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 Part 1: The Murakumo Entrance Exam This was the day their crusade began. Welcome to Tokyo 2020. Kinu Nishimura fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Sep 11, 2021 |
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Oct 14, 2020 03:52
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Fanart Collection -An artist's rendition of Agent Nagataka, by 'hutiaweta', an off-site reader. Kinu Nishimura fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Sep 11, 2021 |
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Oct 14, 2020 03:52
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Liked, followed, and subscribed. Let's do this.
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Oct 14, 2020 06:12
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Oh hey, this is finally up. I helped Kinu and Rea out slightly on the technical back end for this project. (Mostly with data and game mechanics as best I could.) Fun fact, while most enemies have it so that D-Depth can only have a 45% or 50% chance to land on them, D1 and D2 have their stats fudged so that D-Depth always lands on them. This is so you can witness how a Destroyer works if you have one in the party and actually get to use their full kit in the battles that matter in the prologue. It's a neat little design trick. None of the other classes have such fudging, but they don't need it at this point in the game.
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Oct 14, 2020 07:55
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Hi, I helped with the tech bits, namely providing hosting and helping Kinu get up to speed on how to make a screenshot Let's Play. I hope everyone enjoys Sympathy, it's a major project with a lot of work behind it.
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Oct 14, 2020 14:37
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I'm trying to figure who are Chisa's parents (assuming she's closely related to the EOV LP cast). She's clearly gone gallivanting in an Yggdrasil Labyrinth or another, so her parents have to be people strong enough to stroll through the Empyreal Bridge, or at least they can call in favors with Archon. The Star Devourer being currently busy devouring dirt five light-years under doesn't hurt to be fair. Raven and Mio should be out because they're in another corner of the multiverse, hopefully one without a 7th Dragon's dragon infestation; Magda and Kaelin "smugbert"? I've got nothing otherwise.
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Oct 14, 2020 18:23
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Welp, I'm 500% on board. Im still thinking about potential reasons Chisa is a longer haired Raven. E: Oh yeah, and the OST is an absolute banger BrightWing fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Oct 14, 2020 |
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Oct 14, 2020 20:13
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Links to the updates will be mirrored on Rhematic from the TOC, and from here on, Rhematic links will be linked with future updates.Omobono posted:Raven and Mio should be out because they're in another corner of the multiverse, hopefully one without a 7th Dragon's dragon infestation; about that Kinu Nishimura fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Oct 14, 2020 |
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Oct 14, 2020 22:37
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Kinu Nishimura posted:about that Oh godsdammit. I was originally going to ask if this one was the one with Miku in it, then the update posted the trailer so question answered. Kinda hope the other two characters survived. Yes I know big guy declared only Chisa survived 
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Oct 15, 2020 06:23
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Good news, you'll get to find out now! Part 2: The Dragon-Elimination Strike Team, Murakumo Unit 13 I changed my mind, because otherwise every post of these is gonna have to be split in half. Anyway, today, Chisa meets some new friends.
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Oct 15, 2020 06:32
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New  . It's like Chisa never left Iorys. Go get them dragons girl.Pour one for Mugen and Kyoshiro. And by pour one I mean, in addition to the standard, to cut the chief dragon into ribbons for them. E: does it count as a Chuuni phase if you really did school an interstellar threat with your Great Scythe of Cold Ash before getting isekai'd on Earth with an alternate past to make you fit in? Omobono fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Oct 15, 2020 08:49
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Only 5 classes, huh? Seems pretty small for a dungeon crawler like this.
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Oct 15, 2020 20:04
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Ah, that's why Chisa looks like Raven. I am not a smart person.
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Oct 16, 2020 01:13
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I really like Tokyo Hall Inverted as a starter dungeon. Boss dragons in 7D were more plain about things. This one fucks with a volcano, that one smacks airships out of the sky. The first boss dragon here flips a building while leaving the outside unchanged. You aren't fighting a beast, you're fighting a force of nature. Roluth posted:Only 5 classes, huh? Seems pretty small for a dungeon crawler like this. Trickster has two weapon lines, so in practice it feels more like 6 which meshes nicely with the three man party. Speaking of that, I'm honestly curious if the original 7D was going to have a three man party at one point, as most NPC teams you run into in that are all three man.
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Oct 16, 2020 02:54
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Playing VFD gave me a migraine, so I'm going to be watching this LP with interest! I wish there were more dungeon crawlers with a modern aesthetic like this.
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Oct 16, 2020 04:34
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hey this rules good job
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Oct 16, 2020 05:49
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Oh wow, I can't believe it's been 4 years since the EO5 LP.
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Oct 16, 2020 05:56
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Clarste posted:Oh wow, I can't believe it's been 4 years since the EO5 LP. Feels like just yesterday we changed Star Eater to Planet Devourer, only for the official localization to mix both. 
