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get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

HenryEx posted:

Suddenly i'm glad that my only point of contact with Highlander is that one, short Lost Horizon screaming video.


edit: you know The One
That song is badass. If it came from the horrible TV show, then there is one more thing good about it than in T3B.

I'd say a good thing about this game is that it didn't assassinate DANIEL GODDAMN DOLLIS's character, but an omission shouldn't count as a positive.

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dis astranagant
Dec 14, 2006

The tv series and the songs Queen made for the movie are the only decent things to come out of Highlander but every few years they trot out another lovely spinoff.

HR12345
Nov 19, 2012
Considering it seems to be a common point for companies to forget their own canon, I thought of this. I read the Onimusha LP Id had done and remembered Kaede, the worst ninja ever, never met Samanosuke again. If they ever did a new Onimusha game, what's to say they wouldn't remember that bit of story and have them talking like they never split up?

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

dis astranagant posted:

The tv series and the songs Queen made for the movie are the only decent things to come out of Highlander but every few years they trot out another lovely spinoff.

There's even an anime Highlander film (its own post-apocalypse thing, not an anime version of the original). It's not a bad action movie, actually.

Derek Barona
Dec 8, 2009

WHO'S YOUR FRIEND?!
I feel like the odds of them ever even remembering Onimusha is a thing are only slightly more likely than Holland staging a surprise invasion and conquering all of Europe.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic

Neddy Seagoon posted:

There's even an anime Highlander film (its own post-apocalypse thing, not an anime version of the original). It's not a bad action movie, actually.
Highlander: The Search for Vengeance. It's not quite Cowboy Bebop but it's not a bad anime, though it does confuse things slightly. I could've sworn there were no female Immortals, but that might have just been the casting of the first movie that made me think that.

E: quick dirty googling tells me they were introduced during the TV show, so :shrug: I never watched it.

dis astranagant
Dec 14, 2006

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Highlander: The Search for Vengeance. It's not quite Cowboy Bebop but it's not a bad anime, though it does confuse things slightly. I could've sworn there were no female Immortals, but that might have just been the casting of the first movie that made me think that.

Seemed like every other episode of the TV series dealt with some immortal woman Duncan dated hundreds of years ago and how them meeting up after all that time goes.

Derek Barona
Dec 8, 2009

WHO'S YOUR FRIEND?!
Badly, usually. Also, didn't he have a girlfriend/wife in the TV show?

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic

dis astranagant posted:

Seemed like every other episode of the TV series dealt with some immortal woman Duncan dated hundreds of years ago and how them meeting up after all that time goes.
I was like two years old when the show started, so :v: Can't say I'm surprised, though, every 90's show seemed to follow that formula.

Golden Goat
Aug 2, 2012

Poor Blank.

So uh, how exactly did they die in that interim? More betrayal? Somebody left the door open and Twisted got in?

Kite Pride Worldwide
Apr 20, 2009


Golden Goat posted:

Poor Blank.

So uh, how exactly did they die in that interim? More betrayal? Somebody left the door open and Twisted got in?

I dunno, Hyde seems kind of suspicious with his unbelievably blatant foreshadowing earlier.

Qrr
Aug 14, 2015


Alabaster White posted:

I dunno, Hyde seems kind of suspicious with his unbelievably blatant foreshadowing earlier.

I think you're treating this game with more respect than it deserves. Sure, it could do the obvious thing and have Hyde be a traitor of some kind... or, and I think this is very possible, it could never mention Hyde or Blank again and completely drop that plot thread.

For that matter, if TDI hadn't explicitly said Blank wasn't showing up again, I would have believed it if at some point you complete a mission (with no time travel involved) and suddenly Blank is alive again. Like Cid in FFXIII. Or alternatively you'd reach the end of a mission and Blank would be there betraying you and turning into a Twisted (if they remembered to make a boss fight), and Aya would ask "Aren't you dead?" But it would be in italics, because of course in the actual game she'd have nothing relevant to say at all.

