COMPU73E ❄️"Everyone dies. The end. Now go back and make the right decision, you baby-killing monster."
tbf the baby in question is basically a sentient armageddon weapon capable of destroying all life on the planet, so I didn't feel too bad about killing them
A HAPPY ENDING! omg
the final battle was the toughest one of the game so far, but I managed an S rank (although I needed the restart bonus to heal the defense barrier before the final wave as it only had like 4 hp left after wave 2)
everyone made it to the artificial satellite to start their new lives, I'm honestly shocked this game even has happy endings, I kept expecting the escape pod to explode or something
I'll start a new route tomorrow, I'm not stopping yet. I love this game so much and I still have so many unanswered questions
actually first I think I'll go back and clear up the other choices from the route I just finished, there are only a couple and I think they'll all mostly lead to game overs
started another NG+ route, decided to let Eito live this time, I'm sure he'll get up to mischief even though he's locked up and can't use his hemoanima
finishing the "Killing Game" route did give me lots of new info, but added a whole load more questions... I still don't know who the original "sponsor" of the killing game even was, were they really a remotely controlled corpse inside that suit? if so, who was controlling it? where did the Eito who became the second sponsor even come from? I killed him on day 2!
how did Hiruko know where to get the spare suit from? I still think she's another time traveler
and now I let Eito live, I've seen Sirei use some drones for the first time, and they sound exactly like the bees the sponsor used 🤔
aah, just wtf is going on? I neeeeed to know
I'm pretty sure I'll learn the answer to some of these questions by playing through other routes, which is just so fucking cool. depending on the order you do things, some events and characters will make no sense at all the first time you see them, but then later on in another timeline you'll have an AHA! moment
I'm gonna end up like this guy I'm sure
no fuckin' WAY, so the suit the Sponsor was wearing in the Killing Game route is some sort of protective gear called a "Leap Suit"
and Hiruko is travelling between parallel realities? that explains why she was so quick to work out Takumi has come from the future after he lied to everyone else about it. was she the Sponsor?
my only issue with this is Takumi didn't freak the fuck out about this when he saw the suits in the lab, so he only appears to have memories of the initial timeline. I suppose it would've been exponentially more work to change the dialog depending on which routes you had already finished at any given point, so I'll forgive TooKyo this one
each revelation just leads to more questions, this game blows my mind
so one day after "Kill the Baby? Y/N" I have this choice to make 😅
(I chose Yes, she pushed me, we both fell off the school roof and died, and I woke up 2 weeks later, neither of us can remember what happened due to a fault with the revive-o-matic)
this game just blew my mind AGAIN. must be the fourth time now. utter genius
I just... wow
earlier I said that I was disappointed that Takumi doesn't appear to remember anything other than the initial timeline when playing different routes. I can see why they did this as it would increase the amount of dialog exponentially if they had to take into account what other routes you had already completed
buut, they were obviously aware of this, (kinda) explained it in-game, and then with the story locks they can guarantee that you know certain events from other timelines before progressing
this game is crazy. I've seen 10/100 endings so far and I just have more questions each time
finished chapter 13 the "Romance Route" which was very silly, you get to spend 25 days each with Kurara, Kyoshika, and Tsubasa while Moko officiates on the "game"
there were some really sweet, funny moments in this one, I don't think there are any bad characters in this game and the writing is excellent
so that's two complete routes finished to day 100 now, and one stuck at a story lock 🤔
this route is grim af, everyone slowly being picked off by an unknown murderer with a power saw one by one
and Takumi is having periods of memory loss... it can't be, can it?