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Oct 16, 2020 06:04
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Clarste posted:Oh wow, I can't believe it's been 4 years since the EO5 LP. It's been a long four years. I'm really glad to have the chance to revisit the storyline
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Oct 16, 2020 08:55
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Kinu Nishimura posted:It's been a long four years. I'm really glad to have the chance to revisit the storyline You're welcome. LP posted:Incidentally, I have nothing whatsoever to do with the translation of this game, but I thought it was pretty interesting how the chapters have titles in both English and Japanese, and the English is not quite a translation of the Japanese. In this case, "Senjou no Yobigoe" is more like "call of the battlefield" and sort of has that nuance of being invited to battle. Pretty much every chapter has a double meaning like this, iirc. Clarste fucked around with this message at 11:37 on Oct 16, 2020 |
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Oct 16, 2020 11:34
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Clarste posted:Incidentally, I have nothing whatsoever to do with the translation of this game, but I thought it was pretty interesting how the chapters have titles in both English and Japanese, and the English is not quite a translation of the Japanese. In this case, "Senjou no Yobigoe" is more like "call of the battlefield" and sort of has that nuance of being invited to battle. Pretty much every chapter has a double meaning like this, iirc. That's rad. This game rules.
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Oct 16, 2020 11:39
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Pokeytax handled the fan translations of pretty much every game that wasn't VFD, so he also worked on this game. Dude did a lot for this series for us international speakers. While he did do a decent job on the DS game, the translations for the PSP games are considerably more polished I'd say. For anyone who's interested in playing any of the 7th Dragon games that isn't VFD, you can find the fan translations here.
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Oct 16, 2020 11:46
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Clarste posted:Incidentally, I have nothing whatsoever to do with the translation of this game, but I thought it was pretty interesting how the chapters have titles in both English and Japanese, and the English is not quite a translation of the Japanese. In this case, "Senjou no Yobigoe" is more like "call of the battlefield" and sort of has that nuance of being invited to battle. Pretty much every chapter has a double meaning like this, iirc. Interestingly, the English here is actually present in the original JP release, and it definitely isn't just the direct one-to-one; Warcry is rendered elsewhere as ウォークライ, not 戦場の呼び声. Araxxor posted:While he did do a decent job on the DS game, the translations for the PSP games are considerably more polished I'd say. Emphasizing here that it's totally okay to critique my work on this game (i.e. the translation and game text). Please, just treat the game the same way you'd treat EO5 or any other release, as the source material for a rad narrative LP. I didn't help out at all with this project and it is a surprise I am jiga amped for, so I am going to step back quietly and listen to the story.
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Oct 17, 2020 01:53
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Pokeytax posted:Interestingly, the English here is actually present in the original JP release, and it definitely isn't just the direct one-to-one; Warcry is rendered elsewhere as ウォークライ, not 戦場の呼び声. Sorry, that's not how I meant it. I thought it was pretty obvious that both the English and Japanese text were in the original, and that the different meanings were intentional too. It wasn't meant to be a critique of the fan translation, I just thought I'd comment on the Japanese text in the game like I did back in the EO5 LP. Sorry if that wasn't clear. I think your translation is great, for the record.
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Oct 17, 2020 02:34
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Clarste posted:Sorry, that's not how I meant it. I thought it was pretty obvious that both the English and Japanese text were in the original, and that the different meanings were intentional too. It wasn't meant to be a critique of the fan translation, I just thought I'd comment on the Japanese text in the game like I did back in the EO5 LP. Sorry if that wasn't clear. Thanks for the kind words! And don’t worry, I just didn’t want anyone to think I deserved credit for that nuance. I could read comments on the Japanese text forever so please never stop posting.
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Oct 17, 2020 03:14
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There's one particular neat touch in 2020-II's translation that I'll bring up when we get there. It's a small thing but for some reason it makes me smile a lot.
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Oct 17, 2020 03:35
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Pokeytax posted:Emphasizing here that it's totally okay to critique my work on this game (i.e. the translation and game text). Please, just treat the game the same way you'd treat EO5 or any other release, as the source material for a rad narrative LP. Holy loving poo poo
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Oct 17, 2020 05:03
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Main character looks and feels like awkward Utena escapee, in best possible way.
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Oct 17, 2020 05:59
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NHO posted:Main character looks and feels like awkward Utena escapee, in best possible way. I spent six months in the process of designing these characters and hanging out in Kat's Twitch stream to direct her art. Seventy-seven total pages, I wrote. I hate Twitch streams. And every second, no matter how many times I said—"lol who's the Kill la Kill OC?" "she looks like the girl from Kill la Kill!" No matter how many times Chisa showed up on stream, it was always Kill la Kill, Kill la Kill, just because of that hair swoop and the shoulderpads. No matter how many drat times I said it, nobody actually listened to me when I said, no, you loving rubes, she's supposed to be designed more in the style of, say, Revolutionary Girl Utena. It was always Kill la Kill! Kill la Kill! Nice Kill la Kill OC! No! It's not loving Kill la Kill, you bastards! You ignoble kisama! Thank you. This is the first time anyone's brought up Utena. Thank you. I'm so glad someone, finally, understands my soul. I'm going to have Chisa go up a thousand stairs in your honor.
