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anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool
Apparently this game came out and there's no thread for it from what I can tell so this here is the Night in the Woods thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u17kM8oSz3k

There's a trailer for it.

The game is about Mae. A cat who is a girl (or a lady, depending on who you ask in the town of Possum Springs). You get home from college, when you get back, everyone wonders why you're back!? Oh no! How perplexing.

Anywhere, there's a mystery! You gently caress around with friends like how most late-teens-to-twenty-somethings do! There's pretzels to steal! You can buy it for PS4 or Steam!

It's a very narrative heavy game and there's some platforming.

Is it good?! Maybe! If you like the plot then you'll probably like it. Maybe it'll scratch that Kentucky Route Itch. Or maybe it'll fill that hole that Twin Peaks isn't going to until that restarts or whatever.

It's a game set in fall and maybe you'll cry or maybe you'll be spooked. Someone talk about the plot with me! Or ask questions about it. Who cares. There's an OP now (unless my searches which turned up nothing lied to me).

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Olive Branch
May 26, 2010

There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Already had it on pre-order and looking forward to playing it tonight. The presentation in this game looks amazing.

discworld is all I read
Apr 7, 2009

DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?
Yeah, I'm pretty curious if the price justifies the game; like I had similar misgivings about Oxenfree initially but that game's story really carried the game and it had unique features and what felt a bit of an open ended story. So I'm kinda wondering the same with this game; like are there dialogue choices, multiple paths, any time restricted puzzles, or any puzzles in general? I mean, the visuals look great and I've spoiled myself in learning about some weird pixel art arcade minigame inside the game but I'm kinda curious what the overall feel to the game play is.

ZeeBoi
Jan 17, 2001

eeeeeeeeeeels

Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007
That trailer is like a more sanitized version of Lamezone, I'm down

ZeeBoi
Jan 17, 2001

CRINDY
Sep 23, 2010

forget about ur worries and ur strife
I'm only about an hour in but good god did this game nail its setting and tone. I'm assuming colonial PA towns and colonial MA towns have a lot of similarities because there are some true-to-life experiences in this thing already from my late teen early 20s years.

kidcoelacanth
Sep 23, 2009

I've been wanting to play this since like April and I'm psyched to finally dig into it.

Impressions so far: This game has the best representation of drunk talking I've ever seen.

ishikabibble
Jan 21, 2012

anime was right posted:

Someone talk about the plot with me! Or ask questions about it. Who cares. There's an OP now (unless my searches which turned up nothing lied to me).

What did you think of the ending?

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool

ishikabibble posted:

What did you think of the ending?

It was okay! It felt a little incomplete. Like Mae was supposed to talk with her parents at the end of the game and that was supposed to be it since that was a long-standing plot thread and she promised that in the morning! I was upset. I was like, wanting to tell Mae's mom what happened the entire game and I didn't get to. That and one last jam sesh...

HellOnEarth
Nov 7, 2005

Now that's good jerky!
Spoilers for the ending: I'm so surprised that it didn't end up just being a gas leak from the mine. The library microfiche had a clip about a woman talking to her long-dead sister and it turned out to just be a hallucination from the gas. And the sinkholes near Mae's house, the fact that her house I believe was built over the mines, her headaches and her dreams. The "ghost" was mostly spotted around stuff to do with the mine, too (the lime kilns on the ridge with Angus, the sinkhole in the graveyard with Bea).
When it was all revealed at the end, I really thought that the bottomless pit was just where gas and the cultists were just hallucinating the singing and the response to the sacrifices was just a coincidence and Mae's problem was schizophrenia. And then at the end, when Mae has her confrontation with the creature was, I think, on top of an explicitly poisoned underground spring that could have had fumes. I mean, but that would discount the fact that that one guy literally teleported to attack Mae and then they dropped an elevator on him.

I really liked it, I was just pleasantly surprised that, no this wasn't just a twist of "It was all hallucinations caused by toxic gas", it really is some kind of out-of-space-horror and the world is going to end, probably soon. I even kept an eye on that bird because, you know, canary and coal mines and all that.

I wish I could re-read what the God Cat was saying because it was a little oblqiue to me. Also I wonder what the deal was with the Janitor. I kept thinking back to the Lost Constellation supplemental game and the whole thing with the Forest God. Basically I'd really like a whole book explaining the lore and the background of the setting.

the black husserl
Feb 25, 2005

Does this game have point and click elements like puzzles, inventory, dialogue choices and exploration? Or is it more of a linear "move right or left to advance plot" kinda thing? Trailers make it hard to tell.

