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Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
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but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
They really do start you off light as far as the whole available actions thing goes, which... may make sense? I bet it gets frustrating after a bit though.

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Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Is it possible to join the swim team now, or is it something you had to plan for during character creation?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I know nothing about this game, but it'd be a little hilarious to have a game that purported to be a datesim but was instead about not dying to a ridiculous series of coincidences.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So I guess Satsuko is actively avoiding us when we might die so as to preserve the integrity of the timeline and also her chances at going back to have a fulfilling high-school life?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Hiroshi is probably coasting on past conquests to be popular, but it's gone to his head, resulting in a kind of smugness singularity. A smugularity, if you will.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Do you even get any stats for helping out with the festival or is that just an XP challenge?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
...did Satsuko even show up for this? After suggesting it?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Oh, that's interesting. Do all these "life experience" events come at the expense of actual stat grinding? It'd be an interesting thematic choice, if so.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I am curious to see what you're unlocking with all this becoming a slave to fashion.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Oh! That's actually interesting, I hadn't thought about upgradable actions before.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Haven't noticed any lurking deaths for us yet, which bodes well I suppose.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So... never winter, but sometimes Christmas?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Does Hiroshi ever do anything besides yell at Alice?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Just wrote Literature off, did you?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Having her talk about how badly things are going when the world has faded to black just seems ominous.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So the last thing that Kasumi does is... answer a question about why humans exist? Or was that event just a random coincidence?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
It may just be the sprite palette and all, but for some reason Satsuko just looks like she's faking her emotions here.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Yeah, it seems weird that we haven't had a stat-check-or-die for two years now. I guess the tests have kind of been that?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So, what, is this one advantage of being a loser in high school? Don't get dragged out on the streets to be cut-price Batman?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry

SSNeoman posted:

I have literally never seen another VN do this. All other VNs take an extra step to show when scenes take place at night (lit up store fronts and whatnot) I never saw people just shade the whole thing and call it a day.

Shooting day-for-night is just keeping in the grand tradition of lovely media everywhere.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So like, despite rekindling someone's faith in the arts and fighting a swarm of music zombies, we're just... back where we started, and Goon and Satsuko both just kind of acknowledge that?

Were they expecting a couple other failures and some more things about the loop getting explained?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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Clapping Larry
We really seem on top of things this run. I guess the improvements to our training capabilities helped there.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Well, at least you're not graded on fashion.

Or do they not let you into the school if you stink too bad?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
It's amazing what you can do if you don't care about how you look.

Was Satsuko's yelling supposed to be a "critically low fashion" warning, or something?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Flames need oxygen to keep burning! Hey, kids, can you name some other things that need oxygen to keep going?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Wait, isn't Kasumi supposed to be dead? Or is that next year?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Does our little bedroom change to reflect our stats, or is it only endings that do that?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
This is stuff we haven't seen before from Kasumi. I wonder if this is actually going to help her.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
This is the same graveyard that ghost Mozart went all ghost Mozart in, right?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I do like the large event variety. Gives you something to do on new loops.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
All that swim team and we still can't do poo poo?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Is this our actual second Kasumi death or have you glossed over some?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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Clapping Larry
So which one is the robot? Unless there are multiple robots.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Honestly I kinda figured? I thought maybe there was an actual Suzu who was swapping with her robot double. But I guess it's just robots building robots all the way down.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry

Nomadic Scholar posted:

How is the zombie Mozart path more tame than this. If only this game had a skip function.

Endless swarms of paramilitary guards are easy to foil, though. You just need, like, a cardboard box and a knife.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
gently caress. Goon. You wasted your life playing video games before, right? You need to warn Suzu about what happens when you build a robot kid (vis. some other rear end in a top hat takes over between six and eight terrifyingly destructive robots) before it's too late!

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
...it'd be a weird mechanic if in successive games people got more backstories interests and started getting involved in events after you got their ending.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Oh, so the cross-timeline stuff is starting to crop up. It feels like there'll be... something at the end of that.

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Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So does clearing a character's route unlock a ton of XP events for them in the main loop or something? Or is it just chance that throws you into those?

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