Kite Pride Worldwide
Apr 20, 2009


Qrr posted:

I think you're treating this game with more respect than it deserves. Sure, it could do the obvious thing and have Hyde be a traitor of some kind... or, and I think this is very possible, it could never mention Hyde or Blank again and completely drop that plot thread.

It's basically a 50/50 at this point, cause this game's story seems to have been written via dartboard, but I think between the enormous hint dropping that Hyde is A) going to be a traitor, B) probably exists outside the timestream, and C) has some deeper unknown connection with Aya, he's got to come back. Like, there's not many more characters and plot threads they can drop and have the game actually continue. Of course, I'll be happy even if I'm proven wrong cause this game finds new ways to astound every update.

Picayune
Feb 26, 2007

cannot be unseen
Taco Defender
Calling it now: Hyde is Daniel Dollis. :v:

Golden Goat
Aug 2, 2012

Alabaster White posted:

It's basically a 50/50 at this point, cause this game's story seems to have been written via dartboard, but I think between the enormous hint dropping that Hyde is A) going to be a traitor, B) probably exists outside the timestream, and C) has some deeper unknown connection with Aya, he's got to come back. Like, there's not many more characters and plot threads they can drop and have the game actually continue. Of course, I'll be happy even if I'm proven wrong cause this game finds new ways to astound every update.

"IT WAS ME, HYDE!"

Seriously though it was probably Hyde who shot up Aya's wedding.

bawk
Mar 31, 2013

What if Aya shot up Aya's wedding? Hmm? Hmmmmmmmm?

That would be the stupidest thing and I'm entirely expecting it.

Golden Goat
Aug 2, 2012

Maybe that wasn't Aya marrying Kyle but a future Eve?

What if Hyde is really some sort of amalgamation of all the deleted timeline people back for really obtuse revenge on Aya.

bawk
Mar 31, 2013

What if we're not Aya? What if we're Eve? :twisted:

HGH
Dec 20, 2011
Actually this whole game is Kyle Madigan's dying dream after being shot by an orbital satellite(again), explaining how he managed to marry Aya.

Golden Goat
Aug 2, 2012

Turns out it was Maeda's terrible fanfic all along.

Gnome de plume
Sep 5, 2006

Hell.
Fucking.
Yes.
On the subject of Highlander spinoffs there was also the cartoon series that has another MacLeod and was set in the post-apocalyptic future or another planet or something but also couldn't show heads getting cut off so try figuring out how that was considered a good idea for a kid's show.

Oh right, the game. Everybody getting killed offscreen and the Overdive machine getting destroyed might have made sense in the context of the Boss betrayal, but then he got timefragged so who knows. Having the facility in a city overrun by monsters might not have been a sound decision. Not that there have been many of those.

The Dark Id
Aug 13, 2005

Why
you
know
I
LOVE
THIS SHIT !!!!
[citation needed]
I'll have a real update a bit later. But for now, here's the updated The 3rd Birthday Name Game with Episode 3's multinational cast of men.



***** Episode 3: Against the World*****
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Bob Tucker
  • Rashan Hespos
  • Onzi Grier
  • Omari Ziehfreund
  • Harry Avery
  • Domingo Hiles
  • Sherman Jover
  • Damarco Yun
  • Baek-Yong Guiza
  • Thomas McDonald
  • Kiefer Malz
  • Renaud Jensen
  • Shan Grosheim
  • Shan Sandtler
  • Jackie Chen
  • Il-Nam Roca
  • Eddie Hopkins
  • Roland Turner
  • Firmin Hannawald
  • Joaquin Yeon
  • Erskine Becker
  • Manuel Zhu
  • Chester Leacock
  • Garcia Montes
  • Juan Harvey
  • Adam Canabal
  • Olivier Fesca
  • Darnel Fearon
  • Deok Lamprecht
  • Arcus Viola
  • Karam Theile
  • Sheik Ottke
  • Radd Ichikawa

