Games You Played Today Oratorio Tangram

Rudie · February 1, 2018, 8:55am

Well i added the opening to the post so there!

The_Blueberry_Hill · February 1, 2018, 8:58am

Already had it on repeat m8.

boojiboy7 · February 1, 2018, 12:05pm

My first encounter with CLAMP was watching the X movie in a theater and having no idea what was going on. I was more OK with this than the people I saw the movie with.

sleepysmiles · February 1, 2018, 1:56pm

my ex had me watch Chobits once. i should have known right then that it wasnt gonna work out

botagel · February 1, 2018, 2:33pm

One of my favorite CLAMP things is how they got their JoJo’s OC animated in part of a music video once.

Mikey · February 1, 2018, 2:44pm

I watched the X TV series after seeing the movie (it aired years after the movie’s debut) and brother, the exposition doesn’t make it any better.

Tulpa · February 1, 2018, 5:01pm

This is more a consequence of the movie being directed by rintaro than it being a clamp thing

Tulpa · February 1, 2018, 5:02pm

Anyway cardcaptor sakura is good and rayearth is cute

boojiboy7 · February 1, 2018, 5:03pm

I wouldn’t know the difference, as my other CLAMP experience has been minimal, but man that movie was weird. I got nothing against them, and Rayearth sounds alright. That song is legit fun.

Tulpa · February 1, 2018, 5:07pm

If you’ve ever seen dagger of kamui or the metropolis anime, you would find rintaro’s particular aversion to normal plotting very recognizable

boojiboy7 · February 1, 2018, 5:51pm

Oh hey, I have seen Metropolis, but I didn’t remember enough of X at the time to connect it, or really have much issue with the plot of it specifically.

Tuxedo · February 1, 2018, 6:11pm

Me: I didn’t like Ys 7 combat at all and it ruined the game for me
Ys 8: We didn’t change anything about it
Me: is there anything new
Ys 8: We added a jump button, blue skies, and a Suikoden castle-like thing
Me: I’m in, and paying full price

I don’t like this new trend of instant healing in action games by going into a menu and eating berries. Ys bosses used to be the real deal, now I just win on the first try by getting hit a lot and instant-healing a lot. Every victory is hollow

CourierRice · February 1, 2018, 6:44pm

I’ve played very little of BotW but this is pretty much the first thing that bothers me every time I see someone playing it.

boojiboy7 · February 1, 2018, 6:46pm

This is also one of the many things MonHun nails so perfectly. No menu gonna save you.

Felix · February 1, 2018, 6:47pm

yeah it’s like such a bad design compromise

I get that you want to make your game easy for people but society would fall apart if we didn’t all make an effort, ya know

meauxdal · February 1, 2018, 6:51pm

shadow tower you heal in a menu but any time you use a consumable the game instantly unpauses

i love that. decent compromise in my estimation

Felix · February 1, 2018, 6:52pm

are you then unable to pause for the next several seconds???

Broco · February 1, 2018, 6:53pm

As I recall, every Igavania does it. That was my first/main experience of the mechanic. I don’t remember anybody slamming them for it at the time because there’s weren’t especially examples of better balanced item-healing in action games.

CourierRice · February 1, 2018, 6:56pm

This comment kind of belongs in the monhun thread but I was just thinking about the tradeoff in MHW’s potion/meat consumption. Pre-MHW you were forced to stand still (and then flex) and therefore had to plan exactly when to heal, while MHW doesn’t freeze you, but it does make you walk instead of run, and you’re allowed to dodge out of the way of an attack, but it cancels the consumption. I really like the older way of doing things aesthetically, but it’s a very fair trade that keeps pace with modern action games without sacrificing the point.

meauxdal · February 1, 2018, 6:57pm

the game does not pause instantly no matter what. you can do it within a few frames (so, no pure frame buffering with pauses).

they were aware that this could seem cheesy to some people, so they also have paralysis.

in ST, paralysis has two stages of affliction. in the first, you are simply restricted from moving (you can pan your perspective extremely slowly) or swinging any weapon. you may still use spells or open the menu, change your equipment, etc.

in the second stage, you may not perform any action whatsoever, including using spells or opening the menu.

there is a consumable which cures paralysis, but can only be used in the first stage. you must have a paralysis spell cast on you a second time before the first one wears off (variable, but can be 5 or more seconds) in order to reach the second stage, and the consumables are very, very limited (as is everything in ST). i’m sure you can suss the risk-reward implications there.

it’s rather brilliant!