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Man, why did it take me this long to notice that the RFID thingummy on the CENTINEL ID cards has the big W in it? I love all the little details they work in.
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Tupperwarez posted:Man, why did it take me this long to notice that the RFID thingummy on the CENTINEL ID cards has the big W in it? I love all the little details they work in. More things I only recently noticed: The blue streak of hair on Wonder Blue is a W.
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Sep 1, 2014 14:43
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Emperordaein posted:Actually, according to the Tales of the Abyss LP thread, Yuri Lowell was actually named after Yuri Lowenthal after his performance as that game's protagonist. Yeah, the Japanese developers loved his English performance on Tales of the Abyss they named the main character of the next game after him, not realizing that they either couldn't or wouldn't cast Yuri Lowenthal again. I can't find the you-tube video here but apparently the casting director called him up and the conversation went something like this. "Hi Yuri, I'm sorry but we can't cast you in the next Tales game." "Uhh. Okay but I wasn't expecting to be." "Well the main character is named Yuri Lowell." "Oh...."
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Kurieg posted:Yeah, the Japanese developers loved his English performance on Tales of the Abyss they named the main character of the next game after him, not realizing that they either couldn't or wouldn't cast Yuri Lowenthal again. I can't find the you-tube video here but apparently the casting director called him up and the conversation went something like this. Troy Baker's performance was the entire reason for Yuri's appeal so thank God they didn't cast Lowenthal in that role. Dude's got a voice like steel wool.
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Sep 1, 2014 15:15
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Wonder-Sailor's name is a reference to Magellan (whose actual name was Fernão de Magalhães) and I think Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean except with the name spelt like it is in Portuguese.
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Sep 1, 2014 15:21
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Wonder Sailor has a lash. All we need now is Wonder-Rum, and im pretty sure the third isnt going to show up in this game.
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Sep 1, 2014 15:36
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Rena posted:Wonder Sister is a pretty clear multi leveled reference to the Arc System Works fighting series Guilty Gear. Except it's not at all? Some of these "references" are getting a bit out of hand. I thought I was bad for mentioning that White's claws are red and blue.
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Sep 1, 2014 15:55
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Oooh, are we still spelling out every reference? Well the Japanese character on Wonder White's head is the character for hundred!!!! 
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Sep 1, 2014 17:40
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And I am SO glad those snake guys (no Revengeance comment on the chainsaw tails) don't attack in pairs of 3, 4 or more! (Seriously, awesome update!)
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Sep 1, 2014 18:04
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I'd put my money on Wonder Sister being a Chono Crusade reference; Chono Crusade seems like the kind of anime that would be referenced in this game.
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Sep 1, 2014 18:05
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Samizdata posted:pairs of 3 Yeah, I can see how that would be difficult and confusing.
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Sep 1, 2014 18:09
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Neruz posted:I'd put my money on Wonder Sister being a Chrono Cross reference; Chrono Cross seems like the kind of anime that would be referenced in this game. Although, I could certainly believe that there are Gun Nuns in Chrono Cross.
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Sep 1, 2014 18:45
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Nihilarian posted:I think you got the wrong Chrono there. Uh, yeah I meant Chono Crusade 
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Sep 1, 2014 18:53
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:Yeah, I can see how that would be difficult and confusing. I think the comment you quoted was a nitpick on how "pairs of 2" was said in the video.
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Sep 1, 2014 19:05
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Minor nitpick, but you left out the failure version of the QTE where Wonder-Blue slashes that pipe the even BDSM/Dog lover drops on the group.
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Sep 1, 2014 19:11
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He mentioned on Twitter that the qte failures are gone for a bit since he's away from the console to record them.
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Sep 1, 2014 19:20
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pun pundit posted:I think the comment you quoted was a nitpick on how "pairs of 2" was said in the video. It was, but intended to be in a nice teasing way.
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Sep 1, 2014 19:55
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It never got brought up but Orowchee from way earlier in the game wasn't just an Okami reference; that was just its name. It was almost exactly a boss from Bayonetta. Fortitudo, the giant two-headed dragon that looked identical.