Jackie Chen, Firmin Hannawald, and Radd Ichikawa are my favorites. :3:

absolutely anything
Dec 28, 2006

~As for dreams, she has enough and more to spare~

The Dark Id posted:

  • Jackie Chen

I bet whatever recruitment officer got reeeeeal bummed out when he looked over the form again and realized he got the wrong guy

Geostomp
Oct 22, 2008

Unite: MASH!!
~They've got the bad guys on the run!~

absolutely anything posted:

I bet whatever recruitment officer got reeeeeal bummed out when he looked over the form again and realized he got the wrong guy

Even more than the one who got Radd Ichikawa and did not see him come in wearing the most 80's clothes on some form of rocket powered skateboard.

MechaX
Nov 19, 2011

"Let's be positive! Let's start a fire!"
And this is where 3rd Birthday really starts ladies and gentlemen.

That CTI poo poo never mattered in the long run and enjoy sexual predator Maeda.

I mean, yeah, he was awkward in the first game because English was his second loving language and he wasn't even that good at it, but he at least gave us charms and Super Mitochondria Bullets.

tudabee
Jan 1, 2007

How many times must I remind you to WASH YOUR HANDS?

How does this game keep getting more gross? This should not be possible.

HR12345
Nov 19, 2012
It's like for every sensible Anglo-Saxon name that would be feasible in NYC, there are so many that don't make sense. Manuel Zhu gets a pass since a lot of Chinese have Western names so people don't strain themselves trying to pronounce their Chinese name.

lurksion
Mar 21, 2013
How many chapters are there? I want to get a handle on how much insanity-escalation can we expect from here on out.

dis astranagant
Dec 14, 2006

lurksion posted:

How many chapters are there? I want to get a handle on how much insanity-escalation can we expect from here on out.

3 more.

Cathode Raymond
Dec 30, 2015

My antenna is telling me that you're probably wrong about this.
Soiled Meat

What?

I thought for sure this was going to be the last level. They said they were nuking Manhatten in 2 hours and most of the characters are dead! That means "last level"!

dis astranagant
Dec 14, 2006

Cathode Raymond posted:

What?

I thought for sure this was going to be the last level. They said they were nuking Manhatten in 2 hours and most of the characters are dead! That means "last level"!

Well, that's counting the one we just started. The last episode is called the Last Episode just to make sure you know this garbage is ending soon.

Golden Goat
Aug 2, 2012

Cathode Raymond posted:

What?

I thought for sure this was going to be the last level. They said they were nuking Manhatten in 2 hours and most of the characters are dead! That means "last level"!

I'm sure Aya will learn to control her disco powers and go back in time to prevent whatever from whatevering the place.

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.

Geostomp posted:

Even more than the one who got Radd Ichikawa and did not see him come in wearing the most 80's clothes on some form of rocket powered skateboard.

Are you implying he didn't?

The Dark Id
Aug 13, 2005

Why
you
know
I
LOVE
THIS SHIT !!!!
[citation needed]
Part XXII: Maeda’s House




New Music: A Piece of Remain –For the 3rd Birthday-


Welp. I don’t know about you folks. But I already miss the safety of the CTI Headquarters. Welcome to our between mission hub for the remainder of The 3rd Birthday: Kunihiko Maeda’s off the grid serial killer loft hideout.



If you weren’t into Aya’s depressed flavor text tours from the CTI building, don’t worry. They’ve essentially thrown that in trash too. There’s still a wee bit left. But there’s not exactly a lot going on in this run down warehouse which Maeda… and I suppose Aya now… call home.



What is plentiful here is Dr. Maeda acting like a big fat exposition tourniquet on the bleeding wound that is this game’s narrative. A whole mess of nonsense occurred when they spliced together two script drafts with little cohesion, so they could just ship this drat game the time skip occurred. As such, just approaching Maeda’s vicinity enters Aya into a menu with six lengthy topics attempting to poorly stitch back together something resembling a narrative or any context on current events that they couldn’t be bothered to show us first hand.

