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  Spoilers? Please, for both myself and those unfamiliar with this game, no spoilers. That being said, anything covered in one of my videos no longer counts as a spoiler. Chulip (or Chu♥lip) is a 2002 (in Japan, the U.S. had to wait until 2007 to finally get it) game released for the PlayStation 2 made by the famous game developers Punchline, who made other such classics like Rule of Rose and... Chulip is an adventure/dating-sim type game where you play as a nameable protagonist, a new resident in Long Life Town, has to strengthen his heart by kissing people so he can get the girl of his dreams as she doesn't like him because he's poor. As you can tell, it's a pretty bizarre game, and the whole kissing aspect is only scratching the surface. While I do know the basic premise and mechanics, most of the game is unknown to me, so this is a "mostly" blind playthrough. I will still try and do my best to show off everything the game has to offer, and hopefully my brain won't rot from the odd, odd nature of this game. As said above, since this is a blind playthrough for me, please don't post any spoilers, and given how obscure this game is, you may be spoiling things for other people too. Let's Pucker Up and Get This Over With: Part 1 - Kisses and Onion Ladies Part 2 - Underground Residents Part 3 - Clearing the Train Tracks Part 4 - Kisses Galore Part 5 - Funny Bone Station and Stalking Part 6 - More Kisses and Meeting an Alien Part 7 - Kisses, Bathrooms, and Alarm Clocks Part 8 - Manager For a Day Part 9 - Kisses and Nudity Part 10 - Kisses and Law Trouble Part 11 - Love Ink Part 12 - The Monk's Possession Part 13 - Melvin's Arrest Part 14 - Zombie Mika Part 15 - Love Paper and Love Fountain Pen Part 16 - You're Fired Part 17 - 50 Kisses Part 18 - Lover's Tree TheLoneStar fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Aug 30, 2018 |
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(Reserving a post, just in case.)
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Jul 21, 2018 19:14
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Before I start things proper, the protagonist and his love interest both need a name. Please, offer up your best names, and after a day or so I'll pick my favorite two and get things started. Both characters' names allow up to eight spaces.
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Jul 21, 2018 19:14
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Joanie for the protagonist, Chachi for the love interest
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Jul 21, 2018 20:18
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The protagonist is a real Melvin. Does Sephiroth fit in the text box for the love interest's name? ... Just asking
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Jul 21, 2018 20:20
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Takeru and Chiaki, respectively for protag and love interest.
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Jul 21, 2018 20:59
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Aw yeah, Chulip loving rules. Someone else here did an LP of it a year or two ago but I won't link it here for obvious reasons.
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Jul 21, 2018 22:14
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Cheech and Chong. Maybe as a way to differentiate your LP from Chorpsaway: Make use of the name cards to get more lore from the characters. Scalding Coffee fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Jul 22, 2018 |
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Jul 22, 2018 00:00
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Discendo Vox posted:Joanie for the protagonist, Chachi for the love interest
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Jul 22, 2018 00:00
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Filburt for the boy and Paula for the girl. Good luck!
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Jul 22, 2018 06:24
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Discendo Vox posted:Joanie for the protagonist, Chachi for the love interest
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Jul 22, 2018 17:46
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Part 1 - Kisses and Onion Ladies The very start of the game is a bit tamer than I recall. I could have sworn even the first few neighbors you talk to were weirder than they were. That being said the last five minutes or so were what I consider pure nightmare fuel, so it all evens out. To be honest from here on out I'm not too sure what to expect of the game. That clock that has now appeared made me wary, as anything timed tends to do. I don't know if there will be some kind of time limit where if I don't complete the game in X amount of days, and I do recall the 9000Z rent a month, I'll get a game over. Or if I don't beat the game in a certain amount of days I don't get a good ending or something. Still, I will try to do as much as I can and hopefully not be locked out of some possibly-existent Golden Ending. I'm also unsure of how the game will be from this point on, like if I just go around helping people, making them happy, and then kissing them or something. I haven't seen any gameplay past the first day or two so I'm going to be a bit lost I'm sure. Scalding Coffee posted:Maybe as a way to differentiate your LP from Chorpsaway: Make use of the name cards to get more lore from the characters.
