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Game, anime, manga playthrough thread:

#FFXIV #FF14: https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/109838412514869409

#WorldEndEconomica: https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/109839382857516114

#MoonRPG #MoonRemixRPGAdventure https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/109861398075187687

#JoJosBizarreAdventure https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/109883425472944293

#VinlandSaga https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/109884112465034758

#FoodFantasy https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/109885286499751791

#StrangeHorticulture https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/109886066928441654

#ReMember https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/109890771837721972

#TheGlory Part 2 https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110011370914213511

#Paranormasight https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110022729502742278

#TheWhisperingMuse https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110026673406938454

#CorpseFactory https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110055906476578207

#PokemonGo https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110091817898664437

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Attached: 1 image (Continue my #FF14 stuff from https://mastodon.social/@Bigshellevent/108225653727044124) This year's Valentione outfit is Professor Layton kind of cute I love it. All screenshots will be via mobile now, because fuck twitter. (Added benefit that this really makes Reddit outraged which is always a good thing.) #ffxiv

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#OctopathTraveler https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110194334374165083

#Monark https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110360519820301375

#BrokenPieces https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110417843041154449

#Narcosis https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110454420452178365

#SilverChains https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110462005944514000

#DeliciousInDungeon (vol 12) https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110581930353292993

#RainCode https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110632219636628282

#TheWitchsHouse https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110717036708977218

#Omori https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110722707123784965

#Madison https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110722973543326154

#TheWitness https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110729232635071822

#TalesOfBerseria https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110741701782446105

#TheSilverCase https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110750761746161185

#TheBlackWidowers https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110765035368908796

#AscendanceOfABookworm https://urusai.social/@Bigshellevent/110792356965650446

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Attached: 1 image I said I was going to give Octopath I another go. Started with the hunter again. I'm enjoying it a lot more now that I'm in the mindset for a turn based JRPG. #OctopathTraveler

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Here is a new experience. Had Switch since 2018, first time docking it.

Yay more silly detective stuff, after THE most depressing book.

I'd like to point out it has an in game case manual too.

#ProcessOfElimination #Switch #VideoGames #VideoGame

My protag is alright.

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We all have an archetype we can't stand, my own is that middle aged male self-assigned mentor, who never behaves with honesty nor honour, love to claim he somehow embodies both, and essentially does his "mentoring" by being a patronising shit while lying about everything that's important.

Basically, Senior Detective.

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The most bleah shitty character got killed. Then again, knowing Senior Detective, I'm pretty sure he faked it.

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While mystery and animesque stuff generally like to over foreshadowing, the degree of essentially leading the backstory is so extreme I've never seen anything like this before.

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Like ok yeah yeah backstory is Protag was a child in the Dayless Nights kidnapping, the mansion is where the kidnapping took place, Ideal is Saika etc etc, but idk why it just shoved the entire foreshadowing to this degree this early on? It better be a feint.

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Wait what it's NOT a visual novel?!?!?

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Isn't it already implicated that Saika/Ideal is immuned to death by those drum things, even if she is sliced into pieces she just returns to life?

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What exactly happened with Protag's upbringing? Even Shinji Ikari has less learnt helpless, and warped sense of permanent responsible-for-all-bad-things that he does.

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Oh good god it's going through pages and pages of verbose worshipping of the most overrated mystery writer of all time again.

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Ideal/Saika is such an Aeris Gainsborough. For some reasons, this archtype hasn't really made it into an archtype. An unusually powerful supernatural girl whose entire life goal is to be the most irreverent troll.

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Protag spent three days locked in this mansion. He just found the toilet.

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This is the first time in a mystery game where I felt the game expected me to pay attention to daily banters as that's where the clues are. Love it.

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They've been stuck in a cave for five days without any supplies and Techie is on his laptop the entire time. How did he charge it lol. How did he charge his wheelchair.

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I'm less than a third into the game, and 40% of the cast already are dead. Including my most adored Rowdy :(

Techie please stay alive.

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Not yet end of fourth chapter, and 50% of the cast is implied dead. Which is fine, as long as it doesn't turn into the last 40% is just the protagonist talking to himself. He's... not someone who I'd choose to hang out with.

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The ones I like are almost all wiped lol. Rowdy, Armor etc. I do like Techie and Gourmet who are still alive for the next hour or so.

I don't know how to even deal with the upcoming strategy game segment when there are no player characters left.

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I love the idea of the grid based detective strategy element, pity it's basically trial and error the game.

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The worst tropes:

1. Peeking at women showering trope
2. Useless Protagonist Boy is secretly the OP after all trope

Both dropped within five minutes. I hate it.

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I'm at Chapter 5, and Process of Elimination is frustrating me now. It has some really fresh ideas into the genre, however not only it's swaying pretty hard into protagonist power fantasy, it's also ridiculously long because 80% of the game is protagonist making bad decisions, gets away with it himself, someone else suffers, and here's a new chapter so he had to fix his bad decisions with another set of bad decisions.

But he's never held accountable for any of them. Just being pandered about awwwww don't feel bad. Then he does it again.

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I finished Chapter 5. While I found the narrative can be inconsistently interesting, the mystery cases are really really sloppy. I just don't think the narrative designer is that much of a mystery genre writer at all.

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I finished Process of Elimination. It's mostly bad, got worser and worser, but with some clever bits.

It's basically Concerned Troll: The Game.

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The core plot is an oddly preachy infantilising, pro-life, anti-autonomy, hyper-paternalistic over simplification of "Suicidal? You should just choose to be happy!". Which is bad enough as it is, but it also wanted to come across as more nuanced than it really is, by throwing out whole heaps of strawman arguments followed by "yeah but you should just be happy". It would've better if it just pretend systemic shitty life don't exist, instead of systemic oppression can be just resolved with more personal resilience.

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Now if it's presented in a clever way it's fine with me too, but the narrative design could've been about "Jim bought a horse and the horse needed surgery" and still utterly insufferable. Think of Atlas Shrugged level of word dump on Well The Moral Is You Should Be Happy, minus, dear god I'm sorry to say this, Rand at least had writing techniques.

It also doesn't help that the protagonist is a power fantasy, while soggier and weaker than a teabag that's been used more than ten times.

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The overall plot and the delivery are first equal at being the weakest, though each case itself also shown significant problems. The writer worships Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle: and unsurprisingly the mystery are also forced, non-sensual, sloppy, and utterly devoid of either earth logic or in-verse common sense.

It makes me want Isaac Asimov to be spiritually summoned to rescue us from this.

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Now the good.

I adore the art design and music, but also there are some really fresh approach to this genre.

The tension didn't follow the typical episodic wax and wane. It opted to be less formulative regard to what happens when, if it happens at all. Which is super refreshing and even my faves like Danganronpa or Your Turn to Die lacked, without borderline trolling like Raging Loop (a good game, but wooooah the pacing.)

It also rapidly stopped being armchair detective in a manor, and progressed into a more environmentally interesting work.

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