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We already saw that the "city" of 1985 is a self-contained construct so that wasn't the biggest leap. The idea that they're also simply DNA reconstructions is also consistent with the way the game's been playing with the nature of identity, the idea of self, etc. It doesn't answer the whys of what this group is doing out here or why the kaiju are attacking, though.
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   Chapter 58: Yuki Takamiya 4   Nothing new to see here, so we’ll just skip through the preamble.  Consider Front Gate    Oh, I’ll go with you! Huh, Aiba’s not here. Weird.  Well, she’ll probably catch up, let’s get moving.  Music: Bad Omen (Mitsuhiro Kaneda)   Ha! You tryin’ to give me orders now? You better get out of my face. I’m not in the mood for your poo poo right now.    Ah… Um… Takamiya-san, are these people… friends of yours? That’s right. And if you’re friends with her… That means you have to be friends with me too. Hey!  You think you can threaten me!? Bastard…     Stay back, Aiba.    Cheese it! The fuzz! Aiba already split, Yuki, what are you waiting for!?  The school called the cops on me.   Can I go home now? *sigh* No. Dammit…You say that like you expected it to work. Four-eyes isn’t going to shut up about this. Ugh. It’s gonna be a real drag if I get suspended from school…   Just stay still and stay quiet.  …Wait, what?  Just wondering where the ladies’ room is. ……  I’ll just stand here with my mouth shut.  Yes sir.Finally, something happens.   Glad to see you haven’t changed, Takamiya.Music: Between The Lines (Kikuchi Yukinori)  Most of them got away. The two we caught only have minor injuries. They took you away, and… I didn’t even know you were transferred. What happened?  Tell me what you know. Sorry, old man. Can’t talk about it. …… There was an incident involving the transport of heavy machinery. It was reported as an accident, and in the middle of all of it… was a young lady. Ryoko Shinonome. I took her into custody. Shinonome… But, just like with you… Those men from the SIU took her away by force. Her statement was a curious one though. She claimed both her and her weapon came from the future. To fight against kaiju. There was another heavy machinery accident just recently. I saw it there, just before they covered it up in a tarp. And let me tell you… That thing was no ordinary piece of construction equipment. That must have been Miura’s Sentinel, right? Something is going on in this town. And I have to find out. You’ll tell me what you know, won’t you? …… I love that Onishi is under the complete misapprehension here that any of this is in any way his story to unravel. Nope! Leave that to the teenagers, buddy! Consider Minami’s Notebook (Shinonome and her weapon came from the future, huh… I remember, in Nat-chan’s notebook… She wrote about time travel. And a robot that fights… Onishi the Ogre may just be another old fart… But he’s an old fart I think I can trust. Maybe I should talk to him. And have him help me, too.)Use Natsuno Minami on Detective Onishi  Are the police even looking for her? Natsuno… Minami? The name doesn’t sound familiar. She’s a first-year at Sakura High, and the SIU are looking for her. You’ll let me know if you find anything? I’ll keep my eyes open.Use Special Investigations Unit on Detective Onishi  About the SIU? It seems there’s an understanding among the higher-ups. But it’s still a mystery for us underlings. As far as I know… They’re doing extensive research on Shikishima Industries. I figured as much.Use Shikishima Industries on Detective Onishi  But, according to four-eyes… Shikishima is making nuclear weapons. And there are minors involved.Involved how? Still no idea! Probably because it’s a loving lie! The part about the nuclear weapons, I mean, not the minors. They told me to watch them, which is why they transferred me. …Minors? Ryoko Shinonome is at Sakura High too.  It’s a request to limit traffic while transporting heavy machinery. The thing Shinonome claimed to have arrived in… is on its way to Shikishima’s new shipbuilding dock, as we speak. If I can get there… Maybe I can finally figure it out. What the machine is… And what happened to Nat-chan.  (I had no choice but to get on this train. Shikishima’s shipbuilding dock. No idea what poo poo I’m gonna find there. But the anticipation is twisting my stomach into knots…)I guess Onishi just… let Yuki go after that, huh? Whatever. Consider Shikishima Industries (The shipbuilding dock the robot was moved to… It’s on a landfill near the port. A deserted area with nothing but storage. I’ll take this train to the last stop. And then wait near the facility. I’ll have to wait until dark to sneak in…)    What are you doing here?  Obvious, ain’t it? I’m going home. But I thought… Don’t you live near Nat-chan’s house? Yeah, when we were in elementary school. I live with my grandpa now. Where are you going? Oh. Well, uh… To see the ocean? You all right? Decided not to follow you around today? You mean Erika Aiba? Aiba? You’re in class D, right? She’s in your class, isn’t she? Huh?Music: Cognitive Dissonance (Rikako Watanabe)  *gasp* ...Wait, we already knew that multiple times over. Never mind. Aiba’s been absent from school for a while now.   The next stop is Akebi. Akebi. Gotta switch trains at the next stop.  I really like that scene with Nenji just there, for what it’s worth. It shows that he has some sort of longer history with Yuki and Natsuno than we realize, and that he doesn’t totally hate Yuki either. Also, I just think Nenji’s a good boy.   Consider Erika Aiba (Not Aiba? Then… who the hell is she? poo poo… Who can I even believe anymore? I guess just myself now. Trust nothing I don’t see with my own eyes. And the first thing I’m gonna see… The weapon at Shikishima.)  Sneaking in was almost too easy. Though, when it’s this drat dark… It’s hard to see much of anything.Consider Erika Aiba (Nenji Ogata, class 1-D, has made the claim… that Erika Aiba is not who she says she is. If that’s true, then… Who’s the person that’s been following me this whole time? …And what does she want with me?)      Wait… I know that voice… Ryoko Shinonome.   I should be the one asking you that.   What’s going on? Our bodies are responding. We are pilots. Pilots? Music: Hard Pill to Swallow (Kikuchi Yukinori)    What the hell is that!?    And you… are one of the people who can pilot it. Yuki Takamiya. You… I remember you from the list. You’re Renya Gouto. This is MY Sentinel. Sentinel? Did you sell me out? I don’t know what that means. I will not let you have it. You could say that.Use Shikishima Industries on Renya Gouto  No, Shikishima did not make this. We did. Who the hell ARE you guys? From our perspective… This world is nothing but the past. You mean… time travel? You’re not serious, are you? Very. The Sentinels themselves are weapons from the future.Use Minami’s Notebook on Ryoko Shinonome  This is what Nat-chan was looking for? A robot that can fight aliens? Really? Aliens? Was she planning on fighting some little green spacemen?Hey! Don’t make fun of Natsuno like that! Only I get to do that, and I do it with love! Well… then… What *are* you trying to do? Save the world from the kaiju.How is that any less ridiculous than the alien thing, really? ……  Okay, Yuki’s had enough, let’s get outta here.  