#Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

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floral snow
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Didn't realize that the ||door knocking sound|| was a sanity effect, so ||I kept checking the front door of the mansion everytime it happened wondering who wanted to come in||

hearty pivot
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I was playing vs xelotath (green) so my sanity was low pretty regularly from the enemies but I can imagine it being easier to keep higher if you were opposing one of the other elder gods or whatever

whole star
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I was opposing the red guy, so sanity was no problem at all. Enemies were all super tanky though, so that was annoying.

warm grove
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XELOTATH SANTAK PARGON PARGON PARGON PARGON PARGON NAROKATH PARGON

hearty pivot
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lmao the number of times spells started saying "pargon" by the end

whole star
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Yeah, that was dumb too. They had enough runes, they could have done different combinations and made it sound way cooler.

hearty pivot
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I didn't even realize the chant was the actual rune names until it had pargon in it four times

warm grove
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I PARGON think PARGON they PARGON could PARGON have PARGON done PARGON more PARGON with PARGON the PARGON magic PARGON system PARGON too

whole star
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they had what, 14 runes?

warm grove
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quiet a few tbh.

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atleast a dozen if you include the alignment runes

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Not being able to move for the higher level spells was pretty crap tbh

whole star
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so, they could have had 3432 different combinations with just those 14.

warm grove
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Part of the reason why the guardian fight was so awful

warm grove
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PARGON

hearty pivot
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PARGON

balmy shuttle
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The sanity felt like a cheap trick.

whole star
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I guess the god ones were not able to be combined though, so it's more like combinations of 6 items with 11 unique elements...

warm grove
hearty pivot
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that is amazing

whole star
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so, only 462 possible combinations.

warm grove
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The complaint of rebuilding the spells was pretty legit too

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Its like dude I already know the spell throwing 2 extra pargons in there was NOT engaging

hearty pivot
fathom verge
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yeah, you should have unlocked spells you already knew when you got the 5 and 7s, I guess they just really wanted the summon creature ones to be "different" spells

warm grove
whole star
warm grove
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Not sure if you have level 7 at that time

hearty pivot
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I think that chapter is where you get the 5 iirc

fathom verge
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Yes, I know, but they have different spell names, they should have just called it summon creature

warm grove
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No I'm just talking about the fact that an L3 Heal is the same as an l7 heal

whole star
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but 12 spells is better than 10.

warm grove
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With 4 PARGONS in there

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and having to manually rebuild the spells was silly

whole star
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Pargon clearly should have been the 4th entity, not mortok or whatever it was called.

warm grove
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Yeah the one I didn't even get

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lol

whole star
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I think I used it like 2x?

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totally not worth the 15 minute backtrack. lol.

warm grove
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It can be used to cast invisibility

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Which makes the rest of the game a lot easier if you spam it

hearty pivot
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that rune ended up being super useful for some situations bc of the invisibility

warm grove
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You also

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Could just run

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and it was fine lol

hearty pivot
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like with the slower characters

warm grove
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Oh i'm not saying it was fun

hearty pivot
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colonial man and roberto what's his shit

warm grove
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Fun and "Fine" are completely different

urban mist
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-# pargon

warm grove
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Roberto can get fckd

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lol

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Homie was walking at run

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and crawling at walk

balmy shuttle
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I hardly used the spells unless I had to.

hearty pivot
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there were SO MANY bone thieves in that level

warm grove
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See the problem Jay

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Is that you should have PARGON'd

balmy shuttle
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power?

warm grove
hearty pivot
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it's a bit difficult to survey when you're getting punched by five possessed workers at the same time

warm grove
balmy shuttle
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building spells was dull. maybe the lowest point of the game and there were a lot

warm grove
warm grove
balmy shuttle
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I get it now

warm grove
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Idk its friday on labor day weekend and we're supposed to get out early but we're just playing the waiting game

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so

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until then PARGON

balmy shuttle
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I like powerhouse of the cell. But that is another better horror game

hearty pivot
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I thought it was kind of darkly funny how all of the survey captions were like "this would probably be fine with an extra pillar or two" but his report in the cutscene was "it's full of demons"

warm grove
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yeah parasite eve is weird

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I got pretty far but idk if I finished it

balmy shuttle
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I did not like the 2nd much and 3rd birthday is kind of trash

warm grove
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Well the second is an actual survival horror game, right?

whole star
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first one is chefskiss though.

warm grove
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And the third is run and gun

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I thought the first one was good, weird as hecc, but pretty good. Uh that was another game where the combat got really weird towards the end

balmy shuttle
warm grove
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to the point where (iirc) certain actions did like nothing

urban mist
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Dropping blasphemy in chat

balmy shuttle
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like RE4

warm grove
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u no like re4?