Hiruko knows something, I'm sure
HOLY FUCK this game continues to amaze with its storytelling. my brain is twisted in knots and broken, just like poor Takumi here
just finished the "Slasher Route" with ending 72 and I'm still trying to process what I just learnt and how it fits in with the rest of the game. so does this mean in literally every other timeline that Takumi is infected with an alien brain parasite that could take over his body at any moment? I'm pretty sure I remember him having blackouts in other routes I've seen
this changes everything I thought I knew about what is going on, and probably explains why Hiruko can remember events from other timelines, but not Takumi
I'm starting to suspect that by the time I've seen every ending and finally understand wtf is going on in the story, that this might just be my favorite game of all time. I definitely can't remember another game twisting my brain in knots as regularly as this one has. and I'm still only at 18/100 endings, too
heh, reading this toot back this morning, I realise that I do tend to get caught up in the moment and declare that my new favourite thing to be the best thing ever, but in this case I'm not exaggerating. we'll see how I feel when I finish the whole game, but atm it's up there with Persona 3 Reload for me
I can't stop thinking about it
I think that these zombies have been reanimated by the G'ie parasites that Gaku and Darumi brought back to the school after the battle at the enemy base, they have been acting suspiciously ever since then
Rui Komatsuzaki's character art in this game is unbelievable. I need an art book for this game so bad
well, at least I know now how Takumi became infected by the G'ie parasite 🤢😨 (it crawls into his mouth, urk)
have seen 22/100 endings now!
this was one of the endings from what I'm calling the "Zombie Route" for obvious reasons. it's actually part of the Slasher Route but diverges when you manage to kill Yugamu as he's pretending to be the killer for kicks
Kyoshika is the only survivor on the escape pod. Takumi stays behind fighting zombies to give her time to escape, and then he's captured by the zombies and taken to be infected by the parasite queen
this game can be grim af
so I've now seen 2 of the 4 endings required to get past the story lock I hit just after Hiruko tells you that you're both stuck in a time loop
my favorite ending of the game so far, unable to bring himself to kill Zombie Nozomi, Takumi is killed by her. he wakes up on day 99 and at first doesn't realise he's a zombie
he finds Kurara but something stops him from biting her neck, she flees to the gym where she is surrounded by the other zombies. she flips out and kills all the zombies with a power saw until only Takumi is left
she tells him to go back in time and save everyone from this bad ending, before killing him with the power saw
Kurara is such a good character. two wildly different personalities but both awesome. I love tomato girl so much
things have got very weird. Yugamu made some pheromone drugs for Takumi and now everyone is in love with him and getting jealous if Takumi shows favor to anyone
the last route I played everyone turned into zombies, and now this 🙃
I fully expect things to go to shit very soon, someone will get driven by jealousy to do something heinous, and/or the pheromone drugs will wear off and everyone will end up hating Takumi for what he did
this game is nuts. I definitely did not have "protagonist becomes a sex cult leader by brainwashing everyone with pheromone drugs" on my bingo card 😅
also, I KNEW IT part 3
I still don't trust Eito one bit though, I suspect he's just pretending to be affected by Takumi's pheromone powers
am at around 90 hours into this game now, and the story and writing is easily amongst the best of any game I've ever played. the way it hides its mysteries, and drip feeds you just enough information as you're going along, but in a totally non-linear way. I said it before but #TheHundredLine is a masterpiece
it throws its characters into hundreds of insane situations and what emerges is beautifully twisted every time. I love this game
got my first ending in the "Cult of Takumi" route on day 51 and it was GRIM AF, like fucking hell that went south quickly
Nozomi convinces Takumi that he has to reverse the effects of the pheromone drug and return everyone else to normal, but Eito overhears the conversation, and it ends with Takumi being drugged so he can't move and has to watch as everyone else beats Nozomi to death in front of him
then he is trapped in his own body forever, unable to move, and his cult members continue to worship him as some sort of living deity
what the fuck, game. it's a nice sunny Saturday afternoon and you drop that on me 😨
gonna dive back in to #TheHundredLine this afternoon, I think. it's been a while!