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Jul 23, 2018 02:16
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I believe you can get them at the store by the train station. Mr. Suzuki should give you a card if you talk to him about the rules of love.
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Jul 23, 2018 08:46
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Part 2 - Underground Residents I met, or at least peeped on in most cases, a very...colorful cast of people. Really don't want to know what Chuck's deal is, honestly. The day did some seem to go by as fast as I was expecting, though on the other hand I did go through a lot of little cutscenes with the hole peeping, along with dialogue between multiple characters. Luckily I don't think there's any kind of time limit going on here, or I imagine it would have been mentioned by now. That being said, I have no clue what exactly I should do next, though I'm hoping answers will become clear once I cross that road that Suzuki unlocked for me. Scalding Coffee posted:I believe you can get them at the store by the train station. Mr. Suzuki should give you a card if you talk to him about the rules of love.
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Jul 24, 2018 21:31
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^^yes, the idea is you're trading business cards with people in long life town. then you show the business cards you were given to others, including the person who gave it to you, and they'll comment on the person who the card belongs to. you can show ANY item around town really, and sometimes they'll say something interesting about it. recommend doing this especially if you have something and don't know what it does or what to do with it. also i'm pretty sure you don't have to pay rent
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Jul 24, 2018 23:57
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This game is very first Legend of Zelda level of discovery without a strategy guide and Majora's Mask with people's schedules. You will find all sorts of weird things happen at different times of the day, sometimes discover something happens within a strict one hour span for the whole day, if you can interact with something. It is a violently Japanese game after all. There is a way to run in the game, but you need to solve the train issue and visit a certain place that may kill you if you don't level up. I'll direct you to it since it may be optional and a dick move for not being standard.
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Jul 25, 2018 00:27
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Flac posted:^^yes, the idea is you're trading business cards with people in long life town. then you show the business cards you were given to others, including the person who gave it to you, and they'll comment on the person who the card belongs to. you can show ANY item around town really, and sometimes they'll say something interesting about it. recommend doing this especially if you have something and don't know what it does or what to do with it. also i'm pretty sure you don't have to pay rent Scalding Coffee posted:This game is very first Legend of Zelda level of discovery without a strategy guide and Majora's Mask with people's schedules. You will find all sorts of weird things happen at different times of the day, sometimes discover something happens within a strict one hour span for the whole day, if you can interact with something. It is a violently Japanese game after all. Glad to hear about the running, I'm guessing there's at least another few big areas I've yet to unlock, and I'm worried about getting to certain places on time with how slow Melvin goes now.
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Jul 25, 2018 02:17
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You really should write everything down since characters have so much to say about the others that it would look messy.
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Jul 25, 2018 02:50
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What's up with japanese games getting this weird? Or is it a perception thing where only the crazy stuff ones even make it overseas?
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Jul 25, 2018 08:26
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Avalerion posted:What's up with japanese games getting this weird? Or is it a perception thing where only the crazy stuff ones even make it overseas? I think it's more that you're ignoring how much Japanese influence there is in the "normal" games because they're not weird enough to stand out and tend to have better translations, making them seem more like they were originally made in English. Niche titles like Chulip probably aren't expected to be as popular, so they get a less thorough translation job and the Japanese influence is far more obvious.
