#Live a Live

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signal nexus
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I love the game. It's among my SNES faves.

obsidian idol
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Did you grow up with a snes?

signal nexus
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Nope. Never had one.
That's why I wanted to try several SNES JRPGs on the handheld. And PS1.

twilit valve
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even if people had a snes as a kid they wouldn't have played live a live in the US lol

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it wasn't even fan translated till the mid 2000s iirc

misty glen
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I'm in the Far Future chapter right now. ||Doing a really good job of setting up tension with the monster being loose, the captain dead as well as a few crew members.||

kind stream
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Yeah Far Future gave me ||Alien vibes, good tension and the music was really unsettling in the remake.||

obsidian idol
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Coolest boss design too

kind stream
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||Video game boss in a video game|| was fun. Too bad it was really easy.

misty glen
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Yeah, it was a cakewalk. ||it was the only required fight in the chapter though, so I'm sure they couldn't make it too hard.||

kind stream
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Cube ||is much more useful in the final scenario where you can actually use his other abilities, though I didn't personally use him because I already had four in my party by the time I found him.||

misty glen
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I think ||I'm in the final chapter now? I just got to the map in the middle ages.|| I'm pretty sure this is the last thing before the end of the game

kind stream
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You've got ||The Middle Ages chapter, and then the additional ending chapter whose length depends on which ending you want. The Bad ending is like 20 minutes. The Normal and Good endings are a couple of hours or shorter, but well worth it imo.||

misty glen
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Ah, it was kind of vague. I was thinking ||middle ages blended into the final, all times converge final battle||, but glad to know I've got more game to play.

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In my flight of beer analogy from a few days ago, Near future is a beer I'd like a full pint of, Edo Japan is one I don't want again, and Modern days glass had a single drop in it.

twilit valve
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So real

odd wyvern
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All right, I've got a question about the endings. No spoilers please, just checking one specific thing. ||How hard is it to get the best ending? Like, not "how," but is it the kind of thing you're going to have to go back to much earlier in the game for, or is this kind of thing all determined in the very late game?||

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||I seem to recall there being three||

warped jay
odd wyvern
blazing karma
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JAPAN done. It's was epic being super Stealthy. Also a guest appearance from ||Goemon||

kind stream
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Yeah the ||Goemon|| appearance was fun!

blazing karma
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Should of named my character Mike J

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What does cheap Milk taste like? Would that be powdered milk?

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That tuff guy went down with one shot. To quote MF DOOM "don't talk about my Ma's yo"

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Billy is hard on this dad. He is trying his best.

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Annie needs to go back up stairs and lay down.

obsidian idol
blazing karma
blazing karma
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are you sure Cesar?

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The Mariachi's are going to join the fight nice.

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just do the right thing Sheriff. Weak men make hard times.

blazing karma
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Western done. That is four stories so far. Not a disappointing one yet. People be crazy 🤪

signal nexus
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Western was awesome.

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The different vibes in all the characters are really fun. The mecha series near future, hyping for Matsu.

blazing karma
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Just got done with present day. Wrestling and learn your opponents moves was great addition. Just the two futures left and whatever the end mission is. Should be able to finish by Sunday

pallid isle
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short and sweet and interesting mechanics

blazing karma
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Focus!

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Looks like the Near future is a long one.

pallid isle
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quite long

blazing karma
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How long is the final chapter? I think I can get both futures done by Saturday. Maybe final chapter on sunday.

warped jay
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you can save some time by not going for the best ending and even more by going for the bad ending. there's a lot of optional content in the final chapter

pallid isle
warped jay
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||#oerstedWasRight||

obsidian idol
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No ragrets

twilit valve
blazing karma
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So the ending is good? I might go for the bad ending for Gotm. Then do the true when time isn't a issue.

twilit valve
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yea it's great

warped jay
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it will be pretty obvious how to get the bad ending i think lol but ask if it isnt

odd wyvern
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MY PATIENCE HAS BEEN REWARDED

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▶ Play video
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For those of you who haven't bought it yet but have a block of time between now and the end of the month to grind it out, here you go

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$25

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Now I just have to actually finish it before the end of the month 😂

obsidian idol
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lol

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Or don’t

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Still for 25 I’ll put the remake on the backlog

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The far far far backlog

twilit valve
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So worth 25 imo

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Good luck

odd wyvern
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I'll need it

obsidian idol
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Definitely not a binge game

warped jay
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osh. is it on sale on switch eshop too lol

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id probably rather get it there

