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lets hang out
Jan 10, 2015

you don't have to cut it, it's not like the ground ones

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Reallycoolname
Feb 26, 2008

Take a look! It's in a book!
Yeah after a while I realised that it was floating overhead out of the camera's view while I was trying to dodge this ultrafast enemies.

Sometimes I want to beat Platinum over the head with a hammer while screaming "Add the loving tutorials!"

Aerial enemies, barriers, and blade mode is still the unholy trinity of this game though. Just pure garbage.

ntan1
Apr 29, 2009

sempai noticed me
Wait until post game when you have sets of 2 each of all of the best purple enemies.

Reallycoolname
Feb 26, 2008

Take a look! It's in a book!
I think I'll enjoy the main game and the fun sidequests and just skip all the ubergamer challenges, thanks.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



lets hang out posted:

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


Reallycoolname posted:

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.

I mean these ones. They're loving horrible.

I heard people saying you didn't really have to use blade mode much in combat but these fuckers have been everywhere so far.

e: Wait, how do you get rid of the barriers without blade mode?

stev fucked around with this message at 07:20 on Sep 4, 2019

Onmi
Jul 12, 2013

If someone says it one more time I'm having Florina show up as a corpse. I'm not even kidding, I was pissed off with people doing that shit back in 2010, and I'm not dealing with it now in 2016.
Here's a little tip for Blade Mode, you can pre-load your slash by holding the direction you want to cut before entering it.

Snake Maze
Jul 13, 2016

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

Steve2911 posted:

I mean these ones. They're loving horrible.

I heard people saying you didn't really have to use blade mode much in combat but these fuckers have been everywhere so far.

e: Wait, how do you get rid of the barriers without blade mode?

You only have to use blade mode to cut the energy tethers that one type makes. The flying ones you can just shoot.

TalkLittle
Jun 23, 2004

Emong posted:

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

This worked well against the gold slime!

Al Cu Ad Solte
Nov 30, 2005
Searching for
a righteous cause

ntan1 posted:

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.

Any idea what track that is on the soundtrack?

Hyper Crab Tank
Feb 10, 2014

The 16-bit retro-future of crustacean-based transportation
What flying agile barriered enemies are these? I beat file 4 last night and I don't remember anything I had to use slash on besides the little energy tether guys, and that one is not nearly hard enough that I'd think of it as a problem.

Stormgale
Feb 27, 2010

Hyper Crab Tank posted:

What flying agile barriered enemies are these? I beat file 4 last night and I don't remember anything I had to use slash on besides the little energy tether guys, and that one is not nearly hard enough that I'd think of it as a problem.

There's a version of the barrier guys that (I think is in an optional fight in 4/5) instead of having a tether you have to snipe em

Dackel
Sep 11, 2014


Stormgale posted:

There's a version of the barrier guys that (I think is in an optional fight in 4/5) instead of having a tether you have to snipe em

They pop up when you get arrow legion (because the solution is ranged combat/snipe, but your gun suffices). I don't think there's one for Arm Legion, but there is a variant for Beast they bury underground and you gotta dig em up with dog

beep by grandpa
May 5, 2004

I have a problem aiming with Blade Mode since the analogs are reversed from Metal Gear Rising, a game I have many many hours in

Stormgale
Feb 27, 2010

Blade mode seems very good for handling any constant spin attacks, just dodge backwards, enter blade mode and stun em out of it

JoeGlassJAw
Apr 9, 2010

started this game last night and was terrified to hear it just start up with English voices and then even more terrified when I had access to the options and there was no Japanese language track. This game is anime as hell why would they do this

lets hang out
Jan 10, 2015

You can change the voice language at the main menu. You'll have to quit out if you want to start the game with it

Pharohman777
Jan 14, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
https://twitter.com/AleksLeVO/status/1167310556631449600

The VA for the male twin in the english dub is pretty excited about astral chain.

hatty
Feb 28, 2011

Pork Pro
I'd say the only really bad english voice so far is Jin, and luckily he doesn't talk much

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

hatty posted:

I'd say the only really bad english voice so far is Jin, and luckily he doesn't talk much

I think it's the direction more than anything else with Jin. Like there are parts where his tone doesn't match the scene at all.

beep by grandpa
May 5, 2004

Jena seems to be played by The Boss from what I've heard so far which instantly brings the English casting job to a 10/10

Valleyant
Jul 23, 2007

That darn catte

beep by grandpa posted:

Jena seems to be played by The Boss from what I've heard so far which instantly brings the English casting job to a 10/10

Jena is a land of contrasts: A big enjoyable ham but also I still have no idea what exactly she was trying to accomplish

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007

Valleyant posted:

Jena is a land of contrasts: A big enjoyable ham but also I still have no idea what exactly she was trying to accomplish

Naive fool... You will learn to regret your actions

SardonicTyrant
Feb 26, 2016

BTICH IM A NEWT
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I can't believe the plot actually starts in file 5.

