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          Echo Night Beyond Longplay Playlist Ghost Memos: Update 1: SW-W105, Claudia Selfer, Dudley Tungsten, ?????? (Male), Nikolai Ivanov, ?????? (Male), Marcel Aron, Carol Aron Update 2: Carol Aron, Marcel Aron. Nikolai Ivanov,?????? (Male) Update 3: ?????? (Female), Katarina Pollucs, Katrina Pollucs, Jacob Pollucs Update 4: Biggs Covellin, Ali Covellin, Victor Nickel, Oliver Molibden, ??????(Male) Update 5: ??????(Male), Nathan Gold, Nick Getchell, Nancy Spinel Update 6: Paolo Dato, Igor Hinggan, ??????(Male), Dan Bertrand, Martin Hirkimer, Norman Spinel Update 7: Natalia Riskaya, Licia Turner, Ruthie, Alan Coleman, Igor Hinggan, Dimitri Euxen, Khristina Pegma, Sergei Descloizo Update 8: Clark Brogan, Henry Polybas, Kenneth Livingston, Nathan Gold, Alan Coleman, Natalia Riskaya, Nick Getchell, Nancy Spinel, Geoffrey Amblygo, Cayla Conichalco When you think of great sequels in long running horror franchises you might think of Hellraiser: Bloodlines, Jason X, Leprechaun 4, ummmm Critters 4. Well what do all those sequels have in common? It's that they were all great and that they all went to the final destination of any great series...outer space. And that's exactly where FromSoftware decided to head in the third, and final, installment of their mostly overlooked ghost adventure series in Echo Night Beyond. Released in 2004 as the only installment of the series for the PS2, Echo Night Beyond was not met with much critical or commercial success for a number of reasons. As the second game never saw release outside of Japan and the first game was a bit of an oddity being a romantic horror adventure game for the PS1, it seemed to be an inevitability that Beyond was going to be mostly overlooked. There was also the fact that if a player is unfamiliar with the series, they probably wouldn't understand a game that has no combat and is just walking around helping out ghosts. Which is a shame; I've always felt the Echo Night series was an interesting approach to an adventure game mixing very dark elements with romance and intrigue and an overarching mythos regarding a cursed stone. And also this entry took advantage of the increased technology of the PS2 to make a longer, better looking, and more involved game while keeping to it's roots. But that's why hopefully you'll join me on this lunar journey to find a missing fiance and uncover the mysteries of the moon, and please remember NO SPOILERS. And if you never caught previous games, you're in luck: https://lparchive.org/Echo-Night/ https://lparchive.org/Echo-Night-The-Lord-of-Nightmares/ Also if you enjoyed my Fatal Frame LP's, then you'll be happy to know I went back and finished up Fatal Frame 4; if you want to watch that as well it's here:  Fatal Frame 4 Playlist
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 Hey, big ups to my future wife for getting me this game as a birthday present and for lending me her PS2. Here's to hoping she never gets lost on the moon; that would break my heart. And here's the full text for what I didn't show in this update: Monthly Report pg.1, Monthly Report pg.2, Monthly Report pg.3, Monthly Report pg.4 Updated ghost info SW-W105 Claudia Selfer Dudley Tungsten ?????? (Male) Nikolai Ivanov ?????? (Male) Marcel Aron Carol Aron discworld is all I read fucked around with this message at 09:05 on Feb 9, 2018 |
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Feb 5, 2018 07:04
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Heck yeah, been waiting for this. I wonder if they will tie this to the other games, astral pieces, red stone, extra dimensional merchant who may be satan. I should probably go back and re-watch lord of nightmare to jog my memory. I'm glad Fromsoft kept this as an adventure game and didn't turn it into something more action shclock.
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Feb 5, 2018 20:32
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You know I've always wondered how the hearts of horror protagonists always seemed to know what was dangerous before the brain did 
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Feb 5, 2018 21:02
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coleman francis posted:Heck yeah, been waiting for this.  There's also the fact that in the previous two games that Richard had some close connection with a female character who's name started with a C; Crea (which I believe was some weird mistranslation?) in the first game, Christina in the second, and now Claudia in the third. And there's also the tenuous connection between the excavation that uncovered the stone in the second game and the mining in the third, but all we know currently regarding that is that it seems to have unleashed the strange fog around the facility. So there's at least those connections. And yeah, I do appreciate that From didn't kept to their weird guns and kept making things like Armored Core and King's Field even when they weren't really popular genres. Kibayasu posted:You know I've always wondered how the hearts of horror protagonists always seemed to know what was dangerous before the brain did But I actually do enjoy the heart/BPM as a means to measure health. It explains health regen in a somewhat reasonable fashion but also allows a somewhat clear means of 'health' measurement (at least compared to the basic measurements of the previous games).
