Validon SLPs Games!; Valkyrie Profile and GoS!

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Well, I'm an LPer. Unlike most LPers on these forums, however, I do screenshot LPs. That's a completely different beast than a video LP, mainly because it involves reading and looking at still-frame screenshots instead of an actual video. I've been making SLPs for a few months now over at MoTK, and I'd thought I'd share them with people on the Talkhaus who might be interested in this sort of thing.
So, what have I been playing?

Touhou Gensoumaroku: Devil of Decline (Part 1, Part 2): My first LP, wherein everyone's favorite lolis from Gensokyo (possibly) have twelve hours to save Gensokyo from three demons, who will destroy it if time runs out. It's the second game in Strawberry Bose's "Omen Trilogy," a series of difficult RPGs set in the world of Touhou.

Touhou Soujinengi: The Genius of Sappheiros (link): My second LP (not counting Sengoku Gensokyo, which is now defunct) and the first game in the Omen Trilogy. In it, Reimu Hakurei and company set out to investigate a mysterious mist that is draining the life force of every youkai in Gensokyo. The culprit is not as obvious as one would think at first glance...

And that's it for now. Later on, I'll be running a blind LP of Strawberry Bose's third game in the Omen Trilogy (which won't be out until August, sadly): Touhou Genmuyoutan: The Nightmare of Rebellion. In addition to that, I'll be making an LP for Valkyrie Profile sometime soon.

So, this'll just be a place for comments on the LPs. I post updates irregularly (essentially it boils down to "whenever I can"), and whenever I post one on MoTK, I'll post a link directly to the update here as well. In fact, here's my most recent update (although it'll sort of be out of context for people who haven't played the rest of the game or read the rest of the LP).

Black Sanctuary- Part 3: Pandemonium

So yeah. SLPs. Here. It's different from other LP threads on here, I know.

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Black Sanctuary- Part 4: The End is Nigh

In which I rush through the final area of Devil of Decline's expansion and fail at the final boss. Wonderful.

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Black Sanctuary- Finale: A Nose to Grind

Wherein I take part in the glorious splendors of grinding and get party wiped exactly 27 times. I counted. Appropriate music (maybe): Yakety Sax

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Finale- I Expected This Sort of Thing to Happen

In which I complete the expansion of Devil of Decline and attend a party run by demons. Fun!

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Should Deny the Divine Destiny of the Destinies: Let's Play Valkyrie Profile!

Wherein I introduce an LP for a game that I haven't played in a while, but still remains near and dear to me.

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Prologue- Stop and Smell the Flowers

Wherein we see that life in Midgard is pretty crappy.

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Chapter 0- Part 1: Wake Up!

Wherein we meet our protagonist and find out she's a partial amnesiac. How that works, I don't know. Oh, and the world's ending. That's important.

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Chapter 0- Part 2: Excuse Me, Princess

Wherein we meet a bloodthirsty mercenary and a bratty princess. Fun times.

By the way, feel free to post comments here if you have anything to say about these LPs, whether it's about the game or how I run things. It's not like this thread was for update notifications alone. ^^;

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Double post because I'm playing two games!

Searching for Friends- Finale: Light 'em Up

Wherein we beat up some ghosts, some vampires, a mind-reader, a bird, and a cat in order to reverse their insanity. No, really.

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Chapter 0- Part 3: Have Some Medicine

Wherein we take a cargo job and immediately regret it.

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Because I could get this whole cutscene done all at once, I just decided to make both updates now.

Chapter 0- Part 4: The End (of Life) is Merely the Beginning

Wherein we finally end our first recruitment scene. Spoilers: People die.

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Chapter 0- Finale: Hey, Listen!

Wherein I stop being lazy with this LP and explain a lot of game mechanics.
Also, again, anything you want to say about these LPs, you guys can post. That's the whole point of this thread. The silent is unnerving...

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Pursuit of the Malice- Part 1: Here There Be Onis

Wherein we go underground yet again and fight someone much stronger than us... but beat her easily.

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I think that it might be possible to have my actual LP content both here and on MoTK, so here's my last update, but here and not on MoTK. If this works better than posting the links, let me know. If it doesn't, I'll just keep doing things the old way.

Pursuit of the Malice- Part 1: Here There Be Onis

So, we have all of our old party members back! What now, you might ask?



We have to go to our first new dungeon of the expansion in order to track down Yuugi. It seems as if there's incredible darkness coming from the Underground's map icon. That can't be good.



It looks even worse up close.



And here we are. It has the same theme as the Hell of Blazing Fires, so I won't relink that.



As this is our first expansion dungeon, we have our only new theme for the expansion, this time being a remix of Charming Domination... for like five seconds before becoming something else entirely. Right...
As for this guy, this is an Ifrit. He's weak to Water, but he is VERY powerful. If he uses something like Firebird on you, you're pretty much screwed. So protect against Fire and spam Water attacks is all I can recommend.



Two new enemies here. The Hell Anaconda is weak to Water and doesn't really do much besides I think inflicting Paralysis, like other snakes. The Hell Mandragora is weak to Fire, and if I remember correctly it can put you to Sleep. Not too bad.



Purgatory Mendozas aren't really that dangerous. They pretty much act like Hell Mendozas, weakness to Pierce and Electric and all.



There's a Hell Pincers. I think it's weak to Electric. It also has a unique move that Satori can learn if you care enough called Kabuff+1. I honestly don't.



Hell Oni's here are... weak to something. I forget what. They have some annoying attacks, but other than that they're fine.



And now we have a Hell Gashadokuro. Weak to Blunt, Fire, and Light. It's got some dangerous Blunt attacks, but that's it.



This secret passage leads nowhere. Really?



