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I'm kinda shocked Real Emotion advanced from its match while 1000 Words was eliminated, I would've guessed the opposite

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Lara Croft

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Zero Suit

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Sara
Hatsune Miku

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Why is Netflix here, anyway? The others are all obviously evil in some big way (and not like, 'Netflix is delaycasting anime' evil, actual evil). I'm not saying they aren't evil, I just don't know how!

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Ridley

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I'm probably just jaded because for a long time it was my job to chase homeless out of the parkade every night, and we had a gate. Building management refused to do anything (cameras, hiring actual security) because they thought the gate was enough. There absolutely should be a gate, I'm not disagreeing with that, but it isn't enough if you want real security. The gate is like step one.

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I have lots of fun building management stories. A gate wouldn't necessarily stop anyone from getting in. Depending on how many people live there and are coming and going, that gate would be open enough for the thieves to get in anyway. All I've ever seen a gate do was stop the benign homeless just looking for a place to sleep, which is good, but they aren't the ones who smash car windows. Those guys have a plan and are really hard to stop. On-site security and cameras to see and chase them out right away is all I've seen work.

Not to say Anadad shouldn't put up a gate, I just wouldn't expect it alone to help against break-ins.

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Lightning
Lara Croft

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Amazon hurts its employees but it's at least kind of convenient for the rest of us. Facebook is terrible for everyone.

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banananor posted...

Also some weird, irrational hate for the homeless here

I have another story! Decades ago in the building my mom worked in, they found a guy who'd lost his apartment and moved all his stuff, furniture and all, into a basement storage room and lived there. They had been there for almost a year with no one realizing, no one ever did figure out how he even got in they just kicked him out. Not all homeless are the kind that trash their surroundings!

Still, if someone were sleeping there I imagine there'd be some indication, even if not necessarily garbage. A bedroll, a bit of food, something.

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Frank seems lazy and shady, so I bet he's given out the safe code to several people over the years for one reason or another. Or maybe the assistant did, not even knowing it was meant to be secret or that the key opened more than the one door. Then some kindly tenant finally cleaned what they might think is a communal storage room.

In the building I work in, despite signs in the fitness center saying we'll throw out anything left in there overnight, cleaners and management never did anything. Then one day a tenant took it upon themselves to clean the place and throw out all the accumulated stuff like the sign said we should (which caused a bunch of problems but that's another story). People try to be helpful sometimes.

That's my guess anyway.

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Zero Suit

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Round ended thirty seconds after the trade was taken, ouch.

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Samus
Claire

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Sara
Hatsune Miku

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Lightning
Lara Croft

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handsomeboy2012 posted...
TF2

I probably played more than a thousand hours of Team Fortress 2 in high school and college, it was my go-to game for a lot if years. It was less serious than Counterstrike, I could just join a server with my preferred map and settings and play for a few hours. TF2 was almost never toxic, which I've encountered a lot in other multiplayer games like LoL. There was too much beautiful chaos for anyone to really get angry about anything.

I have so many memories of building sentries in key positions as engineer, zooming around as scout, setting up sticky bombs as demoman... I could pick whatever class I felt like that day and go wild. Sadly, in recent years, I havent been able to find that feeling again in TF2. Servers all seem to be full of bots or afk people farming hats or whatever, along with just less people in general playing an older game. Multiplayer games seem to be moving away from dedicated servers too in favor of ranked matches or battle royale formats. I'm sad that the fun I had with TF2 is gone and maybe never coming back, but I'll always have the memories!

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Ridley

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Zero Suit

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There was definitely a bigger central plot to HotW, but I liked the simplicity of the gold rush more. It wasnt a bad VN, it just wasn't the best one ever like HB was!

Kenri posted...

58- Winter Voices
Never heard of this one, write-up please?

Winter Voices is a super unique game and it was quite the experience, but it was so janky I'm not sure I'd recommend it to anyone.

It's basically an isometric RPG, only you play as a mentally fragile young woman with no combat ability and all the enemies are in her head. You can't damage enemies, the battles are all about surviving X number of turns, or getting across the map, or are kind of puzzles about pushing personifications of doubt onto map squares that destroy them. The story follows the woman as she leaves her isolated town after the death of her father, and she struggles against her doubts and fears and traumas every step of the way. It was a unique journey. The writing was sometimes pretentious, but I enjoyed it.

The downsides are a low budget, frequent glitches, and often janky controls. I also can't vouch for the balance. There's an impressive FFX-style sphere grid of abilities that would really let you approach the battles a lot of different ways, but I can easily imagine choosing a bad combo of skills that would eventually make it impossible to win. I managed to beat Winter Voices but it was always a struggle. A worthwhile struggle, in my opinion, but I have odd tastes sometimes!

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I also just noticed a missing post I had to log out to see, Ulti has my mobile account blocked for some reason but not my main account. Unless someone who isn't blocked wants to point that out to him, I'll do Salt and Sanctuary and Diablo III when I get home so he can actually see them.

