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 Let's Play Silhouette Mirage Spanning a twisted universe where all of humanity has mutated into manifestations of two attributes, Silhouette Mirage is a virtual surrealistic wonderland, and played a great role in shaping my taste in bizarre fictional media. Developed by Treasure, the game forged a new path through its genre with polarizing gameplay. Long before Ikaruga or Outlands, you find yourself with the equally awe-inspiring and underwhelming ability to negate enemy attacks with a literal turn of your cheek. While simply red and blue shots in practice, the attributes you toy with allow for some thoroughly creative enemy encounters, though nothing quite as hectic as what you may be thinking. The game relies heavily on its characters as a vehicle for design, and they're all strange in their own way, which leaves little room for “standard” levels or excessively difficult combat situations. Indeed, boasting 20+ boss battles in just under 3 hours, it places variety and personality before all else. However, idiosyncrasy can be a blessing and curse. The game can often become too absorbed in its personality to provide challenge, which ensues that when a genuine threat does appear, it's an awkward whiplash. This is made twice as apparent by the sub-par localization efforts of Working Designs. Not only does the American release feature new exclusive, broken game mechanics, it also proudly sports a sub-par translation rife with awkward self-parody and confused dialogue. Make no mistake, this release is a derivative, thoroughly hosed up re-imagining of the original design. Then again, the English voice acting is fantastic, so there's that. Silhouette Mirage is certainly unique, and it deserves its time to shine. This version may be a little more “unique” than the others in a few questionable ways, but nothing is perfect. Let's get this started. And please, no spoilers. Videos File 1: System Boot  File 2: Homicidal Flying Fish  File 3: Boiling Blood  File 4: Big City Dreams  File 5: Mettle  File 6: Shackles  File 7: Final Judgment 
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This is certainly interesting looking, but do they do much to prevent it getting repetitive?
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Aug 6, 2018 05:40
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BioEnchanted posted:This is certainly interesting looking, but do they do much to prevent it getting repetitive? i wouldn't call Silhouette Mirage repetitive, given that it's only around an hour long and has 20 unique bosses
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Aug 6, 2018 06:02
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Oh my god! I've seen the opening movie of this game before, but have never player it myself. You can tell this is a Treasure game just by style and tone of the game, but what gets me is that Working Design is the publisher. They were THE company back in the 90s who translated and brought to the US SOOOOO many anime looking games it isn't funny. Most of my game collection from back then was from them. I could make a list, but it is long and so I better not. Either way, I will be following this and wanting to see how the game plays. Despite the semi-repetative/grindy nature, it still looks fun. Kind of like an early Ikaruga, just as a side-scrolling/platforming shooter rather than a bullet hell SHMUP.
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Aug 9, 2018 15:59
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Ben Kasack posted:Oh my god! I've seen the opening movie of this game before, but have never player it myself. You can tell this is a Treasure game just by style and tone of the game, but what gets me is that Working Design is the publisher. They were THE company back in the 90s who translated and brought to the US SOOOOO many anime looking games it isn't funny. Most of my game collection from back then was from them. I could make a list, but it is long and so I better not. Either way, I will be following this and wanting to see how the game plays. Despite the semi-repetative/grindy nature, it still looks fun. Kind of like an early Ikaruga, just as a side-scrolling/platforming shooter rather than a bullet hell SHMUP. It really isn't repetitive at all after the initial grinding. The game is one of the most varied I've ever played, but I guess the first stage could give people the impression that it's more bland than it is.
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Aug 9, 2018 19:47
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Working Designs? Changing a game to make it artificially harder? Possibly to the point of making the game bad? That would never happen.   You also seem to have glossed over the fact that enemies in the NA version generally take a lot more to kill than in the JP version. It's hard to notice with these level 6 weapons though.
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Aug 10, 2018 03:31
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Head Hit Keyboard posted:Working Designs? Changing a game to make it artificially harder? Possibly to the point of making the game bad? That would never happen. There's a lot wrong with the NA version so I either forget or don't bother to list some of the issues.