Also visibly :unsmith: at picking up litter.

I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004

Nearing the end of Astral Chain. I like the last quarter of the game the best. Other than some puzzles that really serve no purpose but to pad the length of the game, everything else is great.

Hokkaido Anxiety
May 21, 2007

slub club 2013
Am I missing something obvious on how you are supposed to catch up with/chain people who are running away from you? (Thinking the sidequest in the medical area in mission 5). I can't catch up to them and they outpace my legion if I just pull that out and try to chain them.

Tricky
Jun 12, 2007

after a great meal i like to lie on the ground and feel like garbage


Hokkaido Anxiety posted:

Am I missing something obvious on how you are supposed to catch up with/chain people who are running away from you? (Thinking the sidequest in the medical area in mission 5). I can't catch up to them and they outpace my legion if I just pull that out and try to chain them.

Sword moves notably faster than most Legions, so generally sprinting after them with Sword out will let you catch them while running after them.

TalkLittle
Jun 23, 2004

You get more options later on that make catching them easier. Also that particular guy in File 05 pauses at a doorway which might be your chance.

hamburgers in pockets
Jun 18, 2005

Yeah, that's blood. It'll get better before the show.
Is there any way to view what combos you've unlocked for your main weapons? I know I've gotten delay attack and hold attack, but that's just from what I remember and I don't see anywhere in-game to actually check what all you have access to.

Agnostalgia
Dec 22, 2009

Hokkaido Anxiety posted:

Am I missing something obvious on how you are supposed to catch up with/chain people who are running away from you? (Thinking the sidequest in the medical area in mission 5). I can't catch up to them and they outpace my legion if I just pull that out and try to chain them.

Launch your legion at them for a quick stun.

Cirina
Feb 15, 2013

Operation complete.
So there's an order to find all the hermit hideouts, which is... a thing. Anyone know any locations for them? I've found one in chapter 3 and whatever chapter you get the axe legion in, but going around and rubbing at walls to find which ones are actually fake holograms isn't my idea of fun. Relatedly, those two hideouts are ones that the game tells you how to find by talking to people, but there's obviously more since I don't have the order complete yet. Also does anyone know how to S+ the stealth cases? Is it just a matter of going as fast as possible?

Agnostalgia
Dec 22, 2009

Eopia posted:

So there's an order to find all the hermit hideouts, which is... a thing. Anyone know any locations for them? I've found one in chapter 3 and whatever chapter you get the axe legion in, but going around and rubbing at walls to find which ones are actually fake holograms isn't my idea of fun. Relatedly, those two hideouts are ones that the game tells you how to find by talking to people, but there's obviously more since I don't have the order complete yet. Also does anyone know how to S+ the stealth cases? Is it just a matter of going as fast as possible?

I found one in the subway level at the beginning when you're rescuing people, below and to the right of the subway entrance in one of the train tunnels.

TalkLittle
Jun 23, 2004

I've found only one Hermit hideout, pretty sure it was File 05 in the subway while searching for survivors, near the end of one of the tracks, IRIS revealed the fake glitchy wall. (^ e:fb)
Yeah, some of these collection quests suck.


Re: voices, although the English voice acting is generally fine, I checked out the Japanese voices and wow they make a big difference. English probably makes sense first time through so you can focus on the action instead of subtitles. Second time through I'll definitely switch to Japanese, some characters and scenes really come alive with the original VAs.

lets hang out
Jan 10, 2015

There's a hideout in harmony square, I found it in file 6 but it was probably there all along. It's a wall next to the burger place there was a side quest to escort a guy to in file 4. I didn't see any hint with iris on but you can kind of hear it when you're close, at least with headphones.

Cirina
Feb 15, 2013

Operation complete.
Thanks for the tips everyone. One thing I should note about these, for ones that appear in areas that you can go to in multiple chapters, you should be able to get different things based on the chapter you visit. For example, the one a quest takes you directly to in chapter 11 just has a red case there in that chapter, but when I went there in chapter 10 I found a chest with an eyepatch clothing item in it.

JoeGlassJAw
Apr 9, 2010

lets hang out posted:

You can change the voice language at the main menu. You'll have to quit out if you want to start the game with it

Thank you

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Japanese voices means giving up English Marie and Lappy, and that's just not acceptable.

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
Japanese Lappy though

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

At the end of everything, hold onto anything



Fun Shoe

chumbler posted:

Japanese voices means giving up English Marie and Lappy, and that's just not acceptable.

And English Jena who is excellent.

SardonicTyrant
Feb 26, 2016

BTICH IM A NEWT
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走り出せ振り向くことなく
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Savior is in English in both versions. Ergo, English is the correct language. Prove me wrong.

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SardonicTyrant
Feb 26, 2016

BTICH IM A NEWT
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