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

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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

omg zombies!

Takemaru is very observant 😅

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

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 🙃

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 😨

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)

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it's good to be back, I missed these characters

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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

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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 😥

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...Darumi noooo!

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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 😳

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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.

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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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJhAvhCaCRQ

well it's all gone to shit in my current route, that's for sure. saved for the night on a massive cliffhanger 😰

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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

"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

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oh man, it is ALL KICKING OFF NOW, big revelations about the war and just who the bad guys really are in this situation

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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