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Sep 1, 2014 20:02
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This update's Japanese stuff: Hah-Gonay: as several people already pointed out, this is from 鋼 (hagane), steel. Vijounne: probably from 美女 (bijo), meaning "beautiful woman" or 美純 (bijun), "beautiful and pure". Fun fact about Vijounne: you can bring a Geathjerk weapon into Blue's solo fight against her and it will actually one-shot her from full health! I know that this works at least with Dahkarts tails. Momoe Byakkoin: Wonder White's first name, "Momoe" is written as 百恵, meaning "hundred wisdoms". His surname, "Byakkoin", is written as 百虎院 and is a combination of Byakko, the White Tiger of the West combined with 院 which usually means school/institute/temple etc. However, the Byakko in his name is written with the kanji for "hundred" (百, which is also what he has on his forehead), rather than "white" (白). So you could interpret his name as meaning something along the lines of "One hundred wisdoms from the school of one hundred white tigers". Also, the kanji from the QTE before Vijounne is 断, which has a couple of meanings, but the relevant one here is "cut". The lost continent of Mu was first proposed in the 1862 by French historian Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, who claimed to have successfully translated ancient Mayan writings describing a sunken kingdom called "Mu", reminiscent of the myth of Atlantis. His works inspired British-American traveler and writer Augustus Le Plongeon, who conducted his own research into the matter and concluded that the continent of Mu was not only the original home of Mesoamerican civilizations but also of several other ancient cultures such as the Egyptians, who supposedly descended from Mu's ruler, Queen Moo, and revered her as the goddess Isis. The idea of Mu didn't really take off until British-born writer and self-styled colonel James Churchward decided to follow up his previous works Fishing Among the 1,000 Islands of the St. Lawrence (1894) and A Big Game and Fishing Guide to Northeastern Maine (1897) by branching into cryptoarchaeology and authoring a series of eight books on the subject of Mu, starting in 1926. Churchward's version of Mu was supposedly derived from ancient Indian (as in India, not Native American) clay tablets and was located in the Pacific Ocean rather than the Atlantic, where previous writers had placed it. According to him, Mu is where humans first appeared on Earth, and it was ruled by a highly enlightened white (of course) race, whose descendants went on to found just about every notable ancient civilization, after their homeland was catastrophically destroyed in a single night by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. To back up his claims, Churchward pointed out that many of these civilizations had used common imagery in their artwork, such as birds and the sun. Because what other reason could two unrelated people from opposite sides of the world possiby have to draw birds or the goddamn sun? The concept of Mu wasn't particularly believable even when it was first published and modern science has debunked it entirely. While Atlantis has enough fame to have remained well-known to this day, Mu has more or less been forgotten entirely... in the west, at least. As it happens, it's actually far better known in Japan than in the countries where it was fabricated. On August 7th, 1932, Japanese newspapaper Sunday Mainichi published an article titled "Opening the door to the secrets of the lost Pacific continent Mu". This was the first time Mu was introduced to the Japanese public and it seems to have made an impact, probably because the supposed continent's proximity to Japan. Three years later, one Takeuchi Kiyomaro discovered a 1900-year-old collection of texts known today as the "Takeuchi Documents". These documents described not one but two lost continents in the Pacific, Miyoi and Tamiara, where five different colors of people had been ruled by the "golden humans". Apparently some nationalist groups took a liking to the documents, as the descendants of the golden humans were, of course, the Japanese Imperial family, who therefore were the rightful rulers of the entire world. Other truths gleamed from this undoubtedly authentic ancient relic are, for instance, the fact that the real name of Jesus Christ was actually "Isuchris Christmas" and that he's buried in Aomori, Japan (there was a mixup at Golgotha and they crucified his younger brother instead). Anyway, Mu remains relevant to this day in Japanese occult and pseudoscience circles, and especially in popular culture. You still occasionally get some crackpot who actually thinks that the Japanese originated from a lost continent in the Pacific, but the most likely place to hear the name "Mu" these days is in an anime or a video game, and it shows up even in some pretty mainstream stuff like Doraemon. And really, it makes sense: Atlantis is all over western pop culture as the mythical homeland of western civilization, Mu basically gives the Japanese an equivalent.
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Sep 1, 2014 20:07
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Mu was in Rahxephon as well, which was big on Mesoamerican references.
