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Let's play Mother 3 (Completed)
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Update 8: It’s not child labor if they’re willing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5DSMOAT6P8
We finally arrived to the factory. From now, the first thing to do after reaching a new area will be extracting any money we gained after fighting the random monsters, and talking to everyone (duh).
”but you do get free ticks to Club Titiboo out of it. So it’s not all bad.”
Fuck off, Lucas is too stubborn to be exploited by the jew-pork-army.
That vending machine works as a shop, but it only offers food (with a new item, the Fizzy Soda, not worth of buying ‘cause you can get better stuff with the random items the enemies drop when they’re purified), but you can sell any junk you don’t want.
As I said before the Item Guy will always be in every new zone you arrive. Before continuing to that Club Titiboo let’s read some signs to see what we can expect to see.
”Please come in and enjoy! Let our profoundly bizarre atmosphere wash over you!”
”Clib Titiboo has what you want. Let our profoundly… (same shit as before).”
Intelligence: Wouldn’t Lucas’ age be a problem? Would the Pork-army consider him to be too young to enter that club and yet old enough to work? We’ll discover it soon.
New area, with new monsters of course, starting with an odd static enemy.
Dangerous because it’s more powerful than anything you can do at your current level, has lots of HP, can use PSI if I recall correctly, and can even drop seeds and grow clones of himself (and as you see the party is not ready for a long battle).
”Why, you, of course!”
Wisdom: With “you” specifying your money of course. As we finish reading, the strange Chimera in front of us attacks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9YQb0M_LKg&NR=1
Don’t ask how the Chimera is supposed to be, the point is that its most annoying attack is covering one party member with fleas (seriously):
As I walk around, I realize the game is subtly telling me that I shouldn’t be wandering the surrounding zones yet on this chapter, Mother 3 says GTFO to level scaling, I had to run away of many monsters before they crushed Lucas to pieces (I’ll show all of them when the party is powerful enough).
Perception: I guess we’ll come back here later.
”I decided to take a shortcut to Club Titboo, which is why I’m climbing up this cliff here. *crawl**climb* I’d say I’m somewhere around Day 3 now. ”
Sucker.
Definitively impossible to continue on this way, unless we had a certain thief with us…
”you didn’t read it.”
Then how did Lucas know…? Bah, forget it.
”Tickets, please… You don’t seem to have any tickets. I can’t let you on without tickets. ”
Dammit, unfortunately violence is not an option here.
A pretty broad map is this one. Anyways, it seems we’ll have to do something with the factory to continue.
On the way back, Lucas learned Defense Up Alfa. As soon as he learns Shield-type powers and Defense Up Omega, his role when fighting bosses will be raising the party’s defense, less they’re one-hit-killed instantly enemy (the buffs stack, but you shouldn’t abuse because then the battles become stupidly easy), while the others party members throw everything they have against the boss (including using weakening powers). Now, the factory:
”If you feel like working, I’m sure they’ll hire you.”
Lol. However, we have to get back to work, there’s a village to be saved… Wait, no, it already had been conquered and corrupted. In any case:
”What’s that? You wanna go to Club Titiboo? That’s a special place for workers here to go and relieve their daily exhaustion. It’s not for people who don’t work here. If you absolutely HAVE to go there, then it’s simple. Just do some part-time work here. Whadya say? Yes or no?”
Confirmed, the Pigmask-jew-army do not care if someone complains about child-labor at all, considering that the only policemen here were bribed (plus the villagers don’t help), it’s understandable. We’ll say yes.
”The job is to transport Claymen. First, go allll the way inside. You’ll find a ladder there. Go down it. You’ll find a bunch of Claymen in the area below. Some of them’ll be almost out of energy, so you gotta bring them back up here. Bring them one at a time. After you’ve brought 3 up, you’re done. Just to be safe, I’ll give you this sketch of how the factory is laid out. (Got a Factory Sketch!) Oh, and sign your name on this document. No, no, not your name. I mean… you know. The name of… Of the person in the background… The person pulling the strings, I guess you could say? What I mean to say is…! Th-th-th-th-the player’s name. I just need it for verification purposes, it’s nothing too important. You know how it is. Anyways, if you could do that, that’d help out a lot.”
Umm, what? This is like Mother 2 again!! Just for fun when it asks to confirm the name I’ll decline, provoking a funny reaction for the Pigmask.
”I know I’m a Pigmask, but I’m honestly doing this for YOUR sake… So write your name right! Gwah, I can’t use this document anymore. But it’s all right. This is for your sake. Who cares if some paper gets wasted? (What happens with the limited resources like trees?) Okay, write it again on this piece of paper. You know. Th-th-th-the player’s name… (fine, I do it correctly this time) Great! Lightbane! Lightbane… Alright, I got it. I’ll add it to our records. Now listen. Don’t do anything bad, because that’ll only inconvenience Lightbane! So don’t forget that! Alright then, work hard.”
Now… Wait a minute, was the game somehow implying to threaten ME, the player? The only other game I remember something like this happening was Omikron The Nomad Soul. But wacky as it sounds, the Pigmask has not finished his speech:
”Dog! Go on ahead and do what the boss dog says (Ghostdog leaves). The Claymen low on energy are very weak, so you’ll know which ones they’re right away. Alright. Hop to it.”
Child labor plus forcing random animals to work, great. I guess that if they didn’t forced the elders to work to exhaustion was because they wouldn’t be productive and/or these were too clever.
”They’re diggin’ up clay to make Claymen out of.”
”But you can’t touch them. People can’t touch them, or else they’ll get zapped somethin’ fierce! I’ve never touched them, of course! ... But I really want to. Ignore the urges, ignore the urges.”
Intelligence: He suspiciously knows what does happen, as if he tried it before.
”You’re human, but will try turning it on anyway? *giggle* Yes or No? (We say No) Oh. Well, I guess that’s okay, too.”
But curiosity killed the cat. If you touch it...
Lucas gets shocked with the result (DUUR). Fortunately you can’t be killed this way; your hp will be lowered down to 1 hp and no more.
”Did you come to see me? …Oh, you didn’t? I see. How’s Clint? Same as always? I see.”
”It’s like, just shut up and work, will ya?!)”
”(It’s nice to exercise once in a while.)”
The Pig is too retarded for Lucas’ animal empathy to work. Nevertheless, we have to continue (not before restoring Lucas to full HP with the Restoration Device next to him).
The Pigman told very clearly what you have to do, so we’ll mess a bit with the workers for some gossip.
”I sue this lift to send low-energy Claymen up to the ground floor. So just bring one here and talk to me.”
All “healthy” Claymen say that when spoken to. Those are low on energy, however…
You just have to push it back to the start. More tedious than anything, but I have the advantage that the emulator has a turbo function.
We take the Clayman to Lou after the Pigmask unceremoniously forced the Clayman to get on the elevator.
The now refreshed Clayman runs back to continue working.
Because that’s easy and boring, we’ll pester the other workers before finishing the job for lulz and extra gossip.
”That’s what the ropeway behind the factory is for. You can go straight there going up the ropeway. If you’re thinking about climbing up the cliff instead, just forget about it.”
”I never imagined that you, of all people, would ever take the ropeway up to visit Club Titiboo. You ARE Lucas, right?”
”So I can see Violet in all her hotness. Hehehe.”
”I’m gonna have to haul this to the lift and carry it to the entrance… Yep. Looks like I’m stuck doing overtime today.”
I don’t know how you managed to broke a fucking walking piece of heavy clay, you fail HARD, man.
”I don’t know if it’s true or not, but they say there’s an insanely huge dragon buried underground. Supposedly, it’s bigger than this whole island… Yeah, right, you gotta be kidding me.”
This will be totally not relevant later, yep (and more references to Breath of Fire, concretely to BOF 3, where the game starts with a crystallized baby dragon after some miners found it)
That’s the last one, and there isn’t anything else that’s barely interesting, so let’s finish the job.
We receive 200 DP plus the Tickets.
”Work up a good sweat as you strive your dreams! You’re still young after all! It’s gotten really late. Go relax at Club Titiboo and have a good time. Good job today!”
Well, after all the place wasn’t that bad, it looked it had minimally hospitable conditions (until we step on the Chimera Lab, that’s stupidly inhuman and evil, you’ll see it much later though) and now we’ll discover if there’s a problem with Lucas’ age.
He was not exaggerating when he said it was late.
”Ahh! Oh crap! I fell asleep! I guess that’s what they call ‘sleep-standing’. Thanks for waking me up.”
Sucker. Before trying to go to that damned club, I would like to return to the town and buy some stuff…
”What the heck are you thinking, going into the tunnel this late at night?! I dunno what yer story is, but you’re still young! Don’t just throw you’re your life! Okay?! Alright then. Now that you understand, go on!”
Like before, Mr T believes you were going to commit suicide, and he's not amused with this idea. The dialogue in consequence is identical, however, there’s a slight change at the end:
”My big bro lives on the other side of this tunnel. People says he looks just like me… No idea what he’s up to lately, though.”
Finally the party reached the place where the Club Titiboo is. Before doing anything let’s check these binoculars for fun and profit.
(It cannot be seen on the screenshot but the strange tower was cracking with electricity) So ominous that even Ghostdog whined.
More fireworks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MFDEm5RkWA
Wisdom: This is the strangest entry ever for a club. For some reason it’s as if Poo’s palace from Earthbound was recycled (may or may not be possible).
”We don’t allow pets inside. Sorry, but I’m gonna have to ask you to leave.”
Lucas admits defeat and leaves. Dammit, we’ll need to think of another way to slip in (incidentally, that’s how a party member looks ingame when he’s ko’ed on battle; he/she looks ‘depressed’). 30 seconds later…
LOL. Very clever, Lucas. Will the trick work?
”It’s that guy who had a dog with him just a minute ago… and some dog-like dude.”
”Where’d that dog from earlier go, and where’d this dog-like dude come from?! And on top of that, you smell underage! *sniff* You smell like an underage kid and dog!”
Unfortunately the guards aren’t too stupid, and I don’t like how he knows Lucas’ smells “underage”… Better to not ask much; by the way, a fitting image:
”That’s our rule here! Scram! Get lost, you kid-like guy and you dog-like dude!”
IT’s EXTREME TIME…
”and the dog-smelling Wuuf! I take it you two’ve been mistaken for an underage kid and a dog yet again? *giggle*”
…Not. Doesn’t she look familiar (as I said before here’s another kick to the balls of the wretched Poo from Earthbound)?
”Especially this dog-like dude here. Shake! Don’t look away from me! Shake! See? You do know how to shake. *grin*”
”But, dude. If by chance you ARE a dog. You’d be one of the best dogs to ever shake. Heh.”
”Come in, have lots of fun, and forget about allllll your worries!”
Music’s link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0UKPQ4ToTE
Also, there are some songs that either the game doesn’t use/are hard to find/trigger, anyways I’ll post these now ‘cause I think they’re related with the actual situation (if not I’ll mention them later): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7qCN7ot ... re=related probably Kumatora’s unused theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA0UC3D_ ... re=related A possible song of Earthbound 64, fits the game perfectly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o-cxJ6z ... re=related Another possible Earthbound 64 song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtO0RrR ... re=related THE song of Earthbound 64, was supposed to be the game’s main theme, but it wasn’t grimdark and wacky enough.
”Listen, but don’t change the expression on your face. I know I’m dressed in this crappy girly outfit, but it’s me! Asuka! We met at the Sunshine Forest, remember? I’ll explain everything later... Put on a smile, will ya? Okay, good. Okay! The next DCMC song is about to begin! Please go on in and find some empty seats. *giggle*”
Cool. Did she managed to improve on her anger management issues?
”I really wish they’d get ried of that rule, though. IT’s so stupid. *giggle*”
”My apologies *giggle*”
I’m even greedier than the pork-army so I’ll not buy many of these.
As a somewhat realistic move, here they sell some stuff that’s the same junk we previously saw on a vendor machine but a bit more expensive, so I’ll not buy anything of it (except one Big City Burger, better to be sure than sorry).
”I got some homemade DCMC merchandise for ya right here! If it breaks or rips, I’ll stay up all night to fix it! Nah! Just kiddin’! I kid a lot! But never mind that, buy some o’ these here DCMC goods!”
Although it looks like it was useless garbage, all of this “merchandise” will have an actual, clever and very funny use, so we’ll buy one DCMC Shirt for Lucas, two Hats, and one ring for the party. The Pamphlet can be obtained for free later so I’ll not buy it. Also, 10 buck for an useless food that restore less than a soda that’s cheaper. I think the game is trying to tell us something here.
Well, enough with the delay, it’s SHOWTIME!! Because it’s better to be seen in movement, I’ll post the next sequence as a video, link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DBJ-QsbswA
We found Garret! Now we need to find a way to contact him.
”How about a DCMC Pamphlet as a souvenir of your visit to Club Titiboo? *chew**chew**giggle*They’re real popular with die-hard fans. You just scored yourself some nice swag! *giggle* (Lucas got a DCMC Pamphlet)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5DSMOAT6P8
We finally arrived to the factory. From now, the first thing to do after reaching a new area will be extracting any money we gained after fighting the random monsters, and talking to everyone (duh).
Fuck off, Lucas is too stubborn to be exploited by the jew-pork-army.
That vending machine works as a shop, but it only offers food (with a new item, the Fizzy Soda, not worth of buying ‘cause you can get better stuff with the random items the enemies drop when they’re purified), but you can sell any junk you don’t want.
As I said before the Item Guy will always be in every new zone you arrive. Before continuing to that Club Titiboo let’s read some signs to see what we can expect to see.