The hell… Is that real? You wanna find out?  Or am I gonna have to beat the crap outta both of you? There will be none of that. After all, you too have a part in this. I don’t have jack squat to do with this! Your glowing skin suggests otherwise. I don’t know what you did to me…    New code has been added several times. How many times did he come into contact with her? They must be close… You’re… from the nurse’s office… I’d like to research you a bit more. Yuki Takamiya…    How nefarious. That Gouto chap is trouble, I tell you what.  This is like the third or fourth scene we’ve gotten unlocked by “Exterminator,” wow. Before we end the update, I have something to show off in Yuki’s flowchart.  This top branch from the front gate was filled in, but we actually left it unexplored because I didn’t go through these scenes in the right order. This is the scene where we would have, you know, actually investigated Tokisaka Shrine like we kept meaning to. I believe to see that scene, you need to find the notebook and go to the front gate without having talked to Nenji beforehand to find out about Ryoko looking for Natsuno or what happened in the girls’ bathroom.  Fortunately, we can see that branch anyway by selecting the correct scene in the Event Archive.  Let’s check it out real quick, it’s not a big thing.   And I still got nothing. Why don’t we call it a day? Yeah, all right. Maybe we’re going about this the wrong way.And that’s the whole thing.  Here’s Aiba’s updated file.  Here’s a new mystery involving Aiba.  And here’s me finally fixing the font on Yuki’s image on the board! Arist fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Oct 23, 2021 |
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  Chapter 59: Ryoko Shinonome 4   Music: Just Because (Composer: Azusa Chiba, Arranger: Rikako Watanabe)  Consider Mr. Ida (Mr. Ida. He didn’t die in 2064. He helped me when I got here. How could I… forget something that important?) 1985. I know what you’re going to say, I’m fine, all right? I see… I just forgot to take my pills, that’s all.As someone with ADHD, I know that feeling! *laugh track* Use Mr. Ida on Ms. Morimura  Where is he? He’s been missing, ever since the battle in 2024. You don’t remember…?Note: Gonna break kayfabe here because I’m fairly certain this line is an error. Even just based purely on what we know, the Sentinel Infection Incident took place in 2064, not 2024, as can be seen in the Event Archive. That would be the assumed point of Ida’s disappearance. Even further than that, there are no missing scenes in the Event Archive in between “The Sentinel Infection Incident” and “The Day Mr. Ida Saved Me”, which is when Ida shows up in 1984 to pick up Ryoko from the police station. The only other event in between those two is one we’ve already seen, “The Boy From the Future”, when Juro Izumi appears in his Sentinel in 2024 before Megumi and Tomi. I don’t remember any information from my earlier playthrough that contradicts this version of events or makes what the game says make sense, so we’re just going to treat it as a simple mistake.  Anyway, we’re going to skip the rest of the preamble we’ve already seen here and just cut to the part where we leave the nurse’s office. Music: The Plot Thickens (Rikako Watanabe)      Use Run Away on Tomi Kisaragi     Go on, ditch him! And ditch him we shall.  This time, we’re going right instead of left.   My head… feels like it’s splitting… Ryoko’s head is pounding.  Consider Pills    That was the last of them… Well, maybe if you didn’t take them a handful at a time, girl! (I need to get more pills. Before it gets worse… The nurse’s office should have some.)Consider Pills (I’m out of pills. I need to get more from the nurse’s office.)   I didn’t get a shot of it, but Hijiyama here is referred to as “Suspicious Man,” heh.   I can try to help, if you’d like. No thanks. …… I suppose it’s to be expected, looking like this…    I can take my pills without it. I’m not a child anymore. Girl, that’s bad for your throat.     Now, where are those pills?Consider Pills (I’m out of pills. I need to get some more. And soon…)  Where are they?Ryoko’s head is pounding.   Ryoko’s head is pounding.    Ryoko’s head is pounding. Consider Compatible Girls  She’s one of the compatible.  Music: Sneaking Suspicions (Kikuchi Yukinori)  Ryoko’s head is pounding. This must be the medicine she was given. Consider Ampoule Ryoko’s head is pounding. (The label says, NM0206.) What is Morimura thinking? Why give Iori Fuyusaka nanomachines…?Ryoko’s head is pounding.   Maybe there’s something useful in here.Ryoko’s head is pounding.  Consider Medication Record  Ryoko’s head is pounding. “Memory transplant… Attempt #7.” It can’t be… Didn’t we hear about Morimura trying to perform memory experiments on her younger clone (Chihiro) too? Oh, and Ryoko’s head is pounding.  …… “Memory separation progressing… 3rd phase… As with Juro Izumi… Administering personality synthesis…” Ryoko’s head is pounding. Through the distorted fog affecting Ryoko’s mind, the door to the nurse’s office can just barely be heard opening…   Where’s Gouto-kun? Ryoko’s head is pounding. By this point, even her own voice is heavily distorted in Ryoko’s fragmented mind. It’s even affecting the music.  What does this… all mean? It’s a necessary measure.Music: Double Bind (Mitsuhiro Kaneda)  Ryoko’s head is pounding. Urgh… What are you… planning… You’re in even worse condition than I thought.  You need to take your pills. Answer me… What are you doing… to Iori Fuyusaka? My head…Ryoko’s head? Oh yeah, it’s pounding all right.  Maybe it’s time… Shinonome-san. How are you feeling? *still clutching head, does not answer* How much can you remember? Tch…Ryoko’s head is pounding.     Okay, jeez, I won’t, game. You’ve made that very clear. Arist fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Nov 1, 2021 |
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  Chapter 60: Megumi Yakushiji 5        Music: Ennui Vibes (Yoshimi Kudo)   What? Fuyusaka-san is in your class, right?  Welp, poor Megumi. Your beau is having weird premonitions about other girls. What are you gonna do now?  And why about her?   Two topics here to talk about with the cat.   I won’t bother you if you do.     Kindly go away.Use Tomi Kisaragi on Fluffy  Well, then I stand corrected. Looks like you had it in you after all. A deal’s a deal. I’ll poke inside Juro’s head for you.Use Iori Fuyusaka on Fluffy  What’re you talking about? The one about Iori Fuyusaka. Why is he dreaming about her? Don’t ask me. I had nothing to do with it. Seems like he dreamt it on his own. Oh… He *is* a boy. And right at that special age… No surprise he dreams about the girl he’s into.Fluffy, can you stop screwing with Megumi for two loving seconds? …There’s a reason I don’t usually use the cat’s name, I realize. That’s not true… Does Juro have feelings for that girl? You’re in the past now, right? Well, maybe *this* Juro… Enough. How about I give you an order that’ll change that? So she’s one too. Indeed. Time to shoot and drag her onto the battlefield.     