Oh boy, a Hell Dragon. I think it doesn't have a weakness (maybe to Light, but probably not), and it resists the base elements. That plus some powerful attacks makes this guy a dangerous foe.



And these guys are all people we could have met up with earlier. I don't think I discussed the Sylph Princess, though. Like the Sylph, it's weak to Earth, and it can also use a move which makes itself act more times per turn. That's not very great.



The Nightblade God's Curse was another monster I forgot to show off earlier. Like the Nightblade God, it reflects magic, so take it down with physical attacks.



I hate Fire Breath.



Let's show off Remilia's Last Word, I guess?




This move fails on this guy right now, but what its supposed to do is change the enemy into Yukkuris. The chances of it happening are boosted by level.



What is the point of this door if it doesn't even open?



I want to get at least one of you...



Dragons. Suck.



At last we get the key! We're almost done with this place!



Here's the door!



And here's the boss room! Let's do this!



Whoa, it looks pretty dark around here. This could be bad...



I guess we have to fight, then?



I'll take that as a yes!



Oh hey there, TheNewGuy, how's it going? No, just kidding, it's Yuugi (where did you think he got his avatar from?). As for the fight, it's essential that you have a formation like Poison Shield that prevents area attacks from hitting the rest of your party when your tank is targeted. That's because Yuugi can use Rock Grenade, which is an area attack. The idea for this fight is simply just have Alice use Hourai Doll to draw Yuugi's attacks and then spam whichever one of her skills reduces all incoming physical damage by 95%. Yuugi is weak to Light, so lay it on her with Reimu and Patchy (and make sure you use Super Duplex Barrier set to physical to protect everyone while Alice is setting up Hourai Doll).



This could be trouble...






...I have NO comment. I think this is because Sanae's evasion buff also grants Perfect Dodge, so... yeah.



Nevertheless, we get her pretty easily.



Even if you have the strength of 100 men, we have magic. I know you can manipulate the supernatural, but that has nothing on proper magic.



Of course not. Poor Alice will have to be repairing her dolls for weeks...



Uh, yeah, we get that.



Oh right, the Malice. It was controlling you, I presume?



Hmm? I don't get how that works, but okay?



Ah, right. I didn't think you knew them that well, but okay? Hopefully they aren't causing TOO much trouble (although the last time I saw them in Do the Right Thing, Parsee is with Tenshi swearing her ass off because the tengu are assholes, and Yamame is catching lunch. I think).



Hopefully...



Crap.



We need to chase it down now!



Yeah, we could use an oni's strength here.



Way to go on the compliments there, Yuugi.



Hey, a new party member!




Hell yeah!



And that's our last character quest! We can get no more characters from here on out. Let's go over Yuugi quickly and then we'll end this update.
Yuugi is a physical powerhouse and a pretty good tank, but that's it. Most if not all of her skills use up bombs or are single target, so she's not really great for random encounters. She does have a very nice commander bonus for when you're using a physical nuker in your party, so there's that. All in all, I won't use her much, but she's there if you want a character with powerful attacks.
Unique Weapon: Rocks (Blunt-type weapon that usually carries slayers and partially ignore defense)
Growth Trees: Strongarm (Boosts PATK), Iron Shell (Boosts defense), Sake (Boosts bombos and critical power), Hell (boosts HP ands MP)
Commander Bonus: +5% physical power
Commander Spells: 1-Bomb: Oni's Wall (Reduces physical damage dealt to the party) 3-Bomb: Barrier of Mt. Ooe (Greatly reduces physical damage dealt to the party)
Last Word: Oni's Roar (increases all damage dealt to the enemy by 150% on the turn used)
Starting Skills: Supernatural Phenomenon (Medium power physical attack, costs a bomb)

And... that's it for all of the characters. Wow.



However, as you can tell, we're not done yet. Next time we'll head to the Forest of Magic in order to find out where the Malice is.

Summary:

Treasure: Iron (drop), Bamboo (drop), Oni's Metal Rod, Ostracon, Lizard Tail, Frozen Frog, Oni Fragment, Fresh Blood, Electric Shard (drop), Adamantite Shard, Yukkuri Medal of Honor (drop), Suppository

Skills: Powerful Miracle of Dispel (dispels all Variety effects on either the party or all enemies, Sanae), Life Steal (Medium power attack that drains HP from the enemy, Remilia), Curse of Vlad Tepes (Low power piercing attack that drains HP from the enemy, costs a bomb, Remilia), Hot Jupiter (Very High power all targeting Electric spell, costs a bomb, Patchouli), Red the Nightless Castle (Medium power large piercing attack, costs a bomb, Remilia), Ofuda of Great Healing (Medium power healing spell, Reimu)

Synthesis Done: Ragnarok (Remilia)

TPKs: 2 this update, 12 overall
Frustration: The dungeons only get worse. *sigh*

Actually, it looks like there is a problem. The images get cut off by the spoiler thing... is there any way to fix that?

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I'm just going to keep these updates as links, unless someone here wants them here as well. So here's an update from nowhere!

Pursuit of the Malice- Part 2: I Hate Dragons

In which I fight dragons with much difficulty.

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Oh man, double post. Once I get back from something, it'll be a triple post.

Pursuit of the Malice- Part 3: Not Another Puzzle Dungeon...

In which I deal with puzzle dungeons and laptop crashes. Oh, and monsters. That's an essential part of every RPG.

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And triple post. Whew. This is it for tonight, for sure!

Pursuit of the Malice- Finale: A "Turn" for the Worst

Wherein we finally fight the one that caused all of this malice and disorder in Gensokyo. But is this truly the end?

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Chapter 1- Part 1: You Can't Fight Fate

Wherein we learn that... you can't fight fate. Kind of an obvious title.