Intelligence: Wouldn’t Lucas’ age be a problem? Would the Pork-army consider him to be too young to enter that club and yet old enough to work? We’ll discover it soon.
New area, with new monsters of course, starting with an odd static enemy.
Dangerous because it’s more powerful than anything you can do at your current level, has lots of HP, can use PSI if I recall correctly, and can even drop seeds and grow clones of himself (and as you see the party is not ready for a long battle).
Wisdom: With “you” specifying your money of course. As we finish reading, the strange Chimera in front of us attacks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9YQb0M_LKg&NR=1
Don’t ask how the Chimera is supposed to be, the point is that its most annoying attack is covering one party member with fleas (seriously):
As I walk around, I realize the game is subtly telling me that I shouldn’t be wandering the surrounding zones yet on this chapter, Mother 3 says GTFO to level scaling, I had to run away of many monsters before they crushed Lucas to pieces (I’ll show all of them when the party is powerful enough).
Perception: I guess we’ll come back here later.
Sucker.
Definitively impossible to continue on this way, unless we had a certain thief with us…
Then how did Lucas know…? Bah, forget it.
Dammit, unfortunately violence is not an option here.
A pretty broad map is this one. Anyways, it seems we’ll have to do something with the factory to continue.
On the way back, Lucas learned Defense Up Alfa. As soon as he learns Shield-type powers and Defense Up Omega, his role when fighting bosses will be raising the party’s defense, less they’re one-hit-killed instantly enemy (the buffs stack, but you shouldn’t abuse because then the battles become stupidly easy), while the others party members throw everything they have against the boss (including using weakening powers). Now, the factory:
Lol. However, we have to get back to work, there’s a village to be saved… Wait, no, it already had been conquered and corrupted. In any case:
Confirmed, the Pigmask-jew-army do not care if someone complains about child-labor at all, considering that the only policemen here were bribed (plus the villagers don’t help), it’s understandable. We’ll say yes.
Umm, what? This is like Mother 2 again!! Just for fun when it asks to confirm the name I’ll decline, provoking a funny reaction for the Pigmask.
Now… Wait a minute, was the game somehow implying to threaten ME, the player? The only other game I remember something like this happening was Omikron The Nomad Soul. But wacky as it sounds, the Pigmask has not finished his speech:
Child labor plus forcing random animals to work, great. I guess that if they didn’t forced the elders to work to exhaustion was because they wouldn’t be productive and/or these were too clever.
Intelligence: He suspiciously knows what does happen, as if he tried it before.
But curiosity killed the cat. If you touch it...
Lucas gets shocked with the result (DUUR). Fortunately you can’t be killed this way; your hp will be lowered down to 1 hp and no more.
The Pig is too retarded for Lucas’ animal empathy to work. Nevertheless, we have to continue (not before restoring Lucas to full HP with the Restoration Device next to him).
The Pigman told very clearly what you have to do, so we’ll mess a bit with the workers for some gossip.
All “healthy” Claymen say that when spoken to. Those are low on energy, however…
You just have to push it back to the start. More tedious than anything, but I have the advantage that the emulator has a turbo function.
We take the Clayman to Lou after the Pigmask unceremoniously forced the Clayman to get on the elevator.
The now refreshed Clayman runs back to continue working.
Because that’s easy and boring, we’ll pester the other workers before finishing the job for lulz and extra gossip.
I don’t know how you managed to broke a fucking walking piece of heavy clay, you fail HARD, man.
This will be totally not relevant later, yep (and more references to Breath of Fire, concretely to BOF 3, where the game starts with a crystallized baby dragon after some miners found it)
That’s the last one, and there isn’t anything else that’s barely interesting, so let’s finish the job.
We receive 200 DP plus the Tickets.
Well, after all the place wasn’t that bad, it looked it had minimally hospitable conditions (until we step on the Chimera Lab, that’s stupidly inhuman and evil, you’ll see it much later though) and now we’ll discover if there’s a problem with Lucas’ age.
He was not exaggerating when he said it was late.
Sucker. Before trying to go to that damned club, I would like to return to the town and buy some stuff…
Like before, Mr T believes you were going to commit suicide, and he's not amused with this idea. The dialogue in consequence is identical, however, there’s a slight change at the end:
Finally the party reached the place where the Club Titiboo is. Before doing anything let’s check these binoculars for fun and profit.
(It cannot be seen on the screenshot but the strange tower was cracking with electricity) So ominous that even Ghostdog whined.
More fireworks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MFDEm5RkWA
Wisdom: This is the strangest entry ever for a club. For some reason it’s as if Poo’s palace from Earthbound was recycled (may or may not be possible).
Lucas admits defeat and leaves. Dammit, we’ll need to think of another way to slip in (incidentally, that’s how a party member looks ingame when he’s ko’ed on battle; he/she looks ‘depressed’). 30 seconds later…
LOL. Very clever, Lucas. Will the trick work?
Unfortunately the guards aren’t too stupid, and I don’t like how he knows Lucas’ smells “underage”… Better to not ask much; by the way, a fitting image:
IT’s EXTREME TIME…
…Not. Doesn’t she look familiar (as I said before here’s another kick to the balls of the wretched Poo from Earthbound)?
Music’s link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0UKPQ4ToTE
Also, there are some songs that either the game doesn’t use/are hard to find/trigger, anyways I’ll post these now ‘cause I think they’re related with the actual situation (if not I’ll mention them later): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7qCN7ot ... re=related probably Kumatora’s unused theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA0UC3D_ ... re=related A possible song of Earthbound 64, fits the game perfectly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o-cxJ6z ... re=related Another possible Earthbound 64 song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtO0RrR ... re=related THE song of Earthbound 64, was supposed to be the game’s main theme, but it wasn’t grimdark and wacky enough.
Cool. Did she managed to improve on her anger management issues?
I’m even greedier than the pork-army so I’ll not buy many of these.
As a somewhat realistic move, here they sell some stuff that’s the same junk we previously saw on a vendor machine but a bit more expensive, so I’ll not buy anything of it (except one Big City Burger, better to be sure than sorry).
Although it looks like it was useless garbage, all of this “merchandise” will have an actual, clever and very funny use, so we’ll buy one DCMC Shirt for Lucas, two Hats, and one ring for the party. The Pamphlet can be obtained for free later so I’ll not buy it. Also, 10 buck for an useless food that restore less than a soda that’s cheaper. I think the game is trying to tell us something here.
Well, enough with the delay, it’s SHOWTIME!! Because it’s better to be seen in movement, I’ll post the next sequence as a video, link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DBJ-QsbswA
We found Garret! Now we need to find a way to contact him.
lightbane
Arcane
- Joined
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Update 8: It’s not child labor if they’re willing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5DSMOAT6P8
We finally arrived to the factory. From now, the first thing to do after reaching a new area will be extracting any money we gained after fighting the random monsters, and talking to everyone (duh).
”but you do get free ticks to Club Titiboo out of it. So it’s not all bad.”
Fuck off, Lucas is too stubborn to be exploited by the jew-pork-army.
That vending machine works as a shop, but it only offers food (with a new item, the Fizzy Soda, not worth of buying ‘cause you can get better stuff with the random items the enemies drop when they’re purified), but you can sell any junk you don’t want.
As I said before the Item Guy will always be in every new zone you arrive. Before continuing to that Club Titiboo let’s read some signs to see what we can expect to see.
”Please come in and enjoy! Let our profoundly bizarre atmosphere wash over you!”
”Clib Titiboo has what you want. Let our profoundly… (same shit as before).”
Intelligence: Wouldn’t Lucas’ age be a problem? Would the Pork-army consider him to be too young to enter that club and yet old enough to work? We’ll discover it soon.
New area, with new monsters of course, starting with an odd static enemy.
Dangerous because it’s more powerful than anything you can do at your current level, has lots of HP, can use PSI if I recall correctly, and can even drop seeds and grow clones of himself (and as you see the party is not ready for a long battle).
”Why, you, of course!”
Wisdom: With “you” specifying your money of course. As we finish reading, the strange Chimera in front of us attacks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9YQb0M_LKg&NR=1
Don’t ask how the Chimera is supposed to be, the point is that its most annoying attack is covering one party member with fleas (seriously):
As I walk around, I realize the game is subtly telling me that I shouldn’t be wandering the surrounding zones yet on this chapter, Mother 3 says GTFO to level scaling, I had to run away of many monsters before they crushed Lucas to pieces (I’ll show all of them when the party is powerful enough).
Perception: I guess we’ll come back here later.
”I decided to take a shortcut to Club Titboo, which is why I’m climbing up this cliff here. *crawl**climb* I’d say I’m somewhere around Day 3 now. ”
Sucker.
Definitively impossible to continue on this way, unless we had a certain thief with us…
”you didn’t read it.”
Then how did Lucas know…? Bah, forget it.
”Tickets, please… You don’t seem to have any tickets. I can’t let you on without tickets. ”
Dammit, unfortunately violence is not an option here.
A pretty broad map is this one. Anyways, it seems we’ll have to do something with the factory to continue.
On the way back, Lucas learned Defense Up Alfa. As soon as he learns Shield-type powers and Defense Up Omega, his role when fighting bosses will be raising the party’s defense, less they’re one-hit-killed instantly enemy (the buffs stack, but you shouldn’t abuse because then the battles become stupidly easy), while the others party members throw everything they have against the boss (including using weakening powers). Now, the factory:
”If you feel like working, I’m sure they’ll hire you.”
Lol. However, we have to get back to work, there’s a village to be saved… Wait, no, it already had been conquered and corrupted. In any case:
”What’s that? You wanna go to Club Titiboo? That’s a special place for workers here to go and relieve their daily exhaustion. It’s not for people who don’t work here. If you absolutely HAVE to go there, then it’s simple. Just do some part-time work here. Whadya say? Yes or no?”
Confirmed, the Pigmask-jew-army do not care if someone complains about child-labor at all, considering that the only policemen here were bribed (plus the villagers don’t help), it’s understandable. We’ll say yes.
”The job is to transport Claymen. First, go allll the way inside. You’ll find a ladder there. Go down it. You’ll find a bunch of Claymen in the area below. Some of them’ll be almost out of energy, so you gotta bring them back up here. Bring them one at a time. After you’ve brought 3 up, you’re done. Just to be safe, I’ll give you this sketch of how the factory is laid out. (Got a Factory Sketch!) Oh, and sign your name on this document. No, no, not your name. I mean… you know. The name of… Of the person in the background… The person pulling the strings, I guess you could say? What I mean to say is…! Th-th-th-th-the player’s name. I just need it for verification purposes, it’s nothing too important. You know how it is. Anyways, if you could do that, that’d help out a lot.”
Umm, what? This is like Mother 2 again!! Just for fun when it asks to confirm the name I’ll decline, provoking a funny reaction for the Pigmask.
”I know I’m a Pigmask, but I’m honestly doing this for YOUR sake… So write your name right! Gwah, I can’t use this document anymore. But it’s all right. This is for your sake. Who cares if some paper gets wasted? (What happens with the limited resources like trees?) Okay, write it again on this piece of paper. You know. Th-th-th-the player’s name… (fine, I do it correctly this time) Great! Lightbane! Lightbane… Alright, I got it. I’ll add it to our records. Now listen. Don’t do anything bad, because that’ll only inconvenience Lightbane! So don’t forget that! Alright then, work hard.”
Now… Wait a minute, was the game somehow implying to threaten ME, the player? The only other game I remember something like this happening was Omikron The Nomad Soul. But wacky as it sounds, the Pigmask has not finished his speech:
”Dog! Go on ahead and do what the boss dog says (Ghostdog leaves). The Claymen low on energy are very weak, so you’ll know which ones they’re right away. Alright. Hop to it.”
Child labor plus forcing random animals to work, great. I guess that if they didn’t forced the elders to work to exhaustion was because they wouldn’t be productive and/or these were too clever.
”They’re diggin’ up clay to make Claymen out of.”
”But you can’t touch them. People can’t touch them, or else they’ll get zapped somethin’ fierce! I’ve never touched them, of course! ... But I really want to. Ignore the urges, ignore the urges.”
Intelligence: He suspiciously knows what does happen, as if he tried it before.
”You’re human, but will try turning it on anyway? *giggle* Yes or No? (We say No) Oh. Well, I guess that’s okay, too.”
But curiosity killed the cat. If you touch it...
Lucas gets shocked with the result (DUUR). Fortunately you can’t be killed this way; your hp will be lowered down to 1 hp and no more.
”Did you come to see me? …Oh, you didn’t? I see. How’s Clint? Same as always? I see.”
”It’s like, just shut up and work, will ya?!)”
”(It’s nice to exercise once in a while.)”
The Pig is too retarded for Lucas’ animal empathy to work. Nevertheless, we have to continue (not before restoring Lucas to full HP with the Restoration Device next to him).
The Pigman told very clearly what you have to do, so we’ll mess a bit with the workers for some gossip.
”I sue this lift to send low-energy Claymen up to the ground floor. So just bring one here and talk to me.”
All “healthy” Claymen say that when spoken to. Those are low on energy, however…
You just have to push it back to the start. More tedious than anything, but I have the advantage that the emulator has a turbo function.
We take the Clayman to Lou after the Pigmask unceremoniously forced the Clayman to get on the elevator.
The now refreshed Clayman runs back to continue working.
Because that’s easy and boring, we’ll pester the other workers before finishing the job for lulz and extra gossip.
”That’s what the ropeway behind the factory is for. You can go straight there going up the ropeway. If you’re thinking about climbing up the cliff instead, just forget about it.”
