It’s not dreaded so much as it is tonal whiplash. Imagine you’re famous for being Very Anime writers making up convoluted lore about vampires and mages for highly influential eroge of the early 2000s and you are suddenly put into the position of writing an unlockable scenario for a realistic crime thriller in modern day Japan
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I have not read/played 428 but it was on my radar after watching the anime Canaan because it is apparently a continuation of a portion of 428 written by Kinoko Nasu. The show itself is an ok mid aughts action gun show with some weird stuff.
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that’s the second mention i’ve seen of canaan today, after no mention for probably a whole decade
wtf
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Canann was the only type moon thing I’d fully seen growing up and i canm9t tell you a thing that happened in it
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the entire reason i know about it is because i was visiting 4chan’s toys board at the time, and people there were really excited for the action figure of the main character. but they knew nothing about the show itself, so everyone called her “jackie brownpants, action accountant”
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It is indeed the tonal whiplash. 428 is… not even one type of story, it’s at least five types of story in its main plotline, some quite absurd at times.
But for most of the story, the goofy stuff is a product of each character’s specific outlook on things and introduced from the get go, and part of their characterization. Shinya gets to be the dashing but naïve young detective, Minorikawa to be the Phoenix Wright of journalism, and Tama, my sweet Tama, lives silly gags in a fairytale reality because everything about her premise (life goal: get out of mascot costume, finish day job) is both absurd and mundane, and because you know nothing about her apart from the obvious everything comes out of left field for her in an endless sene of wonder.
And then in the final episode of 24, Jack Bauer teams up with Shadow the Hedgehog, who secretly was the most important character all along.
Regarding the writer switch, well, there were several writers on the game, some guests. Just that for whatever reason (likely specialization) you really notice something’s derailed when that one gets going.
If only it were only the unlockable scenario I’d likely find it really endearing as a self-contained thing. My beef is it spills over the ending stretches of the main story and ends up detracting from it. It was all part of the cool anime secret assassin waifu’s keikaku! Watch our spinoff! Also I really don’t like that Tama suddenly gets turned into an incompetent damsel in distress and sidelined when her whole schtick was a can-do attitude combined to amusingly unexpected situational talents
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Oh yeah I played Runeterra on launch and thought it was really neat, but didn’t have the time to spend on it so I dropped it on purpose.
Would love to hear any thoughts you have about the game if you want to post them!
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i somehow missed that people were already talking about 428 until after i made my post
i think the presence of like, pso screenshots just drew my eyes away from any mention of numbers
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I agree entirely, I stopped playing Fortnite when I found out you are guaranteed to be playing against a portion of bots no matter what. I get the concept and im sure it achieves intended effect for many but the fact that its always obfuscated makes me feel like i’ve been hustled when i find out.
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yeah, getting at better at something is a major motivator for me to play games, and if i feel i’m not being challenged i fall off fast. my most played games are like trackmania, apex, dungeon crawl stone soup, smash, etc, because those are all games i feel consistently challenged to get better in.
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Played through the entirety of Dog Days with @wourme tonight. Good times!
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parker & me have gotta cosplay as kane & lynch at some point
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you can charge 5 dollars a slash with the boxcutter, and there has to be a way to simulate your mosaiced out genitals. the perfect kane & lynch 2 costume to get you put in jail (or force you to hijack a plane to Ecuador)
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I almost got someone to make me some flesh colored underwear with a pixelated crotch once but I had to leave kansas city before I could finalize the details/impress upon them my absolute seriousness in the matter
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Long fucking flight huh?
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In parallel with 428, I am also playing the first Silent Hill. It has nice atmosphere, but I have some problems with actually playing it, because it’s very old and tanky, am I the only one, nowadays? Should I endure?
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Truthfully, I’m not sure I have a great grasp on where the game is right now. It started out being very, very low draw power and a game where one of the big joys was blocking efficiently, but most of that’s gone these days. For the past year or so they’ve been giving tools that used to be region-specific to other regions and they’ve subsequently lost a lot of regional identity, and the amount of direct removal (or functionally equivalent) has gone way up, at lots of different mana costs, so it’s both harder to play around and makes the game often feel like a game of ‘will I draw enough removal to kill the three copies of their champs?’ (or you’re the one playing the champs, natch) and it feels like there’s less space for clever outplays.
Game’s still good, though, and I’ll have less to bitch about when they patch is next and there’s a bit more variety in the meta.
It does seem to still have the best personality in digital card games. I was kind of taken aback at how little and how poor the barks in Snap are. Shouldn’t they all be quipping?
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I am enjoying Xenogears (with japanese controls, in english, with no battle flashes, and text going 3 times as fast). I gotta get this joke out: so far the story is pretty standard JRPG except “what if heaven was a spaceship, and sold robots to the Middle East?”
That I could just flatout miss a necessary battle mechanic like Deathblows and but locked out of them for multiple dungeons is incredible.
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I do believe in my heart that Xenogears is the most sb2.0 jarpeg. The time of CT and FF6 is over. When I became a man, I put away childish things
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it’s xenogears and vagrant story
who knows what ps2 jrpgs sb3 will bring
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