while they go off and have fun without me. When we reconvene, the adventures of Chicky casnorf, birb par excellence.

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish

you were warned posted:

I hope this LP comes back! Please come back :ohdear:
Ok, watch this space. All the vacations are complete that I know of, and we're just trying to coordinate across an ocean for a time to get back into the swing of things.

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
Maybe what I actually meant was this space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QW9-QCjlkI

I'm not really planning on 100% because I don't wanna. I'll show off what I end up doing, and I've been sort of trying to get as many weird dogs as possible but I'm not gonna sweat it if I don't manage to get'em all.

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
More crooks, and also another boss! It's time for Episode 10, the one after Episode 09!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkihEFxD-Hk

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
It's not specifically that there's any particular excuse or anything, especially this close to the end of the game. But as of today I'm a little older, perhaps a bit wiser, and certainly one video closer to trying to figure out what Liquidypoo will convince me to forget about doing next.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L96uRBxE-9U

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
I got busy last weekend and couldn't edit. Now I'm not busy so I edited. Take that!

Oh, and this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlveQ-qAw6o

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
I don't really have anything clever to say. New episode time. I have entitled it "Forty Four Pounds of Ice Cream."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es8QDUSVz5o

Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
There are some technical issues to iron out but we hope to give you a proper ending. Hopefully a little quicker than the last two.

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Casnorf
Jun 14, 2002

Never drive a car when you're a fish
The loop will just give you more opportunities to listen to fae and liquidy go off on completely unrelated tangents. Who wouldn't want that?

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