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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
Good to know the tribe walled off those sand wastes for a reason.

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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
And Gori just kind of... falls into a harem. I guess it's his turn to be out of the party now?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
It's not really a time-traveling game until you've thrown down with a tyrannosaur.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry

AlphaKretin posted:

It's not, though, is it? As far as I can tell these are just stories happening at vastly different times in the same world. :confused:

Well, okay, time-spanning game. If there's any prehistory, there must be that tyrant lizard.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
I would say that this is just an example that mankind never changes, but somehow I doubt that anybody's going to start a cult dedicated to propitiating that behemoth.

Stranger things have happened, though.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

As a comparison, think about if there was a videogame adaptation of the original Alien where you played as Jonesy the cat. You'd wander around the ship and listen to Ripley and the others talking while they landed on LV-426; you'd sit in one corner of the sick bay while Kane was rushed in with a facehugger around his head; you'd be stuffed into a cat carrier and forgotten until the very end, when Ripley had almost lost the will to go on but found renewed purpose in saving your life. The whole thing would flow similarly to Cube's chapter in Live A Live.

Even though this wasn't what you were talking about, I would totally play a weird fusion of Tokyo Jungle and Alien Isolation about being a pet trying to survive to the end of a horror movie.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
I'm glad we actually managed to stop Rachel from getting out in to the harsh vacuum of space. ...kind of odd that nobody said anything about something in the system trying to get her to do it, though.

Maybe it was a tight-beam transmission to her that we happened to pick up on?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry

Bellmaker posted:

It's cute/creepy how Cube doesn't really "get" what's going on. He's like a puppy dog in the wrong place :smith:

Unlike humans, Cube doesn't know what it is to be afraid.

That might just see him through this.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
Yeah, the crew eval really ties this whole thing together. But for all that, even with tensions running that high, it didn't seem like this kind of disaster awaited them.

Though it could just be some extreme misdiagnosis on the crew's part, assuming every failure was due to sabotage when in fact they were all just really poo poo at maintenance.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
Oh, they used that pasty fooligan to lure the Master into town?

Well played, Yi Po Men Kung Fu.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry


I never thought of the Master as that small. I guess you lose certain things when you're converting to reasonable sprites.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
I dunno, the caveman chapter was also pretty traditional. Unless the greater amount of found vs. crafted equipment here is pushing it over the top.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
Isn't there a bonus boss in the caveman chapter too? The King Mammoth or whatever the biggest thing you can hunt is?

Not to disparage the ninja chapter or anything, Though it is kind of odd we're picking up so many pieces of armor that slow us down.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
Yeah, it's interesting how the castle is... evolving, I guess you could say? Some fights you want to avoid but can't (can you run from them?) and the traps are ramping up.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
You could hit up the end boss, but you still haven't got to the payoff for not killing women? Dang, must be some kind of weird secret.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
The end of the Wrestler chapter just being some random dude jumping the protagonist as he jumped others in the past speaks to nothing if not man's eternal quest for a place to be free and bodyslam each other.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
I suppose shooting somebody in the middle of a duel is what passes for strategy with the Crazy Bunch.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
So basically you're walking around beating up street punks and their increasingly elaborate mechanical escort in order to get parts to upgrade a killing machine made out of some poor kid's pet turtle.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry

EclecticTastes posted:

"Odio" is Latin for "hatred". :eng101:

Oh, so we're fighting the universe's ultimate evildoer, Lord Hater?

What a time to be down a banjo.

Seriously, though, that running gag got dark.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
Blowing through the army like a bunch of tin cans was a pretty nice leadup to the finale.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
"That was NOT the demon" is not what you want to hear after the fight that wiped half your party.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
I wonder if one of Hash's own party betrayed him, too, after they fought the "demon lord".

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
So the key to victory is just, what, using your best attacks right from the beginning?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
Wow, choosing the Master has some pretty long-term effects.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
I wonder if Hash was basically one step away from being Odio all this time and he only held out because he went to live so far away from everyone that he'd never meet anyone to betray him.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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

Clapping Larry
It's neat to see the overworld evolving as you clear out more and more of people's specialized dungeons.

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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
I love me a good credits medley when the game can pull it off, and this was a pretty sweet credits medley.

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