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Feb 5, 2018 21:36
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 It's like John Carpenter's 'The Fog' but less pirate ghosts and more ghost babies. Updated ghost info Carol Aron Marcel Aron Nikolai Ivanov ?????? (Male)
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Feb 9, 2018 09:05
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Really glad to see this, thanks! I love this game, I just never finished it due to being a scardey cat kid.
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Feb 9, 2018 15:54
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azren posted:Really glad to see this, thanks! I love this game, I just never finished it due to being a scardey cat kid.  So it's time to start in earnest in exploring the first basement floor of the lunar facility; the problem is that we're still having some issues with children. Seriously, why did someone decide it was such a great idea to bring this many kids to the moon? Updated ghost info ?????? (Female) Katarina Pollucs Katrina Pollucs Jacob Pollucs
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Feb 15, 2018 08:50
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I don't remember, is it possible to show the photo of Claudia to other ghosts besides Nikolai? It seems like it would make part of some conversations make more sense.
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Feb 15, 2018 18:03
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azren posted:I don't remember, is it possible to show the photo of Claudia to other ghosts besides Nikolai? It seems like it would make part of some conversations make more sense.
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Feb 15, 2018 18:08
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Oh hell I missed this thread too. Been enjoying the videos though! Despite being an atmospheric horror game, EN feels less spooky and more Mystish.
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Feb 17, 2018 08:11
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POOL IS CLOSED posted:Oh hell I missed this thread too. Been enjoying the videos though! Despite being an atmospheric horror game, EN feels less spooky and more Mystish.
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Feb 17, 2018 20:29
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Yeah, the mood is less dreadful but quite brooding. Gothic is a good descriptor despite the visual aesthetics.
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Feb 18, 2018 03:06
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It's been said before about a lot of other games but there really is something about the limitations of PS1/PS2 hardware that really helped bring out tension, something akin to horror movies on VHS tapes. If you let yourself get into the atmosphere not being able to make quite everything out is just that much scarier.
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Feb 18, 2018 04:48
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Hell yeah, more Echo Night!discworld is all I read posted:Also if you enjoyed my Fatal Frame LP's, then you'll be happy to know I went back and finished up Fatal Frame 4; if you want to watch that as well it's here: Fantastic! I always wanted to know what happened to Flashlight Cop.
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Feb 19, 2018 07:44
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Hypocrisy posted:Fantastic! I always wanted to know what happened to Flashlight Cop.
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Feb 19, 2018 08:14
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 Things get a whole lot more dangerous as we press further into the first basement floor, but that should be fine. I mean, we are protected by a reasonably sized collection of chocolate coins....I'm sure they'll be of great assistance against the murder ghosts. Update Ghost Info Biggs Covellin Ali Covellin Victor Nickel Oliver Molibden ??????(Male)
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Feb 20, 2018 06:17
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discworld is all I read posted:He continues being a hunk and a half. I'm a bit bummed that I was worried about making a new thread for it on here, but I just kinda pooped them out with my Christmas vacation and it seemed like it'd end up being a dump. I do hope people can enjoy it though and then they can enjoy this final installment of Echo Night. Thanks for putting it out there, it was pretty interesting to see the end even though I think it seemed like the least good one in the series that far. Now to make some time to catch up on this LP, hopefully Beyond kept the interesting parts of the earlier games despite the platform generation change.
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Feb 20, 2018 17:00
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Huh. Revisiting Fatal Frame 4 while watching these videos has mixed me up a bit. I keep imagining a Fatal Frame protagonist just blundering through Echo Night, exorcising every ghost and being bewildered that there aren't more journals.
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Feb 21, 2018 03:44
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No one noticed the most important part of this update: a cat on the keyboard! 
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Feb 21, 2018 03:50
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POOL IS CLOSED posted:No one noticed the most important part of this update: a cat on the keyboard! Hypocrisy posted:Huh. Revisiting Fatal Frame 4 while watching these videos has mixed me up a bit. I keep imagining a Fatal Frame protagonist just blundering through Echo Night, exorcising every ghost and being bewildered that there aren't more journals.
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Feb 21, 2018 03:52
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No one should complain about Day of Crisis videos randomly appearing anywhere. Having not seen the first two games I was wondering if the game would make you have to "confront," as it were, the dangerous ghosts while they were still dangerous rather than just running away after they suddenly appear. Seeing how quickly your heart rate gets to near-lethal it seems like we're going to be looking at a lot of mad scrambling in the fog.
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Feb 22, 2018 03:27
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 As we delve deeper into the facility, we knew it would only be a matter of time before we'd have to head outside the safe confines of it's interior and deal with the dangers present on the lunar surface itself. If only we knew then what dangers would lie in store for us outside...murder priests and unfulfilled life partners. Update Ghost Info ??????(Male) Nathan Gold Nick Getchell Nancy Spinel
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Feb 24, 2018 23:10
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How can we hear the ghosts in the vacuum of space?