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I thought it was pretty decent

balmy shuttle
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nope

warm grove
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I played it for the first time on the switch too so I'm way past the original release. Did not ever try the remake

balmy shuttle
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Nope. I don't like to play past RE3. The later games or just something else to me. More arcade play style to me. I don't get the anxiety of a horror game from them.

warm grove
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I mean 100% they're action games from there on out

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I think 4 is still sorta stressful atleast early on. But 5 is just SILLY

balmy shuttle
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The are good games. Just don't get the OG RE feel to them. More like COD Nazi Zombie feel.

warm grove
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yep. Not gonna argue with you at all. I just think RE4 is still an OK game (not great, kinda crazy how people still parrot it as like the most influential action game of all time)

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Anyway, this game is not that lol. You almost done here Jay?

balmy shuttle
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I got done last night. Final boss was boring. Do the same thing 20 times. I liked Ch9 boss the best and Ch11 overall the best.

warm grove
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Mostly on the same page but I hated the ch9 boss lol

balmy shuttle
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I was Green. What color did you use because the bosses are different to the color.

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I kind wish there were more boss fights in each CH

abstract zephyr
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Finished. I basically echo everything Liquid said in his summary. 6/10 game for me. In game it showed 12h, in RA 14:30 h

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Overall, I'll take it over Luigi's Mansion we've played some time ago. Boy did that game drag

warm grove
balmy shuttle
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I agree Luigi Mansion was worse than this. Fatal Frame was better though

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Fatal Frame 2 next Oct.

whole star
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Luigi's mansion is awful. Fatal Frame is great. II is amazing.

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3 is okay... not as good as the other two.

warm grove
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Interesting

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I don't think Luigi's Mansion is that bad lol

whole star
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It does padding for paddings sake too with the 100 hp ghosts, and they can run away after you hit them for just a bit, so you're running around chasing this stupd fat ghost with the really clunky controls. It's awful. and the giant boo boss fight is a huge middle finger. Fully deserves the 2/5 review I gave it.

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oh wait, I gave it a 1. and I still stand by it. lol.

balmy shuttle
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Yeah the chasing Ghost at 100hp was just bad padding.

whole star
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I was already mad at the game with the giant boo boss fight, and then it pulled that stunt. I hated that game.

bold jasper
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Have an issue where the game is crashing in Chapter 9, ||can’t progress past the nurse getting attacked by the bonethief thing||

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I’m using a flip 2

whole star
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huh. No idea. It worked fine for me. I was playing on a steam deck.

balmy shuttle
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What dolphin version are using? I use dolphin for handheld on my EVO.

bold jasper
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I’m not sure, but despite crashing 4 or 5 times at the same spot, I just tried it again and I was fine. So I guess I’m good now, lol

balmy shuttle
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Glad it's working now.

earnest goblet
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Finished chapter 7 and now I am understanding the frustrations with backtracking. This priest gets too tired too quickly with all the running and backtracking

whole star
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sweet ingot
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lol don't tell me that, I'm just about to start Priest

summer marten
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Ok gang, gonna have to ask for help. Chapter 9, ||phase 2 of final boss|| I can’t seem to get ||the boss to glow in the point to show its vulnerable to the magic attack||

Any ideas? This is a green playthrough

final rune
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if you're too close to the boss, it won't glow

summer marten
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Presume the same is if I’m too far away?

final rune
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I never tried standing really far away. I just had a similar issue and figured it was because I was standing right at the edge of the chasm under the boss. backing away a little bit would trigger the glowing.

summer marten
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Ok chapter 10 now, looking forward to this glorious frustration free experience

summer marten
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You know, I’m starting to think that ||the cop in the beginning|| was actually ||skeleton dude||

