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W.T. Fits posted:Would that be letting Yuri's sanity drop to 0?
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Night10194 posted:So, uh, do they ever actually touch on the whole 'Alice's father is a Catholic exorcist-priest' thing? There are a couple ways he could have a daughter if I recall, like if he was a Church of England priest who was already married before he converted to Catholicism, but the celibacy thing is a bit of a barrier normally.
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AweStriker posted:I wonder if "Bifronze" is supposed to be known Goetic demon Bifrons. Probably is.
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Geostomp posted:Given their designes (Lion, Tiki, Fish, Bird) and the fact that they glow the respective colors the game uses for the basic four elements, I think it’s pretty obvious which is which already. On second thought, I think its supposed to be both. Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Oct 13, 2018 |
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I didn't think of until now, but I think the music for London and the London Rats hideout was switched on accident or something, because if you swap those themes around they fit their areas a lot better.
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Brainamp posted:I miss koudelka's voice work. Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Oct 27, 2018 |
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The roach enemies are in every single game, they get their name changed to Gregor in 2 and 3 as a Kafka reference.
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It's never really elaborated but I think these guys went rouge and aren't really sanctioned by the Vatican, i.e. Alice didn't even know about them and she works for The Church. The backstory of the series isn't kind to the Catholic Church but by the time the events of Koudelka and Shadows Hearts roll around The Vatican is a lot more benign.
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Night10194 posted:Does Alice actually work for the church or just have holy magic? I know her father did, obviously.
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Tallgeese posted:She used to work with her father, but is currently freelance with Zhuzhen if I recall.
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It must have been neat for the few people that played Koudelka first that this game was actually a stealth sequel the whole time.
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Jack still had some kid souls laying around the mansion and Joshua didn't want them to go to waste.
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I brought it up back in the Koudelka LP but its interesting how after finally reading the Koudelka sequel manga some time ago I can see how Shadow Hearts 1 takes ideas from it, namely Albert. You see the main villain of the Koudelka manga, DeGaulle, is also a top hat wearing rogue apprentice of Roger that convinced Patrick to use the Emigre Manuscript to resurrect Elaine, though his motivation is much more of the "I just want to see the world burn" variety then any pretense of trying to make a better world. The Koudelka manga had the British Royal Medical Society pulling the strings of the events of Koudelka, which DeGaulle was a part of. It's also funny that the end of the Koudelka manga has a historical person pop up who would also appear in Covenant.
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Nov 16, 2018 20:00
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I mean it is actually pretty lovely of Roger not to try and bust Albert out of Pope Jail, because he was very capable of doing so.
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amigolupus posted:To be fair, what can Bacon even do to bust Albert out of Pope Jail? He looks like a shriveled-up corpse and doesn't look like he knows how to even fight. I doubt he could have stormed Pope Jail all on his lonesome. Also what Cardiovorax said.
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Glazius posted:Albert Simon took his dang time. Or is there some cosmic confluence at work here? Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Nov 18, 2018 |
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Cardiovorax posted:Could you give a rough estimate of how much of the game is left? This area feels kinda endgame-ish, but you make it sound like there's a good bit to see yet. Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Nov 27, 2018 |
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Pesky Splinter posted:But yeah, the actual sidequest dungeons tend to be pretty neat, without having to dodge 200 lightning bolts, or win 20 games of underwater trash-soccer, or whatever; just nice, simple dungeons with a gimmick, or mood.
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Pesky Splinter posted:And the third game translation is okay - the story and dialogue stuff is fine, but they really dropped the ball on whoever was translating the monster names; they either didn't know, or didn't give a gently caress about what any of the names are referencing, and just romanised them however.
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Just another omnicidal nihilist in a JRPG.
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ultrafilter posted:How many games don't have that? I can't think of any examples off the top of my head.