Fluffy flees when we get close.       After we follow him again, he runs offscreen. Okay, jeez. Be like that.    Uh, what? What’s up with you? Is this about the other night? I knew you were being annoying. Miwako suddenly starts running. Maybe she’s late or something?   You know you want to. I’m only doing it because she’s a witch. They say jealousy is flattering… But lying about it is just sad.    Music: Bleak Pressure (Kikuchi Yukinori)    We were just talking about Nenji-kun. You remember, right? She *said* she wasn’t interested… But it totally seemed like she was! So… Yeah, there’s that. Come on, Miwa-chan. You’re always looking for romance. You said the same thing about me and Kurabe-kun. I know, but still… I’m definitely right this time. Usami-chan? Really? I just don’t see it. (loop) Do you have a second? Hm? Oh, you’re in Nat-chan’s class, right? Yes. I’m Yakushiji. Could I talk to you? Just the two of us? Huh? Well, sure. I don’t mind.  All right, then. See you later, Miwa-chan. Oh, it’s a little hard to talk about here… Let’s head to the roof. That should be over on the right end of the hallway, no?    (This isn’t good…) Maybe we can sneak past him.   Who’s that? Yakushiji-san. She’s from 1-C.  It was just another imagined scenario!  Hm?  What would you do? Like, do you need your friend’s approval? Yeah. Do you choose love or friendship? Wow, that’s deep. The ultimate dilemma. Totally. I still want a boyfriend though…     What did you want to talk about? …… Music: Lonely Struggle (Rikako Watanabe)   Jesus christ, Megumi!  Yet another instance of Megumi’s overactive imagination…  Um?Use Magical Gun on Iori Fuyusaka Well, we’re really doing this, huh?    Is it really? Who is this for…?   Music: Who D-Unit (Yoshimi Kudo) Yakushiji-san? Even so.      How did I get here?   M-Miwa-chan… This girl’s been acting strange, Iori-chan. I saw her just this morning, in front of the school.     Not the time for this, Miwako!   So, uh… yeah. Fluffy’s a ghost? Or something? Weird.   And there it is.  Locked until Juro Kurabe’s “Juro Kurabe” event. Rolls off the tongue, don’t it? Juro Kurabe.  We add a blue link between Megumi and Iori because of GUN.  We also add a black link between Iori and Chihiro, because we never actually noted that they’re also kind of the same person.  “What the gently caress is Fluffy” is now a mystery. As it always should have been, really.  Here’s the final board!  And here’s my seven dollar pack of corkboard pins that I now have to get a new one of because I accidentally tilted it, mixing the pins, and I’m too lazy to sort them!
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"Gee Fluffy, what do you wanna do tonight?" "The same thing we do every night Megumi, TRY TO SHOOT YOUR CLASSMATES IN THE HEAD"
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Hwurmp posted:Juro Kurabe The part where he's Juro Kurabe (This is that part)
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Music: Voyage To Tomorrow (Hitoshi Sakimoto) Chapter 61: Destruction 6 Well, we haven’t smashed any kaiju in a while, so we should probably get on that.  First thing we’re gonna do is fix this A-rank, because it’s been bothering me.  Let’s just jump right in. Video: Destruction Wave 1-8 (Redo) I re-recorded this one just in case you care to see how I improved my strategy from last time (you don’t). Music: (LEUCINE) (Yoshimi Kudo)     This one proceeds pretty normally until the swarm notification.     Eventually, I unveil my killer strategem: using the Phase Plasma EMP Meta-Skill to just wipe out all the Workers on the field.  And then cleanup is relatively simple from there.  S-Rank achieved!   Music: Voyage To Tomorrow (Hitoshi Sakimoto)  Now, let’s do some upgrading, seeing as we have so many Meta-Chips. For Ei, we upgrade his Demolisher Blade from +2 to +4 and purchase his Limiter Removal, which we upgrade all the way to +5 to cut its EP cost from 300 to 250.  Nenji gets his Demolisher Blade upgraded from +4 to +6. It’s by far the strongest tool in his (or anyone’s, really) arsenal, so we’re investing in it.  Next, we upgrade our Meta-System to Level 8 and buy Chip Multiplier Level 4 to increase our multiplier to 1.6x.  Megumi unlocks Interceptors and Shield Repair (the former replacing Multi-Lock Missiles in her loadout). She also upgrades Flare Torpedo to +3, Shield Repair to +3, Interceptors to +2, and Shield Matrix to +3.  Yuki unlocks Composite Ceramic Armor and Counter, a really great combination. Now she’ll block all attacks that do less than 500 damage, and retaliate on anything close by. She also upgrades Leg Spike from +3 to +4.  Finally, Gouto unlocks his Hyper Condenser, increasing the EP cost of Interceptors but producing four more every time he uses it. He also increases Interceptors to +3, giving him one more Interceptor and increasing the total produced to 10, counting the four from the Hyper Condenser. We’d give Shu something, but unfortunately, we ran out of Meta-Chips. Better put on a show for  For this go, we can only have first- and fourth-gen Sentinels on the battlefield. It’s also a boss wave. No Sentry Guns is gonna be a bit rough, but that’s what the Interceptors are for. Video: Destruction Wave 1-10 Music: [DEOXYRIBOSE] (Yoshimi Kudo)     They can’t have infinite numbers… Shouldn’t we have put them on the defensive by now?  Something like that… You should have at least made a dent, but somehow… Gouto-kun found the math on how many kaiju were produced, but those figures aren’t matching up with what we’re seeing… By now, you’ve taken down more than we ever thought were made. Maybe his numbers were off? No, the math was based on the factory in 2105 running at full capacity. Our own projections corroborated what he found. Then… what does this mean? Why are there so many…?  Wait, what’s that…?    I know this one. It wasn’t meant for land, or terraforming… It was in the data for Interstellar Development.     So, we’ve got walking factories to contend with now… interesting. This one will be producing G-Molers for its short time alive—but I’m getting ahead of myself.   The first thing we’re going to do is produce a hell of a lot of Interceptors courtesy of Megumi and Gouto. They’ll roam around automatically and fire on targets.  Next, we move in Yuki a bit closer and Leg Spike the RPF in the back for 50% more damage.  And it goes down pretty quick after that.  “Finally”? That took no time at all! Don’t relax yet. Judging by the jump in numbers, there’s no way it was just the one.  What a nightmare. Machines giving birth to increase their numbers…? Well, let’s get to work. As you might be able to see in this image, we’ve got an absolute fuckload of Interceptors on the field at present.  Unfortunately, Nenji doesn’t have quite the EP he needs to shred the RPF with Demolisher Blade, so we opt to have him Defend.   A Back Attack from Ei’s Demolisher Blade does 6600 damage here. Let’s keep that in mind for later.  One thing I just realized while recording this was that Shield Matrix works on Interceptors, which can be pretty handy… at least, if you can get them all bunched up together, which is unlikely since they move automatically.   