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Also amused by the servants in chapter ten going|| “here we go again, the master of the house is just wandering around brandishing a sword, occasionally swinging at doors (when the wrong button is pressed) and we shall just pretend to scrub as if there’s nothing wrong”||

floral snow
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I feel like back then, you knew better than to question your employer. Rich people are kinda insane in general I feel. ||He might have taken it a little too far though…||

outer peak
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I feel like the universe is conspiring against me to finish this game. I was going to play the night before last and then my hot water heater burst. Stuff like that just keeps coming up. This one may defeat my streak

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It's not the worst game I've ever played for game of the month but definitely one of the longest that I really don't want to play

sweet ingot
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We can get thereee, i didnt save and died on chapter 4 and had to start over entirely lol

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Godspeed on your waterheater

sweet ingot
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I'm loving this game so far, but I had to take a moment to laugh at this super niche oversight

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Paul Luther's chapter takes place in the year ||1485|| and it involves a key, very early on: ||the podium key|| that looks like this:

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It is, unmistakably, a type of key known as a ||tubular key|| which, wasn't popularized until ||1933|| and, if you wanted to be generous, dates back to probably ||1784|| with a lock known as ||The Bramah Lock|| lol

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Now, were there instances of ||tubular locks|| before then? Probably. Could the forces of Eternal Darkness have made some kind of lock out-of-time? Sure. But did this still get a chuckle out of me? yes.

summer marten
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This is the sort pedantisism I respect

sweet ingot
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lol it was just so kooky to see it

thorny oxide
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Finished fireman. Think I’m to the last chapter

whole star
thorny oxide
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Think I finished 7th symbol but need to make family food before I finish.

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Sad thing is this is the only GotM I played this month and I started pretty much immediately especially since I voted for it. Pretty sure I’ll finish which is important to me since I voted for it.

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It really seems like it’s got the components of what could have been a great game (with maybe a better combat system also). But just didn’t utilize the unique components well. But most of us have pretty much said that exact same thing

balmy shuttle
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Yep. Why it's a MID game to me. Lots of cool ideas just nothing done great

whole star
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To me, that puts it a step above mid. At least it tried something new and took some risks. Sure, it failed to really capitalize on it, but it wasn’t just some RE / silent hill clone, so it gets points for that from me.

wary totem
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For me, the story and continuity was good enough to bring it up a bit over mid. 6.5/10

floral snow
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I think the sanity effects bring it up a bit. Very fun way to mess with a player. What other game is giving you an end screen and a sequel ad mid game because you’re going crazy? Or a BSOD on a GameCube lol. I can imagine a parent seeing that when their kid is playing and having a good laugh.

wary totem
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The BSOD was great. This one kept me playing. Didn't want to rage quit like Fantastic Dizzy kek

sweet ingot
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I've had a blast with this over the past few days. Can't seem to work a gun well enough, but melee with the right buffs is great lol

sweet ingot
# floral snow I think the sanity effects bring it up a bit. Very fun way to mess with a player...

tbf tho... this is why you haven't seen it done elsewhere
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6935954B2/en

US6935954B2 - Sanity system for video game - Google Patents

A video game and game system incorporating a game character's sanity level that is affected by occurrences in the game such as encountering a game creature or gruesome situation. A character's sanity level is modified by an amount determined based on a character reaction to the occurrence such as taking a rest or slowing game progress and/...

thorny oxide
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Finished. Yay!🎉

floral snow
sweet ingot
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oh yeah, 1000% agreed, stupidest legal thing in gaming lmao

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and we see, Nintendo did so many things with a Sanity system since ED

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but seeing as they're currently suing Palworld devs over a game mechanic that the Palworld devs created first that Nintendo was somehow awarded a patent for after the Palworld devs had already implemented the mechanic in an older game of theirs, I don't blame anyone for not testing the waters with Nintendo's legal team

floral snow
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The other one is loading screen mini games. Less of an issue now with ssds, but man I remember some fun little stuff back in the day with it.

sweet ingot
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yeah, loading screen minigames, nemesis system, sanity system, and now Nintendo's "tossing a ball at a target in 3d space"

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it's actually 3 patents they're suing over

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and they're suing for almost nothing in damages, in hopes that Palworld devs settle, to legitimize their illigetimate patents

fathom verge
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The loading games thing was Namco or Atari or something wasn’t it?

sweet ingot
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Namco, yeah, I think

floral snow
sweet ingot
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I'm way less concerned about Palworld devs, and way more concerned with the chilling effect these kinds of patents have on the industry