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but yeah im not finishing it this month but i do wanna replay it

ancient oxide
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Steamdeck and back and forth sync on my PC is win

odd wyvern
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Cloud saves and auto-syncing are just chefskiss

kind stream
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I sprung for the Normal ending, which isn't as tedious as the True ending, and it was hella rewarding.

tropic shore
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Isn't true ending just have all 7 members in your party at one point?

kind stream
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You only have to "recruit" them. I never had Cube or Masaru actually in the party, but going and talking to them counted. Apparently the cowboy is an absolute bitch to recruit, so I skipped him and thus got the Normal ending. Still really good, but you ||miss out on an additional boss fight||

tropic shore
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Cowboy is just go from the mountain to the castle

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He's a bitch to re-recruit because he can be in one of his locations randomly

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I was pretty disappointed by the normal ending though. Like, my boy was just doing his best and the world screwed him over. He didn't get closure. Just got stopped

kind stream
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||Sometimes death is closure, especially if you're a world-hopping psychopath||

odd wyvern
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Far Future done. That was... different

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||Sad four of the crew had to die tho. :(||

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||The ending sequence where Darthe and I were both off fighting our own separate battles was kind of cool, though? I like the touch that we got to see him get jumped by the behemoth just before our fight with OD-10. It created sort of a feeling that I was not fighting alone even though the boss fight between Cube and OD-10 was ostensibly a solo fight||

kind stream
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It had a very ||Aliens feel to it imo||

odd wyvern
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not an unlikely inspiration

odd wyvern
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prehistoric chapter artisans ||I just got kicked out of the cave. I'm going to guess I'll probably have access to an artisan again, but how hard is it going to be to get materials? the head-counting game is kind of tedious, but it seems like a reliable source, and I haven't crafted all the second- and third-tier items that use the stone knife or leather strap yet||

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I have a save from about ten minutes before that point, so if it's easier to do earlier, I can go back to it

twilit valve
kind stream
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I got most from the counting game, crafted all the best gear immediately, and then didn't care about materials the rest of the game.

twilit valve
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I cant count so i just killed monsters

kind stream
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I mean it's a 50/50 chance at any time doggylol

eager harness
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Well that was certainly a || series of demos using a similar style built around stories that were told better the first time I saw/heard/read them. || Jack of all trades and all that.

obsidian idol
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Sounds like a fair2 assessment of the game

odd wyvern
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Looked at my crafting list and the empty spots on it for the prehistory thing. Looks like I could probably do the head-counting game like another ten times and then if I have spots left over to fill out I'll be fine gathering later

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(really a grid would be better but that's harder to format, especially in a portable way)

blazing karma
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Kato is the dad we all need. Distance future done.

obsidian idol
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You have a fair2 amount of time left to finish

stray wren
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Akira is best character change my mind.

warped jay
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i like cube. and sundown

obsidian idol
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Sundown linkyay

warped jay
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sundown is so cool

blazing karma
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I haven’t found a chapter I dislike so far. Each is great and doesn’t out stay their welcome

stray wren
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The ninja one kind of annoyed me

blazing karma
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That was my favorite. 3 different ways to finish the stage

kind stream
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||Medieval|| and Western were my favorites. Near Future close third.

obsidian idol
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Okay old man

tropic shore
obsidian idol
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fair2 a fair

blazing karma
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Lol the lady on the bench ||mind is empty|| lol

odd wyvern
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Four stories done. They're cute and silly little vignettes. I want to say that Prehistoric feels slightly like it overstayed its welcome, but that was actually me grinding shit

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I like that all of these little stories have their own unique mechanics, though some of them feel underused. But it fits with this game being an experiment where Square wanted to try some off-the-wall shit it didn't feel confident making a whole game out of at the moment.

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Near future spoilers, big one actually ||Lawless being the killer of Akira's dad was kind of a surprise. I liked this twist but it also doesn't feel well-foreshadowed? This isn't a dealbreaker considering how short these stories are and that Akira probably didn't see it coming any more than I did||

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I just started Modern and I have to say this is not an experimental mechanic, though, considering blue mages were already a thing in the Final Fantasy series before Live A Live came along. It's definitely a very different thematic application of it

warped jay
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Yeah it's thematically done well but also it's such a mega man setup lol

twilit valve
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IIRC in the original the UI is literally just Street Fighter 2

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nah nvm I think Iwas thinking of some fanart I saw once

twilit valve
# odd wyvern Near future spoilers, big one actually ||Lawless being the killer of Akira's dad...