”I never imagined that you, of all people, would ever take the ropeway up to visit Club Titiboo. You ARE Lucas, right?”
”So I can see Violet in all her hotness. Hehehe.”
”I’m gonna have to haul this to the lift and carry it to the entrance… Yep. Looks like I’m stuck doing overtime today.”
I don’t know how you managed to broke a fucking walking piece of heavy clay, you fail HARD, man.
”I don’t know if it’s true or not, but they say there’s an insanely huge dragon buried underground. Supposedly, it’s bigger than this whole island… Yeah, right, you gotta be kidding me.”
This will be totally not relevant later, yep (and more references to Breath of Fire, concretely to BOF 3, where the game starts with a crystallized baby dragon after some miners found it)
That’s the last one, and there isn’t anything else that’s barely interesting, so let’s finish the job.
We receive 200 DP plus the Tickets.
”Work up a good sweat as you strive your dreams! You’re still young after all! It’s gotten really late. Go relax at Club Titiboo and have a good time. Good job today!”
Well, after all the place wasn’t that bad, it looked it had minimally hospitable conditions (until we step on the Chimera Lab, that’s stupidly inhuman and evil, you’ll see it much later though) and now we’ll discover if there’s a problem with Lucas’ age.
He was not exaggerating when he said it was late.
”Ahh! Oh crap! I fell asleep! I guess that’s what they call ‘sleep-standing’. Thanks for waking me up.”
Sucker. Before trying to go to that damned club, I would like to return to the town and buy some stuff…
”What the heck are you thinking, going into the tunnel this late at night?! I dunno what yer story is, but you’re still young! Don’t just throw you’re your life! Okay?! Alright then. Now that you understand, go on!”
Like before, Mr T believes you were going to commit suicide, and he's not amused with this idea. The dialogue in consequence is identical, however, there’s a slight change at the end:
”My big bro lives on the other side of this tunnel. People says he looks just like me… No idea what he’s up to lately, though.”
Finally the party reached the place where the Club Titiboo is. Before doing anything let’s check these binoculars for fun and profit.
(It cannot be seen on the screenshot but the strange tower was cracking with electricity) So ominous that even Ghostdog whined.
More fireworks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MFDEm5RkWA
Wisdom: This is the strangest entry ever for a club. For some reason it’s as if Poo’s palace from Earthbound was recycled (may or may not be possible).
”We don’t allow pets inside. Sorry, but I’m gonna have to ask you to leave.”
Lucas admits defeat and leaves. Dammit, we’ll need to think of another way to slip in (incidentally, that’s how a party member looks ingame when he’s ko’ed on battle; he/she looks ‘depressed’). 30 seconds later…
LOL. Very clever, Lucas. Will the trick work?
”It’s that guy who had a dog with him just a minute ago… and some dog-like dude.”
”Where’d that dog from earlier go, and where’d this dog-like dude come from?! And on top of that, you smell underage! *sniff* You smell like an underage kid and god!”
Unfortunately the guards aren’t too stupid, and I don’t like how he knows Lucas’ smells “underage”… Better to not ask much; by the way, a fitting image:
”That’s our rule here! Scram! Get lost, you kid-like guy and you dog-like dude!”
IT’s EXTREME TIME…
”and the dog-smelling Wuuf! I take it you two’ve been mistaken for an underage kid and a dog yet again? *giggle*”
…Not. Doesn’t she look familiar (as I said before here’s another kick to the balls of the wretched Poo from Earthbound)?
”Especially this dog-like dude here. Shake! Don’t look away from me! Shake! See? You do know how to shake. *grin*”
”But, dude. If by chance you ARE a god. You’d be one of the best dogs to ever shake. Heh.”
”Come in, have lots of fun, and forget about allllll your worries!”
Music’s link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0UKPQ4ToTE
Also, there are some songs that either the game doesn’t use/are hard to find/trigger, anyways I’ll post these now ‘cause I think they’re related with the actual situation (if not I’ll mention them later): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7qCN7ot ... re=related probably Kumatora’s unused theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA0UC3D_ ... re=related A possible song of Earthbound 64, fits the game perfectly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o-cxJ6z ... re=related Another possible Earthbound 64 song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtO0RrR ... re=related THE song of Earthbound 64, was supposed to be the game’s main theme, but it wasn’t grimdark and wacky enough.
”Listen, but don’t change the expression on your face. I know I’m dressed in this crappy girly outfit, but it’s me! Asuka! We met at the Sunshine Forest, remember? I’ll explain everything later... Put on a smile, will ya? Okay, good. Okay! The next DCMC song is about to begin! Please go on in and find some empty seats. *giggle*”
Cool. Did she managed to improve on her anger management issues?
”I really wish they’d get ried of that rule, though. IT’s so stupid. *giggle*”
”My apologies *giggle*”
I’m even greedier than the pork-army so I’ll not buy many of these.
As a somewhat realistic move, here they sell some stuff that’s the same junk we previously saw on a vendor machine but a bit more expensive, so I’ll not buy anything of it (except one Big City Burger, better to be sure than sorry).
”I got some homemade DCMC merchandise for ya right here! If it breaks or rips, I’ll stay up all night to fix it! Nah! Just kiddin’! I kid a lot! But never mind that, buy some o’ these here DCMC goods!”
Although it looks like it was useless garbage, all of this “merchandise” will have an actual, clever and very funny use, so we’ll buy one DCMC Shirt for Lucas, two Hats, and one ring for the party. The Pamphlet can be obtained for free later so I’ll not buy it. Also, 10 buck for an useless food that restore less than a soda that’s cheaper. I think the game is trying to tell us something here.
Well, enough with the delay, it’s SHOWTIME!! Because it’s better to be seen in movement, I’ll post the next sequence as a video, link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DBJ-QsbswA
We found Garret! Now we need to find a way to contact him.
”How about a DCMC Pamphlet as a souvenir of your visit to Club Titiboo? *chew**chew**giggle*They’re real popular with die-hard fans. You just scored yourself some nice swag! *giggle* (Lucas got a DCMC Pamphlet)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5DSMOAT6P8
We finally arrived to the factory. From now, the first thing to do after reaching a new area will be extracting any money we gained after fighting the random monsters, and talking to everyone (duh).
Fuck off, Lucas is too stubborn to be exploited by the jew-pork-army.
That vending machine works as a shop, but it only offers food (with a new item, the Fizzy Soda, not worth of buying ‘cause you can get better stuff with the random items the enemies drop when they’re purified), but you can sell any junk you don’t want.
As I said before the Item Guy will always be in every new zone you arrive. Before continuing to that Club Titiboo let’s read some signs to see what we can expect to see.
Intelligence: Wouldn’t Lucas’ age be a problem? Would the Pork-army consider him to be too young to enter that club and yet old enough to work? We’ll discover it soon.
New area, with new monsters of course, starting with an odd static enemy.
Dangerous because it’s more powerful than anything you can do at your current level, has lots of HP, can use PSI if I recall correctly, and can even drop seeds and grow clones of himself (and as you see the party is not ready for a long battle).
Wisdom: With “you” specifying your money of course. As we finish reading, the strange Chimera in front of us attacks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9YQb0M_LKg&NR=1
Don’t ask how the Chimera is supposed to be, the point is that its most annoying attack is covering one party member with fleas (seriously):
As I walk around, I realize the game is subtly telling me that I shouldn’t be wandering the surrounding zones yet on this chapter, Mother 3 says GTFO to level scaling, I had to run away of many monsters before they crushed Lucas to pieces (I’ll show all of them when the party is powerful enough).
Perception: I guess we’ll come back here later.
Sucker.
Definitively impossible to continue on this way, unless we had a certain thief with us…
Then how did Lucas know…? Bah, forget it.
Dammit, unfortunately violence is not an option here.
A pretty broad map is this one. Anyways, it seems we’ll have to do something with the factory to continue.
On the way back, Lucas learned Defense Up Alfa. As soon as he learns Shield-type powers and Defense Up Omega, his role when fighting bosses will be raising the party’s defense, less they’re one-hit-killed instantly enemy (the buffs stack, but you shouldn’t abuse because then the battles become stupidly easy), while the others party members throw everything they have against the boss (including using weakening powers). Now, the factory:
Lol. However, we have to get back to work, there’s a village to be saved… Wait, no, it already had been conquered and corrupted. In any case:
Confirmed, the Pigmask-jew-army do not care if someone complains about child-labor at all, considering that the only policemen here were bribed (plus the villagers don’t help), it’s understandable. We’ll say yes.
Umm, what? This is like Mother 2 again!! Just for fun when it asks to confirm the name I’ll decline, provoking a funny reaction for the Pigmask.
Now… Wait a minute, was the game somehow implying to threaten ME, the player? The only other game I remember something like this happening was Omikron The Nomad Soul. But wacky as it sounds, the Pigmask has not finished his speech:
Child labor plus forcing random animals to work, great. I guess that if they didn’t forced the elders to work to exhaustion was because they wouldn’t be productive and/or these were too clever.
Intelligence: He suspiciously knows what does happen, as if he tried it before.
But curiosity killed the cat. If you touch it...
Lucas gets shocked with the result (DUUR). Fortunately you can’t be killed this way; your hp will be lowered down to 1 hp and no more.
The Pig is too retarded for Lucas’ animal empathy to work. Nevertheless, we have to continue (not before restoring Lucas to full HP with the Restoration Device next to him).
The Pigman told very clearly what you have to do, so we’ll mess a bit with the workers for some gossip.
All “healthy” Claymen say that when spoken to. Those are low on energy, however…
You just have to push it back to the start. More tedious than anything, but I have the advantage that the emulator has a turbo function.
We take the Clayman to Lou after the Pigmask unceremoniously forced the Clayman to get on the elevator.
The now refreshed Clayman runs back to continue working.
Because that’s easy and boring, we’ll pester the other workers before finishing the job for lulz and extra gossip.
I don’t know how you managed to broke a fucking walking piece of heavy clay, you fail HARD, man.
This will be totally not relevant later, yep (and more references to Breath of Fire, concretely to BOF 3, where the game starts with a crystallized baby dragon after some miners found it)
That’s the last one, and there isn’t anything else that’s barely interesting, so let’s finish the job.
We receive 200 DP plus the Tickets.
Well, after all the place wasn’t that bad, it looked it had minimally hospitable conditions (until we step on the Chimera Lab, that’s stupidly inhuman and evil, you’ll see it much later though) and now we’ll discover if there’s a problem with Lucas’ age.
He was not exaggerating when he said it was late.
Sucker. Before trying to go to that damned club, I would like to return to the town and buy some stuff…
Like before, Mr T believes you were going to commit suicide, and he's not amused with this idea. The dialogue in consequence is identical, however, there’s a slight change at the end:
Finally the party reached the place where the Club Titiboo is. Before doing anything let’s check these binoculars for fun and profit.
(It cannot be seen on the screenshot but the strange tower was cracking with electricity) So ominous that even Ghostdog whined.
More fireworks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MFDEm5RkWA
Wisdom: This is the strangest entry ever for a club. For some reason it’s as if Poo’s palace from Earthbound was recycled (may or may not be possible).
Lucas admits defeat and leaves. Dammit, we’ll need to think of another way to slip in (incidentally, that’s how a party member looks ingame when he’s ko’ed on battle; he/she looks ‘depressed’). 30 seconds later…
LOL. Very clever, Lucas. Will the trick work?
Unfortunately the guards aren’t too stupid, and I don’t like how he knows Lucas’ smells “underage”… Better to not ask much; by the way, a fitting image:
IT’s EXTREME TIME…
…Not. Doesn’t she look familiar (as I said before here’s another kick to the balls of the wretched Poo from Earthbound)?
Music’s link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0UKPQ4ToTE
Also, there are some songs that either the game doesn’t use/are hard to find/trigger, anyways I’ll post these now ‘cause I think they’re related with the actual situation (if not I’ll mention them later): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7qCN7ot ... re=related probably Kumatora’s unused theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA0UC3D_ ... re=related A possible song of Earthbound 64, fits the game perfectly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o-cxJ6z ... re=related Another possible Earthbound 64 song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtO0RrR ... re=related THE song of Earthbound 64, was supposed to be the game’s main theme, but it wasn’t grimdark and wacky enough.
Cool. Did she managed to improve on her anger management issues?
I’m even greedier than the pork-army so I’ll not buy many of these.
As a somewhat realistic move, here they sell some stuff that’s the same junk we previously saw on a vendor machine but a bit more expensive, so I’ll not buy anything of it (except one Big City Burger, better to be sure than sorry).
Although it looks like it was useless garbage, all of this “merchandise” will have an actual, clever and very funny use, so we’ll buy one DCMC Shirt for Lucas, two Hats, and one ring for the party. The Pamphlet can be obtained for free later so I’ll not buy it. Also, 10 buck for an useless food that restore less than a soda that’s cheaper. I think the game is trying to tell us something here.
Well, enough with the delay, it’s SHOWTIME!! Because it’s better to be seen in movement, I’ll post the next sequence as a video, link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DBJ-QsbswA
We found Garret! Now we need to find a way to contact him.
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2nd part
”I mean, you just met for the first time, right?! Man, you’re good!”
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
You don’t have to be sorry for that, but good luck with her, these type of bipolar bitches may be happy to see you and then try to strangle you to death on the next second. Anyways…
”What if all the trains have stopped running for today and I can’t get back home?”
Oh, that will not be a problem, the train’s driver decided to ditch it, you’ll just have to walk on a potentially deadly path to return to the town. Have a nice night.
”Now to head back to the factory and put in some overtime!”
”Lucky the bass player’s wig started to come off during the Tonda Gos-song!”
