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Apr 5, 2021 22:10
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Aw gently caress, here we go.
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Apr 5, 2021 22:11
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 Part 1: A Crack in Reality Part 2: The Anime Singularity Welcome to Tokyo Xanadu! We're gonna jump straight in and rip the band-aid off with Episode 2, which is unfortunately 30 minutes of setup for a high-school anime played as straight as an arrow. This game is very dumb and very anime, but I promise it will never get as bad as it is here.
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Apr 5, 2021 22:12
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I haven't actually experienced anything Falcom for myself, so this is gonna be a fun ride.
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Apr 5, 2021 22:14
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This game is neat and chill, I hope everyone has a good time.
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Apr 6, 2021 01:13
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Koh it's pronounced Koh 
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Apr 6, 2021 01:55
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Hwurmp posted:Koh We're all going to pronounce it Ku now for the rest of the LP.
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Apr 6, 2021 02:06
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that's KouKou for KouKou Puffs
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Apr 6, 2021 02:09
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Kah is my favorite anime protagonist, I hope he gets some good moments later on
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Apr 6, 2021 02:14
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I don't think anyone's going to survive an anime tropes drinking game. Good god.
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Apr 6, 2021 02:18
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pointlessone posted:I don't think anyone's going to survive an anime tropes drinking game. Good god. If it goes on for 30 minutes at a time then sure. Anything longer and it does start to get ugly.
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Apr 6, 2021 02:19
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Triple shot of anime, straight, on the rocks, no chaser e: The lip animation in this is harrowing megane fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Apr 6, 2021 |
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Apr 6, 2021 02:26
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megane posted:Triple shot of anime, straight, on the rocks, no chaser Sir, we're out of Tokyo Mirage Sessions, can I interest you in a nice Love Live.
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Apr 6, 2021 02:28
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megane posted:Triple shot of anime, straight, on the rocks, no chaser your ID says you're 2,996 years old we don't serve minors
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Apr 6, 2021 02:29
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megane posted:e: The lip animation in this is harrowing I'm sorry, are you asking for animation? In the Cold Steel 2 engine? In this economy? Frankly, I think your expectations were a little high coming in.
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Apr 6, 2021 02:32
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given Falcom's typical budgets, it's a miracle we even got that fade-out when Towa stepped off the footstool
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Apr 6, 2021 02:35
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Since you folks asked, yes Asuka's algebra is correct. Falcom does something similar in Cold Steel 3 on a ballistics calculation and even sneaks in the assumption of a particular type of drag. Will you be showing off the NG+ exclusive content when it becomes relevant? ChaosArgate posted:I haven't actually experienced anything Falcom for myself, so this is gonna be a fun ride. As a Trails derivative TX is a very long game that will take 80-100 hours for a full playthrough. Much of that is text and atmosphere. If Artix wants to keep this to 40-50 hours he will have to prune like a madman.
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Apr 6, 2021 02:57
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NGDBSS posted:As a Trails derivative TX is a very long game that will take 80-100 hours for a full playthrough. Much of that is text and atmosphere. If Artix wants to keep this to 40-50 hours he will have to prune like a madman. Obviously recording will make things a bit longer but assuming the game didn't reset my clock somehow between the end and the postgame, my clock says 41:02.  In fact, that's a big part of why I picked it compared to some of Falcom's other stuff, it's standalone and not a horrifying monster of a game (Looking squarely at you, Cold Steel 4  )E: For reference my times for Cold Steel 3 and 4 were both in the 60-70 hour range. Cold Steel 4 might have been closer to 75, now that I think about it. Artix fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Apr 6, 2021 |
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Apr 6, 2021 03:05
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Artix posted:Obviously recording will make things a bit longer but assuming the game didn't reset my clock somehow between the end and the postgame, my clock says 41:02.
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Apr 6, 2021 03:10
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That sword and its extra-huge ring around the grip... are we sure Soul Devices aren't just Keyblades?
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Apr 6, 2021 04:45
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NGDBSS posted:You must have skipped a lot of the nonessential dialogue, then. My clear times for NG and NG+ respectively are 96:37 and 177:13. how the gently caress i dragged my feet and barely cracked 60. i think I left the game on while I napped, once
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Apr 6, 2021 05:37
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I keep having to catch myself (nearly) every time the camera focuses on Kou. "No brain, that's not Rean. Stop it."
