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Animetroidvania ho!

1 - dream
2 - kit kat
3 - bun
4 - boost
5 - pal-o-mine
6 - malted milk
7 - tango
8 - smooth sailin'
9 - double decker
10 - galaxy ripple
11 - princessa
12 - goobers - Cutscene 1 begins at 3:50, Skeeviness 1 starts at 4:09, Cutscene/Skeeviness 1 ends and transitions into miniboss battle at 5:00, gameplay ends and Cutscene/Skeeviness 2 begins at 6:40, Cutscene/Skeeviness 2 ends at gameplay resumes at 7:28
13 - mars bar lava
14 - aero mint
15 - haviland wintergreen patty
16 - marble
17 - flake
18 - air delight
19 - 5th avenue
20 - prince polo
21 - fast break
22 - bounty
23 - almond joy
24 - crunch
25 - milky way midnight
26 - drifter
27 - sky bar
28 - maestro
29 - korkunov
30 - breakaway
31 - starbar
32 - five star caramel
33 - toblerone
34 - twin bing
35 - spira
36 - intense orange
37 - excellence
38 - cadbury dairy milk
39 - mirage
40 - wunderbar
41 - 3 musketeers
42 - cup-o-gold
43 - cherry ripe
44 - happy hippo
45 - lion peanut
46 - forever yours
47 - bar none
48 - grand slam
49 - yorkie
50 - mr. big
51 - pistachio and rose petal
52 - ivory mountain
53 - willocrisp
54 - cow
55 - balisto
56 - m-azing
57 - zero

Sadly, Erina does not get the Piko Piko Hammer.

Also, as a general heads up, Iris/Alice isn't the only character to have what's obviously supposed to be her real name butchered in-game.

She is the only one with any excuses, though.

that certainly was 10 minutes of cutscenes followed by An Ending
was gonna only watch one ep of this to see if the game looked worth getting but i guess i'll need to watch ep 2 as well

Hey raocow, attack is bound to Right Trigger as well as Y. I highly recommend using RT to free up your fingers for more important actions.

Also, you DO have a wall jump right now. Explaining how to use it is very convoluted and it's only useful in certain situations.

...By the way, Alice's outfit is absolutely not supposed to resemble Sakuya at all. No way.

Stink Terios wrote: ↑6 years ago
...By the way, Alice's outfit is absolutely not supposed to resemble Sakuya at all. No way.

And not-Nitori is apparently blocking the way to the beach.

I guess we're going to be seeing a lot of that?

Alright I was definitely a cynic at first but upon seeing bunny porings and harmless mushroom boys smashed mercilessly to bits as raocow chuckles his trademark wacky laugh, I've got to say I'm convinced.

Voltgloss wrote: ↑6 years ago

Stink Terios wrote: ↑6 years ago
...By the way, Alice's outfit is absolutely not supposed to resemble Sakuya at all. No way.

And not-Nitori is apparently blocking the way to the beach.

I guess we're going to be seeing a lot of that?

Yuuuuuuuup. This is pretty much bootleg Touhou.

This is an incredibly weeb game, holy shit. I might have to sit this LP out until I go play it because this game is as unreasonably up my alley as it gets.

Grounder wrote: ↑6 years ago Also, as a general heads up, Iris/Alice isn't the only character to have what's obviously supposed to be her real name butchered in-game.

Wot? I just looked this up and her Japanese name is written イリス not アリス. Iris(u) is definitely her real name. I assumed it was left as Irisu due to Irisu Syndrome, a fairly popular Japanese indie game featuring a rabbit girl which I'm fully expecting references to in this game.

Stink Terios wrote: ↑6 years ago ...By the way, Alice's outfit is absolutely not supposed to resemble Sakuya at all. No way.

Looked more like Kirima Sharo with a pocketwatch to me.

I'm glad this got off to an enjoyable start.

The cutscenes weren't that bad in this video (though they might be an issue later on), and the art style itself looks well-done. But what I really like is the aesthetics in the background.

Blue wrote: ↑6 years ago

Stink Terios wrote: ↑6 years ago ...By the way, Alice's outfit is absolutely not supposed to resemble Sakuya at all. No way.

Looked more like Kirima Sharo with a pocketwatch to me.

It looks like there's a character named Syaro (romanized differently but sounding the same) in the game.

I think Hard is closer to your skill level than Normal, raocow -- the game might get underwhelming at some point.