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Jul 25, 2018 12:20
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Part 3 - Clearing the Train Tracks At this point I'm starting to get slightly frustrated with how the game operates. In that you can randomly find items that deal damage to you in the same places you can find helpful items. It makes me not want to even look for helpful items, at the risk I'll keep taking damage. It doesn't help that seemingly random things will dish out huge amounts of damage, like that globe in the park. That globe is doubly bullshit because it's literally right next to a swing set that heals me. If random things can damage me, I'm going to want to keep as many hearts as I can, and not even bother looking in trash cans, at least not until I level up more. I have little patience for this kind of thing, especially the globe thing, because it's impossible to know it's coming the first time through, and in this case resulted in a game over solely because I didn't just assume a plaything in a park would hurt me, especially since it's, again, right next to a healing spot. I'm also wondering if this game is reflecting on some kind of controversy going on in Japan in 2002, with teachers not getting paid/paid enough or something. I just wonder since it seems to be so central to the main plot, to the point I barely even thought of Sefiroth during this entire episode.
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Jul 27, 2018 02:51
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It is just that kind of game. Nothing happened in 2002 to influence it unless it was about rising union dues causing people to want more money. Since you didn't find out yet, garbage collecting is how you make money in this game. There are multiple items in those spots each day. If you find a place where you can pick up poopie, you might be able to find an item you can sell off. More risk, more reward. Hasty Wizard is the guy who lets you move faster. If guessed that he will kill you in one hit for failing, then you would be correct. Level up more. You can kiss him when he stops zooming around the place in the afternoon.
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Jul 27, 2018 05:27
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Scalding Coffee posted:Since you didn't find out yet, garbage collecting is how you make money in this game. There are multiple items in those spots each day. If you find a place where you can pick up poopie, you might be able to find an item you can sell off. More risk, more reward. I'll keep that in mind, thanks.
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Jul 27, 2018 17:33
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Thing to note is that every NPC is on a schedule so time management is critical to getting anything done. The game should have a mini guidebook to help you if necessary. I also recommend going to the three areas at least once as Scarecrow Fields has a lot of stuff you can sell for a lot of money which'll be good because riding the train to all three locales and back allows you get something to make travel easier. Chimera-gui fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Jul 27, 2018 |
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Jul 27, 2018 19:20
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The guidebook is also wrong in a few places. Some of the NPCs also operate on an RNG, so seeing them do their things might not even let you kiss them that day. The game does point out the exact number of hearts you lose when you activate a trap. The spinning globe that killed you, took off twice your health. You will have to lose health to advance the plot. Always save and be at full health when you can.
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Jul 27, 2018 21:31
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I'm still making my way through the third video in chunks, but the title card between chapters says something like "In life, there are mountains, and there are valleys. What's up with that?" My Japanese knowledge is really basic, but I can stumble my way through reading it with a kanji dictionary handy, and I can explain a couple of the puns you may encounter that don't translate.
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Jul 28, 2018 13:05
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Scalding Coffee posted:Some of the NPCs also operate on an RNG, so seeing them do their things might not even let you kiss them that day. Yeah, I'm noticing more and more Underground Residents are like that, so far I've counted at least three and it's a bit annoying. Nidoking posted:I'm still making my way through the third video in chunks, but the title card between chapters says something like "In life, there are mountains, and there are valleys. What's up with that?" My Japanese knowledge is really basic, but I can stumble my way through reading it with a kanji dictionary handy, and I can explain a couple of the puns you may encounter that don't translate. Ah, okay. I just assumed it said something like "Chapter 1: [TITLE CHAPTER HERE] End" or something like that. And have there been a lot of puns so far or something? Chimera-gui posted:I also recommend going to the three areas at least once as Scarecrow Fields has a lot of stuff you can sell for a lot of money which'll be good because riding the train to all three locales and back allows you get something to make travel easier. Alright, I'll keep that in mind, thanks. Part 4 - Kisses Galore Decided to focus a bit more on getting kisses and leveling up than actively trying to move the plot forward. I'm pretty sure I already know how to become a believer in U.F.O.s, and I'm sure whatever I have to do with the temple's gong will be easier to figure out if I go to the temple during the day and can talk to more above-ground people. The random nature of some of the Underground Residents and their kisses can be a bit annoying. Like I'm pretty sure I had to just wait and Chuck was supposed to be kissable on his own, but it just never happened. Same thing with Apollo only being kissable if he makes a good landing. So I'd have to go to bed and wait until they're ready to come out just so RNG can hopefully go in my favor. For the next video I'm gonna just save up for a bunch of cash and maybe buy some of the shop items like the films and magnifying glass, though I'm not sure what to do with the latter quite yet. And naturally one of like, two kisses I got on my own I pretty much did by accident without properly introducing the character first.