More of those flies? No, this one looks like it’s churning out Twintails. Yuki moves in with Leg Spike to finish off the second RPF.  Now, let’s move on to the third.  Before we can even do that, though, we get another warning.  This RPF looks like it’s working on Drum Mines. Those self-destructing ones? Just our luck…  While Yuki and Ei work on the one to the north, we send Nenji over alone for the western RPF. Trust me, he’ll be fine on his own.  Ei’s Demolisher Blade dealt 6600 damage. Nenji’s dealt over 16000. Nenji is King poo poo of gently caress Mountain.   And that’s the ballgame.    All Sentinel pilots, please listen to me.  I’m going to try reaching the mainframe. If I can, this nightmare will finally end. But I can’t do it without help. I need you to protect the terminals from Deimos intrusion.  Your survival hinges on this. If Universal Control can finish processing my commands, you’ll all get through this alive. If we can keep the Deimos from interrupting the process before the mainframe destroys your world… We can save everyone. I just need time… The rest is up to you. Please. Protect the terminals from the Deimos.We were already kind of doing that, but… okay!   Not really sure how Ei was the MVP when Nenji was out there one-shotting an RPF, but whatever.          Music: Voyage To Tomorrow (Hitoshi Sakimoto)   We only needed 30% Remembrance to unlock Area 2!? Jeez, I’ve been putting this off, huh?  Nenji’s That All You Got? increases his WT recovery speed when he defeats kaiju. Sounds pretty useful, at least if it works in the way it should.  Gouto’s Element of Surprise increases the power of his armaments against kaiju that have just appeared. Situational, but not terrible, I suppose.  And Shu’s Playboy increases his stats the more girls there are on the team. Because fuckin’ of course. (Pun unintentional)  Let’s check out our new Mystery Files.    And we might as well unlock some files too.  I decided at the very last second before I stopped recording here that I might as well do one more Destruction wave because there’s something nifty at the end of it and also our progress is lagging behind Remembrance. So, let’s do that.      The only upgrade this time will be giving Shu Interceptors and upgrading them to +2.  There’s a time limit on this one for the bonus objectives, so we’ll need to be swift. Video: Destruction Wave 2-1 Music: (ISOLEUCINE) (Yoshimi Kudo) gently caress yeah, more (ISOLEUCINE)!     That’s weird… They’re a little different from the D-forces in the database. What do you mean? The system’s making changes to the kaiju on the fly… specifically to fight all of you. My current processing is at 6%… Be careful, everyone.    This new and improved blue edition of the G-Moler is armored, which is going to be a bit of a pain for some of our team to handle, primarily the 2nd- and 3rd-generation pilots. We don’t have access to their more powerful armor-piercing armaments quite yet, so we’ll have to make due with weaker firepower.  The Workers, thankfully, are still not armored.   A bunch of Drum mines drop right on top of Nenji while he’s in the middle of moving to the Hi-Quad. Rude.  He shreds them first to teach them some manners.  Nenji shreds two Hi-Quads in about four seconds, clearing the battlefield… for now.    If we let any of them through, they’ll swarm the terminal in seconds.     Here’s Nenji taking down another Hi-Quad…  And here’s Nenji taking down another Hi-Quad…  Eventually, the team takes down the final Hi-Quad, surprisingly without Nenji’s involvement. They just whittle it down with non-armor-piercing attacks until it dies, go figure.     Do I sound like I understand all this egghead talk!? I’m just relaying a message! Well… that child from earlier. …Let’s hope.               Music: Voyage To Tomorrow (Hitoshi Sakimoto)   Ooh, new system!  So, here we can directly invest Meta-Chips to increase the stats of each Sentinel in one of five ways. There’s Armor, which increases HP and Defense and adds a chance to nullify attacks;  Generator, which increases EP, Attack, and EP recovery, very useful;  Fire-Control, which increases Attack and Accuracy, as well as critical damage;  Actuator, which increases Speed, Defense, and move speed/distance;  And finally, Neurolink, which increases Accuracy, Speed, experience gain, and reduces the amount of Brain Overload gained with each deployment.  The stat gains are, honestly, extremely marginal. We gained two Speed and two Accuracy from one level of Neurolink here. You’re meant to be figuring out how you want to build each character, buying all the upgrades for their relevant skills, and just dumping whatever you have left over into here (which itself is quite an investment, considering that it took 5000 Meta-Chips to get from +0 to +1 and that number increases by 1000 every level) The process of putting levels in even increases in speed the more you put in at once, this is clearly meant to be for endgame minmaxing with tons of Meta-Chips.  But for our purposes, we’re going to put one more level into Nenji’s Neurolink to get him to +2. What does this do? Well, I should save that for when it becomes relevant… but I’ll tell you now, because I’m absolutely going to forget otherwise. Neurolink is an interesting parameter here because it says it “decreases Brain Overload.” Unfortunately, there’s no clear indicator of by how much it does this. However, if you put two levels into it, then send the fresh pilot into two more battles, they won’t be stuck on Brain Overload. They’ll be just barely shy of the cap. Now, the third deployment will absolutely still do it, but it’s very, very useful to reduce the Brain Overload ratio from 1:2 to 1:3.  While we’re here, let’s check out the skills. Juro just became essential for huge battles with Kaiju Nerd, which increases his stats the more kaiju are active.  Natsuno got Warmup Run, which temporarily increases all her stats more the further she moves. Not that good, honestly, considering she’s in a long-range Sentinel, which is slow and doesn’t often have to move anyway.  Finally, Tomi got It’s Not Like That, which increases her WT recovery speed if Nenji is deployed too. Yeah, sure it’s not.   We’re also going to give both Megumi and Yuki Neurolink +2, since they’re both fresh. That’s all we can afford for now, though.  Back to the Mystery Files!    
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Wait so there's a presumed level cap of 30 and some people are only barely hitting 10 and 15 right now? This ride's going for a long while yet, huh...
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Alxprit posted:Wait so there's a presumed level cap of 30 and some people are only barely hitting 10 and 15 right now? This ride's going for a long while yet, huh... Story progress has definitely outpaced battle progress but yes there is still plenty of insanity on both fronts to go.
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When I played this, I focused heavily on the story first. Then I beelined for the score and metachip boosting stuff, and ended the game absolutely drowning in metachips, haha.