Might as well get this mess out of the way. Alright, Maeda. Hit me with it and try not to make my skin crawl quite as much as your introduction cutscene…

Ask About > The Mission



Kyle Madigan has been spotted in the area. Y-you should go with them. Now's your chance to save Eve! The m-main goal is the destruction of the Babel, but the troops have already b-begun to lose manpower.
Any troops I can dive into?
The alpha team covering the flank is an option, b-but an enormous Twisted is in their path, and they're not in the best position. They're at a standstill.
Any other options?
T-there's an immobile tank that s-should be good enough to fire off a few rounds.
Maeda, I… don’t have training to operate a tank…
It’s fine. You’ll f-figure it out. Just point and shoot.
But even so… Isn’t there a whole crew of people that operate a tank?
N-No. These modern tanks are child’s play to operate. You’ll be fine.
…If you say so.

F-fire off a few rounds to create an entrance. By destroying the building, you'll be able to c-corner Kyle Madigan. A-and don't forget there's a nuclear attack planned in two hours.

So aside from our goal of saving Eve from her transient time-ghost state, apparently Madigan has taken a heel turn post-timeskip. There’s very early footage of the game’s first move to the PSP, where it seemed as though Madigan was intended to be the main villain and he showed up as early as Club Sacrifice (which was on fire and Madigan was doing a Sephiroth walking through flame routine.)

Ask About > The Present Day World



…but things don't seem to be getting any better.
I know. All I regained was Eve's memory.
Huh… This is all so fascinating. So much research, so little time.
It's all his doing.
That Kyle Madigan, correct?

There's one thing I know for sure. And that is that, Aya, you're the only one who can better the future.

Aya, you were clearly getting memories back by beating the Episode end bosses time-fragging the named characters. Kyle didn’t even show up in Episode 1. But hey, don’t let me stop your revised script.

Though speaking of scripts... Hey, The 3rd Birthday. I know Maeda stuttered occasionally in Parasite Eve. It was partly because he was a nervous dweeb dealing with some batshit crazy science. But mostly, it was due to the fact he was a Japanese Scientist. As in, English was his second language, and he kind of sucked at it, so he occasionally stammered his words. Just throwing that out there.

Ask About > Eve



Hmm… Eve's presence in itself is a time paradox. There was an incident that was supposed to determine her fate. However, it still hasn't been...
Resolved as of yet?
E-exactly. Her fate is still undecided. She exists and doesn't exist at the same time. Yet you're able to see her.
So someone's messing around with the past? I thought the device was destroyed.
It's possible that the CTI created another device that can handle the Overdive technology. O-or a-are trying to create one.
Another… device?
Infiltrate the North Shallows Tower and retrieve Eve. That's the only way you'll find out what happened to her - to Eve.

Sooo… Eve is the focal point of some unknown time paradox in the past, which has unstuck her from time and turned her into some weird time ghost. Which is somehow different from Madigan’s version of being a rogue Time Lord or whatever his deal is here. If you’re wondering how Maeda and Aya have reached this conclusion… you got me! Time travel itself has shifted from an active part of the current narrative to some anime bullshit background element. I didn’t say it was going away entirely.

Ask About > The Overdive Device



…I could e-examine you while you're diving.
Yes… Data when your consciousness has left your body… d-during the Overdive. It would be f-fascinating research material.
You sound as if you've had experience with it.
Yes, I previously snuck into the CTI building and got kicked out almost immediately.
You know how it is with government agencies. Always wanting to r-restraint the distance between a researcher and his… subjects.
But I discovered something amazing!
Can I have the condensed version?
The core of the device consisted of components from the Babel. Some kind of mysterious, unstable organism. Quite similar to the cells found in your body actually. It's a strange coincidence indeed.
Why would they use Babel components?

My next thesis will be about the Overdive device, the Babel, and of course, you. It-it won't be made public. It'll just be for me.
My private study. It will be… all mine to… review.