It’s funny to see that despite being the enemy an invading army the game shows you that the common Pigmen grunt is not a murderous mindless monster that kills for the lulz (unlike in some other games *cough*Mass Erect/DA/etc. *cough*)
The passage is short but filled with aggressive vermin.
Nothing threatening, a quick use of our BROPOWER will destroy them.
”Not to mention that sticky junk from all those slugs. I’m gonna hop in the shower real quick, so just relax here.”
Before you ask no matter how hard you try you’ll never get to see Asuka naked, but she continues to be very aggressive, proof here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRn1RM3Gf8I
”But we’ll never find out what happened to the Hummingbird Egg until Garret regains his memory. At this rate, there’s no tellin’ when the pigs’ll get their hands on it. Lucas. See Garret and try talking to him. Maybe he’ll remember something if he sees you two. They’re guards outside. They’re not exactly bad guys, but I don’t wanna risk makin’ things more complicated.”
”You can get to Garret’s room from there. It’s not the most direct way of getting’ there, but you’re less likely to get caught. I’ll get all the DCMC together. I’ll need to explain the situation to them, too. See you in a little bit.”
She storms out. Before walking to the attic we can search her room for something lootable.
Even Asuka’s shower is as EXTREME as her.
There’s no other way than the attic. Of course, it’s another dungeon, an appropriately absurdly enormous attic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqBwqjmEWLM
The jew-mouse sells new stuff. We buy a Better Stick for Lucas and 2 Pencil Rockets (very expensive but worth of it, they’re very damaging, though not as broken as Jeff’s Bottlerockets)
The dungeon’s map, and the Item Guy. I’ll not even ask how the hell he managed to take the wagon with him. You know the drill: New map, new enemies, like:
Can poison you, and that’s all (for fun, the game’s “official description”: Located at the attic of Club Titiboo and has an incredible three, no, four exclamation marks in its name. That's just the kind of spider it is.)
The even “jewer” mouse with dual-wielding cheese, may steal something and drops random junk frequently.
Odd. Is that a floating instrument? We have to reach it first, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4nDglu78d8&NR=1
Very weak but can steal hp. Also, surprise surprise, the instrument of before was floating ‘cause it’s for some reason cursed, and will attack you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uVECeqZ ... re=related
Cool song, and moderately powerful (can perform an electric shock attack for 35 points of damage to Lucas and Ghostdog). Some trivia: The Gently Weeping Guitar is based in a Gibson Flying V; The name of the monster comes from a famous Beatles song called "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", and his theme is a rock version of the Hippy’s one of Mother 2.
Lucas learned another power as we were exploring the dungeon. Compared to Earthbound Lifeup Beta is more effective (and Lucas will only improve on these powers).
Another strange creature, can change its battle music at will, and perform a sixteen-beat attack (a combo). His ingame description is: "Even after being torn, it defiantly orders not to give up, but to bang on the rim instead! It isn't easily beaten."
The songs it can have are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX48FVJpRPc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjh_rQpp ... re=related
It usually alternates between these two. At the end of the dungeon, near the expected boss that’s guarding the exit, there’s a strange couple of mice that talk with an incomprehensible dialect:
”Wonned the rabbit us ahtta sum mo’ bess, izzat it? Eh, dat’s calvin. De ol’ pot ain’t usin’ de Bugs. But mum’s de dicky.) (Got Peculiar Cheese) Weh’ve been waitin’ a bloody long ‘arry Lime all pat wiv yew aht on yeh toblerone.”
”Whe’ve ya been wivaht sennin’ a dicky bird? Ya didn’t come by fo’ New Yeah’s or Crackah Night, so yeh Grandmum an’ I’ ‘ve been all jack. So, wotcheh? Yeh mus’ be bleedin’ ‘ank Marvin, eh? ‘Eah’s summadat Nut Bread fo’ yeh (got Nut Bread). Why aincha show ya jem rahn heah more? Jus’ cos me an’ de fridge live in dis pope don’ mean we can let in jes aneh ol’ bloke. We’ah plannin’ on a couple uh right long nellies. We’ah watchin’ aht fo’ barney. Catch me drif’, garden gate? Right, eh, Gramps? Yeh, de dutch is spot on. An ice cream like me would go right radio if some jam roll fahn’ aht we’ah artfuls. Dat Johnson lot free doors ovah wos taken fo’ Fred Wests, an’ now they’ah brown bread. So yeh need to watch aht fo’ barney, too. Yeh’ get me?)”
It refills all health and pp of the party (not ailments though).
”But ever since the bass below showed up, I’ve been left to rot in this moldy-smeeling attic.”
”I’m gonna turn this frustration into violence and take my stress out on you guys! You’re gonna be bawlin’ your eyes out!”
So, our dungeon boss is a bass that was so butthurt that his Machine Spirit animated it, and decided to randomly attack Lucas? Whatever, IT’S SHOWTIME!
”You two know each other.”
”It’s true that I don’t even remember my real name, but I’ve lived my life as Lucky for years now.”
”I hate to ask, but could you tell him everything you remember, too?”
”I can definitively tell that something very important is taking place here… I had absolutely no memory whatsoever from before I came to Club Titiboo. I had no idea who I was, where I came from, or where I was going. But for some reason, I was clutching a strange egg with great care. I didn’t know where I was going, yet I continued to walk desperately. All I knew was that the egg was really important for some reason. I knew I absolutely HAD to keep it safe… So I looked for a place to hide it. And then, after walking and walking, I buried the egg inside a big dirt clod in a valley, where I knew no one would ever find it. I still now where it is. I haven’t forgotten. You go up a cliff near a giant waterfall and…”
The same ominous tower of before. I hope the band doesn’t mind if someone could hear Garret spilling out information they could use against us.
”The egg we all worked so hard to protect is there! Let’s go there right now!”
”If I am this ‘Garret’ person, that means I’ll have to leave the band… Right? Garret or Lucky… One of them will cease to exist after today… Right?! If it turns out I’m Garret, what happens to the DCMC? But if I continue to live as Lucky, then what was that egg thing all about? What should I do?! I just can’t decide…”
Hmm, that’s an understandable reaction. What should we do?
”If destiny decides it, I’ll say goodbye to you with a smile on my face.”
”The same thing we’ve always done whenever we weren’t sure what to do.”
And that way is…
*facepalm* Rather silly when the game is linear to introduce a minigame of luck (may had been done on purpose).
”This Lucas fellow will play Stone-Sheet-Clippers with us. If he beats all five of us in a row, you’ll go. But if he loses even once, you’ll stay in the DCMC and keep on playing the bass. How’s that sound?”
”Whenever me, Magic, and Baccio play Stone-Sheet-Clippers, we always end in a tie. Let me be the last one to go. After all, I AM the band leader.”
We’ll talk to everyone before accepting their terms.
”we’d always wind up in a tie. You ready to go? (lets’ say no for now) Whew. I fell the same way.”
”Alright, let’s do this thing (nope) Come here after you’ve calmed yourself down.”
”this game. That explains why Baccio loses to Magic.”
When the minigame starts you may choose if you want to use stone, sheet, or clippers. It doesn’t matter because if you fail there’ll be always an excuse to try again. For example, if we screw up against Magic, this happens:
”It’s again the rules to go after like that. Stooooone, sheeeet, clippers!”
If you end on a tie:
And if you win…
Again, if you lose:
”Come on, now! Destiny is riding on this! Let’s go at the same time!”
when it’s a tie:
When Lucas wins:
”Sorry, let’s do a do-over! Stooone, sheet, clippers!”
When you lose that happens.
”Let’s go again!”
An “intense” tie (as intense as it can get when they always use the same move).
A tie results on:
If you lose…
”Sorry. Do-over.”
Only the band leader remains. How will this deep, challenging and intense minigame end?
”If I win this, Lucky will stay in the DCMC. If you win, Lucky will go with you. Lucky… You cool with that?”
”And if it’s not my destiny, he’ll lose and I’ll stay here… It’s as simple as that.”
”Do ‘clippers’. I’m going to do ‘sheet’. Tonda Gossa! Alright, here we go! Stoone, sheeeet, clippers!”
OJ wants you to win (as if it would be hard when Lucas has a sort of telepathy). However, if you lose on purpose, this happens. Neckbeard storms in:
”NOT! Keep it down, will ya?! You’re your guy’s hootin’ and hollerin’ for the stage!”
”I forgot what we just did, so let’s do a do-over.”
Time to win:
”I guess Lucky probably is this Garret guy, after all. Go! Don’t worry about anything else at all!”
”Which means I have no reason to stay here anymore, either. Alright! Time to get outta these girl clothes! Thanks for everything guys. Take care, now! Outta my way, dammit! (we can hear someone is punched as she leaves)”
”I’m gonna miss you, man. I hope we meet again someday.”
”Okay! Let’s go!”
Garret rejoins us! And he comes with the same gear he had in Chapter 2, plus something new:
”Let’s go!”
Asuka joins us (after she koed the guards with a single punch, despite being her a fragile wizard character)!
And the chapter’s ending is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXRV5i8FSWo
Well, our “Broparty” is now complete, starring an emotionally broken kid with psychic powers, a psychic witch with anger management issues, a crippled thief with temporary amnesia, and a sentient dog. What will this bunch of ragtags/unlikely heroes do now? See it on the next update!
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.You don’t have to be sorry for that, but good luck with her, these type of bipolar bitches may be happy to see you and then try to strangle you to death on the next second. Anyways…
Oh, that will not be a problem, the train’s driver decided to ditch it, you’ll just have to walk on a potentially deadly path to return to the town. Have a nice night.
It’s funny to see that despite being the enemy an invading army the game shows you that the common Pigmen grunt is not a murderous mindless monster that kills for the lulz (unlike in some other games *cough*Mass Erect/DA/etc. *cough*)
The passage is short but filled with aggressive vermin.
Nothing threatening, a quick use of our BROPOWER will destroy them.
Before you ask no matter how hard you try you’ll never get to see Asuka naked, but she continues to be very aggressive, proof here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRn1RM3Gf8I
She storms out. Before walking to the attic we can search her room for something lootable.
Even Asuka’s shower is as EXTREME as her.
There’s no other way than the attic. Of course, it’s another dungeon, an appropriately absurdly enormous attic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqBwqjmEWLM
The jew-mouse sells new stuff. We buy a Better Stick for Lucas and 2 Pencil Rockets (very expensive but worth of it, they’re very damaging, though not as broken as Jeff’s Bottlerockets)
The dungeon’s map, and the Item Guy. I’ll not even ask how the hell he managed to take the wagon with him. You know the drill: New map, new enemies, like:
Can poison you, and that’s all (for fun, the game’s “official description”: Located at the attic of Club Titiboo and has an incredible three, no, four exclamation marks in its name. That's just the kind of spider it is.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4nDglu78d8&NR=1
Very weak but can steal hp. Also, surprise surprise, the instrument of before was floating ‘cause it’s for some reason cursed, and will attack you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uVECeqZ ... re=related
Cool song, and moderately powerful (can perform an electric shock attack for 35 points of damage to Lucas and Ghostdog). Some trivia: The Gently Weeping Guitar is based in a Gibson Flying V; The name of the monster comes from a famous Beatles song called "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", and his theme is a rock version of the Hippy’s one of Mother 2.
Lucas learned another power as we were exploring the dungeon. Compared to Earthbound Lifeup Beta is more effective (and Lucas will only improve on these powers).
Another strange creature, can change its battle music at will, and perform a sixteen-beat attack (a combo). His ingame description is: "Even after being torn, it defiantly orders not to give up, but to bang on the rim instead! It isn't easily beaten."
The songs it can have are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX48FVJpRPc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjh_rQpp ... re=related
It usually alternates between these two. At the end of the dungeon, near the expected boss that’s guarding the exit, there’s a strange couple of mice that talk with an incomprehensible dialect:
It refills all health and pp of the party (not ailments though).
So, our dungeon boss is a bass that was so butthurt that his Machine Spirit animated it, and decided to randomly attack Lucas? Whatever, IT’S SHOWTIME!
The same ominous tower of before. I hope the band doesn’t mind if someone could hear Garret spilling out information they could use against us.
Hmm, that’s an understandable reaction. What should we do?
And that way is…
*facepalm* Rather silly when the game is linear to introduce a minigame of luck (may had been done on purpose).
We’ll talk to everyone before accepting their terms.
When the minigame starts you may choose if you want to use stone, sheet, or clippers. It doesn’t matter because if you fail there’ll be always an excuse to try again. For example, if we screw up against Magic, this happens:
If you end on a tie:
And if you win…
Again, if you lose:
when it’s a tie:
When Lucas wins:
When you lose that happens.
An “intense” tie (as intense as it can get when they always use the same move).
A tie results on:
If you lose…
Only the band leader remains. How will this deep, challenging and intense minigame end?
OJ wants you to win (as if it would be hard when Lucas has a sort of telepathy). However, if you lose on purpose, this happens. Neckbeard storms in:
Time to win:
Garret rejoins us! And he comes with the same gear he had in Chapter 2, plus something new:
Asuka joins us (after she koed the guards with a single punch, despite being her a fragile wizard character)!
And the chapter’s ending is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXRV5i8FSWo
Well, our “Broparty” is now complete, starring an emotionally broken kid with psychic powers, a psychic witch with anger management issues, a crippled thief with temporary amnesia, and a sentient dog. What will this bunch of ragtags/unlikely heroes do now? See it on the next update!
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Update 9: Ghosts and factories
Sorry for the delay, here’s the update. First, a link with the intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9X5c4WZXw
Perception: That tower of before may be related with the super-accurate lightning that constantly strikes the town. Or maybe not.