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Jul 28, 2018 23:52
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You should spend your money on healing items, because you will have to tank damage in order to kiss people. Don't be afraid to throw items away to open up space to buy stuff. The game actually is considerate about littering. I think the number 4 means "die" in Japan.
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Jul 29, 2018 02:54
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Your first priority should be the train pass though I recommend not buying it until after you've gotten the train ticket for Worldly Desire Temple as a reward for completing a subplot.
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Jul 29, 2018 03:24
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The character on Yodzilla's front could also be "ム", the katakana (phonetic) character "mu". I have no idea what that would signify. I haven't noticed any puns yet, but from previous experience with the game, I know of two that require enough explanation that they won't be funny anymore, but it's probably worth knowing what they are just so you understand the exact degree of weirdness in the game. I'll provide that explanation when they come up.
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Jul 30, 2018 00:42
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Scalding Coffee posted:You should spend your money on healing items, because you will have to tank damage in order to kiss people. Don't be afraid to throw items away to open up space to buy stuff. The game actually is considerate about littering. Chimera-gui posted:Your first priority should be the train pass though I recommend not buying it until after you've gotten the train ticket for Worldly Desire Temple as a reward for completing a subplot. Nidoking posted:I haven't noticed any puns yet, but from previous experience with the game, I know of two that require enough explanation that they won't be funny anymore, but it's probably worth knowing what they are just so you understand the exact degree of weirdness in the game. I'll provide that explanation when they come up. Part 5 - Funny Bone Station and Stalking Didn't make as much progress as I had hoped, but I at least got some kisses under my belt. I'm hoping that I'm very close to getting one part of the Love Letter Set, assuming all I have to do is buy that alien translator guide and talk to the alien that's in Scarecrow Field. I'm hoping to save up enough money for the next episode (and then some) while getting some more kisses and leveling up at least once. I feel like I overstepped in trying to do things at the Funny Bone area, and I think I'll just avoid going there again until I've done pretty much everything else in the other three main areas. Seriously, gently caress that balloon guy. I'm also curious as to what Sefiroth's situation is; why she ran away from home and what exactly she's looking for. I'm a bit surprised at how little impact she's had on things so far considering she's the love interest of the game and all that.
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Jul 30, 2018 19:33
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Like I said, if you can hold off on buying it until you've dealt with the subplot that rewards you a train ticket or barring that keeping the pass at the Lost & Found until that subplot's been resolved. The game seems to like you're supposed to do at least that subplot before any of the main objectives. I'd also recommend dealing with Michelle's cult early as well since that's very easy to knock out before any main objectives as well. In order to use toilets outside of your home, you'll need to kiss the underground residents who clean toilets. Chimera-gui fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Jul 30, 2018 |
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Jul 30, 2018 20:28
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Chimera-gui posted:Like I said, if you can hold off on buying it until you've dealt with the subplot that rewards you a train ticket or barring that keeping the pass at the Lost & Found until that subplot's been resolved. The game seems to like you're supposed to do at least that subplot before any of the main objectives. I've been thinking about that cult thing too, still gotta figure out how to progress with it. Yeah, I guessed as much, I'll probably look up which ones specifically do that before the next video, or at least a few of them. Gonna just avoid Funny Bone City altogether for a while.