Gee, you think the dearly departed Boss Owen would have been more wary about Hyde having shoved Babel bits into the weird time travel machine than Aya herself. Then again, self-preservation skills were never his strong suit.

Ask About > Kyle



…and is now hiding out in the North Shallows Tower. However, there was something strange. When the Twisted attacked the CTI building, apparently, the security cameras caught him destroying the Overdive system.
Why-?
The corpse of an employee was found in the main building of the CTI. The Twisted don't leave bodies. So what happened? No one knows. I smell a conspiracy. Someone erased your past. I knew it. It was done on purpose. Hmmhehe. Don't worry - we'll get your memory back.
Speaking of which, have y-you tried contacting Detective D-Dollis to help with the investigation? Hehe. Is he still active?
…Who?
Oh… N-nevermind.


Who is Kyle Madigan? And why did he take Eve? It's quite a mystery. Hmm. I'm intrigued.

The 3rd Birthday doesn’t seem to be particularly consistent (I know, shocking) as to whether Madigan initiated the attack on the CTI Headquarters or if he just stepped in while the Twisted opened the attack. And how many people he murdered is a bit dubious. Besides Blank. Madigan definitely murdered Blank.

Oh yeah, by the way Madigan attacked CTI! That’s what that flashback was all about. Sorry, they couldn’t show us that, despite there being literally video evidence of the attack happening. You’ll just have to be satisfied with dodgy second-hand accounts and that 20 second flashback to the aftermath.

Ask About > Maeda



The second I heard about the Twisted. I-I'm always prepared to travel at the drop of a h-hat. You never know when r-research is going to c-call! Heh heheheehe. O-or maybe I sensed it.
Sensed what?
My princ…ess was in distress!

Heh. Hehe. O-oh, do you want to know more about me? Whahe. Unfortunately, I… I'm not a very interesting s-subject. Heh. I'm normal. Hehe. Average. Boring.

So is Maeda now referring to both the Brea sisters as “princess” amongst the stuttering and giddy chuckling? You know what…? I’m not going to press the issue.

ANYWAY, that’s all Maeda has for us in his font of exposition. If that wasn’t enough, don’t worry! The Counter-Twisted Investigation Team might be disbanded, but Kunihiko has backed up the Datalog database and has updated it accordingly for this brave, new timeline. As usual, that’ll be its own update. Spoiler: Turns out Thelonious Cray getting time-fragged and telling Madigan to go do something besides being a mysterious ghost man royally hosed up everything!

Apart from that, much like the CTI Building, Aya does have some flavor text from examining parts of Maeda’s hideout. But that content is way more Spartan this time around. But since I am giving this game far more effort than it deserves, I’ll go ahead and remain diligent with showing off what little is available. Let’s just circle the room clockwise from the entrance, shall we?



Maeda eats the same thing every day. He must have a high tolerance for tedium. Canned food and alcohol. That's no way to eat!

So Maeda apparently became an alcoholic in the past 17 years. That’s good. Great stuff. We’ll just lay on Maeda's couch and toss our consciousness across Manhattan, while the good doctor eats microwaved Beefaroni and gets shitfaced leering at us. That'll be just dandy.



The massive briefcase laptop next to the empty sake bottle and holy loving poo poo, is that a used tissue? Oh gawd, that’s a used loving crumpled up used tissue. Augh! Yeah, that’s the Datalog terminal now. Moving on… MOVING ON!



Someone should get rid of these barrels. Maeda says he needs all of this.

Boy, I sure don’t like the fact Maeda is evidently just stockpiling empty oil drums, which he claims are necessary, in his serial killer loft. Moving on!



Is this really just an ordinary fish? Maybe he's culturing something.

Look, maybe the man just has a pet fish. That’s fine. Now, if he had a hog pen to dispose of the bodies, then that would be eyebrow raising.



Aren’t there any old pictures of me? Every time I change the past, my memories become clearer.