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool

the black husserl posted:

puzzles, inventory, dialogue choices and exploration?

no, no, yes, yes

Axelgear
Oct 13, 2011

If I'm wrong, please don't hesitate to tell me. It happens pretty often and I will try to change my opinion if I'm presented with evidence.
I found myself wondering how much player choice affected the game.

Some dialogue with Bea outright giving you no choice in saying "You always have a choice!" felt amusingly meta, if deliberate. Otherwise, I got the sense that it didn't affect it much. Ultimately, though, I only got to investigate two of the leads and I feel like I am missing a lot of the story.

Given the elevator bit with the arm getting ripped off, I expected there to be some time travel malarky going on, and that they, somehow, were the ones who left the arm there. Or was that something that I missed?


Top notch game, though.

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames
Definitely picking this up ASAP, I loved Oxenfree.

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

HarumphHarumphHarumph

the black husserl posted:

Does this game have point and click elements like puzzles, inventory, dialogue choices and exploration? Or is it more of a linear "move right or left to advance plot" kinda thing? Trailers make it hard to tell.

you find stuff layng,on the sidewalk and use the right analogue to poke it with a stick its amazing

does anyone who backed this know if the animated shorts for backers will get shared now that the games out? the tier I backed it at i only got to see the one where greg and angus make out at the football game

youcallthatatwist
Sep 22, 2013
hello. I just wanted to let everyone know that the protagonist of GOTY Demontower has nine lives. Well, bye

rizuhbull
Mar 30, 2011

Four hours in and this game's greatest feat is doing teen/young adult dialog right.

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


Where are the save game files for this if I want to play on a different PC?

youcallthatatwist
Sep 22, 2013
https://twitter.com/greggrulz/status/834684322217152512

Somberbrero
Feb 14, 2009

ꜱʜʀɪᴍᴘ?
this writing is very good.

Roland Jones
Aug 18, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
I was looking forward to this game a lot, pre-ordered it, played through it when it came out, and liked it a lot. It's very good. I recommend it a lot. Go play it.

I may write more later, but seriously, it's good.

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

As someone turning 20 soon, the dialogue and characters are really hitting close to home hard, as is the setting. I've been waiting two years for this game and it was well worth the wait so far.

Mr. Meagles
Apr 30, 2004

Out here, everything hurts


This looks really cool and I'm gonna give it a try.

Hemingway To Go!
Nov 10, 2008

im stupider then dog shit, i dont give a shit, and i dont give a fuck, and i will never shut the fuck up, and i'll always Respect my enemys.
- ernest hemingway
I have enjoyed the game so far, four or so nights in.
I don't usually like these kinds of indie games... I've played through almost all of KR0 and haven't really liked it but this has a more down to Earth story, I can relate to it a lot more.... though so far there hasn't been much of the mystery yet.

I have wanted to see what the mystery is since the 2012 kickstarter trailer though, so I'm probably overhyping it.

I want to say that if you use keyboard controls, you can use 1,2,3,4 to play guitar instead of the more awkward xbox controller mappings.

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


I wish someone would post the music from the second dream sequence. Can't find it anywhere.

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

welp, I know what I'm doing this weekend :haw:

Veib
Dec 10, 2007


I'd never heard of this before it came out and after watching the Giant Bomb quicklook I think I really love the dialogue in the game and will definitely pick it up at some point. It seems really cool and fun.

Relin
Oct 6, 2002

You have been a most worthy adversary, but in every game, there are winners and there are losers. And as you know, in this game, losers get robotizicized!
i guess the game strongly encourages replaying, i've only hung out with bea and turned down hanging out with germ twice and the mother once

Roland Jones
Aug 18, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo

Relin posted:

i guess the game strongly encourages replaying, i've only hung out with bea and turned down hanging out with germ twice and the mother once

I don't know about Germ since I didn't realize you could actually go to the place where his scenes happen until after I played the game and someone told me, but hanging out with Mae's mom (and at least one other not-Bea/Gregg/Angus) character doesn't actually go to the next day, so you can do their things without worry.

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!
I love the Weird Teens

Relin posted:

i guess the game strongly encourages replaying, i've only hung out with bea and turned down hanging out with germ twice and the mother once

There was a point where the mom was mad at me seemingly because of stress but then a few days later I realized it's cause I FORGOT to go to church with her like I said I would! I felt IRL terrible! It was too real. She got over it eventually though and then we went on an adventure just me and mom :3:

I also ignored Gregg to go hang out with Bea and felt bad about THAT so I stopped to see him first one day and we smashed lightbulbs and has a great time and then went back to see Bea :3:

This game gets Too Real

Macaluso fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Feb 24, 2017

kidcoelacanth
Sep 23, 2009

I really like this game.