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Every single person should listen to [DEOXYRIBOSE], which is one of the best songs in the game
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  Chapter 62: Keitaro Miura 5   Music: LONER (Azusa Chiba)  Consider Beejay  (That scout unit is an alien from the future. At least, that’s what Natsuno-san says… The footage he showed us is allegedly from the future. If it’s real, then how am I still alive 200 years from now? …… All I know for certain is that it’s no ordinary scout unit.)   Nothing’s changed today, either…   Then I can find a way to return to 1945… Though I can’t seem to reactivate it. I’ve tried countless times, too. I hope I didn’t break it. If there’s a mechanical issue, I’d love to take a look at it. But security around the building’s been tight lately. Now I can’t get too close.Consider Natsuno Minami (She’s from 1985. She seems to know about the existence of other Sentinels. Is that how she’s able to travel through time? Maybe there’s another way… In any case, she appears to be a central figure in all this. Could she still be at school?)     Music: Taking It Easy (Kazuki Higashihara)   Fluffy takes the opportunity to jump off the gate and leave the area. Or wait, not Fluffy. That must be the other cat, Shintaro. You know where the track room is? Yes. Oh, right… Have you seen Juro around anywhere? No. I see… Maybe he went home already. What should I make?Use Hemborger on Megumi Yakushiji  Again?Man, you 1945-types really love your one food item. No, no, that’s all right… I’m fine with anything. Well, let’s see… We’ve had nothing but meat these last few days. I think I want to make some fish for Juro. Okay, I’d better run to the store. I’ll see you later.       Must’ve been really important. She even ditched practice.But she does that a lot, to my understanding? Is that so…  How far have you two gone? (blushing) What? No… You’ve got it all wrong…  All she said was that she was in a hurry. But I don’t know where she went.  I know where.  What’s she doing there? Not sure. I didn’t ask.  Consider Tokisaka Shrine  (That’s where I first met her. But it was back in my own era.)   The surrounding thicket, on the other hand… That has changed considerably.  I wonder if she’s hiding behind the trees again. What I’d give to see that.   Music: Who D-Unit (Yoshimi Kudo)   I wonder where it could be…   Natsuno is startled!  And why are you here of all places? Natsuno-san… What was that just now?Use Time Travel on Natsuno Minami  Just like when I came to this era in my Sentinel. Same flash of light and everything. I, uh… Come to think of it… This happened at the shrine back when we first met, too. There was a similar flash, almost like lightning. …I get it now. You have to come here to travel through time. Please, tell me what’s going on. I just want to go home…  Oh yeah, that’s how you got here. What’re you going to do with it? ……  You definitely want to go home?Use Chihiro on Natsuno Minami  It’s Chihiro… my little sister. If there’s any chance she made it out of that hell alive… then I have to find out. …… Okay, that makes sense. BJ, think you can make it happen?   Fine.       So it was with Natsuno Minami all this time.Uh-oh, looks like Ryoko’s hot on Natsuno’s trail! I didn’t point this out, but you can actually see Ryoko playing peekaboo behind a pillar listening in on Miura’s conversation with the track team in the previous scene!    …Are we back? Hehehe… Pretty cool, huh? …can’t I just send the Sentinel back to before the war starts?One thing I’ll say about this game that I’m not super into is that it never really grapples with Japan’s imperial history. Not to say it has to do that, but there’s a little too much nationalistic “we gotta change the future and win the war, rah rah rah!” for me, even if it makes contextual sense for Miura and Hijiyama to espouse it. It just feels a little… whitewash-y, you know? It should probably get a little more pushback than “none,” is all I’m saying. Some of the Mystery Files kind of show what I’m looking for, talking about the education system at the time being extremely militaristic and not-great, but that’s very marginal and indirect. But then again, I live in America, so where the gently caress do I get off chiding them, right?  Anyway, uh… Miura was talking about sending the Sentinel back to before the war, I believe? Nope, that’s impossible. We can’t just jump around as far as we want. We can only travel 40 years at a time. Besides… This is as far back in the past as we can go. I see… That’s unfortunate.    If not, then I might find her at the Kurabes’ house…The destroyed Kurabe house? You remember what it looked like when you left, right?  Music: The Chills (Yoshimi Kudo)    The place is deserted. The factory and station are both empty. Radios are down. No one’s answering. Where is everyone? It’s that creature… Okay, so… That thing is an alien weapon, and it’s here to invade Earth. The Sentinels were created to fight them off. This is just like what happened in the city from the future. After the aliens invaded… everyone was gone. If people are disappearing in the past… what’s happening to everyone in my era?Now you start asking the right questions, Natsuno. ……Consider American Weapons (The kaiju aren’t secret U.S. military weapons. They’re alien invaders from the future. And the Sentinels are the tools we need to defeat them.)      Condition is… too critical for life support.Wait, she’s actually going to die? That’s… somehow a little darker than I expected! …Tamao-san. Where’s… Chihiro? (weakly) Chihiro-chan… is…    Gouto-san… What are you doing…?  Chihiro-chan… Where do you plan on taking her…? I apologize for what I’ve done to you… but you have no reason to worry.   The one who was giving you medicine… *weak, ragged moan* Uhhhhhh, what the gently caress???? Is this game Kingdom Hearts? I knew it was!  Universal Control… has shifted her. 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Nov 11, 2021 19:12
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To be fair the 1945 types barely even had sugar in a previous scene. I don't claim to know their history but I'd imagine one taste of modern food when you're on the equivalent of government rations is enough to get you addicted for life. EDIT: Better put my money where my mouth is and actually look it up, it was pretty dire. The one quote by a young girl seems oddly fitting to the characterization here. Hemborgah. HGH fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Nov 11, 2021 |
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Nov 11, 2021 20:01
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From what I've heard about the relationship between Japan and China and Korea it's that Japan has a history of whitewashing it's actions in the war. See Japan trying to force Korea to remove a war memorial from it's embassy in Japan, or it's refusal to acknowledge or pay reparations to them, or it refusing to return a chain of islands it took from Korea.
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The fact that Fluffy is actually a totally different character from the totally normal cat that hangs around the school is 100% my favourite little twist in this game. It's a totally unnecessary twist to have which is what makes it so good.