Thanks to all the people who requested writeups so far, too! You've kept me busy for three hours at work so far. Obviously I don't want anyone just to request the entire list all at once as a goof, but if you have genuine interest about something or comments about any if my writeups so far, keep them coming.

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WhiteLens posted...

28- BanG Dream! Girls Band Party

This one, right here.

This is the most expensive game I've ever played. Not counting the three separate Kasumi figures I've bought, I have easily spent over a thousand dollars on stars. Don't play gacha games, kids.

But, if you have to play one, you could do a lot worse than GBP! I got into it from the anime, and now I'm all in on the whole multimedia franchise. I love the Garupa Pico shorts on Youtube, I own a Popipa Weiss Schwarz deck for some reason, I've even started watching the Bandori TV things since they started translating them, so I guess I'm getting my moneys worth.

As for GBP itselft, it's easily the best rhythm game I've ever played. I'm no savant at these games, but I've managed to claw my way up from struggling on easy to regularly getting full combos on level 25 songs. The real draw is the characters, though. We're up to 35 characters across seven bands, 36 counting Marina, and I love them all. Even ones I dislike as individuals, lile Rui, still have fun moments when interacting with their bands. Having a new story to unlock every week has been a pleasure for years now!

It also scratches the monkey part of my brain when I do a daily pull and get a new card. That's why I recently bought $300 in google cards to buy more stars in the yearly Black Friday sale. Don't play gacha games, kids.

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NFUN posted...

best nosurge hymmnos/reon song

I actually had a playthrough topic for Ciel/Ar nosurge and I remember ranking my top five. I have the topic saved on my computer at home though, I'll post that once I get home from work.

The nosurge games were amazing, though. It's hard to recommend to anyone because step one is watching a fifty hour fan translation of Ciel nosurge on Youtube, but it's more than worth it! Ion is my second favorite video game character, only barely losing to LiS Chloe. These games weave such an epic narrative, and the songs were of course always climatic highlight. The combat in Ar nosurge... it was fine, but not really what I was there for. I still fondly remember the time I spent in that world with those characters.

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TheArkOfTurus posted...

54- The Metronomicon

Hadn't heard of this, but I'm interested after looking it up.

I had always wanted a rhythm game RPG. It just felt like such an obvious combination to me. There was one, Before the Echo, that I'd played that was close, but not quite close enough. Then I found The Metronomicon and it was like someone had made this game especially for me. It was the perfect blend of RPG and rhythm gameplay, exactly what I'd always imagined. The story and characters were fun too.

Of course, a rhythm game lives or dies on its music. I really loved the whole soundtrack, but when I made a topic on B8 recommending it no one else liked its style as much. There have been a ton of DLC song packs since release but I never bought any and don't know how they work. Listen to a few trailers and see if you like the music, that's my suggestion.

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TheArkOfTurus posted...

43- Lost Dimension

I bounced off this pretty hard because the traitor system seemed awful to me, but I didn't really play enough to give it a fair judgement. Would it be worth giving another chance?

I didn't mind the traitor system. Since it's randomized, I actually kinda liked the situations that emerged from it. The fire girl was carrying my team but then she was my last traitor and I was so heartbroken. I guess it wasnt great that character arcs could be cut short with no conclusion by random chance. But, frankly, none of their stories were all that compelling. Neither was the main plot.

What really sold me on the game was the combat system. The way you could chain attacks with assists and counters was great, it turned every battle into a kind of puzzle. And, once I understood the system, it was also possible to dominate it! The guy who could phase through doors in particular let me pull off some truly epic strategies.

If you felt any potential from the combat, I'd say give it another shot. I can see how it wouldn't be for everyone, though!

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TheArkOfTurus posted...

17- Dynasty Warriors 8

What puts this so far above the other Musou games for you? (Unless I'm missing one)

I've been playing Dynasty Warriors since 3 (not 9 yet though, I've heard bad things). I never really branched out to other musou games, I played like twenty minutes of one Samurai Warriors once. Dynasty Warriors is enough for me! It even inspired me to read Romance of the Three Kingdoms! It's also a series where each new entry effectively replaces the previous one, which is why 8 is the only one listed.

I just love the simple joy of slashing through hundreds of goons in that warm and familiar setting. DW has some strategic elements and sometimes enemy generals can put up a fight, but for me it's mostly just mindless fun. Sometimes that's all I want out of a game, to carve through a whole army single-handedly.

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Leonhart4 posted...

I'm always here for Ace Attorney writeups

I hope you aren't expecting too much, I couldn't manage anything close to the writeups you've done for Ace Attorney (I'm pretty sure it was you who did a big AA writeup topic a few years back). I also haven't played the first four games since 2009 when I went through them all at once. It might seem like cheating to lump them all together into one space, but they really do blur together into one single, awesome experience for me. They're VNs in a lot of ways, with witty writing and fun characters, but I love the mystery elements a lot too. I wasn't always smart enough to figure them out without looking up hints, but once everything finally clicked together it was always epic. I never played any of the mainline games after Apollo Justice (which was fine, it didn't turn me off the series or anything).