Aya, please do not lament the fact Maeda lacks photos of you in your youth for his private collection. That’s fine. Don’t try to fix it.





The rest of Maeda’s desk is the new main terminal, where Aya can upgrade and begin the next mission. Since we finished Episode 3, a new DNA board has unlocked.



New DNA boards just mean we can start fresh building up new Over Energy nodes from scratch without erasing our old ones. There’s no functional difference between the DNA boards. I think the intent is to make certain ability builds as the game requires. Like stacking one board with abilities that benefit Liberation and another that benefits Overdiving frequently.

Of course, all of this would only be useful if we were going to do a New Game Plus. And, no fuckin’ thank you, Square-Enix. We’re done after this game’s credits roll.





Here’s Aya’s new set-up as of this new episode. I’ve actually had fairly rotten luck with my Over Energy node drops. About 60% of them have been boards that come with Rare OE alongside Malignant nodes. Malignant OE nodes’ negative effects can be mitigated by installing a normal node over the tumorous growth and re-rolling a bunch. But, it basically means erasing that node in the first place. I just don’t bother, because everything about this system is godawful.

Weapon load-out wise, I haven’t upgraded anything since last time, even though I’m sitting on a healthy amount of BP. So let’s just move onward. We’re finished with Dr. Maeda’s main loft. But there is some bits outside his lair’s inner sanctum. For instance, there is the chain-link fence overlooking the main floor.



It doesn't look anything like a shelter. This is the only place I have to come back to.

Yeah, this place does look like a complete shithole. One that is apparently fit to survive a nuclear strike… If you say so, doc. There’s no mention if this structure is some underground bunker or what, as we never see its exteriors and there are no windows to disturb Kunihiko’s intense… research.



We can take the stairs down to the lower level. Along the way, we see creepiest feature of Maede’s pad…



The shower room is totally exposed. I don't think Maeda's a Peeping Tom...

Yep. There’s a shower room. Of couse there’s a shower room. An open air one, at that. One that is, if we line up the map’s geography correct, almost EXACTLY above the Datalog terminal couch. You know… the one with that old tissue.

Aya… Wow. You are a tremendously bad judge of character. Moving. On.



On the ground floor, we have not much of note. The biggest landmark is a fenced off section separating the northern half of the warehouse’s floor.



You can just dive right in and brush up your skills. I'd like to get the test firing over with already.





Maeda apparently installed his own make-shift firing range, just like there was back at the CTI building. Actually, it just seems like he straight up jacked the thing from the old headquarters’ rubble, since it is exactly the same as it was back there.



This new shooting range even comes with an immortal Slacker for Aya to lay into testing her firearms. This is not, in fact, Augustus Vassel, the resident immortal Twisted CTI employee. This is an entirely new immortal man-turned Twisted confined to a nightmare existence of being locked in a dark hole when he is not being mercilessly shot by Aya Brea for sport.



But that’s a sad story for the datalogs. Let’s depart from the training grounds. I’d like you to take note that the proper title of this location is, in fact, Maeda’s House. Cozy. There’s a couple more stops down at ground level, before we conclude our tour.



Maybe Maeda managed to dig something up. He didn't convert this into a weapon, did he?

Psst. Aya. I think Maeda might just be squatting here, given the huge number of abandoned buildings thanks to the whole pan-dimensional creature invasion. He just hasn’t moved out all of unwanted relics.



Our last stop for Maeda’s House is, ugh… The shower room. Note: I said shower room. It’s not a bathroom. There is no toilet or sink. This cordoned off area only exists so Aya can bathe… We wouldn’t want to throw away that showering scene unlocking mechanic, now would we? A lot of effort went into rendering Aya naked in a shower, and dammit! They’re gonna use it!



My CTI agent suit. Maeda found it. Apparently it draws out an agent's natural agility.

