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AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative - Boxart revealed
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Shovelforge was a thing in the first one. So you're right, that is most definitely Steve.
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Woah, you're right. That's skyrocketed in price since I last saw it.
Looking good, can't wait for this! Although if this box art is indicating as much as it did for the first game, then I expect most of the characters on the bottom part without color to be completely irrelevant and not even be named in normal dialogue lol.
Oh my god, I can't believe they did the best character in the game dirty like that:
WHY WOULD YOU ONLY SHOW HALF OF MOMA'S FACE.
We never even got to see him beatbox about Gandhi :(
... That said, basically all of the grey figures are major characters?
The first one was already self-contained enough so even if this one is bad somehow we still have a complete story in Somnium Files so I wouldn't worry too much about it.
The most random things get sequels.
I actually was disappointed by the first game but I welcome with open arms another attempt at this. I really just hope for...
1. Do something about those puzzles. They were complete nonsense in the first game
2. Know when to shut up with the dick jokes.
3. Don't add any of that remembering things from different routes shit just because other Uchikoshi games do it. Either you incorporate it much better beyond "Oh hey I just remembered these things because....just BECAUSE!" or ideally; find a new schtick. It's getting old.
I actually was disappointed by the first game but I welcome with open arms another attempt at this. I really just hope for...
1. Do something about those puzzles. They were complete nonsense in the first game
2. Know when to shut up with the dick jokes.
3. Don't add any of that remembering things from different routes shit just because other Uchikoshi games do it. Either you incorporate it much better beyond "Oh hey I just remembered these things because....just BECAUSE!" or ideally; find a new schtick. It's getting old.
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I liked the nonsense nature of the puzzles. They made *some* sense, but it was weird logic. I do think they could be a bit more logical, but I think the real challenge of them was efficiency, particularly with doing things that didn't contribute to the puzzle for TIMIEs that made longer actions reasonable.
I'll go to bat for Date's sex jokes because of spoiler reasons, and I liked how it was actually a hint at something, but I agree I don't want them to reuse that for the second game.
Totally agree on your third point, or at least have some more justification for it than the lack of any in the first game.
I just played the first one on Game Pass after occasionally hearing people recommend it in passing and I'm so glad I did. Really excited to play as Mizuki. Easily one of my favorite characters from AI, if not my absolute fav.
Also, I don't know anything about the development. Did the english localization team change some stuff around to make it more inclusive at parts than the original? Cause some bits like Mizuki's monologue about the LGBTQ+ community felt kind of out of place in context, though it was still very welcome.
Also, I don't know anything about the development. Did the english localization team change some stuff around to make it more inclusive at parts than the original? Cause some bits like Mizuki's monologue about the LGBTQ+ community felt kind of out of place in context, though it was still very welcome.
Agreed. The random tangents into perverted shit made it a lot harder to actually care about Date.
I dunno why I said Kodaka. I meant UchikoshiKodaka has nothing to do with the game, but
Nah, but Uchikoshi has a really positive relationship with his fans on socials / seems a good dude in general, so it tracks.
I figured, I just wanted an excuse to post that image lol :P The way it was done in the first game was a tad annoying - preferably it wouldn't be there at all or he goes in harder on it like VLR (and that invalidated true ending, hgnn) or Ever17.
There's quite a lot of detail to this in a way I don't really see in the box set for the first game. You can see Kozaki has the characters in a yin/yang formation. Mizuki and Aiba and then a new character and his own partner, both of them drawn like darker opposites. Very curious what the specific plot setup for this is.
Well, general setup for the murders is that people are being cut in half, so I would assume they're going to go hard on that symbolism.
I kind of like how it was done in the first game, only happening at the tail end of the game with an alternate explanation for what could have happened, indicating they could have gone that route but decided to use this, and then only having more explicit examples in the epilogue, so I would assume they would expand on it in this game.
They're good games, though I don't think they're meant to be connected, at least no real indication one way or the other, but they are currently deeply on sale and they'd be a good way to pass the time.
You don't have to, but like, you should, because they're fab games. VLR especially is top tier.
I found it easier to just buy an import copy through a third-party on Amazon (expected EU, ended up being Australian, but it didn't matter and even came with the stickers).
As long as you stop at 999 I guess, but AI and Zero Escape aren't connected anyway.
They're entirely unconnected except for a single joking reference. It's a pretty good joke, too.
Interesting box art. Not sure who the the returning characters mentioned are, but considering the characters have aged 6 years, I can see Iris, Ota, and Amame on the cover.
The first had great aspects but also terrible. I hope they remove the cringe horny writing from the first.
Cautiously interested depending. I liked Mizuki so her as the protagonist gives me hope I'll like it more.
Cautiously interested depending. I liked Mizuki so her as the protagonist gives me hope I'll like it more.
Looks like there will be a shady rival detective duo that acts untrustworthy with illicit measures, giving you a hard time figuring out if they are good or bad guys until you find out they are good guys acting bad cuz they have personal stakes in the matter
Still didn't finish one though!
Great to know the game's doing well enough to get a part 2 and a CE though, it's a good game!
Great to know the game's doing well enough to get a part 2 and a CE though, it's a good game!
Ready to play more Shovelforge. Didn't consider that stuff would be back.
You can see Date hiding on the right side of the image, but not his Falco body. So might give more to this following a different ending that isn't the true ending, and how this game manages to not spoil the first.
Well damn, if that is truly the case, they have made this series VERY open ended and can do many games with so many directions without spoiling each other. I think that's a great idea.
The most incompetent joke of a "police" force on the planet 😂.
Seriously though, drop the relentless assault of horny jokes, write a little more sympathetic characters (I think Uchikoshi isn't great at writing these Danganronpa like caricatures, his more grounded characters are usually better), design better puzzles and I think this could improve greatly over the original.
Seriously though, drop the relentless assault of horny jokes, write a little more sympathetic characters (I think Uchikoshi isn't great at writing these Danganronpa like caricatures, his more grounded characters are usually better), design better puzzles and I think this could improve greatly over the original.
I had considered the possibility that this could potentially follow one of the routes that isn't the true ending, but have no idea how the story would address that.
Who says she needs to be? Ace Boss sounds like the perfect characterization for her.
I like fun just fine.
That isn't fun.
As did I. As far as Uchikoshi goes, it only annoyed me with Sigma in VLR.
She was scaring me with all that hoarding in the room of all of the artifacts and junk lol.
I hope they go into more detail of Mizuki's past with her mother and father, and I think they will. It was touched upon somewhat but the game hit it home how bad of a mother she was(Like cmon), maybe Mizuki interacts with another character that comes from a broken home and can relate. As long as I get some more nasty kung fu, not complaining.
Easy Platinum, one of my more anticipated 2022 games!
The porno mag bullet dodging joke was hilarious. The crude jokes are self aware and over the top. What did you find egregious about it?