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Aug 10, 2018 04:25
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File 2: Homicidal Flying Fish This level, like most, is a boss rush of insane over-the-top characters
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Aug 10, 2018 12:44
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I remember watching a very old LP of this game when it was still going on, and hearing that Guardian Angel theme. I really liked it, but at the time it was really hard to find the game's music, and the track I found on YT was kind of wonky.
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Aug 10, 2018 13:19
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Zanzibar Ham posted:I remember watching a very old LP of this game when it was still going on, and hearing that Guardian Angel theme. I really liked it, but at the time it was really hard to find the game's music, and the track I found on YT was kind of wonky. Yeah, the tracks on youtube were really low quality for some years
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Aug 11, 2018 08:15
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Was this on the original Playstation? I feel like it was on the original Playstation, just from looking at it.
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Aug 12, 2018 17:13
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KieranWalker posted:Was this on the original Playstation? I feel like it was on the original Playstation, just from looking at it. Originally made for the Sega Saturn and then ported to the PS1.
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Aug 12, 2018 17:30
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the playstation version has an extra boss battle, which is worth mentioning
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Aug 12, 2018 19:08
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File 3: Boiling Blood watch as Working Designs masterfully fucks up the translation by getting names and contexts incorrect
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Aug 13, 2018 22:42
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File 4: Big City Dreams It's a Hello Kitty reference.
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Aug 15, 2018 12:04
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Wow, Silhouettes really go crazy for soup, huh?
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Aug 15, 2018 13:03
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Zanzibar Ham posted:Wow, Silhouettes really go crazy for soup, huh? They can smell soup from miles away.
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Aug 15, 2018 19:39
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I think Malak was referring to the fact that Specters, the basic Silhouette enemies, were helping you by holding the platform during the battle since they are the followers of Megido meaning he ordered them to do so. Megido and his Specters are directly opposing Hal along with his Guardian Angels and his army of Polly Peepers, the basic Mirage enemies, so Megido wanting to help us would make sense. Chimera-gui fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Aug 16, 2018 |
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Aug 16, 2018 01:52
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Chimera-gui posted:I think Malak was referring to the fact that Specters, the basic Silhouette enemies, were helping you by holding the platform during the battle since they are the followers of Megido meaning he ordered them to do so. i don't think the silhouettes follow megido
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Aug 16, 2018 01:53
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Description of the Specters posted:The soldiers of the Silhouette army. They're also none too powerful, but will follow Megido's orders to the end.
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Aug 16, 2018 02:00
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doesn't dialogue in the game contradict that sentiment? maybe i'm misremembering, but i thought Megido preferred the lone wolf approach maybe the specters are an exception
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Aug 16, 2018 02:49
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the werewolf that you can de-wolf by knocking over the full moon stage prop in the background is one of my all time favorite boss designs
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Aug 17, 2018 19:37
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Hah, I didn't notice it at first, but just saw that you can see how much money bosses are holding. And Delia has an insane amount (5000!), that of course you can't get because you can't shake him down for it.
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Aug 17, 2018 20:55
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Zanzibar Ham posted:Hah, I didn't notice it at first, but just saw that you can see how much money bosses are holding. And Delia has an insane amount (5000!), that of course you can't get because you can't shake him down for it. I wish I could find a way
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Aug 19, 2018 05:17
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File 5: Mettle
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Aug 24, 2018 12:40
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Yeah, game really hitting the self-parody at the start here. Can you tell us how the plot of original version differs from this adaptation?
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Aug 24, 2018 20:01
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NHO posted:Yeah, game really hitting the self-parody at the start here. Mostly in the characterization and tone. The original game had its humor, because it is a Treasure game, but it's easy to pick out Victor Ireland's personal taste in jokes after being exposed to it for so long.
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Aug 24, 2018 20:37
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File 6: Shackles
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Sep 7, 2018 12:46
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File 7: Final Judgment
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