Aya, that’s not any CTI issued uniform Maeda. That’s just a Stripper Santa outfit Maeda purchased. Literally, that alternate costume is unlocked in New Game Plus by recovering it from this locker in the second playthrough. Boy… “refreshing vulnerability” and all the creeper Protective Gear descriptions suddenly make so much more sense if we assume Maeda was the author…



Lastly, ugh… Well, the Feat where Aya prevented the Snatchers from spiriting away with any of the soldiers was the requirement to unlock the shower scene for this Episode.



That’s right, technically I had Aya Brea explode two men to gain a shower scene. Talk about an unintended goof. Christ, I would have chucked soldiers into the portal myself if I’d known that. Oh well! What’s done is done…



As with the previous shower scenes (and again, it is the same shower FMV), Aya has some musings once her wash is concluded and she puts the same dirty clothes right back on.

(Easy): Blank and the chief - both gone. The world changes and everything is taken from me, slowly but surely.
(Normal): It’s the text up above. The incorrect text up above. It’s been (less than) TWO months, since Christmas Eve, Aya. The opening of this episode was LITERALLY “Two months later—“ Good grief.
(Hard): Maeda just popped up out of nowhere one day. He's creepy as hell, but his intellect is the real deal.
(Deadly): I know Eve is scared and crying somewhere. I wish I could run right to her and bring her back.
(Insane): That dream, that memory I saw when I dove into Isabella - could that church be the key to this mystery?

Hard Mode Aya actually acknowledges Maeda is creepy as hell? A shame Aya never does that again. Maybe I ought to have bumped up the difficulty for this LP. Also, I thought Cray was just being a loon and we dove into him at the end of the previous chapter. That was supposed to actually be his daughter that… just happened to also be Eve? What?

Boy, somebody forgot to tell the flavor text writer they cut the Cray boss fight and shuffled around the plot. Whoopsie-daisy!





Another flub in the increasingly unraveling realm of The 3rd Birthday brings our tour of Maeda’s House to a close. Tune in next time, when Aya Brea hops into the body of UN Coalition Force’s unlucky expendable lottery winner of Corporal Marcus Ehmke as we begin Operation Blue Hail. What? Just because Aya can no longer dive into the past among mostly doomed men, you didn’t think our heroine was going to simply stop callously using unwitting troops as meat puppets to do her fighting, now did you?

That’s not how The 3rd Birthday rolls…






Video: Kunihiko Explains It All






Kunihiko Maeda – Dirge of Cerberus’ Professor Hojo is looking kinda rough after spending all that time trapped in the Internet.

The Dark Id fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Jun 10, 2016

berryjon
May 30, 2011

I have an invasion to go to.
I'm too busy laughing hysterically at the character assassination to cry at the character assassination.

It's a self-defense mechanism, you see.

Space Kablooey
May 6, 2009


The Dark Id posted:

Part XXII: Maeda’s House




The 3rd Birtday.jpg

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

The Dark Id posted:



Kunihiko Maeda – Dirge of Cerberus’ Professor Hojo is looking kinda rough after spending all that time trapped in the Internet.

Maeda, please stop jackin it against the wall :cripes:.

tudabee
Jan 1, 2007

How many times must I remind you to WASH YOUR HANDS?

I was going to joke earlier that at least with CTI destroyed there was no more shower but I didn't want to make myself sad if I was proven wrong.

I'm still sad. :(

Dr. Snark
Oct 15, 2012

I'M SORRY, OK!? I admit I've made some mistakes, and Jones has clearly paid for them.
...
But ma'am! Jones' only crime was looking at the wrong files!
...
I beg of you, don't ship away Jones, he has a wife and kids!

-United Nations Intelligence Service

This man is not Maeda. He's some creepy serial killer dude who's stealing his identity.

That's what I choose to believe, and no one can stop me :shepicide:

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Golden Goat
Aug 2, 2012

Dr. Snark posted:

This man is not Maeda. He's some creepy serial killer dude who's stealing his identity.

That's what I choose to believe, and no one can stop me :shepicide:

You can also believe that this game isn't a part of the Parasite Eve series.

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