To the north there’s a cave with a hot spring, a save frog, and other thingies.
”Some worms, perhaps? Will you take a look?”
As you see it sells some gear we could use, unfortunately we can’t afford to buy everything we want, so we’ll do the smart move here, that’s: backtracking and slaying all of those Pigtunias and Cattlesnakes now that our Broparty is complete.
When you exit the cave you spot the item guy walking way (this will be the first and possibly last time you see him moving, he somehow knows where will be your next destination).
Now that we have a full party it’s possible to kill Cattlesnakes using Garret’s Smoke Bomb to blind them, then Asuka and Garret to reduce its Offense and Defense, gaining a total of 536 experience points per kill, easily leveling up with their deaths. Yay!
That’s another new enemy I forgot to show, an unholy abomination formed by a barracuda and a puppy. Probably one of the most fucked up chimeras. And it’s powerful: It can use PSI Freeze Beta and can poison one party member with its venomous fangs. If you kill enough Dogfishes a special Dogfish Alpha may appear (stronger than usual and thus giving more xp), but I never bothered to check it ingame.
After the slaying it drops a nice healing item for Ghostdog.
Wisdom: Hmm, I think later we’ll need to come back here for some reason.
Lucas and Asuka gained new powers. And now, gentlemen, probably the wackiest thing you ever saw:
Okay. There’s no words to describe this madness, except to comment it hits harder than a truck, and it’s tough.
We got some loot and see that this old man is still a failure.
After leveling up 2 or 3 times, the party refreshes at the “local” healing spring.
The chicken will give you a Fresh Egg every time you speak to one. You can exploit it to obtain some cheap and effective healing items.
Asuka learned another power after another levelup, and we found a Luxury Banana. As the text says, they’re pretty rare except in a certain area. You can return to the factory to work again time for 200 DP, but it’s not worth of it ‘cause you gain much more by fighting, although it’s fun to check the updated dialogues.
”Understand?”
”It’s an old habit from our comedy days.”
”Oh yeah. I forgot there was a time when we used to do that.”
”But no one besides me will listen to me.”
”Ultimately, I want to go into the big city and build a doghouse so gigantic it’ll make everyone jump in shock. No, ‘house’ isn’t the right word for it at all. That’d be a palace. Yeah, a dogpalace.)”
Ambitious dog is ambitious.
”You’re free to look around, but be sure not to get in Lucas’ way, okay? (looking to Ghostdog) Are you… one of Lucas’ friends, too? Shake! Ahh! Sorry! Sorry” You just had that air about you, so I did that without thinking… Not many people have that air about them, wouldn’t you agree? Alright. Hop to it.”
”Did I? Did I not? I guess it doesn’t matter either way, because I love peaches.”
”It almost feels like there’s a gaping hole in my heart now… That girl with you sure looks a lot like Violet.”
Alright, we have more than enough stuff, time to continue the game… After we check the DCMC’s stage a last time.
No idea what was that for. We could immediately return where we were once the chapter started, but first we’ll go to Tazmily for some new loot that appeared and an optional boss.
”For everyone else, a ticket to Cross Road Station is 2500 DP per person. Are you factory workers?”
Technically Lucas is a part-timer. Will it do?
”Then one ticket will be 2500 DP.”
Fucker, no way I’m paying this. After running for some minutes (killing everything that dared to stand on our way), Asuka and Lucas learn more powers.
PK Fire Beta (and Gamma and finally Omega) is even more powerful than in Earthbound, because here you can set enemies on fire for extra damage and Asuka is the only offensive psyker here. Our destination is the Osohe Castle…
”It WAS the setting for an adventure 3 years ago, though. But there’s been nothing at all since then. Nothing. In fact, if you hadn’t come and talked to me just now, today would’ve been yet another empty day leading into another empty tomorrow. So, how about a leisurely chat? No?! Oh, but I want to talk. No? I see. Okay. Whatever.”
”So more and more of us gave up the party life as time went on.”
Our favorite Beethoven wannabe ghost is back and with a vengeance! Video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ0eNrde200
The Mystical Shoes are the best weapon for Garret, it raises lots of stats, and you only can getn these on Chapter 5. A badass thief needs badass boots, indeed. Like in Earthbound, the game has ultimate items like most jprgs, but unlike these you don’t need to beat an impossible to defeat ultra-omni-giga-boss to gain these (most are gained either random drops from certain enemies, or like this case). Actually, there’s one boss of the impossible-to-beat ones, I’ll explain when it’s time. Now we return to Tazmily Village for more gossip.
”have to do a lot more work than officers in the mountains? That seems a bit unfair to me.”
Well, that’s because the ones at the mountains “just” have to deal with a constant danger of instant death if one aggressive chimera attacks them. I think it’s something you surely do not want to experience.
”I was about to say something, but now I forget what it was.”
It’s called brain damage.
”I don’t have the heart to tell him, though.”
Then let the problem become worse, dumb woman.
”From what I can tell, you have about 3565 DP. Way more than me. That’s no fair.”
This man will exactly count how much money you have, an easter egg and nothing else.
”Everyone’s talking about how you’ve been living it up at clubs instead of coming home. And then there’s Clint, always wandering around in the mountains, aimlessly. You’re such a weird family.”
You have no right to say that, whore (news sure travels fast here, what happens with all of the other people at the club? They don’t count?)
”Understand?”
Yes, you become more corrupted and even more of a puppet as this village develops according to the Porkarmy’s whims, not yours.
”You have some nerve.”
Great way of greeting a neighbor that has been missing for like 3 years (that makes me wonder: how fast was the village modernized? How much time had been Asuka working for the DCMC? Why didn’t she noticed Garret before and tried to tell it to Lucas and co? Probably due the ever-present pork-soldiers and Fassad).
You’ll discover what is Nichol referring to much later.
”Or unclassy…”
Hmm, it’s Mother 3 making fun of itself with this comment? Perhaps.
”I’d prefer to avoid rumors that we have thieves coming and going here…”
Sadly, at the end it seems that redneck Butch managed to convince the rest of the village of its hideous lies. Well, it’ll be worse with you at the end.
”It really helps soothe my throat.”
Your guess is as good as mine.
”so I’ve been keeping watch this whole time. He’s not very suspicious, though.”
”I have to stand in this one spot for a really long time, for example.”
That could be a vague joke to one common element in most rpgs (specially with these “next-gen”): the important npcs will never move from a certain place and stand still for hours.
”’Cause you’re a nuisance. I know things may not seem all that tension-filled here, but trust me, they are! So quit, already! Quit asking your dumb questions!”
”Reggie sometimes discouraged.”
”This has to be a joke! A 20 million year prison sentence?!”
It's confirmed, the policemen were later recycled to be Oblivion guards and Bethstapo moderators.
”… That’s as far as the song goes so far.)”
”I’m busy sorting letters. Please don’t bother me.”
Bateau went from being emo to a complete dick.
”Lucas. Why don’t you try looking at one, just once?”
You already know the reply.
”That’s what regular folk look forward to. They even got a band there.”
The last thing we’ll do in Tazmily is visiting old man Wess, he’ll surely be “interested” with Lucky.
”so everything is worn out or broken, like the floors and such.”
A shame no-one cares about your problems, more when the Mayor is blatantly corrupt.
”You have legs, right? I see you’re the same… The same as ever. You didn’t need to come to see me… But thank you for remembering me, Lucas. Princess… You’re too kind to me. Thank you very much. Say, you there… Don’t you still have something left to do? We can hang out afterwards. You should really take care of your health. Well, see you. Oh, that ‘See you’’ just now was meant for Ghostdog… You shouldn’t dawdle, Lucky or whatever your name is! Go on! Get going!’”
Aww, he almost paid a compliment to Lucky! It seems that after all he cares a bit for his son. Now we’ll return to the cave of the beginning.
Another easter egg of the game is that sometimes in certain hot springs (it’s always randomized), an old man will be here relaxing. It does nothing for the storyline but it’s still wacky.
This time I’ll present two new enemies, the Parental Kangashark and the Reconstructed Lion. Both are not a threat for our “Broparty” (though watch out for the Reconstructed Lion’s fire breath), unlike…
The terrifying Mecha-Turtle! This thing has lots of hp, and hits very hard. More specifically, unlike standard enemies, you’ll be interested on a full frontal assault for these guys, ‘cause if you attack them from behind, or allow them to turn around…
They’ll unleash hell on your party (specially if they start spamming a missile rain). To sum it up: Kill them quickly and mercilessly (using psychic powers if necessary).
Ghostdog asks Lucas to ditch the disguise, and he agrees. A shame, he looked funnier that way. On the next zone…
Sorry for the delay, here’s the update. First, a link with the intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9X5c4WZXw
Perception: That tower of before may be related with the super-accurate lightning that constantly strikes the town. Or maybe not.
To the north there’s a cave with a hot spring, a save frog, and other thingies.
As you see it sells some gear we could use, unfortunately we can’t afford to buy everything we want, so we’ll do the smart move here, that’s: backtracking and slaying all of those Pigtunias and Cattlesnakes now that our Broparty is complete.
When you exit the cave you spot the item guy walking way (this will be the first and possibly last time you see him moving, he somehow knows where will be your next destination).
Now that we have a full party it’s possible to kill Cattlesnakes using Garret’s Smoke Bomb to blind them, then Asuka and Garret to reduce its Offense and Defense, gaining a total of 536 experience points per kill, easily leveling up with their deaths. Yay!
That’s another new enemy I forgot to show, an unholy abomination formed by a barracuda and a puppy. Probably one of the most fucked up chimeras. And it’s powerful: It can use PSI Freeze Beta and can poison one party member with its venomous fangs. If you kill enough Dogfishes a special Dogfish Alpha may appear (stronger than usual and thus giving more xp), but I never bothered to check it ingame.
After the slaying it drops a nice healing item for Ghostdog.
Wisdom: Hmm, I think later we’ll need to come back here for some reason.
Lucas and Asuka gained new powers. And now, gentlemen, probably the wackiest thing you ever saw:
Okay. There’s no words to describe this madness, except to comment it hits harder than a truck, and it’s tough.
We got some loot and see that this old man is still a failure.
After leveling up 2 or 3 times, the party refreshes at the “local” healing spring.
The chicken will give you a Fresh Egg every time you speak to one. You can exploit it to obtain some cheap and effective healing items.
Asuka learned another power after another levelup, and we found a Luxury Banana. As the text says, they’re pretty rare except in a certain area. You can return to the factory to work again time for 200 DP, but it’s not worth of it ‘cause you gain much more by fighting, although it’s fun to check the updated dialogues.
Ambitious dog is ambitious.
Alright, we have more than enough stuff, time to continue the game… After we check the DCMC’s stage a last time.
No idea what was that for. We could immediately return where we were once the chapter started, but first we’ll go to Tazmily for some new loot that appeared and an optional boss.
Technically Lucas is a part-timer. Will it do?
Fucker, no way I’m paying this. After running for some minutes (killing everything that dared to stand on our way), Asuka and Lucas learn more powers.
PK Fire Beta (and Gamma and finally Omega) is even more powerful than in Earthbound, because here you can set enemies on fire for extra damage and Asuka is the only offensive psyker here. Our destination is the Osohe Castle…
Our favorite Beethoven wannabe ghost is back and with a vengeance! Video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ0eNrde200
The Mystical Shoes are the best weapon for Garret, it raises lots of stats, and you only can getn these on Chapter 5. A badass thief needs badass boots, indeed. Like in Earthbound, the game has ultimate items like most jprgs, but unlike these you don’t need to beat an impossible to defeat ultra-omni-giga-boss to gain these (most are gained either random drops from certain enemies, or like this case). Actually, there’s one boss of the impossible-to-beat ones, I’ll explain when it’s time. Now we return to Tazmily Village for more gossip.
Well, that’s because the ones at the mountains “just” have to deal with a constant danger of instant death if one aggressive chimera attacks them. I think it’s something you surely do not want to experience.
It’s called brain damage.
Then let the problem become worse, dumb woman.
This man will exactly count how much money you have, an easter egg and nothing else.
You have no right to say that, whore (news sure travels fast here, what happens with all of the other people at the club? They don’t count?)
Yes, you become more corrupted and even more of a puppet as this village develops according to the Porkarmy’s whims, not yours.
Great way of greeting a neighbor that has been missing for like 3 years (that makes me wonder: how fast was the village modernized? How much time had been Asuka working for the DCMC? Why didn’t she noticed Garret before and tried to tell it to Lucas and co? Probably due the ever-present pork-soldiers and Fassad).
You’ll discover what is Nichol referring to much later.
Hmm, it’s Mother 3 making fun of itself with this comment? Perhaps.
Sadly, at the end it seems that redneck Butch managed to convince the rest of the village of its hideous lies. Well, it’ll be worse with you at the end.
Your guess is as good as mine.
That could be a vague joke to one common element in most rpgs (specially with these “next-gen”): the important npcs will never move from a certain place and stand still for hours.
It's confirmed, the policemen were later recycled to be Oblivion guards and Bethstapo moderators.
Bateau went from being emo to a complete dick.
You already know the reply.
The last thing we’ll do in Tazmily is visiting old man Wess, he’ll surely be “interested” with Lucky.
A shame no-one cares about your problems, more when the Mayor is blatantly corrupt.
Aww, he almost paid a compliment to Lucky! It seems that after all he cares a bit for his son. Now we’ll return to the cave of the beginning.
Another easter egg of the game is that sometimes in certain hot springs (it’s always randomized), an old man will be here relaxing. It does nothing for the storyline but it’s still wacky.