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they saw someone coming for their pokemon bag and mobilized 10,000-fold their legal dept

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and now: capturing monsters and using them as mounts, literally might be at stake for gaming

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like, why

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disgusting lmao

fathom verge
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Thats pretty wild, tbh

sweet ingot
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Eternal Darkness was solid tho, 7/10

viral kettle
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Goddamn Nintendo needs its ass handed to it for this shit

vivid holly
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ugh can i finish this in time. kinda fell off this week, im on chapter 5 i think

sweet ingot
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It depends if you use a guide and how much time you can commit. My save was 10hrs-ish, but i did use emulator fastforwards for recovery between fights and i saved very frequently

outer peak
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I'm on the boss of chapter 9. Dunno if I'm going to make it

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This boss sucks

sweet ingot
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It does lol

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Im going to sleep and i just dozed in and out of twilight. While i was half asleep, i was innundated with a caucophany of trapper demon souns effects, just, in my own head lol

earnest goblet
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Starting chapter 9…any tips for the boss fight in chp9

floral snow
# earnest goblet Starting chapter 9…any tips for the boss fight in chp9

||Stay far enough away from it so that it’s using a beam attack and not summoning pillars of energy under you, because it won’t be vulnerable with that second attack. Hotkey the 3 power attack spell. I think second or third phase, he summons zombies and is only vulnerable for a brief window after all of them are up. So wait to start casting the spell until the second zombie is rising I think was the timing, because the spell has to arc between all enemies and sometimes it hits the boss first, sometimes it hits the boss last, which can mess with the timing. Also make sure you keep your highest level of shield up, as it prevents your spell casting from being disrupted which is very helpful. So if it starts getting low, just recast it early and it will replenish your orbs.||

sweet ingot
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Also, ||attacks are different depending on your route, but strat was the same for me||

sweet ingot
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Oh, also: theres an item that might help if you need it: ||Magick Elixir, in the 4-way room, go... south i think? Its on the slab where we see the guy cutting up the bodies in cutscenes, and where we visited before with Paul Luther and his buddy was on the slab||

summer marten
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Aaaaaaand done. As close to a buzzer beater as I’ve had in a long long while.

That was a stupid stupid game

balmy shuttle
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Could of been horror.

earnest goblet
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Thanks for the tip guys. It took me 90 mins till I figured out the pattern. That was painful but now onto chapter 10

summer marten
whole star
summer marten
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Also shooting trappers. Like fuck those guys

whole star
summer marten
whole star
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And the whole trapper thing was weird. There’s a monster whose sole purpose is to interrupt the game and allow you to heal whatever stat you want.

summer marten
whole star
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They were just time wasters mostly, occasionally useful. Mostly just kind of there.

fathom verge
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a single magick attack clears the room of em, too. summon trapper is kinda fun because you can banish monsters

outer peak
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Man running this glyph thing over and over sucks

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It's wild a game designer was like "yeah this is good"

outer peak
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Starting the fireman chapter

balmy shuttle
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You are close. Should be albe to finish in time

whole star
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|| it’s so nice, we’ll have them do it twice. ||

earnest goblet
outer peak
outer peak
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How are you supposed to destroy these || runestones || and drop the force field in the 7th tower if you don't have || purple magic||

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Yeah feels like I'm stuck without ||purple magic||

summer marten
outer peak
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Ooooh

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Thank you

summer marten
# outer peak Thank you

Good luck with the rest of the game. The only other hint you might need is that the final boss ||can only be damaged with the sword and then only when it’s enchanted with the right colour||

outer peak
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Done! That was awful

whole star
earnest goblet
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Any ideas on this? I’m by chapter 12 and can’t go forward.

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I’m doing the green path. So close to finishing

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These are artifacts I have. I’ve tried search and looking up long plays and people just walk through but I can’t due to invisible wall

urban mist
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Did you pick up the Heart ?

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Check the ||library|| for the pulp fiction story you learned about in the Indiana jones chapter

earnest goblet
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Looks like I missed this lol just heart of mantorok in chapter 6/7

earnest goblet
earnest goblet
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Done. A day late but had to push through. From chapter 8 I solely had to rely on a guide. Enjoyable though but the final chapters were padded with bs mechanics

final rune
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GG

wary totem