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Jun 22, 2004

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Johnny Landmine
Aug 2, 2004

PURE FUCKING AINOGEDDON
Really specific question, but can anyone with the European collectors' edition tell me if the artbook includes English translations of the timeline and developer messages from the Japanese one?

ntan1
Apr 29, 2009

sempai noticed me
The ghost in the shell music tieback to Kenji Kawai is amazing.

The anime is amazing, especially chapter 9. PS: I recommend playing the female character. It just fits better.

Schubalts
Nov 26, 2007

People say bigger is better.

But for the first time in my life, I think I've gone too far.
So don't look at Yoseph's database entry if you don't want to see what seems like a giant spoiler.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Johnny Landmine posted:

Really specific question, but can anyone with the European collectors' edition tell me if the artbook includes English translations of the timeline and developer messages from the Japanese one?
Yes, they are all there translated, along with song lyrics.

Stroth
Mar 31, 2007

All Problems Solved

Schubalts posted:

So don't look at Yoseph's database entry if you don't want to see what seems like a giant spoiler.

I mean I’m only on the second mission and I haven’t checked the database yet but if he isn’t a bad guy I will eat every Platinum Studios game I own.

MachuPikacchu
Oct 15, 2012

Sacre vert! Maman!

Currently on File 08 and I love this anime as hell game that where I either get an S+ rank in 20 seconds or get a D Rank even though I used every Legion and skill in my repertoire.

Like sometimes I do moves and I don't even know how I do them. At one point I Chain Bound a thing in mid-air during a counter? I can give my dog my sword and have him attack with it?

Is there someplace where I can check the command attacks for the X-Baton? Because I've unlocked five and only know how to do two.

Snake Maze
Jul 13, 2016

3.85 Billion years ago
  • Having seen the explosion on the moon, the Devil comes to Venus

Schubalts posted:

So don't look at Yoseph's database entry if you don't want to see what seems like a giant spoiler.

It's actually not much of a spoiler at all. I mean, yes, it's a bit earlier than the game will tell you than information normally but you learn it fairly early on and knowing it doesn't give anything away.

Also unless it comes up in the postgame they never really deal with what the chimeras/astral plane want with humanity anyway, so it's more of a weird setting detail than a plot point

Johnny Landmine
Aug 2, 2004

PURE FUCKING AINOGEDDON

SelenicMartian posted:

Yes, they are all there translated, along with song lyrics.

Thanks! Just curious as to how the two editions compare since I have the Japanese one.

Snake Maze posted:


Also unless it comes up in the postgame they never really deal with what the chimeras/astral plane want with humanity anyway, so it's more of a weird setting detail than a plot point

Between Yoseph's profile data, some comments Jena makes, and optionally the timeline in the artbook (which is annoyingly unavailable in North America), you can piece together that they're trying to redshift the entire planet so they can "archive" it and start over. Yoseph tries to take over the process with Noah so he can rule over whatever comes next for all the data that used to be humanity, but the player messes that up and presumably humanity escapes the reset button until whenever the next archival time is.

Snake Maze
Jul 13, 2016

3.85 Billion years ago
  • Having seen the explosion on the moon, the Devil comes to Venus
Actually speaking of plot stuff, has anyone managed to open the password locked files? I don't know if I missed the password or if they're some postgame plot dump and I'll be finding it in File 12.

Johnny Landmine
Aug 2, 2004

PURE FUCKING AINOGEDDON

Snake Maze posted:

Actually speaking of plot stuff, has anyone managed to open the password locked files?

Vague hint: The reports in question were filed by Max, who is a dad and has dad ideas about what would be a good password

Slightly less vague hint: It's a date that's important to Max.