This time I’ll present two new enemies, the Parental Kangashark and the Reconstructed Lion. Both are not a threat for our “Broparty” (though watch out for the Reconstructed Lion’s fire breath), unlike…
The terrifying Mecha-Turtle! This thing has lots of hp, and hits very hard. More specifically, unlike standard enemies, you’ll be interested on a full frontal assault for these guys, ‘cause if you attack them from behind, or allow them to turn around…
They’ll unleash hell on your party (specially if they start spamming a missile rain). To sum it up: Kill them quickly and mercilessly (using psychic powers if necessary).
Ghostdog asks Lucas to ditch the disguise, and he agrees. A shame, he looked funnier that way. On the next zone…
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Okay. How big can the underground be, anyways…?
What the…
But that’s a fucking enormous maze… Let’s get going.
Riveting. Of course, there’s lootable stuff here and enemies, who for some reason ignore the vulnerable moles to pounce against Lucas.
You must look for the “right” hole, only one lets you reach a previously inaccessible section of the dungeon.
We find a save frog, so we do the usual and extract all the money.
Wisdom: Your INT is below 4, right? That or you played too much Oblivion with Guns.
Indeed. Now we’ll finally be out of that strange maze, we have a job to do, that’s get back the Egg, a small army of sentient moles trying to dig a hole big enough to actually threaten the island’s stability and kill everyone for no actual reason other than for the lulz is nothing to worry about, I suppose. On the next zone a cutscene happens.
Suddenly, a lighting randomly strikes the forgotten Clayman.
However, the lightning awoke the sleeping golem.
This will surely complicate matters, the screenshots don’t show it but the clayman is madly running away at devilish speed while constantly crashing against the walls and such.
The strange device is constantly cracking with electricity.
We don’t have time to observe the painfully ominous and evil-looking Tower, duty calls.
We loot a special item already present on Earthbound, here it’s even better but to compensate the Cups of Lifenoodles no longer exist
Nothing especially interesting, I buy some food items and that’s it. At the moment Asuka learned another power.
Unfortunately I never bothered to try, I prefer to kill the enemies instead.
The party arrives interrupting the porskmen’s fascinating, deep and philosophical dialogue. However, shit happens:
He runs away, scared for some unknown reason…
The Pigmask notices Lucas and becomes agitated.
Humm, I wonder how someone could confuse Lucas with the Pigmen’s Commander.
Yep, and that’s strange, that would mean the Commander not only is IDENTICAL to Lucas but should have his same age more or less.
Indeed. In any case, for that lovely misunderstanding the Pigsmen will not be hostile to you, and Lucas gained badass clothes. A fair deal.
The screenshots don't show it but every few seconds a new clayman tech-heresy is created from the machine at the right, and there are other Claymen working at the factory, I’ll avoid these however ‘cause they don’t make sense on a screenshoot.
Lucas is happy that someone cared for him (comprehensible after we saw how egoistical, heartless and senseless Tazmilly Village is). Unfortunately that would mean that Pigmask is into pedophilia considering the probable age of the Commander.
These two do nothing but excuse themselves. The Commander could be a terrible/threatening man, it seems.
We could, but then the Egg would be smashed and we don’t want that.
Haven’t we heard that name somewhere? Okay, if by now you don’t suspect who is the Commander, the Scientist, and even the Porkarmy’s leader, you indeed played too many shit-dumbed down games and your IQ has lowered as a consequence.
Whatever the Enemy has for Techpriests they don’t trust the Pigmen enough to teach them anything more than the most basic blessings and rites so they can use the machines, a perfectly understandable reason.
So much that he falls asleep and doesn’t reply if you try to talk to him again.
We have to find the messed-up Clayman fast then, or it'll be lost forever.
Yeah, sure.
"I just saw an out-of-control run out"
Notice how certain Pigmen have different costumes according to their ranks. The white ones with cape are the highest ones if I recall correctly. The rest are more Claymen endlessly working. Nothing more barely interesting can be found, so we leave the factory through the other door, finding the malfunctioning Clayman. Sadly, the party arrives too late.
The pigdustman helps the Clayman to cling into the garbage truck by kicking it until it enters the garbage truck. We must chase them!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMaa27yCgXg
The highway have a new set of enemies, less you believed for one moment you were safe.
That’s what happened to the poor wild boars. This heretical monstrosity loves to constantly attack all of your party at once, so you should kill them quickly (they’re strong enough to resist several turns of physical attacks, so you must use offensive/defensive powers before they deal too much damage).
The scrapped robots are actually damaged for real, they start any battle suffering from the “feeling strange”/confusion ailment, and despite not being very dangerous they can do this:
For once the Item Guy was at the wrong place just when you needed him the most. Anyways, for the next section, I’ll post a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vCbAm6mbSA
Well, it’s look like this will not be a short trip, so I’ll finish the update here and leave the rest for the next update. Stay sharp until then!
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No, I haven't been eclipsed by the other lps, I've just been busy. Update this week, if possible and if someone is still interested.
As a snack to get interest, next update will be the last one where you have to suffer Fassad the terrible compulsive-obsessive banana-eating greedy jew sandnniger's constant ramblings. For real!
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Update 10: Tower of love and peace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMaa27yCgXg
Well, from where we are (the red spot should be a blinking but the screenshot doesn’t show it), to advance the plot we must go to where the tower is shown, that’s where the Garbage Dump is (and thus the place where the Garbage Truck will go). However, unlike certain corridors shooters/dungeon crawling crapfests nothing stops you of exploring all of the possible paths, so we’ll go first to the left path, and then go upward exploring every nook and cranny of the area.
The recharge stations are not for show, if you don’t use one at least once, your Pork Bean will eventually stop (without any way of finding a replacement except by loading a previous save), forcing you to continue the way on foot. Of course, we can still interact with the pigmen for some gossip.
Pigmask: ”Our Pork Bean ran out of power, you see, and… Yes? A garbage truck? Oh, one just headed north from here.”
”Oh, but please don’t worry. I’ll manage somehow.”
Doesn’t matter, there are many recharge stations.
Lucas learned Counter, an useful shield-type power that can be used to reflect most physical attacks against the enemy, it will be used ‘till Lucas learns a better Shield power (and I’m showing that Doggy Biscuit loot for reasons you’ll later see).
”I HAVE FORGOTTEN WHY I AM BROKEN, THOUGH… YOU CERTAINLY HAVE A LOT OF FREE TIME TO BE TALKING TO SOMETHING LIKE ME… SORRY! SORRY! IT WAS RUDE OF ME TO SAY THAT!”
? Okay… Actually, I thought it would be fun to see what happens if Lucas returns to his town dressed as the Commander, perhaps he’ll be able to find an excuse to order Isaac’s execution…
…Guess not. But this deserves special mention for probably one of the most original invisible wall on videogames’ history.
If your party feels very weak due a recent battle and/or you want to rush, it’s recommended to never leave the Pig Bean, absolutely everything here is hostile.
More a nuisance than anything besides being able to call reinforcements, this enemy is a pushover…
Something that cannot be said about the Atomic Power Robot, deadly as ever since Mother 2. It still explodes upon death…
And targets the entire party. What’s worse, now these enemies are more numerous and thus you will frequently fight against several of them. My recommendation is using strong multi-target attacks to kill all of them at once.
That odd sign is found near the entrance to the Death desert, that has some new loot to be found.
But you cannot return to the desert properly, a shame...
But it’s compensated with the looting (one of these boxes contains a Luxury Banana, and the other a Super Bomb, nice stuff).
Walking back to the dangerous highways, the party encounters another enemy, a non-broken version of the Scrappy Robot. It can use some psy, but the particularity is that his name is not for show; they still start with the “feeling strange” ailment and will sometimes lose turns trying to regain their balance, but still nothing threatening so far. Something I forgot to comment is that if you attack an Atomic Power Robot from behind, this may happen:
The robot will be totally defenseless and you’ll be able to exterminate it at your leisure.
Some “interesting” signs can be read too (incidentally, a random enemy really is crossing the highway the moment you read the sign).
Another new weapon for Asuka.
Horrible puns are horrible. Anyways, there’s something more intriguing here:
Mouse: ”My children went off to play and haven’t come home. If you happen to see them, please tell them their mother says to come home. Please. Please. Please! Oh, incidentally, I have seven children in all.)”
A fetch-quest, but this optional sidequest has a great reward and it’s easy to do, so we’ll do it. The mice can be found randomly at certain places.
Unfortunately, before we can do anything we’re attacked by a terrible foe (I had to read a random sing to be able to do a proper screenshot, the moment this thing sees you it will charge very fast against Lucas):
This bio-heresy can perform a special attack where it charges straight ahead against your party and then turns back, a double attack against the entire party. It should be considered a threat of Xenos Majoris type and be neutralized quickly and efficiently.
More fun with signs and our first missing mouse is found:
Child Mouse: ”Whew. Reading stuff is so hard. What? My mom’s calling for me? Okay. I’ll head back right now.)”
Child Mouse: ”Huh? My mom’s calling for me? Yikes!! I better get back before she gets REALLY mad at me!)”
There goes another. 5 to go.
Child Mouse: ”It’s scary! The world’s become so scary! Huh? What? My mom’s calling for me? She’s even scarier than the world is, when she wants to be! So I better get home right away, then!”
4 to go.
”(We do)Nice. Surely everyone gets the urge to write graffiti on something at least once, wouldn’t you say?”
A true valuable experience that was. We continue moving north, and we stop after we spot a suspicious pigmook:
Pigmask: ”No one can say no to buying this stuff. You want anything?”
The prizes are high but you will need at least one New Year’s Eve Bomb for a certain boss, plus you never have enough Pencil Rockets and Super Bombs.
Pigmask: ”…Say, you look kinda familiar somehow.”
“Uuuhh... Look! SOIL EROSION!!! *runs*”
Stray Dog: ”And, as you can see, I happen to be a stray dog! So there’s only one logical thing for you to do now. Please give me that Doggy Biscuit. I can’t stop drooling…”
Sure, why not?
Stray Dog: ”Oh, I know! You can have this! (Received a Pencil Rocket) Take good care of my thank-you gift!)”
I don’t want to know why a stray dog would have a highly powerful explosive.
Pigmask: ”It’s self-service, so please use it as you see fit. My job is to stand here and say that this station is self-service.”
One of the lamest jobs ever.
Sign: ”Step 1: Place your Pork Bean on the Recharge Panel. Step 2: Press the A button on the nearby device to supply the Pork Bean with power. Step 3: Once the device beeps, the recharge is complete. WARNING! When the device beeps, BE SURE to press the A Button to turn it off!”
Otherwise the Pork Bean explodes and you’re forced to continue on foot for being a retard. We recharge it carefully and continue.
Child Mouse: ”I wanna be a sperm whale and eat giant squids and stuff. Huh? My mom’s calling for me? Aw crap! This is no time for me to be dreaming about stuff! Okay, I’m going home now!)”
3 mice to go.
Even more fun with lol-signs.
Another mouse is hiding here.
Child Mouse: ”Whenever I eat a cookie and munch on it, my cheeks get all big and chubby! It’s so funny when they get like that. Huh? My mom? Oh, she’s smiley again today. She’s smiley whenever me and her are together. So I’m gonna go home now.”
We spot the garbage truck nearly arriving to its destination. Fortunately, you don’t have to hurry at all, there are things that demand your attention, like:
A new “weapon” for Ghostdog, plus this:
”ENERGY. COULD YOU PRESS THE SWITCH FOR ME AND HELP ME RECHARGE? I’M SORRY TO ASK. BUT COULD YOU DO THAT FOR ME? O…OHH. THANK YOU THANK YOU. I’LL GIVE YOU MONEY. BUT PLEASE KEEP THE RECHARGE UNDER 15 SECONDS. OR ELSE I MIGHT EXPLODE… AS CLOSE TO 15 SECONDS AS POSSIBLE IS THE BEST. I’LL GIVE YOU LOTS OF MONEY. IF THE RECHARGE IS TOO SHORT, THE MONEY I GIVE WILL BE LESS. TURN THE POWER ON AND OFF USING THE A BUTTON. I’M COUNTING ON YOU, DUDE!”
“’Or else I might explode’ you said?”
"FUUUUU….!!!!"
:twisted:
And KABOOM the robot went… but the screenshooter was not fast enough.
NO YOU.
This guy sells some new gear.
”I got souvenirs! I got food! I got stuff! You want somethin’?”
This new vendor sells some interesting stuff but they’re very expensive, we’ll have to kill some more enemies to get enough money for 2 Taurus Bracelets and 1 Souvenir Dress (the Yo-yo is too weak to be considered, and there’s one much better later and for free). Now the party enters the café…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqHCEzaA ... re=related
Ugh, that’s the seediest bar ever seen on a rpg since Anacronox. Fortunately humans on Nowhere islands evolved enough to be immune to contaminant gases. That or Lucas can hold his breath indefinitely.
Lady: ”Make yourselves at home…”
Pigmask: ”There must’ve been some sort of misunderstanding here!”
Guy: ”It’s such an incredible deal! In a way it’s infinite!”
EEWW. Let’s ask another fellow.
Skinhead: ”In fact, I love it even more than Club Titiboo!”
Pigmask: ”I know you’re not really the commander. You’re an impostor. Don’t worry though. I won’t tell no one. It’d be too much of a hassle anyways.”
That was… great? Why would a random pigmask on the filthiest bar possible recognize Lucas when several of his superiors couldn’t? Whatever, let’s keep going.
”It’s covered with cigarette stains and old ketchup. Try inserting 1 DP?”