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horriblePencilist posted:More things I only recently noticed: The blue streak of hair on Wonder Blue is a W.
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Sep 1, 2014 21:58
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Queen Moo, revered as Isis? And here I would've guessed Hathor.
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Kurtofan posted:Mu was in Rahxephon as well, which was big on Mesoamerican references. Mu was in Rahxephon because Rahxephon is a thinly-veiled update of Brave Raideen where the protagonist is a descendant of the ancient people of Mu.
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Hirayuki posted:As is the logo for the Virgin Victory. As is the Virgin Victory itself.
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Hooray, there are Unite Claws! Was hoping somebody would use those. I quite like Wonder White so far. Also I like that that pink lady ended up just helping you. Gets your dudes to stop fighting each other, blasts open the door, gets lost.
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McDragon posted:Hooray, there are Unite Claws! Was hoping somebody would use those. I quite like Wonder White so far. I get the feeling that all the Wonderful Colors are legacy titles. The general is the old Red, his assistant is the old Blue, and now we've met the old Pink.
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Has Chip mentioned what the colored circles mean when the enemy teleport in? Now that we have a good amount of Unite Morphs it might be time to talk about it if it hasen't been mentioned before.
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Sep 2, 2014 02:27
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I took Wonder-White to be a Wolverine reference. Claws, Japan, etc. eh
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:Has Chip mentioned what the colored circles mean when the enemy teleport in? Now that we have a good amount of Unite Morphs it might be time to talk about it if it hasen't been mentioned before. He has, I believe.
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Special request to chip. Tag in armor and never tag him out. He's my favorite! Edit: I'm 100% serious on this. He's so great.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:I get the feeling that all the Wonderful Colors are legacy titles. The general is the old Red, his assistant is the old Blue, and now we've met the old Pink. Mysterious hepler's appearance and general aesthetic looks more like all the alien stuff we've seen than anything, so I'm pretty sure she's some kind of defector or otherwise non-GETHJERK affiliated alien here to help us out.
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Opposing Farce posted:Mysterious hepler's appearance and general aesthetic looks more like all the alien stuff we've seen than anything, so I'm pretty sure she's some kind of defector or otherwise non-GETHJERK affiliated alien here to help us out. I'm not so sure about that. All of the GEATHJERK affiliates we've seen so far have been quite obviously alien. The mysterious woman is, by all appearances, human. I like how each of the wonderful ones have a different reaction to Vijounne, to foreshadow the infighting she would cause. Makes me wonder what Blue has against her in particular. Did the earlier Kahkoo-Regaah in which you fought a bunch of little dough-goos and one of the big ones with just Wonder-Red also use the special one-on-one controls?
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She's got pink skin and a black and red spaceship. Gonna take a wild guess and say she has something to do with Vorkken.
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Hellioning posted:He has, I believe. What was it? I missed it.
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DoctorWhat posted:What was it? I missed it. If you defeat those enemies with the unite morph that matches the ring's color, they'll drop some body part that you can pick up and use to kill their friends.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:If you defeat those enemies with the unite morph that matches the ring's color, they'll drop some body part that you can pick up and use to kill their friends. Oh! So that's the rhyme and reason.
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Sep 2, 2014 07:31
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Is there not a failure cutscene for the Metal Gear Rising QTE?
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TechnoSyndrome posted:Is there not a failure cutscene for the Metal Gear Rising QTE? Chip doesn't have access to his console right now so the failure cutscenes will come later. It's in the description of the first video.
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Benach posted:Whenever I see Wonder Sister I keep thinking of Anonym from Akatsuki Blitzkampf. Because I don't know of other nuns with guns. I lean more toward her being a reference to Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45  Also, Wonder Pirate is a direct reference to John Rackham aka Calico Jack One of the names that pops up when discussing the "golden age of piracy" and also known for his jolly roger (pirate flag) of a skull and crossed swords. Wonder Pirate is from La Havana, same place where a lot of pirate activity happened. Vincent fucked around with this message at 09:31 on Sep 2, 2014 |
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Also Chip, I can't check myself but if I remember right Wonder Sister has her own taunts and voice clips as do a few other wonderful ones If my memories not bunk will you be showing that off?
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