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Apr 6, 2021 05:59
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So not gonna lie, when I played this I fast forwarded through most cutscenes to see if I could still kinda understand what was going on, so it actually will be neat to see if I had a good handle on things through this LP. And yeah, this game was definitely a smaller experiment from the Trails team to see if they could make an action game and it shows both in just how much writing there is and that the combat, while fine, is not anywhere near as polished as what the Ys team would do.
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Apr 6, 2021 09:42
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I'm going to defend the meltdown in Persona 5 Strikers because it was funny as gently caress and the party was deliberately fanning the flames for entertainment value. But yeah, welcome to Trails of Persona. I hope you enjoy books and NPCs with all the backstory, and why the hell did they copy-paste tiny senpai here? Don't get me wrong, Towa is the best, but did she fall in a dimensional warp?
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Apr 6, 2021 11:18
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Omobono posted:I'm going to defend the meltdown in Persona 5 Strikers because it was funny as gently caress and the party was deliberately fanning the flames for entertainment value.
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Apr 6, 2021 11:43
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Omobono posted:I'm going to defend the meltdown in Persona 5 Strikers because it was funny as gently caress and the party was deliberately fanning the flames for entertainment value. Yuzu from Devil Survivor might be a better example of a more prolonged meltdown over suddenly getting your world upended on you. She spends most of the first half of the game somewhere between full-blown panic and "why ME?!"
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Apr 6, 2021 15:24
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Weeble posted:I keep having to catch myself (nearly) every time the camera focuses on Kou. You say this, but maybe Kou pulls out some ridiculous katana as his soul device?
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Apr 6, 2021 17:18
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This looks so generic anime it hurts. Even halfway through that anime opening I could predict each of the following scenes. Every single one where a character appeared a second time, they had the weapon I expected them to have. Except for maybe hacker dude carrying a hammer instead of a wand or something.
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Apr 6, 2021 18:06
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I really love Falocom's NPC based world building. Yes, I AM one of the people who was crazy enough to go around and talk to all the NPCs after every bit of plot in the Cold Steel games. EDIT: Books too. . . . help me Weeble fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Apr 6, 2021 |
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Apr 6, 2021 18:33
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Weeble posted:I really love Falocom's NPC based world building. you missed one in Chapter 3
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Apr 6, 2021 21:24
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NGDBSS posted:Towa Herschel is apparently a minor crossover vortex unto herself? But yeah, I did follow the Trails in the Sky LPs, so...good luck cutting through all that lore/backstory/flavor text, Artix.
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Apr 7, 2021 01:23
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nine-gear crow posted:We're all going to pronounce it Ku now for the rest of the LP. Kweh!
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Apr 7, 2021 01:33
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Part 3: Doth Thou Desire the -Power-? There's a little bit of time to kill before work, but things get cut off quickly and it's time to dive into the unknown. I'm sure that nothing will go wrong by accepting the plot fairy's deal for power.
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Apr 9, 2021 21:03
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The third trailer in Star Camera is from Xanadu Next, the Dark Souls of N-Gage games
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Apr 9, 2021 21:38
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So a Soul Device can't form complex machines, with chemicals and moving parts, just solid metal shapes unless you're the protagonist?
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Apr 10, 2021 03:09
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Well, I liked the Sonic Adventure joke, even if no one else did. Always been curious about TX, no one seems to rate it highly, but Falcom doing urban fantasy could be fun.
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Apr 10, 2021 22:56
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White Coke posted:So a Soul Device can't form complex machines, with chemicals and moving parts, just solid metal shapes unless you're the protagonist?
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Apr 10, 2021 23:27
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Part 4: A Dungeon Crawling Experience Tokyo Xanadu's dungeons are...fine? Passable, maybe, is the right word. The combat isn't interesting enough to carry it over another 50 iterations of "This, but blue", but it's just inoffensive enough to fade into the background. They make for okay optimization puzzles, I suppose, but that's about all I can really say.
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I'm still baffled they went with Spirit, Shadow, and Steel in the localization. Just make it Dark and Metal, guys!
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