The end felt almost abrupt to me, I figured I would have to do all three of the history center/state park/graveyard before any endgame stuff kicked in, so it was surprising that it happened after I only did two of them. I definitely missed a ton of stuff just from comparing my playthrough to the trailer alone. I was bummed when I hit the epilogue because I really wanted to keep playing, but at least I know there's plenty of stuff to look for on subsequent playthroughs.

Every Mae/Bea scene completely destroyed me because Mae just could not stop herself from loving up, the fact that you have to choose between dialogue choices that are all lovely things to say was REALLY effective. I'm glad the party had a good ending at least.

I also really enjoyed doing all of Lori's scenes, she's a really interesting character.

DoubleCakes
Jan 14, 2015

I'll have to revisit this game in the future. I'm coming off of it only slightly positive. Every scene where a character explains some backstory was great but the character arcs, especially Mae's, meandered. What the main themes of the game was, I have no idea.

Axelgear
Oct 13, 2011

If I'm wrong, please don't hesitate to tell me. It happens pretty often and I will try to change my opinion if I'm presented with evidence.

kidcoelacanth posted:

Every Mae/Bea scene completely destroyed me because Mae just could not stop herself from loving up, the fact that you have to choose between dialogue choices that are all lovely things to say was REALLY effective. I'm glad the party had a good ending at least.

"Everybody has the power to choose!" or "Everyone has a choice!" I honestly burst out laughing at that point because it was so weirdly meta, but that whole scene really got home what a mess Mae is. She likes to think she's a good person at heart but she really doesn't have the empathy or discipline to be one yet.

Also, which two events did you investigate? I did Gregg and Bea and I've yet to speak to someone who did Angus's.

Infidel Castro
Jun 8, 2010

Again and again
Your face reminds me of a bleak future
Despite the absence of hope
I give you this sacrifice




Axelgear posted:

"Everybody has the power to choose!" or "Everyone has a choice!" I honestly burst out laughing at that point because it was so weirdly meta, but that whole scene really got home what a mess Mae is. She likes to think she's a good person at heart but she really doesn't have the empathy or discipline to be one yet.

Also, which two events did you investigate? I did Gregg and Bea and I've yet to speak to someone who did Angus's.

I did the event with Angus since it was really the first opportunity to actaully get one-on-one time with him. I won't spoil anything other than it involves constellations and a lot of exposition on Angus's childhood.

kidcoelacanth
Sep 23, 2009

Axelgear posted:

"Everybody has the power to choose!" or "Everyone has a choice!" I honestly burst out laughing at that point because it was so weirdly meta, but that whole scene really got home what a mess Mae is. She likes to think she's a good person at heart but she really doesn't have the empathy or discipline to be one yet.

Also, which two events did you investigate? I did Gregg and Bea and I've yet to speak to someone who did Angus's.

Bea and Angus. Definitely do Angus' at some point, it's really good.

BallisticClipboard
Feb 18, 2013

Such a good worker!


I love this game. I just wish this game let you to go back to certain days/ told you what you did already/ let you keep the journal. It would save a lot of time. That and I want to see every inch of that journal covered in doodles.

youcallthatatwist
Sep 22, 2013
I'm actually disappointed in how Angus ends up getting shafted as a character. I wish there were more events you could do with him, because as it is the one he has gets bogged down by some awkward exposition.

The game really touched me. I'll probably replay it to see the scenes I missed, but I'm happy with my playthrough. the way it dealt with depression and mental illness was extremely down-to-earth.

the scene where all of the people you had sidequests with are with Mae in church was really nice, as was the whole ending sequence.
Just out of curiosity, does the choice of who you spend time with affect the ending? I hung out with Bea mostly and it felt like she had a larger role in the endgame as a result. Does the opposite happen if you hang out with greg?

youcallthatatwist fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Feb 24, 2017

kidcoelacanth
Sep 23, 2009

One of my favorite moments of the game was Selmers dropping that loving banger of a poem at the library. I talked to her and listened to her poems every day which really set that up so well.

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Osmosisch
Sep 9, 2007

I shall make everyone look like me! Then when they trick each other, they will say "oh that Coyote, he is the smartest one, he can even trick the great Coyote."



Grimey Drawer

kidcoelacanth posted:

One of my favorite moments of the game was Selmers dropping that loving banger of a poem at the library. I talked to her and listened to her poems every day which really set that up so well.

That was probably my favourite also out of many, many wonderful moments.

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