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Jul 30, 2018 23:12
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It's not so much that getting the pass itself before doing the subplot breaks the game as having the pass with you when you complete that subplot is redundant as the subplot itself ends with you being at Worldly Desire Temple and getting a ticket back to Long Life Town as a reward because the character that gives you ticket back home assumes you don't have the pass already. That said, the pass is a game breaker in the sense that it will save you a ton of money on travel between the three areas which you'll be doing a lot of hence why it's a good idea to at least buy it early on even though you have no reason to have it with you when you get to a certain point within that subplot. Chimera-gui fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Jul 31, 2018 |
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Jul 31, 2018 01:31
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I said to save often. The manure container is in SCF and it is a wooden square in the middle of the field. Maybe find the special item there if you want after reading that mail from Clam. Kiss someone for the level and then bother the hasty wizard for the speedrunning tactics. Go to Scarecrow Field and find out when Invisible Man takes his walks. Follow the Invisible Man (follow the question mark) around at various stop points and tank each hit he gives you when you talk to him. The reward is worth it after several beatings, if you have some healing items. Stock up on cheap heals if you can. Health tanking is important because you will get worn down and going to dad takes money and time you could spend kissing people. You found about half the people who can give you a ton of damage. Ad Balloon hits the hardest out of all of them. One of them hits a little bit harder each time you fail to kiss. Scalding Coffee fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Jul 31, 2018 |
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Jul 31, 2018 03:11
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Chimera-gui posted:It's not so much that getting the pass itself before doing the subplot breaks the game as having the pass with you when you complete that subplot is redundant as the subplot itself ends with you being at Worldly Desire Temple and getting a ticket back to Long Life Town as a reward because the character that gives you ticket back home assumes you don't have the pass already. Scalding Coffee posted:I said to save often. Yeah, I think one problem is there's so much to do and a lot of it takes time. Like I still need to get some kisses from Long Life Town, but I've been so preoccupied with the other areas I just haven't gotten around to it. Don't even know when I'll tackle the Invisible Man. Part 6 - More Kisses and Meeting an Alien Well, some things are starting to come together...at least a bit. I've found the alien, and I'm pretty sure I'll need to buy that super-expensive computer to give to it given some of those translations from the rock face. I've gotten some of the money I need, and thankfully RNG has been nice to me and given me a lot of junk to pawn off between episodes. Don't have the slightest clue what to do with that little bell spirit that appears when I ring the bell, and I have a hunch I need to donate a certain amount of money before that monk does anything with me. I think I'm just going to keep focusing on getting more kisses, maybe next episode I'll get all, or at least most, of the remaining kisses from Long Life Town, since I've been neglecting doing that for a few episodes now. In fact, aside from saving up cash for the computer, I think I really should just get all the kisses I can from Underground Residents that I can access before doing anything else with the main story, or at least trying to.
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The pass itself can be obtained at any time without making the game unwinnable as Jamesman got the train pass in his playthrough well before he even started that subplot and had no issues, he just received a redundant train ticket. Like I said, it's a good idea to at least buy the pass as early as possible since otherwise you'll be spending a good chunk of your money on train tickets.
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Aug 2, 2018 02:10
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The manure pit is that partly covered well you keep avoiding. It is great that new things are happening and every little thing to advance the plot messes with people's schedules.
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Part 7 - Kisses, Bathrooms, and Alarm Clocks I make some pretty decent progress here, at least with kissing Underground Residents. I don't think I've kissed as many of them in one video before and I felt pretty drat satisfied. Still feel a bit annoyed at Pinch Poncho's minigame, but whatever. I've been having bad luck with the films, unfortunately. I kept finding poopies in the manure pit rather than the film, and none of the three I have gets any interesting reaction from Goro, and I'm wondering if maybe one of the ones from Cheapot's shop will do anything. I'm still going to want to focus on getting as many Underground Resident kisses as I can until I've got all the ones I can get without progressing in the main story. Should hopefully only take another video or two to get done. TheLoneStar fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Aug 5, 2018 |
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I think there is a sign near Julie's business that tell you more about Goro. Pixel hunt those buildings. You can get run over by the monk's moped and it would hurt a lot.
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