I think it's just my familiarity with these kinds of tropes ||but I speculated from Matsu's dialogue that he used to be a Crusader just due to the way he acted so familiar with them, and since we knew from the intro cutscene Akira's dad was killed by a Crusader I had a feeling it was him. an ex-villian being so close to the kids of someone he killed as an act of repetance I see decently often as a trope||

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It's never rly foreshadowed but I do remember not being too shocked when it was revealed

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Akira's storyline the GOAT

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best battle theme too

warped jay
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i really liked the china battle theme too

twilit valve
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yea that one is great too

odd wyvern
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Honestly the best battle theme so far is Megalomania, but that's a given

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For storyline-specific battle themes, the prehistoric one is actually kind of a bop

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Not the kind of thing I'd listen to on its own like Megalomania, but it is good

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I also really appreciate how thoroughly batshit this game is willing to be. It feels almost like someone at Square was having their FLCL moment

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(near future big spoil) ||badass normal actually took so many drugs he temporarily developed psychic powers||

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||which he then used to power a giant robot||

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I'm sorry this is just kind of inherently fucking funny

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also (prehistoric) ||little dude no shit fought a fucking t-rex to get laid and that's kind of amazing||

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(near future) ||I also appreciate the game's willingness to own that Akira can really be kind of a dickhead instead of playing it off. Like his juvenile delinquency is not an Informed Attribute. And the description of Taeko's Furious Fist was kind of great for something as minor as a one-line item description||

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(near future continued) ||for those that don't remember it, it was described as "the concentrated rage of a teacher who's sick of your shit," which, like, respect. They don't treat her like she's a bitch for being fed up with him||

odd wyvern
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Also the modern day guy answered something I've been wondering for a while

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Namely, "what if someone was autistic and their special interest was fighting what would that look like"

obsidian idol
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Weird thing to wonder

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Have you actually met any autistic children? That is their interest most of the time

warped jay
odd wyvern
blazing karma
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Extra chapter done

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That ending. So good and dark. I don't see how anyone doesn't like this game.

twilit valve
blazing karma
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Is ||Oersted’s path|| the bad ending?

twilit valve
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Yes

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Any other protag puts you down the good end, who you pick basically is just your party lead

blazing karma
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Thought so.

twilit valve
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To get the true ending ||you gotta recruit every character in the final chap tho||

blazing karma
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And ||play their dungeons?||

twilit valve
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I dont ||think you have to do their dungeons but you should!||

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Oh you aslo need to say no during a specific choice at the end but that will probably be obvious

blazing karma
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Best ||equipment|| also, might do bad endings. Get point and not worry about time and finish next month

blazing karma
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Oh wow this is interesting way for the bad ending.

twilit valve
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Yea its so cool

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Theres also an alternate ending ||During the Oerstead route fights, Get to lower health on one of the fights and try to flee, the command will change||

blazing karma
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Oh nice I will have to try that. I really enjoyed this game. These 2.5 HD games are so good looking after they took down the bloom.

kind stream
obsidian idol
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25 completions. Way more than I thought

blazing karma
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I enjoy it more than SO2

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Sad, I wasted most of the month 100% OoT.

odd wyvern
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Just beat the game in the nick of time.

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It's funny that I decided to go evil after listening to my old Marilyn Manson albums for like the past week

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I've been on a villain arc lately. I'm feeling it

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also psychic juvenile delinquent continues to be great

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||"Oh yeah I don't trust you either!" postmodern fight music||

twilit valve
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Akira is the GOAT

odd wyvern
kind stream
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He's a bit too much of an ssshole to be my favorite, but I enjoyed him and his arc nonetheless.

odd wyvern
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also I'm kind of digging that two different arcs had battle themes featuring sax

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That one Cave Story track sort of turned me on to sax potential

kind stream
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The jazzy themes were chefskiss for me, loved that

odd wyvern
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Also the name for the Near Future battle theme sounds very much like something Akira would name it

obsidian idol
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Maybe I would of enjoyed it more if I played with sound

odd wyvern
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yes, you would

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you don't sleep on the music in Square games

obsidian idol
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Eh

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Guess I take roleplaying as a dead person as the real game

odd wyvern
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squint.

obsidian idol
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It autocorrected deaf to dead

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.>

warped jay
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dead people can't hear either

obsidian idol
odd wyvern
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Some things this game did make sense when I consider it's only eight years younger than Dragon Quest (1)

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Like the thing where they ||saved the medieval fantasy arc for last, and it's also the one where they decided to go ham on subversion of the standard plot||

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Which I can appreciate