Much more blatant hint: It's the twins' birthday.

who cares just tell me god: 1125

Johnny Landmine fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Sep 3, 2019

Stormgale
Feb 27, 2010

Mechanical spoiler Hidden passable walls that lead to secret fights, oh no

Stroth
Mar 31, 2007

All Problems Solved
Astral Chain: The First Two Files Suck, Keep Playing

beep by grandpa
May 5, 2004

Kamiya has been retweeitng vids of people getting their ice cream knocked down all day lol

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


This game... it’s real good, folks.


https://twitter.com/jacsnoodleboy/status/1168943247638638596?s=21

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



When's Kamiya gonna direct something again? Come on man.

DalaranJ
Apr 15, 2008

Yosuke will now die for you.

You can see lappy run in the other door as your character turns around for a couple of frames, that’s my favorite part of the sequence.

Agnostalgia
Dec 22, 2009
where is the toilet in file one, the level is like a twenty foot long corridor

Pharohman777
Jan 14, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
I have to say, the fact that the skin color you initially choose is also the one your brother/sister has is pretty neat.

You can change your characters skin later though, and go wild and give yourself red skin, blue skin, or other skin colors you unlock.

I think its really good, but considering the plot goes into cloning your sibling, I see why they have your sibling just have default black hair and the skin tone you initially choose.


Agnostalgia posted:

where is the toilet in file one, the level is like a twenty foot long corridor

Go immediately to the left and around the crashed truck when the 'escort the injured man to the stretcher' mission starts. Its on the other side of a barricade and on its back, but you can see the door and interact with it.

Pharohman777 fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Sep 3, 2019

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

It's cute that Brenda is a big Lappy fan, as are we all. Also that everyone tries to keep up the charade.

Steve2911 posted:

When's Kamiya gonna direct something again? Come on man.

It's good to let more people take the helm and get more experience and their own style.

DLC Inc
Jun 1, 2011

Steve2911 posted:

When's Kamiya gonna direct something again? Come on man.

he had his heart and dreams crushed spectacularly by Microsoft not too long ago + iirc he was talking about some vague new idea after that happened. I'd guess it won't be too much longer before his next project is revealed.

Also Inaba has openly said that Takahisa Taura, director of this game + designer of Nier Automata, is their new superstar lol

beep by grandpa
May 5, 2004

Pharohman777 posted:

I have to say, the fact that the skin color you initially choose is also the one your brother/sister has is pretty neat.

I jokingly see this as a loving homage to Deus Ex :3


(I wish they took hair color too tho)

ThisIsACoolGuy
Nov 2, 2010

Shaped like a friend

Are the random recycle items just fodder to sell? I see some of em in my item stack worth 15k and that's a lot, but like, I'm not sure if there's going to be a use for these cracked and broken helmets or whatever later.

Dackel
Sep 11, 2014


ThisIsACoolGuy posted:

Are the random recycle items just fodder to sell? I see some of em in my item stack worth 15k and that's a lot, but like, I'm not sure if there's going to be a use for these cracked and broken helmets or whatever later.

sell the junk (except cans, dunk those)

MachuPikacchu
Oct 15, 2012

Sacre vert! Maman!

Okay I just found the Lappy quiz, and I thought I was doing okay until Lappy asked me Marie's birthday. I thought all that info from the IRIS was for fluff! I'm sorry, Marie :-(

ntan1
Apr 29, 2009

sempai noticed me
Can somebody link me to the spoiler cutscene/explain what happens after you loving finish the 71 quests post game?

TalkLittle
Jun 23, 2004

This game good

The gyroscope balancing minigames are frustrating, but maybe easier with handheld mode- Is the Pro Controller gyroscope extremely sensitive? Or maybe I was walking fast one time and slow another time :shrug:
And the dumbos running around make it ten times worse.

Valleyant
Jul 23, 2007

That darn catte
Beat the game, solid 8/10. The platforming bits were annoying and the grading system gets kind of arbitrary to the point where I can literally die three times and get an S+ or do a fight flawlessly, but too quickly and get a B

Plot spoilers


I'm not sure if I like or dislike the game never really explaining what was up with the astral plain, or why everyone has a cube

The final fight involving a big glowblob against a bunch of your brother who is a bunch of purple cubes now was a bit abstract for my tastes and he was a bit too much of a hp wall.