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   Chapter 63: Juro Kurabe 6 Music: In The Doldrums (Rikako Watanabe)    Let’s go home.  Consider Shootout Dream  (In my dream, a woman and I went back in time to prevent the extinction of humanity. To do that, we had to blow up some sort of research facility. And, well… We did it. And if that weren’t enough… We shot the researchers dead. The woman I was with in that dream looked eerily similar to Fuyusaka-san.)  Getting close to Tomi and Miwako will simply trigger their exit from the classroom.  Don’t you want to go to Amiguchi-kun’s place? You didn’t bring it up today. ……  Now we can hang out, you and me! Where do you wanna go? I’m fine with whatever.Use That One Video on Kyuta Shiba  Probably. Wanna go check? Okay, cool. Don’t forget your bag.      Video store’s closed. By the looks of it… I don’t think it’ll be reopening any time soon. The windows were completely shattered. It musta been part of that big gas explosion. Oh, I saw that on TV. That was our video store? Consider Shopping District Incident (There was a gas leak in the shopping district. The explosion damaged buildings and shattered windows. I heard about it on the 7 AM news.) We don’t have much of a choice.  What are you doing here? I followed you after school. Tell me the truth, please. …?Music: Something’s Fishy (Kikuchi Yukinori) You don’t need to play innocent. How did you activate it? Sentinel? What is that? Are you telling me you’ve forgotten? It just happened the other day. Right here. Use Shopping District Incident on Keitaro Miura  I heard about it, but… That wasn’t a gas explosion. It was you. Transmitted…? I think I saw that one.Don’t you deflect this, Shiba! You did something to Juro that time! That’s why he’s got no memory of any of this Sentinel poo poo! Oh yeah, now that you mention it… That did happen in one of the tapes you let me borrow.Wait, what? It happened in a movie?   Why, I’m simply talking to my good buddy Kyuta Shiba who is not suspicious in any way, silly!  Use Kyuta Shiba on Keitaro Miura  His name is Kyuta Shiba. ……  Uhhhhhhhh …? Shiba-kun? He’s right next to us. Sorry, but… It’s just you and me here.God dammit, is anyone in this loving game real!? C’mon, Miura-kun. Wait… Music: Cognitive Dissonance (Rikako Watanabe)        No rush, man. But you gotta tell me what you thought! So I guess he ended up becoming a criminal himself. Not sure how to feel about it. I think it’s pretty controversial. Oh yeah? I thought the ending was awesome. Why do you keep talking to yourself? Is everything okay? Then who are you talking to?Use Kyuta Shiba on Tomi Kisaragi  Shiba…? Who the heck is that? You know, Kyuta Shiba. Our classmate? There’s no one with that name in our class. Huh…?  Well, this is strange. Let’s talk to Miwako about this, surely she’ll know who Shiba is!  I know. The papers, right? I’ll get them later. Listen… Kisaragi-san’s acting strange. She’s saying there’s no one named Shiba-kun in our class. Shiba…? Um… Who? He’s standing right there. …… Kurabe-kun… Half expecting her to say “Kyuta Shiba died 40 years ago this very night…” There’s no one named Shiba here. …… There are two possible explanations for this. The first is that Juro never grew out of the imaginary friend phase of childhood development. The second is that this is all an elaborate prank like in that episode of South Park (ugh) where Cartman eats the skin off all the KFC so the other kids get everyone to pretend he’s dead. Gotta be one or the other, choose wisely.  They’re being so mean. Is this some kind of prank? Or are you talking to ghosts? Either way, it’s not funny. These girls need a better sense of humor. Let’s go. Shiba-kun…  Hey, um… We grew up together, right? We’ve been best buds since grade school. What’s gotten into you? Something’s just not right. …It is strange, though.Music: Double Bind (Mitsuhiro Kaneda)  Consider Kyuta Shiba  (When I think about grade school, I don’t remember him at all. I can’t remember any times in middle school, either… ……)Well, to be fair, all your memories from before, like, a couple months ago are fabricated anyway.  You said you’ve been with me all this time, but… I can’t seem to remember the details. I don’t have any memories of our time together… Why do you think that is? *sigh*  Guess I overdid it with the mind-hacking lately.Mind-hacking? Like in that future crimes report Gouto found?    It’s your next set of memories. ……    When we cut back to the present, Miura is chasing Juro.  Calm down. He’s… Shiba-kun is— Music: Hard Pill to Swallow (Kikuchi Yukinori)    When I’m not careful, I blow my cover. Who *are* you?   But I had to come up with something that suited you. You get along well with this kinda guy, right?  I’ve already filled your head with transplanted memories. They’re running all around in there, aren’t they? But don’t worry. Leave things to me, and you’ll be just fine. Transplanted memories? Yup. Mine. But he’s right there in front of me. What a shame. So those movies were… Shiba-kun’s memories… Shiba’s? No. Ah, son of a bitch!  So chill out. Unless you want to look like a crazy person.  Just forget about the world for a bit… And watch this. You’re gonna love it. …It’ll wipe your mind clean as a whistle.      …I appreciate the translation note, but it’s pretty comical. Anyway, “Kyuta Shiba” is voiced by an old favorite of mine, Ben Diskin. He’s… a character, all right!  The first update we make to the board is removing this “What does Kyuta Shiba know?” mystery. The obvious assumption was that he was in league with Morimura, but this seems to have grown a bit in scope. So many people with so many contradictory schemes running around, good god.  To replace that mystery, we have a more general “‘Kyuta Shiba’?” mystery we put up.  And we also connect Juro to Shiba and Shiba to Juro, to mark that they’re the same person. The already-placed Juro-Juro link now forms a Juro triangle. 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I absolutely love this scene, the voice acting is perfect
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This is a great moment. You finally get a definitive question about one of the first mysteries in the game but it only makes things more strange and giving you even more questions.
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Nov 19, 2021 03:00
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And I just realized that no one ever acknowledges Shiba. That makes me wonder what's going on when they're at Shu's place playing video games, does Shu see Juro awkwardly standing around while no one is touching the controller?
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kw0134 posted:And I just realized that no one ever acknowledges Shiba. That makes me wonder what's going on when they're at Shu's place playing video games, does Shu see Juro awkwardly standing around while no one is touching the controller? Yeah and what about all the times Shiba is "looking" for Shu? If Juro is just watching virtual tapes, is he watching anything with Shu at all?
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Nov 19, 2021 08:50
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Hunt11 posted:This is a great moment. You finally get a definitive question about one of the first mysteries in the game but it only makes things more strange and giving you even more questions. It's why this game is great. You can piece together a lot of the solutions beforehand but not all of them (unless you're Holmes tier) so there's always something you see coming and something blindsiding you, and none of this makes any goddamn sense anyways until one finally gets the corner piece for this 11d jigsaw.