finished the route I was playing through last year, Chapter 14_B_bbb "The Comedy Route"
everyone got fish heads and there are lots of fish related dialog puns. It even had a Danganronpa style ending where Takumi accused Darumi of being behind it (she wasn't, he was making it up)
it's all gone very Danganronpa in "The Mystery Route" and I reached a story lock after someone started picking everyone off one by one! I can see me getting obsessed with this game all over again
welp, I'm right back into a serious #TheHundredLine addiction, this game is amazing and I am constantly blown away by the writing and how each decision leads to a completely different story
I said the other day that Falcom are the only developers crazy enough to make something like the Trails series, and here no-one else but TOO KYO Games and Kazutaka Kodaka could've pulled off this insane masterpiece
getting to spend a lot of time with Darumi in the current route, which is great because I love goblin girl so very much
this game... one minute there's a bit about Darumi ingesting an alien parasite called Retsnom that fuses with her body and causes her to start eating books and squirting pure alcohol out of her arm, and the next you get a conversation about her being abused as a child by her father
this game can be pretty dark in places
I love all the characters in this game but I have a special affection for Darumi. the writing and localisation is so unbelievably good. I really, genuinely care about her 😥
if by "happy ending" you mean "everyone was absorbed into the weird alien parasite cloning monster who spat perfect copies back out, so is everyone even still human" then sure, Darumi, we got a happy ending 😳
so today, instead of child abuse and suicide talk, Takumi caught something called "super smartass syndrome" which meant if he made a sassy quip there was a 3% chance he would explode and die. Tsubasa also created her secret weapon which is some sort of vibrating massager that activated Takumi's "motivational spot" in combat 😳
there was also a rap battle
this. game. is. amazing.
one of the most memorable tracks on #TheHundredLine soundtrack is "Sirei's Supervision" that plays whenever shady commanding officer and mascot character Sirei is issuing some crazy orders to the Special Defense Unit
Sirei's Supervision
well it's all gone to shit in my current route, that's for sure. saved for the night on a massive cliffhanger 😰
but knowing what I know about Hiruko, that she is another time traveler just like Takumi, I wonder why she is acting this way. is she just pretending not to believe him when he said he had come back from the future?
I'm 150 hours into this game and I still have SO MANY questions
best game ever
"The Conspiracy Route" was excellent, if short! lots of new info about the Special Defense Unit's past, it turns out all their memories might be lies, including poor Takumi's memories of dear Karua 😭
nearly every choice led to a game over at the hands of either Sirei or Nigou/Gotoh, they are seriously shady!
so we finally get to see Sirei's brainwashing and memory manipulation technique in action, and it's as fucked up as you might expect, he's one sick bastard
also Eito reappeared after escaping earlier and he has some news, basically Sirei is doing this to all of the students to keep them fighting
oh man, it is ALL KICKING OFF NOW, big revelations about the war and just who the bad guys really are in this situation
I was kinda expecting this, but more revelations about what exactly is going on with the Special Defense Unit 😫 it's all gone fucked up
unsurprisingly, this didn't go down well
Manic Emo Dream Ghoul@COMPU73E FUCK YES NOW I CAN TALK TO YOU ABOUT THIS GAME
IrgndSonDepp@COMPU73E with what little context I have, it made me think of Ender's game. I stopped reading after the first book and didn't like the movie adaptation all that much, but the reveal at the end is a brutal gut-punch.
@COMPU73E I feel so sad that I accidentally got one of the "true" endings too early, so all these really good routes stopped having the impact it could have.
@BigShellEvent I assume the true endings are the ones behind the story locks, I haven't been past any of those yet
@COMPU73E One yes, the other no. Interestingly the "true ending" that is the continuation of THL1 and answered most of the THL1 questions is not locked.
The other locked "true ending" offered wayyyyyyy more. Like wait what the fuck a lot more happened woooaofhkdf;asjf;jsa;fje
@COMPU73E once you finish let's talk about which route is the shittest for Takumi. (Not which one is worst written because that's Comedy route)
@BigShellEvent oh for sure, I'm looking forward to it! I'm gonna be talking about this game for years 🙂
@COMPU73E for what it's worth, while I disagree that every ending is the real ending because several were quite under developed, it most certainly has a clear Kazutaka Kodaka's Precious Route, and a Kotaro Uchikoshi's Precious Route. I liked the one that deviated from the first game's main story a bit more.