Okay…
Jukebox: “Withered, old anchovies and the like are stuck to the record, but even so, it actually started to spin.”
There are several songs that are switched randomly, I’ll post all of these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21FRBqqh ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7qCN7ot ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA0UC3D_ ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o-cxJ6z ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtO0RrR ... re=related
My mistake, all of these songs exist ingame, I was wrong about what I said on the previous update (though I insist that some of these songs are scrapped ones from the original Earthbound 64).
”the table.”
Now let’s get out before Lucas passes out. Outside the café, at the right, there is… This:
Man: ”Or at least that’s the rumor, anyway. This line HAS to be the one!”
I’ll not comment about this insanity. In any case shortly after Lucas learned PSI Shield Alfa and Asuka learned PSI Magnet Alfa, and another child mouse is found:
Child Mouse: ”By the way, I’m pretty sure none of my brothers went past this tunnel.)”
He’s right, the last mouse is here nearby, more concretely…
Child Mouse:”And I was so proud of the fact I’d never lost a game of one-player hide-and-go-seek before… Huh? My mom’s calling for me? Well I better go home then! Bye-bye!)”
We completed the quest, but before backtracking to get our prize let’s interview this strange person:
Leo-Leo: ”I brought all these presents here ‘cause girls everywhere are tryin’ to make me fall for ‘em. Each one’s from a different girl of course! So anyways, all these presents here belong to me. You can’t have any. You naturally try to open a gift box the instant you see one, don’t ya? But too bad! These ones belong to me!”
Bah, bullshit, you’re trying too hard and you can not stop me…
Leo-Leo: ”That present’s mine! Get your filthy hands off it!”
Let’s try pestering the guy until he agrees.
Leo-Leo: ”Well too bad! I really doubt you’re popular with the girls. You don’t seem like a very bad dude, either. I dunno, should I let you open one…? “
“*Collargrabs* If you do not reconsider I’ll remove what makes you a man right here and right now with a sharp and rusty knife”
Leo-Leo: “Okay, okay! You can have one and only one. Even a bad dude like Leo-Leo has a nice side… That’s why the chicks dig me.”
Yeah, sure…
Leo-Leo: ”They’re symbols of my hotness, after all.”
Kinda useful to have when you’re low on PP and/or healing items. If we go outside and come back…
Leo-Leo: ”Tons of awesome stuff. That sweater you chose was the suckiest present of all.”
Says a man hiding on a cave that’s obviously exaggerating what he doesn’t have. Sucker. Now, our earned reward:
Mouse-mom: ”Thanks to you, all my children have returned home, with cheerful smiles on their faces. For being so kind to me, I insist on giving you two things as a token of appreciation. The first is a kiss from me. And the other thing is th-th-this!) (Got a Shield Snatcher, and Lucas felt something warm on his heart).”
A VERY USEFUL item, you can only get it here, and it’s pretty much necessary for the tougher bosses that have shields (more if they can replace them).
Finally, the long pursuit comes to an end.
That ATM machine looks familiar…
Pigmask: ”I’m afraid I can’t even let you go through here, Commander. But I’m sure you’ll be able to go through here eventually.”
Metagaming much? Regardless of this, we still have an Egg to get, video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tphiWMqGsdE
Dammit! You can no longer abandon the tower until you finish the chapter. Fortunately I completed the sidequest before it. Let’s go…
”You’re here to destroy Thunder Tower, aren’t you?!”
“Oh noes! We had been discovered!! How I could guess that speaking with the enemy could blow up my cover??”
“That’s what I’d say if any suspicious people snuck inside. So, as you can see, security here is airtight.”
A porksoldier being competent? Nope, that was a false alarm.
Pigmask: ”I wish the guys in the generator room would get their act together.”
Humm, that’s good to hear, although if you’re a bit intelligent by now you’ll guess that this tower is the responsible of the constant lightning strikes, so we should demolish it if we have the opportunity.
That’s the map of the area. If you look closely you’ll notice there are two possible paths. But because I like to powergame I’ll investigate each one to get the maximum profit possible.
The vendor machine has some cool items, especially Lucas’ new weapon. I’ll buy it using the earned money after killing the boss thanks to a nearby save frog.
This tower, being built by the porkarmy’s jew-here-tech, has several dangers within it, not in the form of traps, but of the strange vermin that lurks inside (kinda makes wonder about how the incompetent pigmen do to survive). This is one of the least dangerous, but crazier ones:
Its name is adequate, this will be your reaction when you see one for the 1st time. They act randomly attacking, staring at the party or leaving for no reason. The other new enemy is:
The Minor Robot. It can throw Bombs damaging the entire party. An interesting feature of these type of mooks is that sometimes when they have low hp they will not be immediately destroyed, instead they’ll lose all of his energy and become a sitting duck. This makes more sense when you meet another mook that’s related with the Minor Robot.
Pigmask: ”Huh? You don’t know about the Chimera Lab? Surely you’re joking again!”
”Is that like ‘going back to basics’ or something? I don’t really get… Ahh! C-Commander! The ‘rice with egg on top’ I just mentioned… It’s actually a technical term meaning that the generator’s danger… is in danger! ‘Rice with egg on top’ equals the generator is in danger. Have you memorized that?”
Pigmask: ”And if that happens, our mean, scary boss will get mad. And if that happens, I’ll get lumps on my head. So please work hard, catfish!”
They use catfish as a power source? Why not use a proper generator instead? Oh, I forgot…
Crap, if he spots Lucas there will be trouble, with a bit of luck we’ll slip past him before he notices.
More loot.
That’s the enemy I was talking about, the Battery Man. If the Minor Robot is not killed when its energy is depleted, the Battery Man will sacrifice his life to fully health the Minor Robot. More annoying than anything, but it’s still a nice and original touch.
Ops, our cover is starting to crack… Let’s hurry.
Pigcolonel: ”And that dog-like fellow in the very back… He certainly is dog-like. Like the way he walks, for instance. That’s so cute.”
Pigmask: ”Tazmily region: Sunny, with occasional lightning in places. Mt. Oriander region, Cerulean Beach region: Lightning once preparations are complete.”
Well, that confirms my suspicions.
Pigmask: ”And then, well… I’m not quite sure how to put it, but… charred? People who disobeyed all had their houses charred. We’re doing terrible things here, aren’t we?”
A bit late to have any regrets, don’t think?
Pigmask: ”It’s really dangerous so please don’t go up there.”
Pigmask:”It’s tough work, especially when dry-eye starts to set in.”
”but the generator defense system partway up the tower is really buggy. We’d be in such huge trouble if any bad guys snuck in! Yeah, that generator defense system further up the tower… Things could get real ugly quick. If the generator is destroyed Thunder Tower will collapse! So a special type of trap’s been installed in the generator. I suppose in RPG terms it would be your so-called ‘mid-boss’!”
More metagaming references.
Pigmask: ”BLAAH!... They seem to have grown used to our scare tactics lately. They never get surprised anymore. BOO!!”
Pigmask: ”Yeah. Power output’s really fallen.”
Pigmask: ”But he’s a hardcore DCMC fan, so giving him DCMC merchandise will put him in a good mood just like that.”
Pigmask: ”It’s zap-kaboom perfect!”
”The DCMC logo is boldly printed on it (3 more are being kept in storage.)”
”(Another set is being kept in storage.)”
”(Another one is being kept in storage.)”
Perception: Yep, the nerdy Pork-tropper is back.
Pork Tropper: ”So you came all the way here to visit me, kiddos? You got the best of me last time only ‘cause I was in my ordinary clothes… But now I’m in my combat suit, it’s ‘Handle with Care’ time!”
It’s the same battle as the first time but with a bit more health, so it went like this:
*takes off shirt and waves it* Look! An unique, extended collector edition of a DCMC shirt! ”
Porktropper: ”FUUUUCKKK!!! ME WANTS!!! OH FUCK!!! ME WANTS!!! OH FUCK!!! ME WANTS!!! OH FUCK!!! ME WANTS!!! OH FUCK!!! ME WANTS!!! OH FUCK!!! ME WANTS!!!... Wait a minute, YOU’RE WEARING THAT SHIRT, WHICH MEANS THAT’S SECOND-HANDED. YOU TRICKED ME, ASSHOLE!!”
“Too late, you lost, lol”
Porktropper:”Son of… *collapses*”
So the boss was defeated. However…
” You may think you’re a good impersonator, but you can’t fool my eyes!”
”the pain and woe I went through after that Drago sent me flying… I really must repay that favor in full. Nwehehehehe!!”
Lucas decides it’s a good time to perform a tactical retreat and ran away. Fassad’s reaction? Pull out a banana and calmly eat it.
We really need more villains like this in videogames instead of generic lords of evil/robotic grunts.
We cannot go back, only way to continue here is going upwards.
Mother 3 really redefines the line “Everything is trying to kill you”. Obviously these foes are a piece of cake. At the top of this area we walk inside a new room.
Here there are LOTS AND LOTS of Mother 2 references, like:
There’s a vendor machine here that sells Rubber Capes, strong against lightning and a must-have for the incoming boss.
Not everything here is for laughs though, if you try to open the gift that’s at the north of the room…
SURPRISE BUTTSEX!!! … Not. This monster is not dangerous, and because you have a hot spring right behind you it’s easy to spam your strongest powers until it dies.
For the rest of the stuff I’ll post it on video format:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f08l9CeC0_g
That special item we got is a pretty cool weapon, and closely related to Ness and King P.’s past. I’ll save it ‘till the endgame just incase.
This is the final zone of the chapter.
When the pigmen mentioned the generator was malfunctioning, I never expected that they meant electricity gained sentience and attacked people for the lulz, like these monsters do. Logically they’re electricity-based and will use psy Thunder and such. The Rubber Capes will prove to be unvaluable here.
Hurr durr. That sign is warning you for a reason. When you reach the other side of the room…
LUCAS IS ZAPPED BY RANDOM LIGHTNING!!!
Eeh… My only guess is that this near-death experienced allowed Lucas to have an “enlightening experience” and learn a new power. PK Flash is sadly not as good as it was on Earthbound, so it will be rarely used.
We’re supposed to walk in front of the generator to trigger a cutscene, but you can walk around it for a hidden dialogue.
”Just the fact you were able to come this far is awesome… Which make YOU awesome! I think I might be in love! My name is Sheep. Don’t ask any more than that. Trying to seem mysterious is my hobby.”
Final video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3VlsjwmfP8
Shit hit the fan. Who was that Masked man? Will this be Lucas and co’s end, after a certainly terribad pun? Maaaaybe, or maybe not. That’s why it's a cliffhanger. See you on the next update!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMaa27yCgXg
Well, from where we are (the red spot should be a blinking but the screenshot doesn’t show it), to advance the plot we must go to where the tower is shown, that’s where the Garbage Dump is (and thus the place where the Garbage Truck will go). However, unlike certain corridors shooters/dungeon crawling crapfests nothing stops you of exploring all of the possible paths, so we’ll go first to the left path, and then go upward exploring every nook and cranny of the area.
The recharge stations are not for show, if you don’t use one at least once, your Pork Bean will eventually stop (without any way of finding a replacement except by loading a previous save), forcing you to continue the way on foot. Of course, we can still interact with the pigmen for some gossip.
Pigmask: ”Our Pork Bean ran out of power, you see, and… Yes? A garbage truck? Oh, one just headed north from here.”
Doesn’t matter, there are many recharge stations.
Lucas learned Counter, an useful shield-type power that can be used to reflect most physical attacks against the enemy, it will be used ‘till Lucas learns a better Shield power (and I’m showing that Doggy Biscuit loot for reasons you’ll later see).
? Okay… Actually, I thought it would be fun to see what happens if Lucas returns to his town dressed as the Commander, perhaps he’ll be able to find an excuse to order Isaac’s execution…
…Guess not. But this deserves special mention for probably one of the most original invisible wall on videogames’ history.
If your party feels very weak due a recent battle and/or you want to rush, it’s recommended to never leave the Pig Bean, absolutely everything here is hostile.
More a nuisance than anything besides being able to call reinforcements, this enemy is a pushover…
Something that cannot be said about the Atomic Power Robot, deadly as ever since Mother 2. It still explodes upon death…
And targets the entire party. What’s worse, now these enemies are more numerous and thus you will frequently fight against several of them. My recommendation is using strong multi-target attacks to kill all of them at once.
That odd sign is found near the entrance to the Death desert, that has some new loot to be found.
But you cannot return to the desert properly, a shame...
But it’s compensated with the looting (one of these boxes contains a Luxury Banana, and the other a Super Bomb, nice stuff).
Walking back to the dangerous highways, the party encounters another enemy, a non-broken version of the Scrappy Robot. It can use some psy, but the particularity is that his name is not for show; they still start with the “feeling strange” ailment and will sometimes lose turns trying to regain their balance, but still nothing threatening so far. Something I forgot to comment is that if you attack an Atomic Power Robot from behind, this may happen:
The robot will be totally defenseless and you’ll be able to exterminate it at your leisure.
Some “interesting” signs can be read too (incidentally, a random enemy really is crossing the highway the moment you read the sign).
Another new weapon for Asuka.
Horrible puns are horrible. Anyways, there’s something more intriguing here:
Mouse: ”My children went off to play and haven’t come home. If you happen to see them, please tell them their mother says to come home. Please. Please. Please! Oh, incidentally, I have seven children in all.)”
A fetch-quest, but this optional sidequest has a great reward and it’s easy to do, so we’ll do it. The mice can be found randomly at certain places.