I played the two Investigations games much more recently, in 2016. I remember the first one being less good than the second, which was amazing. Kay Faraday is still my favorite AA character, I really liked seeing another side of her in the one case where she lost her memory.

If only my memories were fresher, I'd love to give you more! They were fun games and I really should get around to replaying them, along with finally playing the rest.

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MechanicalWall posted...

I admire your LiS top placement king, pls explain to everyone why it's so good

Ah, Life is Strange. It might seem an odd choice for first place given that I really hated the ending, which you'd think would matter in such a story-driven game. The journey building up to it was still amazing, though! Even now, years later, thinking back on LiS makes me feel warm inside. It has a perfect atmosphere. Everything from the art style to the colors to just sitting someplace for a few minutes and hearing Max's thoughts while listening to calming music, I love it all. The main plot builds up like nothing else I've ever seen (and then stumbles at the end, but, hey, nothing is perfect). I also love the characters, especially Max and Chloe. Chloe in particular is unchallenged as my favorite fictional character. She's an unrepentant ball of sass, but LiS is so good about letting you see her from so many angles that I understand and empathize with her even during her worst moments. Such masterful writing is rare.

Speaking of Chloe, I also loved the prequel starring her, Before the Storm! It was made by different people and there's always the danger they won't understand what made something great or they might exaggerate character traits. They really understood her. My favorite scene was in Episode One when she smashes up the junkyard. A lesser writer who didn't understand her would've just had her cry, but that isn't how Chloe processes emotions, she gets angry and breaks things. So good. It also had the patented LiS atmosphere and knocked it out of the park with Rachel, so unlike many others I didn't mind the lack of supernatural powers. Chloe had the power of sass! Sadly, BtS also kinda stumbled near the end, but, hey, nothing is perfect.

I'm looking forward to the remasters of these games that are coming out soon, it's been awhile since I replayed them.

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Shonen_Bat posted...

Highway Blossoms is great so I'd like to hear about that

It's my favorite visual novel for a reason! It's a fairly simple story, a romance between two women on a road trip who get swept up in a gold hunt. Their relationship just really resonated me. It wasnt perfect, I thought some drama in the middle was a bit unneeded, but the parts that were good were really good. Amber and Marina played off of each other super well, and the slow build into their romance was so sweet. I even liked the realism that a portion of the story is Amber trying to figure out if Marina is even into women, it felt so realistic. Even the H scenes (added via patch) added some neat characterization as opposed to just smut (not that I'm against smut, it was just nice to have more too)

I still haven't played the sequel, Next Exit, but I've been meaning to for awhile. I did play the next VN these people wrote, Heart of the Woods, and I didn't enjoy it anywhere near as much. The friendship between the two main girls in that was compelling, but their respective romances both felt so contrived. There was no realistic buildup or doubts like HB had, just suddenly two characters are banging, and of course this century-old ghost is a lesbian, it's a yuri VN why wouldn't she be? Ugh. Amber and Marina had more chemistry in one scene than those two romances did combined.

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Sara
Hatsune Miku

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Meta Knight is usually my second save but I got here super late today. Sad to see him go

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Lightning
Lara Croft

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Zero Suit

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I havent played TTYD in a depressingly long time, easily over a decade. It'd probably rank a lot higher if I could and my memories were fresher. I still have a lot of really powerful memories from it, though! The Glitz Pit chapter was fun and unique, I remember loving Rogueport, all the party members were great... now I'm sad I can't easily replay it.

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Valheim was a lot of fun until the Plains. The mosquitos and goblins were bullshit. That was also the furthest developed area when I played, though, so maybe they needed to balance it more.

It's probably my second favorite of the year but LiS:TC was just too good.

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Snecko Eye

I avoid this thing like the plague but I've always wondered if I'm just bad and it's actually super great

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I would've preferred backing the North Korean girl (I'm too lazy to look up her name) but Ji-yeong was a good character too.

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I also have StS on mobile! I've only beaten the heart a few times though, I'm not very good at it. Every so often I get an amazing run with infinite shivs or something, but more often than not no good build really materializes and I just get grinded down on the third floor.

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hombad46 posted...

Not sure if you just saved her to help since War couldn't save but if you did I'll save someone next round for you if you want

I only really care about Lightning and she's doing fine for now, thanks for the offer though!

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It was too late for me to trade for Ji-yeong so I figured I'd at least cover potential trade confusion. Rem is okay too. I mean, she's no Emilia (I love Emilia) and even Ram is better, but Rem is fine!

I'm sure Ji-yeong is thankful she got to play with us.

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Rem

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Sara
Ji-yeong

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Zero Suit

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Life is Strange: True Colors

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I've been playing FF6 with my brother, and we just got to Zozo. I'd forgotten how great the music is there! Slam Shuffle should've made it into this contest.

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Ema

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Ji-yeong

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Sara
Hatsune Miku

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Marth

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