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Pro tip: urgent quests mean it and you'll fail if you gently caress around too long lol
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Oct 16, 2021 12:25
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Reminds me of holidays in the Lake District. 10/10
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Oct 16, 2021 13:01
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CottonWolf posted:Reminds me of holidays in the Lake District. 10/10 This
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Oct 16, 2021 13:06
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Usually in games pre-rendered cutscenes are a chance for devs to go and record what they want in Ultra and 60fps so they can get all the detail they need since they can't guarantee what computer the player is going to have. Not here. The cutscenes look like they were recorded in a switch and encoded as a 240p youtube video. There's even pop-in trees in the opening cutscene. lunar detritus fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Oct 16, 2021 |
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Oct 16, 2021 20:07
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This is the second indie game I've played recently with cutscenes that are lower resolution than GBA cart movies, maybe HD capture software is expensive 
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Oct 16, 2021 21:16
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I'm really enjoying this game so far, it's a delightful mix of weirdness from SWERY and adorableness full of heart! It's really a great game so far.
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Oct 17, 2021 17:43
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This popped up on my suggestions queue this morning and I have to admit it did draw me in a bit. Added it to my wishlist for now and waiting for more of a goon consensus if it is worth full price or not.
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Oct 17, 2021 17:54
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Lol I uploaded the photo of Elizabeth's corpse the game makes you take and it's getting more likes than a photo with all 5 buzzwords lol
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Oct 17, 2021 19:36
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Sakurazuka posted:Lol I uploaded the photo of Elizabeth's corpse the game makes you take and it's getting more likes than a photo with all 5 buzzwords lol I did that too and it's well over 20000 likes. People really dislike her apparently.
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Oct 17, 2021 19:38
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Oct 17, 2021 21:21
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Cowman posted:I did that too and it's well over 20000 likes. People really dislike her apparently. One of the story branches has Naomi literally saying, "This kind of story is going to trend on Social Media for at least three days."
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Oct 18, 2021 01:22
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Should have 
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Oct 18, 2021 01:25
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Decorating my garden by stealing poo poo I find around town
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Oct 18, 2021 02:08
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So, where do I find three garden gnomes? Asking for a friend.
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Oct 18, 2021 02:11
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Oh, man, I just discovered something pretty helpful for getting around. Obviously, the dog can run longer than the other forms, but the cat can jump over stone fence walls.
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Oct 18, 2021 02:18
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Dick Whittington.... Hmmmm... Dick Whittington. I bet that kid was a self made orphan.
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Oct 18, 2021 02:18
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DalaranJ posted:Oh, man, I just discovered something pretty helpful for getting around. Obviously, the dog can run longer than the other forms, but the cat can jump over stone fence walls. It's clearly intended behavior but it just makes me scratch my head because there's all those fences that require cash but you can just like, go around them.
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Oct 18, 2021 04:53
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Sometimes you don't want to get off your sheep.
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Oct 18, 2021 07:30
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArIs8BGMwQM GOTY
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Oct 18, 2021 12:15
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By nearly all traditional metrics, this game is terrible. But I love it.
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Oct 18, 2021 12:36
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CottonWolf posted:By nearly all traditional metrics, this game is terrible. But I love it. That's pretty much all SWERY games in general Edit: Is there a way to force the game to render at like 4k? It only goes up to 1080p for me and I want to do some super sampling to make it look nicer since the Anti=Aliasing doesn't do too much. Cowman fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Oct 18, 2021 |
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Oct 18, 2021 15:17
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Anyone seen any deer?
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Oct 18, 2021 15:25
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CottonWolf posted:By nearly all traditional metrics, this game is terrible. But I love it. Like most SWERY projects the gameplay is way too ambitious for its own good but the writing and aesthetics are charming as hell.
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Oct 18, 2021 16:10
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It's probable ably a bit late since the trends are gonna change soon for me but can anyone tell me where to find luxury furniture?
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Oct 18, 2021 16:44
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Pwnstar posted:Anyone seen any deer? Try Deargshaw Forest in the south east of the map
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Oct 18, 2021 18:38
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I love how quiet it is when you're outside the town. And not riding a sheep Yeeaah baaaby
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Oct 18, 2021 18:38
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Been playing this and enjoying it. Feels a little more ordinary than Swery's other games (strange to say that about a game where you can turn into a cat and a dog, and there's a murder mystery), but I enjoy the kind of comfy vibe of just tooling around taking pictures and trying to do these quests. There are an inordinate amount of quests that involve "go get a pile of crafting components" but that's been okay since I can take pictures of stuff at the same time. Game got substantially better once I got my shteed and didn't have to run everywhere. ...goddamn hellhole
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Oct 18, 2021 18:48
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Sakurazuka posted:Yeeaah baaaby When riding a sheep Naomi enters an emotional state known as ‘really feeling it’.
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Oct 18, 2021 18:53
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Unsurprisingly, pictures of cats and dogs give you the easiest likes
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Oct 18, 2021 20:48
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Sakurazuka posted:Unsurprisingly, pictures of cats and dogs give you the easiest likes
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Oct 18, 2021 20:48
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The music that plays in your house is illegally catchy
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Oct 18, 2021 21:16
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I want to kill the Lobster man, I want him to die
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Oct 20, 2021 05:35
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He serves no purpose other than to turn up at the end of a story quest and be annoying.
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Oct 20, 2021 08:46
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LOBSTAAAAAAAH
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Oct 20, 2021 12:37
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Well currently it's looking like most of the main quests are going to be about breaking through one or more sets of these trial arches? I was riding around trying to up my shrine completion and I definitely saw a tree with all red leaves on the other side of one of those gates...
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I spent a lot of my run through Route A really stressed and overwhelmed with how much I had to manage, particularly with the nightmare vicar video game, but now that I have access to the money-earning method they give you after that, everything's coming along really nicely. Got a reliable form of income, progressing well with various sidequests and main story, really coming all together. I gotta say though, the narrator is just aggressively mean to Naomi. Downright bullying from moment one.
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Oct 21, 2021 19:47
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Pwnstar posted:Anyone seen any deer? It’s probably way too late to help you, but I saw deer in the forest at the far south of the map while trying to unlock the shrine there.
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Oct 22, 2021 19:37
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Is there anywhere to take a picture of all the holiday stuff 'E' wants without making it all and putting it in your garden? Some of the crafting ingredients are just nuts to try and get. 10 aluminium cans for one nugget, 5 nuggets for a chunk, two chunks for one actual item???
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DalaranJ posted:So, where do I find three garden gnomes? Asking for a friend. Check in some of the yards near the village center. I really love this goofy-rear end game, seeing all those red lights makes me really wants to clear em all in one go. Also gently caress that loving rear end in a top hat badger.
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