Board 8 > 428 Shibuya Scramble Playthrough Topic

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I gave in and got this because of the Steam Sale. The IRL graphics felt quite strange to me and I really wasn't sure I'd be into it, like I said I am a weeb and need my anime graphics, but I felt I owed it a shot and it's cheap enough anyway

An hour in now and I am actually really into it, I started it last night and was excited to wake up and play more today. The style is soooo weird, but I like it, particularly when it combines the IRL graphics with the video-game graphic design in the menus, textboxes, etc. The character select graphics and jump graphics are soooo cool lol

Making a playthrough topic so I can post thoughts when I feel like it, but this will not be as in-depth as the Umineko playthrough topic.

No future spoilers or things that carry implications plz, but I'm not as strict about this here, so feel free to comment as long as you are careful :D

So far I am mostly just sort of confused at the police's ability to bungle this hostage scenario

Like I don't really watch a ton of cop shows but I would assume it'd be the standard procedure in a situation like this to give the person the money and then follow them and see where they go, rather than tackle them instantly? Because obviously the person taking the money might just be an expendable subordinate...

pretty sure this girl is in on it btw

i'm always on the lookout for plot twists

which twin is this, really?

either way, she's suspicious

"i just accidentally showed up an hour later and my sister was being kidnapped at that exact moment" like yeah right

honestly some of these pictures are sort of cringeworthy. imagine being the actors who had to pose for these lol

"hey, you're playing evil foreigner dressed in black #3. can you point this gun and smile really evilly at the camera? great thanks."

does this game have no female protagonists? =/ maybe the cat is female, i can't tell yet.

haven't even clicked him yet but osawa just screams "i'm the character who is the most relevant to the main plot"

the cat is definitely female. im about halfway through it myself, pretty good so far

and yeah osawa is definitely that lol
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just played through it recently and loved it. I find the live-action made it feel really uniquely charming and I also really enjoyed the choice system making it feel more like a puzzle than VNs usually do.

Dels posted...

honestly some of these pictures are sort of cringeworthy. imagine being the actors who had to pose for these lol

I love how they just go maximum hammy
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Just popping in to say I'll be watching this. Just not gonna be a whole lot to talk about yet.
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Tag, great game

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Did the same despite not getting any word back from Arti as to why it was his GotY 2018. Started it up a few hours ago and reluctantly have to step aside since I have work in fifteen minutes. Thoughts so far:

Progress Made: 11:00-12:00
- So far I've enjoyed Kano a whole lot. There's a fun, but weird dynamic where he is the ultra-protagonist with the clear focus on doing the right thing and getting tons of main character tropes, and then there's just a comical bumbling failure that he winds up in every time you pick a wayward choice. Achi is cool, too. I love the way those miscreants reacted to seeing his eco-warrior shirt. Yu Yu Hakusho vibes.

- The puzzling things out is fun, as are the bad ends. Nothing super crazy, yet. Part of me feels like this is just gonna be a normal game, but with how VNs can be like Higurashi and Umineko, and how this is Spike Chunsoft with the Nonary Games and Danganronpa... and with the character of Leland Palmer and a cafe called Log Lady... I'm fully expecting this to go completely off-the-rails at some point, and when it does, I will not be prepared.

- Lots of talk on Ozawa and he's the only character in the second hour I haven't touched yet. Looking forward to seeing what he brings to the table when I get back tonight! (Or tomorrow. Might watch Summerslam. Probably not).

-Reading Dels reaction, also feeling the twin swap thing. I thought that the distraction by his homeless-dressed partner about his celebrity-lookalike girlfriend allowed for a possible switch of some kind... but I really don't know what's happening because everything is all over the place. This is just the weirdest season of 24 so far.
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24 is exactly what I thought as well! I don't really read/watch stuff in this, uh, cop thriller genre or whatever it was, so it just reminded me of 24 right off the bat.

For the 11:00, I started with Minorikawa, then Kano, then Achi, now doing Osawa. Saving the cat for last lol.