@COMPU73E my header
Though Retsnom is by far my favourite route ever. Second favourite is still a secret because spoilers
Trixter of the Moon Council
Judeau (EatTheRich)@COMPU73E Dang! That's a crazy shift in tone.
@Judeau it really is. this game swings from hilariously funny to utterly absurd to dark af and I love it. it's wild. I have no idea where it's going to go next
@COMPU73E this is by far my favourite route. Darumi here, and Darumi in [spoiler], legit is someone I never felt that seen by until her.
@COMPU73E which is very different way with how the game treated childhood abuse of [spoiler], who dealt with it by intentionally acting extremely extremely normal, except [spoiler] holy f
Like I don't get that type of coping mechanism but I also extremely get it from an outsider's perspective
@BigShellEvent I just want to reach into the screen and give her a hug
@COMPU73E Kinda a spoiler in structure but not much in plot
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It's just unfortunate that Darumi isn't in like, 48% of the routes. I think partly because she's too difficult to write, like she's got that kind of energy that writers can't keep up with.
But also legit this route, and another one, explained her motives really well and I hate how it's literally me
@COMPU73E OH THE OTHER HAND
I'd say at least two other characters dealt with their domestic abuse very very differently, but also completely believably.
In the end there's only one major character I dislike, as in I can't see their perspective at all, so.
@BigShellEvent Shouma and Gaku are probably my least favourites, but I like them a lot more now than I did when I first started playing
@COMPU73E I hated Shouma until one moment when he absolutely shined for me.
Gaku... Never got better
@COMPU73E I want to say I enjoyed this route which is factual, but I'd spoil too much once I go into why it's a good route.
The worst is over (comedy) and everything are better from now.
@COMPU73E congrats for finishing the worst and most unfunny route. It gets better from here
@BigShellEvent I don't think it's a coincidence that this was the route that caused me to stop playing last year. the last two battles where the bosses got 1/2 health because of the fish smell were funny though, but literally nothing else happened between the fights
@COMPU73E but also, imo it's terrible how while rest of the game is legit really good comedy when it wants to be, the whole girls panties thing was just so dated and tired. Almost like it wanted to recite 2000s bash.org than to write original comedy
To expand more: the other routes I liked less were because I felt they under explored story points with strong potential. Comedy route was just, please just fucking end please it's all fillers.
In fact it's more narrative empty than [spoiler] route.
micah 💫@COMPU73E once again i'm wondering what's even going on this game lol
@frenziedstars you *have* to play it, nobody else make games like this
@COMPU73E I will at some point lol I added it to my list! Are you going to do all endings or a lot of them? I'm curious cause there's so many...
@frenziedstars I'm gonna try and 100% it as I'm still totally obsessed even after 100 hours
I NEED to know what's really going on, lol. the writing and characters are so good
@COMPU73E oof good luck 🫡
how many endings have you gotten so far?
@frenziedstars 25 or 26 I think, still a long way to go!
@COMPU73E WAIT 100 hours in and you still don't truly know what's going on?? is there a true ending for the game or anything? or is lore like distributed in each one and you have to piece it together from that?
@frenziedstars I can't really say too much without spoilers, but you're on the right track
@COMPU73E aha since the game's already got danganronpa people involved, i figured something like that might be the case. i felt like i had to piece together what REALLY happened in v3 lol
Out of Print Archive (meppi64)Not sure if this changes anything, but I'm playing with the Japanese dub and instead of invaders, they are calling the enemy 人工生命 ( じんこうせいめい ) (jinkouseimei), which translates into artificial life.
Oh and I just took a prisoner... this game man...