Lurker > Paratroopa1

School week should be cut back on anyway - "we can't afford to be open 5 days a week" should not be the reason why though.

I can host jackbox I just didn't really know if anyone wanted to

I get really annoyed with how often this game flipflops between Espella attempting to out herself as Bezella and then deciding, wait, no, I don't want to do that

I meant it more as a commentary about how despite a focus on skepticism, nothing in the Layton series makes a fucking lick of sense

It's really telling the difference between the two series, actually, that Layton seems to accept the existence of magic a lot quicker than Phoenix, despite the fact that everything is supposed to have a rational answer in the Layton series, and Phoenix's series literally has spirit channeling.

PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Oh yeah Para. Are you going to this one?

No, I wanna go to SGDQ every year but it's expensive and I can't afford it right now

This is why Layton and Maya are a great partnership - she's like the only person that can actually leave the professor speechless

Jeff Zero posted...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_films

Wow, why was Tangled so expensive

Layton games don't have any situations where they would have the opportunity to work this way, since they're all basically like the Layton-based chapters of LvW. They're instant.

It would be fine if saves just left you at the actual point you were at, but they always throw you back like 1-2 minutes of dialog for no reason. It's the worst!

Haha, yeah. I think I skipped a couple of those at the end because I was tired and wanted to finish and had only 1 miss left and saves in LvW are the fucking worst. Seeing all the fail dialog in L-4 is a CHORE.

Haha what the hell this trailer is so weird - it's like some totally alternate history version of the game that never happened, nothing that happens in it is anything like the events of the actual game. So weird!

We'll talk about this more later I'm sure, but I do really feel like they missed out on having Phoenix and Layton actually face off against each other - they try to do it in L-4 but it feels completely half-hearted and forced. It's funny how Layton and Espella seem totally different in that confrontation in the beginning of the trailer - they're both a lot colder.

So one thing you don't ever really see much unless you have a view from the audience is the tech crew, which is often like 10 people strong, running around like fucking crazy to get shit ready in between runs, and from what I've heard it sounds like setting up new systems basically always comes with unforeseen complications. I don't know why it's so difficult, but it just is - there's a lot of moving parts back there. So yeah not having to hook up a Switch, a system that's never been run before at GDQ, is probably a relief!

One run I really want to give a shoutout to is Brothers. Kevin Regamey is running it. He's the lead guy at Powerup Audio, the crew that handles the sound work for every SGDQ and also did sound design for a bunch of games, including Crypt of the Necrodancer and Darkest Dungeon. I met Kevin last SGDQ and he's a super cool dude, he had planned to run the game last year but didn't submit in time, so it's awesome that he's gonna run it this year. Powerup Audio does an amazing job keeping things running smooth on the sound front at SGDQ so I'm a big fan.

I'm gonna actually have to play the game first though, since he said absolutely don't watch the speedrun until I've beaten the game. So I guess that's on my to-do list.

LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

A system takes only a few seconds to hook up I am sure.

Ohhh helllllll noooooooo.

I mean, it might just be player preference that they're going with the Wii U version, or there might be a speedrunning related reason, but I'm certain not needing to hook up a Switch factors into this.

Earthbound is an interestingish speedrun imo

Oh so someone is gonna run BotW. Huh! I figured there just wouldn't be enough time to get a polished speedrun ready.

I have never had a place I trust that much - checking to see that everything is correct is standard procedure to me. Hell, at my chinese place, they always confirm WITH me what's in the order before I go, because they don't want to be wrong either, and I get food there all the time. They've rarely ever been wrong, but nobody's perfect.

Halfcoordinated is one of my favorite runners, so that helps a lot

Always, especially in the drive-thru

I was wrong actually, BotW was released early enough to be in (they DO have a hard cutoff - no game that's released after the submission period can be run), but it's really likely that nobody had a solid speedrun of it ready to go yet. The bigger surprise is that someone DID have Nier Automata ready to go.