Jena is one of the least effective antagonists I've seen in a while. "Hey everyone, I know the whole plot but I'm mostly just going to broadcast vague things on television/imply your shady boss -might- be a jrpg villain." Very stylish lady with cool arm blade at least.

Lappy is good, and the most villainous thing was Marie getting assigned to traffic cop.

Hal not having a metal gear was disappointing

Max is the Axe legion now which is weird? His backstory of being the mysterious cat man is great.



Going around blue-shifting people was neat and probably one of my favorite little things

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



Ok gently caress those shield minion things into the ground. They completely destroy the flow of combat and are just miserable to fight. Especially the flying ones in file 4.

lets hang out
Jan 10, 2015

chain pull yourself up to them for cool air combos. only hard part is locking on to them

Supremezero
Apr 28, 2013

hay gurl
So why exactly is Blueshifting unique to the Sword Legion? It doesn't seem like it should be?

Also how the heck do you kill the slimes?

Rhygezenguro
Feb 13, 2012
So, I'm sitting at what I have to assume is the last boss ( Noah Prime ) and boy howdy do I hate it.

This chromed out bitch just has everything I hate, boatloads of damage, bad hitboxes, one-shot kills, three separate types of stuns, teleporting off camera and knocking 1000 health off before I can even find it. Christ there's a full phase where it just plays keep-away and I'm pretty sure it has more health than all the other bosses combined. I hate it to the point where I'm forgetting if I even liked the rest of the game. At this point I'm just hoping this is a Dark Souls thing and bitching on the internet will somehow let me win.

Edit: It worked by the way.

Rhygezenguro fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Sep 4, 2019

lets hang out
Jan 10, 2015

Supremezero posted:

So why exactly is Blueshifting unique to the Sword Legion? It doesn't seem like it should be?

Also how the heck do you kill the slimes?

kinda seems each might only be weak to certain weapons? but I'm not sure about that. Like the one in file 4 i couldn't hit with the gun at all but the baton worked

TalkLittle
Jun 23, 2004

Supremezero posted:

So why exactly is Blueshifting unique to the Sword Legion? It doesn't seem like it should be?

Also how the heck do you kill the slimes?

Maybe blueshifting is like surgery. Need to cut things.

It does seem like each successive gold slime gets harder to kill. It started out easy, just whacking away with baton and Sword Legion, but after killing 3 or 4 I can barely hit them anymore. Or maybe it's because I switched from Casual to Pt Standard. Next time I'm going to try a Stun Grenade.

Emong
May 31, 2011

perpair to be annihilated


I just launch the Legion at them over and over. Each hit does 1 damage and they only seem to have about 5 hitpoints.

DalaranJ
Apr 15, 2008

Yosuke will now die for you.
Can you quit out of a file from a menu, or should I switch to casual and blast through it? I want to demo the game to a friend by going back to an earlier file.

Rhygezenguro
Feb 13, 2012

DalaranJ posted:

Can you quit out of a file from a menu, or should I switch to casual and blast through it? I want to demo the game to a friend by going back to an earlier file.

I may be wrong but I think you can select an earlier file from your headquarters PC, I think there's also a file menu in the system settings?

DalaranJ
Apr 15, 2008

Yosuke will now die for you.

Rhygezenguro posted:

I may be wrong but I think you can select an earlier file from your headquarters PC, I think there's also a file menu in the system settings?

Ah, yes, you can reset to the start of your current file from options, and then since you're in HQ get to the other files from the PC there.

Kobogartimer
Mar 17, 2006




That dodging imgur link doesn't mention this, but if you want to do a regular no nonsense dodge with more iframes press your sprint button first.

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Reallycoolname
Feb 26, 2008

Take a look! It's in a book!
Well I just reached the flying agile barriered enemy that you have to blade mode in File 04 and I am so done with this game.

Can't believe they not only added in all these crappy sides but decided to combine them into a single enemy.

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