I do love how incompetent Kano becomes in all the bad endings, though the first one was slightly over-the-top. "Are you the criminal?!" *achi falls asleep* "Boss! He admitted it! He's the criminal leader!" lol

lol, speaking of VLR, Tama is basically K I guess

i was wondering what the whole cat gimmick was for if we'd just see her take off the suit a few minutes in

i mean, this pretty much just signals to me that finding out the appearance of our character inside the cat suit is going to be a big deal... right?

she doesn't even wanna tell a stranger her name =/

so is there no button to speed through text until you're at something new? or am i missing it?

You can skip ahead, but only to the beginning of a scene (I wanna say it's up or down on the d pad to look through the history, and then you can jump to anything that starts with a little page icon).

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right, i wish you could speed through in the middle of a scene if you've already read it. oh well, scenes are usually not too long, and i guess it serves as a catchup...

man, why do i have to help mr. yanagishita? i'm on the loan sharks side, tbh... this guy is basically a) scamming people and b) poisoning innocent people on the street

one far shot of Tama out of costume... but you can't see much... Maybe she is Maria...

But does she actually have memory loss...? Or what? The explanations of her situation are a bit roundabout and glossed over...

Dels posted...

24 is exactly what I thought as well! I don't really read/watch stuff in this, uh, cop thriller genre or whatever it was, so it just reminded me of 24 right off the bat.

For the 11:00, I started with Minorikawa, then Kano, then Achi, now doing Osawa. Saving the cat for last lol.

I do love how incompetent Kano becomes in all the bad endings, though the first one was slightly over-the-top. "Are you the criminal?!" *achi falls asleep* "Boss! He admitted it! He's the criminal leader!" lol

Felt very early and silly Phoenix Wright picking the obviously wrong option! Complete with heavy sweatdrop and judge shaking his head in shame.

Started with Tama then Achi then Kano (having so much trouble typing that; keep thinking of the Mortal Kombat character) then Minorikama.
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Yanagashita best character best music

Also yes, that is by far my biggest peeve with the game, that soooooo much of the story is forced retreads.
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hell no i'm not telling leland palmer anything! 'far as i'm concerned, y'all side characters are all shady

my god, the more Kano's super intense police work gets comically interrupted by his bizarrely intrusive personal life coincidentally making unreasonable, illogical demands of him, the more I feel you may be right that this isn't just reminiscent of 24, but inspired by it. hahaha.

Dels posted...

my god, the more Kano's super intense police work gets comically interrupted by his bizarrely intrusive personal life coincidentally making unreasonable, illogical demands of him, the more I feel you may be right that this isn't just reminiscent of 24, but inspired by it. hahaha.

Kim's in trouble!
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if Kano's fiancee gets kidnapped I'm out

and so, minorikawa coincidentally gets assigned to cover some journalism about all the other character's plotlines! how convenient!

well I know who we can interview to learn about shibuya's vigilante squad, but i'm not sure any of our other plots have to do with organ trafficking...

Chiaki best character

(no i haven't met her, but i'm already in love from the brief inner monologue description of her)

have to admit I feel bad for the suicidal writer guy. i've heard this sort of thing is even worse in japan because they feel more shame and have less avenues to seek help

waking up at 11am and being terrified of talking to people? that's my girl!

minorikawa's constant pointing is hilarious

tag

sorry for not responding to you Mana but I've been busy lately and not on gamefaqs much
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Minorikawa's pointing is very, very good.
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Dels posted...

minorikawa's constant pointing is hilarious

I love his pointing oh so very much.
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Minorikawa best character
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I finished 11:00-12:00 last night

Honestly I was surprised I didn't mess up more - A lot of my choices seemed to just work out. I chose to interview Achi's dad and I guess that was the "correct" one? Since I guess each hour can only end one way?

Not planning to try and get every bad end, but maybe I should. Some of them are pretty funny.

Dels posted...

I finished 11:00-12:00 last night

Honestly I was surprised I didn't mess up more - A lot of my choices seemed to just work out. I chose to interview Achi's dad and I guess that was the "correct" one? Since I guess each hour can only end one way?

Not planning to try and get every bad end, but maybe I should. Some of them are pretty funny.