Unfortunately, before we can do anything we’re attacked by a terrible foe (I had to read a random sing to be able to do a proper screenshot, the moment this thing sees you it will charge very fast against Lucas):
This bio-heresy can perform a special attack where it charges straight ahead against your party and then turns back, a double attack against the entire party. It should be considered a threat of Xenos Majoris type and be neutralized quickly and efficiently.
More fun with signs and our first missing mouse is found:
Child Mouse: ”Whew. Reading stuff is so hard. What? My mom’s calling for me? Okay. I’ll head back right now.)”
Child Mouse: ”Huh? My mom’s calling for me? Yikes!! I better get back before she gets REALLY mad at me!)”
There goes another. 5 to go.
Child Mouse: ”It’s scary! The world’s become so scary! Huh? What? My mom’s calling for me? She’s even scarier than the world is, when she wants to be! So I better get home right away, then!”
4 to go.
A true valuable experience that was. We continue moving north, and we stop after we spot a suspicious pigmook:
Pigmask: ”No one can say no to buying this stuff. You want anything?”
The prizes are high but you will need at least one New Year’s Eve Bomb for a certain boss, plus you never have enough Pencil Rockets and Super Bombs.
Pigmask: ”…Say, you look kinda familiar somehow.”
Stray Dog: ”And, as you can see, I happen to be a stray dog! So there’s only one logical thing for you to do now. Please give me that Doggy Biscuit. I can’t stop drooling…”
Sure, why not?
Stray Dog: ”Oh, I know! You can have this! (Received a Pencil Rocket) Take good care of my thank-you gift!)”
I don’t want to know why a stray dog would have a highly powerful explosive.
Pigmask: ”It’s self-service, so please use it as you see fit. My job is to stand here and say that this station is self-service.”
One of the lamest jobs ever.
Sign: ”Step 1: Place your Pork Bean on the Recharge Panel. Step 2: Press the A button on the nearby device to supply the Pork Bean with power. Step 3: Once the device beeps, the recharge is complete. WARNING! When the device beeps, BE SURE to press the A Button to turn it off!”
Otherwise the Pork Bean explodes and you’re forced to continue on foot for being a retard. We recharge it carefully and continue.
Child Mouse: ”I wanna be a sperm whale and eat giant squids and stuff. Huh? My mom’s calling for me? Aw crap! This is no time for me to be dreaming about stuff! Okay, I’m going home now!)”
3 mice to go.
Even more fun with lol-signs.
Another mouse is hiding here.
Child Mouse: ”Whenever I eat a cookie and munch on it, my cheeks get all big and chubby! It’s so funny when they get like that. Huh? My mom? Oh, she’s smiley again today. She’s smiley whenever me and her are together. So I’m gonna go home now.”
We spot the garbage truck nearly arriving to its destination. Fortunately, you don’t have to hurry at all, there are things that demand your attention, like:
A new “weapon” for Ghostdog, plus this:
And KABOOM the robot went… but the screenshooter was not fast enough.
NO YOU.
This guy sells some new gear.
This new vendor sells some interesting stuff but they’re very expensive, we’ll have to kill some more enemies to get enough money for 2 Taurus Bracelets and 1 Souvenir Dress (the Yo-yo is too weak to be considered, and there’s one much better later and for free). Now the party enters the café…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqHCEzaA ... re=related
Ugh, that’s the seediest bar ever seen on a rpg since Anacronox. Fortunately humans on Nowhere islands evolved enough to be immune to contaminant gases. That or Lucas can hold his breath indefinitely.
Lady: ”Make yourselves at home…”
Pigmask: ”There must’ve been some sort of misunderstanding here!”
Guy: ”It’s such an incredible deal! In a way it’s infinite!”
EEWW. Let’s ask another fellow.
Skinhead: ”In fact, I love it even more than Club Titiboo!”
Pigmask: ”I know you’re not really the commander. You’re an impostor. Don’t worry though. I won’t tell no one. It’d be too much of a hassle anyways.”
That was… great? Why would a random pigmask on the filthiest bar possible recognize Lucas when several of his superiors couldn’t? Whatever, let’s keep going.
Okay…
Jukebox: “Withered, old anchovies and the like are stuck to the record, but even so, it actually started to spin.”
There are several songs that are switched randomly, I’ll post all of these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21FRBqqh ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7qCN7ot ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA0UC3D_ ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o-cxJ6z ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtO0RrR ... re=related
My mistake, all of these songs exist ingame, I was wrong about what I said on the previous update (though I insist that some of these songs are scrapped ones from the original Earthbound 64).
Now let’s get out before Lucas passes out. Outside the café, at the right, there is… This:
Man: ”Or at least that’s the rumor, anyway. This line HAS to be the one!”
I’ll not comment about this insanity. In any case shortly after Lucas learned PSI Shield Alfa and Asuka learned PSI Magnet Alfa, and another child mouse is found:
Child Mouse: ”By the way, I’m pretty sure none of my brothers went past this tunnel.)”
He’s right, the last mouse is here nearby, more concretely…
Child Mouse:”And I was so proud of the fact I’d never lost a game of one-player hide-and-go-seek before… Huh? My mom’s calling for me? Well I better go home then! Bye-bye!)”
We completed the quest, but before backtracking to get our prize let’s interview this strange person:
Leo-Leo: ”I brought all these presents here ‘cause girls everywhere are tryin’ to make me fall for ‘em. Each one’s from a different girl of course! So anyways, all these presents here belong to me. You can’t have any. You naturally try to open a gift box the instant you see one, don’t ya? But too bad! These ones belong to me!”
Bah, bullshit, you’re trying too hard and you can not stop me…
Leo-Leo: ”That present’s mine! Get your filthy hands off it!”
Let’s try pestering the guy until he agrees.
Leo-Leo: ”Well too bad! I really doubt you’re popular with the girls. You don’t seem like a very bad dude, either. I dunno, should I let you open one…? “
Leo-Leo: “Okay, okay! You can have one and only one. Even a bad dude like Leo-Leo has a nice side… That’s why the chicks dig me.”
Yeah, sure…
Leo-Leo: ”They’re symbols of my hotness, after all.”
Kinda useful to have when you’re low on PP and/or healing items. If we go outside and come back…
Leo-Leo: ”Tons of awesome stuff. That sweater you chose was the suckiest present of all.”
Says a man hiding on a cave that’s obviously exaggerating what he doesn’t have. Sucker. Now, our earned reward:
Mouse-mom: ”Thanks to you, all my children have returned home, with cheerful smiles on their faces. For being so kind to me, I insist on giving you two things as a token of appreciation. The first is a kiss from me. And the other thing is th-th-this!) (Got a Shield Snatcher, and Lucas felt something warm on his heart).”
A VERY USEFUL item, you can only get it here, and it’s pretty much necessary for the tougher bosses that have shields (more if they can replace them).
Finally, the long pursuit comes to an end.
That ATM machine looks familiar…
Pigmask: ”I’m afraid I can’t even let you go through here, Commander. But I’m sure you’ll be able to go through here eventually.”
Metagaming much? Regardless of this, we still have an Egg to get, video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tphiWMqGsdE
Dammit! You can no longer abandon the tower until you finish the chapter. Fortunately I completed the sidequest before it. Let’s go…
A porksoldier being competent? Nope, that was a false alarm.
Pigmask: ”I wish the guys in the generator room would get their act together.”
Humm, that’s good to hear, although if you’re a bit intelligent by now you’ll guess that this tower is the responsible of the constant lightning strikes, so we should demolish it if we have the opportunity.
That’s the map of the area. If you look closely you’ll notice there are two possible paths. But because I like to powergame I’ll investigate each one to get the maximum profit possible.
The vendor machine has some cool items, especially Lucas’ new weapon. I’ll buy it using the earned money after killing the boss thanks to a nearby save frog.
This tower, being built by the porkarmy’s jew-here-tech, has several dangers within it, not in the form of traps, but of the strange vermin that lurks inside (kinda makes wonder about how the incompetent pigmen do to survive). This is one of the least dangerous, but crazier ones:
Its name is adequate, this will be your reaction when you see one for the 1st time. They act randomly attacking, staring at the party or leaving for no reason. The other new enemy is:
The Minor Robot. It can throw Bombs damaging the entire party. An interesting feature of these type of mooks is that sometimes when they have low hp they will not be immediately destroyed, instead they’ll lose all of his energy and become a sitting duck. This makes more sense when you meet another mook that’s related with the Minor Robot.
Pigmask: ”Huh? You don’t know about the Chimera Lab? Surely you’re joking again!”
Pigmask: ”And if that happens, our mean, scary boss will get mad. And if that happens, I’ll get lumps on my head. So please work hard, catfish!”
They use catfish as a power source? Why not use a proper generator instead? Oh, I forgot…
Crap, if he spots Lucas there will be trouble, with a bit of luck we’ll slip past him before he notices.
More loot.
That’s the enemy I was talking about, the Battery Man. If the Minor Robot is not killed when its energy is depleted, the Battery Man will sacrifice his life to fully health the Minor Robot. More annoying than anything, but it’s still a nice and original touch.
Ops, our cover is starting to crack… Let’s hurry.
Pigcolonel: ”And that dog-like fellow in the very back… He certainly is dog-like. Like the way he walks, for instance. That’s so cute.”
Pigmask: ”Tazmily region: Sunny, with occasional lightning in places. Mt. Oriander region, Cerulean Beach region: Lightning once preparations are complete.”
Well, that confirms my suspicions.
Pigmask: ”And then, well… I’m not quite sure how to put it, but… charred? People who disobeyed all had their houses charred. We’re doing terrible things here, aren’t we?”
A bit late to have any regrets, don’t think?
Pigmask: ”It’s really dangerous so please don’t go up there.”
Pigmask:”It’s tough work, especially when dry-eye starts to set in.”
More metagaming references.
Pigmask: ”BLAAH!... They seem to have grown used to our scare tactics lately. They never get surprised anymore. BOO!!”
Pigmask: ”Yeah. Power output’s really fallen.”
Pigmask: ”But he’s a hardcore DCMC fan, so giving him DCMC merchandise will put him in a good mood just like that.”
Pigmask: ”It’s zap-kaboom perfect!”
Perception: Yep, the nerdy Pork-tropper is back.
Pork Tropper: ”So you came all the way here to visit me, kiddos? You got the best of me last time only ‘cause I was in my ordinary clothes… But now I’m in my combat suit, it’s ‘Handle with Care’ time!”
It’s the same battle as the first time but with a bit more health, so it went like this:
Porktropper: ”FUUUUCKKK!!! ME WANTS!!! OH FUCK!!! ME WANTS!!! OH FUCK!!! ME WANTS!!! OH FUCK!!! ME WANTS!!! OH FUCK!!! ME WANTS!!! OH FUCK!!! ME WANTS!!!... Wait a minute, YOU’RE WEARING THAT SHIRT, WHICH MEANS THAT’S SECOND-HANDED. YOU TRICKED ME, ASSHOLE!!”
Porktropper:”Son of… *collapses*”
So the boss was defeated. However…
Lucas decides it’s a good time to perform a tactical retreat and ran away. Fassad’s reaction? Pull out a banana and calmly eat it.
We really need more villains like this in videogames instead of generic lords of evil/robotic grunts.
We cannot go back, only way to continue here is going upwards.
Mother 3 really redefines the line “Everything is trying to kill you”. Obviously these foes are a piece of cake. At the top of this area we walk inside a new room.
Here there are LOTS AND LOTS of Mother 2 references, like:
There’s a vendor machine here that sells Rubber Capes, strong against lightning and a must-have for the incoming boss.
Not everything here is for laughs though, if you try to open the gift that’s at the north of the room…
SURPRISE BUTTSEX!!! … Not. This monster is not dangerous, and because you have a hot spring right behind you it’s easy to spam your strongest powers until it dies.
For the rest of the stuff I’ll post it on video format:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f08l9CeC0_g
That special item we got is a pretty cool weapon, and closely related to Ness and King P.’s past. I’ll save it ‘till the endgame just incase.
This is the final zone of the chapter.
When the pigmen mentioned the generator was malfunctioning, I never expected that they meant electricity gained sentience and attacked people for the lulz, like these monsters do. Logically they’re electricity-based and will use psy Thunder and such. The Rubber Capes will prove to be unvaluable here.
Hurr durr. That sign is warning you for a reason. When you reach the other side of the room…
LUCAS IS ZAPPED BY RANDOM LIGHTNING!!!
Eeh… My only guess is that this near-death experienced allowed Lucas to have an “enlightening experience” and learn a new power. PK Flash is sadly not as good as it was on Earthbound, so it will be rarely used.
We’re supposed to walk in front of the generator to trigger a cutscene, but you can walk around it for a hidden dialogue.
Final video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3VlsjwmfP8
Shit hit the fan. Who was that Masked man? Will this be Lucas and co’s end, after a certainly terribad pun? Maaaaybe, or maybe not. That’s why it's a cliffhanger. See you on the next update!
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It's look like you haven't played Resident Evil 4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEAakGOwSqw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oXx0qwe0wc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEAakGOwSqw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oXx0qwe0wc
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Update 11: Whatever happened to the boy with the smile?
Chapter 6 is very short, REALLY short, so much it could be summarized in a single video, like this.
Luckily, Lucas did not die neither he was hallucinating, but Asuka and Garret were lost on the fall. What will happen now? See you on the next update, next week (probably)!
PS: If you bump it to next page it will help.
Chapter 6 is very short, REALLY short, so much it could be summarized in a single video, like this.
Luckily, Lucas did not die neither he was hallucinating, but Asuka and Garret were lost on the fall. What will happen now? See you on the next update, next week (probably)!
PS: If you bump it to next page it will help.
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