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  Chapter 64: Shu Amiguchi 5    *sigh*Music: Forty Winks (Rikako Watanabe) Man, I’m really off my game today… All these weird dreams must be getting to me… And that show that came on in the middle of the night. Wish *that* was just a dream…  Consider Outer Walls (Miyuki Inaba was right about everything. There was a boundary. So here we are, in 30 kilometers of city. And beyond that, nothing. Wish I could pretend it was all a dream. My own private little adventure with Yuki-chan.)Consider Miyuki Inaba (She was right. We found that weird barrier on the edge of town. …… Maybe I should listen to her more carefully.)Consider Yuki Takamiya (I just wanted a nice first date with Yuki-chan… so much for that. Now I’ve got myself wrapped up in some huge conspiracy. …… Used to be I’d just daydream about girls for a while and perk right up. Something tells me that’s not really gonna work here.)   What am I getting self-conscious for? It was just a dream. It’s got nothing to do with anything I actually feel. But… if I bump into her, things could get awkward fast. *sigh* What I really need now is a cold drink. Just gotta grab a drink, sit down, and chill out for a sec…  But first, Shu has some business with Class 1-A. That business being that he needs to stalk Yuki like a creep.      Yuki, for her part, clearly wants none of Shu’s poo poo right now and simply walks away.   Let’s go to that tunnel again! We gotta get it on video, send it to TV stations, blow the lid off this story!Jeez, Shu, it’s always “Holy poo poo, our entire existence is predicated on a lie, we live in The Truman Show!” with you. Sounds like an excuse to spend time with Yuki if you ask me. If that was real, we gotta tell everyone… Slow down. I got bigger fish to fry right now.…I’m sorry, what?  No, nuh-uh, you don’t get to walk away without explaining what’s bigger than “reality is fake.”  What bigger fish? ‘Cause what we found was a huge fish, man! What’s bigger than that?This is a really good line read, he sounds honestly kinda pissed off in a way Shu never is.   Detention? I kinda bombed the quiz. I mean, so bad that they’re sayin’ my test scores in my transfer paperwork don’t make sense. Usually I’d just ditch, but… I just got into the same school as Nat-chan. I don’t wanna get kicked out over this dumb crap. And with that, Yuki walks away.  *sigh* Well, let’s go get that drink.       Drink Canned Soda   Man, I needed that. Okay, let’s think about this…  I tell someone, and they dump me in a psych ward. So… What *can* I do?   Music: Forty Winks (Rikako Watanabe) Hey, Kurabe-kun. You got it. Let’s see… Why don’t we go to your place this time? I wanna check it out. It’s true my grandma’s away visiting relatives, but… Well, right now…  Hmm… This feels… somehow familiar… Sorry. It’s just not a good time. Well, all right. Let’s go to my place, then. Thanks.      Juro changes the channel away from the video game. Music: Feeling At Ease (Rikako Watanabe)    Looks like all we’ve got is soda.  Use Kurabe’s Drink on Juro Kurabe      You’re coming, right? My treat. You already paid for my ramen last time… I feel kinda bad. Then what, you wanna call it a day? I can still tag along. I’ll just pay for my own food.  Hey, you recommended it. How could I not? Did you already finish it? What’d you think? Kind of a campy plot. You’ve got this mad scientist who loses his real body… So he builds a new body and sets out, bent on revenge! …It was interesting, but definitely not for casuals. *laughs* For a B-movie, that just proves it’s a masterpiece.      Shu turns off the TV. *sigh*Consider Miyuki Inaba (Maybe I could tell Kurabe-kun about the TV stuff? He’s one of the only people who might believe me… But… how do I even bring it up? Don’t wanna get this wrong. I know if I don’t make myself absolutely clear… I’ll just come off as a crazy fanboy. …Actually, maybe I better keep my mouth shut.)  Just learning something about you. I figured you were only really into Western music.Yeah, you know Shu, he loves them banjos and cowboys. Never thought you’d be into the idol scene. She’s been really getting big lately, hasn’t she? …I mean, you know how it is. Just got curious… Did you wanna just grab dinner and go home? Actually, um… Do you think I could stay a little longer? I’d really appreciate it. Uh, you’re certainly cavalier with that information. And I’m all by myself here. Stay as long as you want. Thanks. Say, uh… Any specific reason you don’t want to go home? …Well, anyhow. Wanna get food? Pick up something new to watch.  This one I brought with me. It’s basically the sequel to that other sci-fi one. Oh yeah?Music: Cognitive Dissonance (Rikako Watanabe)  Now that we know what those videotapes really are, this has suddenly become rather unsettling…      HOLD UP! 426 is…?  Oh for gently caress’s sake! Everyone, we need to take a tally! Raise your hand if you’re not Juro!   Do you recognize me?  Or at least… An older version of him. I see I was gone a long time… You always seem to notice that whenever I wake you up. It’s been three years since you died. Next year, we enter the 22nd century. Oh, this is… horrific. No arms or legs… Not even a face. You’ll find the pain receptors are all still there, at least. So I’d really recommend you cooperate. Your consciousness is stored on an electronic brain. So you pulled my data from Sector 0. Brought me back as a ghost. I brought you back because we need to talk. You clearly did the most work on that underground supercomputer. So we’re going to have a little chat about your research.  Use Research Logs on 426  You were testing an unorthodox function for the innerlocitor… Downloading memories into a human brain. I’m picking up where you left off. So I’ll need more details. Records say the memory transplant was a success. But all the raw data from the experiment was deleted. Why did you delete it? ……  ……  Let’s wake you up. Something about this prompt is just… deeply hilarious to me. I’m probably a bad person.  Guh…    ...was viable. It’s possible… to download memory. Why does that information matter to you? Planning to take over someone’s body? You killed Kisaragi. And I will make you pay. I’m bringing her back. As a human. …… …This is incredible. How many times have you revived me here? I’m not the first, or even the second…  Only you would find the lone gap in my system’s security…  You even got me to tell you how to interrupt the D-forces’ production. Must’ve been painful if you got that out of me. Handling the Deimos code is dangerous, you know. So that’s your process. Copy me into this husk of tin… Then erase me once you have what you need. You’re a dangerous man… Better get rid of you early this time. Can’t afford the risk.    I found out from Morimura-san. You’re trying to transplant my mind, aren’t you? You want to replace the Tomi Kisaragi of this world with me. Do you realize how horrifying that is? How could you? Wait, look… It’ll mean you can be human again. It means you’re going to sacrifice a living human girl! But she’s you. It’ll be your heart and mind going into your own body. What’s wrong with that? ……  The girl you’re talking to… She’s just a machine wearing Tomi Kisaragi’s face. But your heart is real. You’re still you. Don’t you get it yet? The girl you knew will never come back. Even if… Even if you steal her body and transfer my mind. Please. Please, I… Without you, I’m… You know I love you… But… I can’t support you. I can’t support this. Oh, hey infamous future criminal. Kind of forgot you were there, to be honest. Awkwaaaaaard.  …Who’s that? Uh, well… I can tell you your biggest failure right now. She’s standing right there. You should never have revived her as an android in the first place. You could have gotten everything you want, with nobody the wiser. Shut up! 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That’s the entire reason she’s here, dude. ……   Music: Track Down (Mitsuhiro Kaneda)  Guess he was too worked up to notice. Never thought I’d find an escape route planned out for me. And by one of my past selves, no less.   How’s the view from the other side of that shell? A shame it might end up getting you deleted. And by the man you love, too. Very classical tragedy. Izumi-san… Sorry. But I need this body more than you do.     Must’ve fallen asleep watching a video…   …… That dream just now… Feels like it started off the end of the last one.  Shu turns off the TV.  …Only for Miyuki Inaba to immediately show herself. *sigh* Music: Who D-Unit (Yoshimi Kudo) Hey… Man, I’m not even surprised anymore. Are you still… the same Shu Amiguchi? Yeah, I saw it… But what are you talking about? What you saw wasn’t a video. Everything you saw was real… All events of the distant past.  You’re still talking about that movie I watched, right?Use Borrowed Video on Miyuki Inaba  So let’s assume you’re telling the truth. What’s Kurabe-kun’s part in it? Does he want me to see this stuff too? He’s… He’s the same as you. Watching the past unfold. Even if he has no idea. He doesn’t know that it’s why he keeps coming over… Or even that he’s communicating with me. Wait, you talked to him? When? We were just hanging out, playing games, watching movies. That’s how it appears to you, yes… Is that… what these weird dreams are? Yes… So wait… All these dreams looked pretty futuristic. You’re saying they were in the past?Use Tetsuya Ida on Miyuki Inaba  It’s his past you’re seeing. He resembles you greatly. His name is Tetsuya Ida… Okay, so now you’ve shown me all this crazy vision stuff… Now what? I have to find out what he’s thinking. What he intends to do. If he’s thinking of resetting the plan… Then he has to be stopped. There’s a plan? …… Come on, what’ve you got cooking? This isn’t gonna be some big evil scheme, right? It’s not…  Oh gently caress, now I’m really paying attention. The plan is meant to save humanity. And whether you know it or not… this plan revolves around all of you. ……    We add a new black link between Juro Izumi and 426. I’ll link 426 to the other Juros eventually, I’m just too lazy right now.  And here’s the whole board. Arist fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Dec 13, 2022 |
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This is another great moment and why I a prefer keeping all the stories at roughly the same place percentage wise as that way you can jump from shocking revelation to shocking revelation.