Ooh, samesies! I'm a bit worried that there would/will be some choices made that play out regularly but fail later in the game that we don't know about yet (not unlike Nonary Games where you thinking you're doing great but WHOOPS). But considering there was that JUMP bit... maybe we're okay?? Kind of want to go back, exclusively for Minorikawa, and check out the other branches of his. Pay the taxicab? Choose obvious story elements to let go of (and who knows, maybe Ozawa's company is involved with those organs?)? Pick different things to say to people?

Like, Ozawa's branch. I tried each of his and they didn't seem to have any immediate affect on anything... but... what does that mean? What is gonna happen? This game terrifies me because I don't know where things are going...

I dreamt last night of similar situations with this game, but also tied with Umbrella Academy since Five was the one jumping around and being the detective character. A lot has faded, but I remember a dinner with Rean from Trails of Cold Steel, his parents, and Fie and Fie was like, "I just bought an outfit for going on missions, what do you guys think" and Rean, who had already tried and failed to get her something more modest, tries to stop her again, but she shows off an even skimpier outfit that the one she has in Trails of Cold Steel II and then Rean's parents start vomiting green soup... and I, the dreamer, remembers other characters dealing with potential poisonings from hours ago involving water tank supply under the railroad... and things got weird so our stealthy character went into the crazy wing of the hospital above and ignored the task to convince Larisa Oleynik to be her girlfriend and join her in doing stuff covert? Anyway, Five is later on the train, testing out soups for poison by rubbing them on his face, and then gets off to talk with the guy on the outskirts with powers and mentions that he came at an earlier point in the day when a sniper killed the guy, but things should be okay now and we need his help and...

Yeah, none of this had to do with anything except this game has seeped deep in my brain and I'm seriously afraid of what **** will go down.
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Also, end of 11:00 to 12:00 stats?

00 END, 11 BAD
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I think one of the guide textboxes said that only things from the current hour can affect other things in the hour, which makes me think the game is actually not going to be as crazy as that. But we'll see. It certainly seems like it should have an affect... Like if Minorikawa ever continues investigating the vigilante squad, what would happen if I said to reject that article? Hm.

I'm at BAD 12.

If you've gotten 5 To Be Continueds, and can go to the next chapter, then everything is fine and you will never have to go back to it, unless you want to see more bad endings. I'm pretty sure the game flat out tells you this if you try and jump to a previous chapter you've completed.
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Kujiwara is going to kill me.

My sides hurt.
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Finished up 12 to 13.Taking a break
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Yeah youre forced to make all of the right choices to end each chapter, so bad choices cant propagate past the hour in which they happened.

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Mega Mana posted...

Finished up 12 to 13.Taking a break

Ah. I'm not there yet, not sure how much I'll play during the week. I'm happy to share the topic, but if you're ahead of me maybe you should make your own. I'll try to do this hour tonight though. Maybe one in-game hour per day will be a good pace.

Dels posted...

Mega Mana posted...

Finished up 12 to 13.Taking a break

Ah. I'm not there yet, not sure how much I'll play during the week. I'm happy to share the topic, but if you're ahead of me maybe you should make your own. I'll try to do this hour tonight though. Maybe one in-game hour per day will be a good pace.

No worries. I've got a whole backlog of games I want to get through.
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I finished 12:00-13:00 last night so feel free to post thoughts

My own thoughts:

- Minorikawa definitely my favourite, he is just too funny lol

- I also like though how Osawa is trying so hard to be the serious plot by being all brooding and sad and thinking about deep subjects, but his story is also turned into comedy by his side characters

- I don't really share Mana's belief that this game is going to go off the rails, I think the timeline and choices are just a gimmick to keep things interesting and keep you jumping around. But. Maybe. The ending of Achi's plot is the most ?????, the whole "Trust me, it's better for you if we kill her" thing is almost like... time-travel-y...

- The fact that past hours can't influence future hours and become locked in when you advance supports the idea there won't be weird stuff. But I do think it'd be really cool if at some point you go back and do the 10:00-11:00 of a character we didn't see at the start. Or even a 9:00-10:00 for someone.