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Geostomp posted:Did they ever explain why she got so much more powerful over the years when she wasn’t exactly in action for the period? Or why she won’t help finish the job now? And yeah, it does kind of suck that they pretty much removed her caustic streak entirely because she and Yuri could have really bounced off of each other well as two people that just laugh in the face of cosmic horrors.
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Funny thing is Yuri doesn't really put the full blame of what happened to his parents on Dehuai, but who he places a good chunk of the blame on won't come up until Covenant.
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One can assume Koudelka was kind of looking out for him at least.
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StandardVC10 posted:Shadow Hearts' version of the Imperial Japanese Army is somehow even more dysfunctional than its real-life counterpart. I'm impressed. Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Dec 11, 2018 |
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Req.Martyr posted:Id probably will, even if it's not until after he does the rest of the series and a pseudo sequel gets announced  It sucks even more because nothing has come close to filling that void that the series left.
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Dragonatrix posted:It's significantly less likely because it's actively impossible. The rights to Shadow Hearts as a series is stuck in a kind of legal purgatory and has been for years now. It'd be a miracle if we even got non-HD re-releases of the games, let alone remasters or a new game. "Fun" fact: The last official Shadow Hearts related release was a pachinko machine. Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Dec 16, 2018 |
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Robindaybird posted:Yeah, Inafune was kind of a dick about people leveling some well-deserved criticism about Mighty No. 9. I hope IGA doesn't go the same route with Bloodstained, but it seems so far his team is listening to the comments from the demo and beta plays.
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Precambrian posted:I think that's part of his charm. Everyone in the party but Margarete's a little bit supernatural (whether psychic, an oracle, or Harmonixer), but Keith's a straight-up Dracula, and yet, he's also the most unassuming and normal of the party. He's basically a tourist, tagging along with the party to see the world rather than any dramatic plot reason, so he politely stays out of the fracas and, I assume, snaps photos of the dungeons for a scrapbook he'll be making when he gets home.
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ultrafilter posted:I suspect that either the Dollhouse or one of the other sidequest dungeons was meant to be used in part of the story and just got cut for time. That would make the pacing on fusions work a lot better. I missed a bunch of these sidequests when I played, I was much more through with Covenant. Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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From the New World is actually a good game though and not horrible. The writing is weaker, there is a bit more stock JRPG elements, and Johnny utterly pales in comparison to Koudelka and Yuri but its still very much a Shadow Hearts game, it just went harder into the alt-history zaniness instead of the cosmic horror.
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BioMe posted:Doesn't help the new shapeshifter character and Yuri's replacement is probably the most boring heroine I've seen in a JRPG. *Edit* Wait, there is the little Inuit girl from Never Alone, but that's pretty much it. Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Jan 6, 2019 |
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Robindaybird posted:thankfully Convenant's end game quests aren't nearly as awful, thought a few can be tedious to complete. I guess the only really things I really missed out on was Kowloon and the Dollhouse. Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jan 9, 2019 |
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The pit fights in Covenant and FTNW are hell of a lot more fleshed out and interesting than this. The rewards are a lot better too.
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Materant posted:Amon of course eclipses every level 3 fusion, but Amon is not something every player will find. The level 3 fusions are versatile enough to be taken to endgame. In Covenant there is even a Level 3 Fusion that is actually better than Amon too. Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Jan 14, 2019 |
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I actually managed to do this without a guide my first time through and I must have been real lucky on RNG because I don't remember having to actually work for it. What's even funnier is that I got the good ending of this game without really trying after I had beaten Covenant and got the good ending.
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That Welsh sea air just murders your complexion but it does wonders for the constitution.
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Pesky Splinter posted:His former apprentice, Not-Albert Simon, De Gaulle is also immortal, which Koudelka solves by making a giant goat god punch him in literal pulp.
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ultrafilter posted:A normal game would've come up with music just for that one fight, or at least reused a major boss theme. But Shadow Hearts is no normal game....
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ultrafilter posted:What are we missing? I don't remember anything else.
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