The game caught me by surprise when I played it, I didn't expect much from it but it has so much depth that it easily became my GOTY 2016. It also received constant updates for more than a year and as a result has a shitton of content !
As you noticed, the game unfortunately has a very slow start and railroads you hard at first, but once it actually gets started it is incredibly good

And yes, it is a spiritual successor to Bunny Must Die in more ways than one, the "shorter lifespan" thing at the end may even be a reference to BMD, where using a save point added time to your Total time played.

Also, please remember to spoiler the spoilers, guys.

Jesuiscontent wrote: ↑6 years ago And yes, it is a spiritual successor to Bunny Must Die in more ways than one, the "shorter lifespan" thing at the end may even be a reference to BMD, where using a save point added time to your Total time played.

Also, please remember to spoiler the spoilers, guys.

supposedly the highest difficulty in this game WAS called 'Bunny Must Die' at one point, but it's now bunny extinction

oh man, i knew it was compared to BMD a lot but i didn't know it was explicit about it. (not actually watching just tracking people's video 1 comments out of curiosity)

woah the art does look kind of EH. Not the pixelart, but the illustrations. They're not the most terrible thing in the world, but not really that great either. It's sorta cute looking though I guess.

Plutia wrote: ↑6 years ago

Jesuiscontent wrote: ↑6 years ago And yes, it is a spiritual successor to Bunny Must Die in more ways than one, the "shorter lifespan" thing at the end may even be a reference to BMD, where using a save point added time to your Total time played.

Also, please remember to spoiler the spoilers, guys.

supposedly the highest difficulty in this game WAS called 'Bunny Must Die' at one point, but it's now bunny extinction

Yeah you're right. This page of the artbook explains it

Blue wrote: ↑6 years ago Wot? I just looked this up and her Japanese name is written イリス not アリス. Iris(u) is definitely her real name. I assumed it was left as Irisu due to Irisu Syndrome, a fairly popular Japanese indie game featuring a rabbit girl which I'm fully expecting references to in this game.

Ah, then it's a pun.

I played this on normal with standard boss scaling, and the late-game bosses started to get incredibly hard after I went around and collected everything. I'm kinda curious to start a new game to see what the alternative boss scaling mode is like since that matches up more with how I prefer to play.

This game has really weird pacing later on.

Apparently I'm currently stuck in both Chapter 7 and in the Final Chapter at the same time. I lost track of which objectives are for which chapter lol.

And yeah, the plot is just incomprehensible nonsense to me. "Please communicate in a way that conveys information" was me for the whole game.

I'm playing with the (Normal level) Alternative difficulty style, and I don't know if it's because my exploration has led me to wander everywhere except where the objectives tell me to go, or if it's because of the difficulty, but I'm starting to have major problems with bosses even just in Chapter 2. Dealing with

Miss Princess Pandora

was a reasonable if difficult challenge, but

both Keke Bunny and Alraune Aruraune

repeatedly mopped the floor with me.

Kilgamayan wrote: ↑6 years agoDealing with

Miss Princess Pandora

was a reasonable if difficult challenge, but

both Keke Bunny and Alraune Aruraune

repeatedly mopped the floor with me.

Keke Bunny is an unstoppable menace to existence, always,

and I can't wait to see raocow's reaction to... it.

Can someone better explain (without spoilers) how the two difficulty scaling options are different? I feel a bit dense, but I keep failing to comprehend them even when I reread the game's explanation.

From what it said, I guess Alternative is more dependent on exploration?

It also said that you can switch between the two modes until you get three characters.

My understanding was that in Standard difficulty escalates based on how many items you've collected, while in Alternative it escalates based on how many cutscenes you've seen.

You can damage and destroy those antifairy enemies just like anything else, rather than just trying to dodge around them.

Yeah, fighting a boss is not usually a "stop" indicator in Rabi-Ribi, at least in the early bits.

Grounder wrote: ↑6 years ago Yeah, fighting a boss is not usually a "stop" indicator in Rabi-Ribi, at least in the early bits.

Yeah, this game has SO MANY of them.

And to do a wall jump you have to run under a wall, jump towards the same wall, then hold away while jumping. It's awkward, but you can get the hang of it. There is also a way to do another wall jump afterwards, but let's see if raocow figures that out by himsef.

Wow that was a lot of weapon level-ups in such a short time.