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Nov 20, 2021 23:14
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If you do this section first before the Juro section in the update before it, that means you first get to see what it looks like to Shu when Juro and Kyuta are both meant to be there. It's just Juro looking blankly at a screen. Fun foreshadowing.
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Nov 21, 2021 00:21
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Of course it makes sense that the other person who is seeing an imaginary friend basically is as mentally hosed up as the other guy with an imaginary friend. OTOH, is there anyone here who isn't already a walking neurosurgery patient?
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Nov 21, 2021 01:07
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That moment with 426 Juro in the android body... got some Robocop chills from that. At least it doesn't seem like Shu is being overwritten or taken over by the tapes the way Shiba is trying to do to Juro.
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Had to sit for a second and try and remember who Ida was since I think it's been a while since we've seen him.
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Nov 21, 2021 05:05
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Updated the summary in the second post once more. I keep meaning to do it more frequently but it's kind of a pain, especially as these chapters get denser with information, lmao.
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Looks like this game is getting a Switch release next year!
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I'll probably double-dip because I'm hopeless and want to support Vanillaware  Anyway, update incoming
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  Chapter 65: Tomi Kisaragi 5    Music: Impending Doom (Mitsuhiro Kaneda)    Shinonome-senpai… She’s gone. What!? I only looked away for a second… What should we do, Usami-chan? Usami-chan…I’d normally have cut those lines for being both optional and identical to the preceding lines, but the delivery here is actually different, Miwako sounds so sad here and it really gets me. Protect Miwako.  Well, let’s go check the bed.  She wasn’t exactly in a state to be running any marathons. We need to find her... Let’s split up and look around. Got it. Okay… I’ll go check across the street. Thanks.     I don’t know what to do…  Not a trace. She musta gone real far.  As you can see in the top-right corner, we have four keywords we can use here. We can go to any of the three places we’ve been so far (“Dead Kaiju”, “My Apartment”, or “Sentinel No. 13”) or Sakura High School, which we haven’t actually been to yet. Three of these paths are red herrings, and only one leads to actual progress. …No points for guessing which one. Use Dead Kaiju on Nenji Ogata Well, let’s start with the first obviously-incorrect answer. I’m gonna check out the kaiju. You stay here, Miwako. Never know when that second-year might come back.   Hey. This thing’s dangerous. You know that, right? But… Ten minutes. I’m not hangin’ around here any longer than that.     She couldn’t have gone far…  …… *shakes head* Thought I had somethin’, but nope.  Looks that way. Aight, let’s check somewhere else.   *shakes head*  Nope. There’s no sign of her anywhere… Use My Apartment on Nenji Ogata  I’m gonna check on my house. Usami-chan… Hey, wait! You stay here, Miwako.  Hey. There a reason you picked this place? Well…“We wanted to get the most out of our art assets.” Maybe she’s gotten hungry. There’s a lot of food places here. True… She couldn’t have eaten while she was knocked out.   Not around here.  …… *shakes head* Thought I had somethin’, but nope.  Where do you think she went? Who knows… I don’t got a clue. Back to the hub… Use Sentinel No. 13 on Nenji Ogata   Big guy did stand out. You wanna go? Miwako, wait here. Be careful… We’ll be back in a jiffy.  I figured… If Senpai’s trying to get to the school… She’d probably come this way. Ah, right. She wouldn’t know about the messed-up road.   …… *shakes head* Thought I had somethin’, but nope.What footprints were you expecting to find on that asphalt!?    Hate to break it to ya… But I don’t think she’s come by here.   Less thinkin’, more walkin’. Let’s go, Kisaragi!Okay, you don’t have to shout at me!  Well, let’s finally make our way to the foregone conclusion.   Senpai might’ve had the same thought. Let’s do it. It’s all the way around the bend. Miwako, wait here. Be careful… We’ll be back in a jiffy.Music: The Chills (Yoshimi Kudo)    And the schoolyard’s totally caved in…    I bet that’s what dug the hole. They tryin’ to make a nest or somethin’?Use Interstellar Development on Nenji Ogata  Would it dig up a hole for no reason? Underground… Like what? More dirt?  There’s not a single person here. Let’s keep looking around.      It’s that android from before. Is it broken?  Music: 466f756e64205521 (Mitsuhiro Kaneda)    Run!      Ayyyy, it’s Ei!  Who are you? The name’s Sekigahara. You’re Tomi Kisaragi, right? Didn’t know any of you were left. Use Shinonome-senpai on Ei Sekigahara    Goddammit, she’s gone!  Dude, it was just a second ago. I guess she ran away from the androids. So Ryoko-san’s here too…  Maybe.What the hell’s that mean? I mean, you’ve gotta be from the future, right? Yes. Quite a ways away. How do you know Kisaragi?Not really the time for this petty jealousy or whatever, Nenji, but I’ll allow it because I also want to know that.   It’s a probe that found you two on its patrol. To think you were still here… I honestly didn’t expect it. Sorry you got caught up in this mess. In any case… You need to go to the underground gate. I’ll take you there.  I thought you would have returned already.Use Underground Gate on Ei Sekigahara  I’ve been struggling to find my way out of here. You too? We need to go underground. The primary shifter should be there. The other gates all connect to that one from afar. They’re merely access points. Underground? You mean…  That’s where we need to go?   That hole didn’t seem so great to me.  Well, it looks like we have an exit strategy for Tomi and the gang, at least. Arist fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Jan 18, 2022 |
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Haha that is so cute how Tomi hides behind Nenji when the androids are advancing 
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Nov 28, 2021 19:56
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That was my nickname in college.
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Nenji's a pretty good dude. Gonna put him on my "Scary Pompadour Guy Who is Actually Quite Nice" list with Oowada from Dangen Ronpa
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I hosed up some of the image ordering in the conversation with Ei and didn't notice it until now and had to fix it on mobile because I'm not home! gently caress!
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Arist posted:
How many Tomi's are there?!?!?!?!?
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