The guy who was going to do Dark Souls 3 dropped out because he couldn't do the most recent DLC (it was released too late by GDQ's rules)

I'm excited for a ton of stuff here so you guys are weird

Super Metroid as not the second to last game is really throwing me off. I guess they're experimenting with the possibility since they'd probably like to have some flexibility on that, maybe use the summer to see what happens to donations when save/kill the animals is off the table

WazzupGenius00 posted...

The game list has been out for a bit but nice to see the actual schedule.

Still can't believe there's no Breath of the Wild.

It was released way too late for it to be in. Expect it in AGDQ 2018.

Oh the schedule has actually been out for about a month now

Boss fights are the only weak part of this game

Yeah

It's the only hard one in LvW really, the other two sliding block puzzles in LvW are pretty easy

Yeah, I actually ended up using a hint coin for the first time on that puzzle. Normally I don't use hint coins and just work on a puzzle I'm stuck on for a while, but I was mostly wanting to replay the court segments here, so I just brute forced my way through that one. I don't think I had to hint coin any others. Most of the puzzles in this game are a step easier than most of the puzzles you find in Layton games, with a few exceptions like that one and More Chalices (and also that stompy one) that do stand up with the tougher puzzles in the main Layton games (although there are FAR worse).

I didn't know they rereleased FF1 and FF2 on the same cart

I've never heard of Thexder

Super Mario Maker was my favorite, though I'm not counting BotW because it's a Switch game to me (I've never counted TP as a GC game either)

He is our first citrus president after all

That is a fucking amazing idea

Nelson_Mandela posted...

How much do you want to bet the "bodyslam" was a mild shove after this heroic journalist provoked him

I hope you didn't wager too much

Actually, wait, fuck. Five Guys cajun fries are the best

McDonald's

SeabassDebeste posted...

i was gonna mention that i noticed that the first time through until i realized you were referring to the fact that the whole world revolves around a bell

What did you think I meant? Just the fact that they all sound similar?

It took me until the end of L-4 to realize:

Cantabella
Belduke
Bezella

jesus

Statues are stupid anyway, they're just a form of idolatry, which everyone forgot is a sin apparently

I just can't stand hero worship of people especially when it's mostly just to further some sort of agenda. Statues are almost never erected in good faith imo

Yes, I've been having this happen frequently on a brand new phone too. I thought it was my old phone being slow originally, but now I've realized that it's definitely the site. It'll just get hung up for like 3 to 5 seconds when trying to type out a single letter for absolutely no reason.

That actually sounds like a group trying to prop him up by running intentionally shitty attack ads

The 90's were my favorite gaming decade but posts like this make me want to reconsider

I don't hate it, I just didn't have the patience for it

It's not like you have to beat More Chalices! I skipped it on my replay, mostly just went and did the puzzles that were required or that I felt like doing.

2001 wins

Super Mario Bros 3

I just really like the color palette and the weird geometry

it just always makes me really happy to look at

sexy pokemon are illegal in peru

LvW has its own suspense theme too! I guess this is like, the 'secondary' suspense theme?

Speaking of music, LvW's soundtrack is really top notch in general, something I've noticed more on replay than I did before. One track that I've been really drawn to in particular though is The Courtroom's Magician -



One thing about it bugs me though - I can't figure out if it's supposed to be a counterpart to a normal AA theme. Like it's kind of an 'announce the truth' theme in a way but there's already an actual 'announce the truth' theme in LvW. The closest comparison I can think of is the way that AA3 often uses Investigation Core 2002 for a lot of its dramatic moments in trial in a way that also doesn't really have a counterpart in any other game.

I was caught off guard by the Turnabout Sisters theme playing since I don't remember it and very little AA music is used after L-1, aside from the objection theme (the best version of it, imo).

It's kind of a bucket of cold water after L-3 - they spend the most time on this part of the game but it's probably the worst part! The Layton segments are pretty cool because we get Phoenix/Luke and Layton/Maya stuff and that's fun, but man, the trial is just not that intriguing. The pacing for me really grinds to a halt at that part, which is weird because normally these games do not lose their pacing at the endgame.