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Feb 25, 2018 09:29
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That hologram room is so bizarre. "Ho-hum just a 100% totally an android *wink wink* painting portraits of dead people, no big deal right" I wonder if this echo night will have time traveling sequences like the previous ones. It would be nice to visit another location other than Hallway and Crater.
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Mraagvpeine posted:How can we hear the ghosts in the vacuum of space? coleman francis posted:That hologram room is so bizarre. "Ho-hum just a 100% totally an android *wink wink* painting portraits of dead people, no big deal right"
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Feb 26, 2018 04:29
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It's the same way we can hear lasers in space: very well.
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 Haunted handiwork! Backtracking for optional ghosts! Precision button pressing! This update has it all and more. Update Ghost Info Paolo Dato Igor Hinggan ??????(Male) Dan Bertrand Martin Hirkimer Norman Spinel
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Great LP so far. My friend has a copy of this but we never made any headway. Quick question, in episode 5 at around 11:20 when you are looking at the two ghosts in the Material Storage Room there seems to be a green patch on the ground that you either missed or ignored. Are we going to see that?
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Zushio posted:Great LP so far. My friend has a copy of this but we never made any headway. Quick question, in episode 5 at around 11:20 when you are looking at the two ghosts in the Material Storage Room there seems to be a green patch on the ground that you either missed or ignored. Are we going to see that?
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discworld is all I read posted:He continues being a hunk and a half. I'm a bit bummed that I was worried about making a new thread for it on here, but I just kinda pooped them out with my Christmas vacation and it seemed like it'd end up being a dump. I do hope people can enjoy it though and then they can enjoy this final installment of Echo Night. Well, I finished watching Fatal Frame 4. I'm upset even if what you said was true. As for Echo Night...did we get a reason why we can talk to ghosts?
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So it sounds like this time around the "red stone" isn't a singular artifact, but an entire vein of mineral they found. That's a bit of an odd change. Unless that red material they've been mining is in fact produced by the singular red stone as a consequence of it's owner's wish.
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Hypocrisy posted:Well, I finished watching Fatal Frame 4. I'm upset even if what you said was true. Now as for why ol' Richard can talk to ghosts, it could be explained as something that just runs in his family but it actually just seems like his blood line has a bad habit of being drawn into bad situations with the stone. In the other two games, everyone can see the ghosts but usually they get spooked by friendly ghosts and run or they run into evil ghosts and get murdered; so they don't really get the chance that we do in getting to know the ghost and solve their problems. Edvarius posted:So it sounds like this time around the "red stone" isn't a singular artifact, but an entire vein of mineral they found. That's a bit of an odd change. Unless that red material they've been mining is in fact produced by the singular red stone as a consequence of it's owner's wish. Also I was happy to learn that 'regolith' wasn't some fanciful made up metal from FromSoftware, and that it's an actual thing. It's the pillowy, rocky surface on the moon and well ummmm that's about it. Not really sure why you'd want to mine it but that's the reason they came up with to explain how they uncovered a cursed stone on the moon.
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If the movie Moon is to be believe the upper soil of the moon is a good source of Helium-3.
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What more encouragement than "moon rock" do you need to mine the moon? If someone said I could have a fireplace mantel of moon rock I'd sure be interested...
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 We meet a friendly kitty, a rude granny, and some hot Russian tech. It's an eventful trip down to the space port for us. Update Ghost Info Natalia Riskaya Licia Turner Ruthie Alan Coleman Igor Hinggan Dimitri Euxen Khristina Pegma Sergei Descloizo POOL IS CLOSED posted:What more encouragement than "moon rock" do you need to mine the moon? If someone said I could have a fireplace mantel of moon rock I'd sure be interested...
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The moon's a great place to visit! Well I’d like to visit the moon on a rocket ship high in the air Yes I’d like to visit the moon But I really don’t want to die there. You know I’d like to look down on the Earth from above And have a great time with the one that I love It’s a great destination for our honeymoon But I don’t want to die on the moon I’d like to travel over the sea I could hang out with all of the crew We could travel over the sea But I don’t want to die out there too. I might stay for a day — if I like the hosts But there’s not much to do when your friends are all ghosts. And the Orpheus isn’t a safe place to be So I don’t want to die on the sea I’d like to visit a mansion, learn the family lore Go back in time and play with Dino some more There’s so many strange places I’d like to be But none of them permanently So if I should visit the moon Well I’ll get off the shuttle and then I will make a wish on a stone And I’ll wish I was home once again Except I bet it would backfire and release some strange fog That would kill everyone and their kids and their dog Then I’d be a ghost and I’d rave like a loon No, I don’t want to die on the moon No I don’t… want to die… on the moon.
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Kangra posted:The moon's a great place to visit! Too late! 
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Awwww, I simply adore that; especially the call back to the ol' OG undead good boy:
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