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Oct 17, 2020 06:10
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I’m excited to read this, but none of the pictures are loaded. Is it just me?
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Oct 19, 2020 13:03
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Oublietteer posted:I’m excited to read this, but none of the pictures are loaded. Is it just me? This is a noted issue for some people on mobile that I don't really know what to do about! "Try to read it on desktop" feels a bit dismissive but I'm, technically speaking, a dumbass who does words good, and I honestly have no idea how to fix it.
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Oct 19, 2020 13:29
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Kinu Nishimura posted:This is a noted issue for some people on mobile that I don't really know what to do about! "Try to read it on desktop" feels a bit dismissive but I'm, technically speaking, a dumbass who does words good, and I honestly have no idea how to fix it. Is there any particular reason your images are .webp? You're the first LP I've read that uses it, and that might be part of it.
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Oct 19, 2020 14:08
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BisbyWorl posted:Is there any particular reason your images are .webp? You're the first LP I've read that uses it, and that might be part of it. I went with webp because Firefox had finally adopted it last year and I'm big on using space-saving formats. I think I'll re-configure my site to just serve JPG versions instead if the requesting browser doesn't support webp. More people ended up being unable to load webp images than I expected... Rea fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Oct 19, 2020 |
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Oct 19, 2020 14:44
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Update: rhematic now falls back to PNGs/JPGs if your browser doesn't support WebP. It's not perfect—I don't know what to do about animated WebPs yet, so those just show a placeholder image—but it should be fine until Apple gets off their asses and makes the versions of Safari that support WebP more widely available. Apologies for the inconvenience, anyone who was affected! Rea fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Oct 19, 2020 |
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Oct 19, 2020 19:34
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Is there some way you could auto-convert them into an animated gif without ruining them? Or is an animated webp more like an mp4?
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Oct 19, 2020 20:05
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Rea posted:Update: rhematic now falls back to PNGs/JPGs if your browser doesn't support WebP. It's not perfect—I don't know what to do about animated WebPs yet, so those just show a placeholder image—but it should be fine until Apple gets off their asses and makes the versions of Safari that support WebP more widely available. Thanks, appreciate it! This looks like a cool and fun project I'll be here for. I was just thinking the other day of finishing playing 2020-II, and if you're gonna cover that, it looks like I have a good reason to do so.
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Oct 19, 2020 23:23
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Rea posted:Update: rhematic now falls back to PNGs/JPGs if your browser doesn't support WebP. It's not perfect—I don't know what to do about animated WebPs yet, so those just show a placeholder image—but it should be fine until Apple gets off their asses and makes the versions of Safari that support WebP more widely available. I just want everyone to know, by the way, that Rea is handling basically all of the programming aspects here. I don't know how to program or, for that matter, do LPs outside of piggybacking off of the method she helped me set up. My troubleshooting method is screaming "GOMENASAI, POSTER-TACHIIIIIIII" really loud. This LP is held together by spit and dreams.
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Oct 20, 2020 00:27
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Kinu Nishimura posted:I just want everyone to know, by the way, that Rea is handling basically all of the programming aspects here. I don't know how to program or, for that matter, do LPs outside of piggybacking off of the method she helped me set up. My troubleshooting method is screaming "GOMENASAI, POSTER-TACHIIIIIIII" really loud. This LP is held together by spit and dreams. Just like Unit 13!
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Oct 20, 2020 01:07
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Kinu Nishimura posted:I spent six months in the process of designing these characters and hanging out in Kat's Twitch stream to direct her art. Seventy-seven total pages, I wrote. I hate Twitch streams. And every second, no matter how many times I said—"lol who's the Kill la Kill OC?" "she looks like the girl from Kill la Kill!" No matter how many times Chisa showed up on stream, it was always Kill la Kill, Kill la Kill, just because of that hair swoop and the shoulderpads. No matter how many drat times I said it, nobody actually listened to me when I said, no, you loving rubes, she's supposed to be designed more in the style of, say, Revolutionary Girl Utena. It was always Kill la Kill! Kill la Kill! Nice Kill la Kill OC! No! It's not loving Kill la Kill, you bastards! You ignoble kisama! KlK characters do not possess the sheer teenage lesbian... yeah, what Chisa just radiates. Why the gently caress would I mention it?
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Oct 20, 2020 06:19
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