Hatoful's Revenge

[davidn]

Aaaagh! Just as soon as I thought I'd finished this, a further pile of madness arrives begging to be sorted through. And not only that - just as soon as we thought we'd seen everything the game had to see and were just using this route as a practice run, it sprang something entirely new on us. Anghel's route might have multiple sub-scenes depending on who you talked to during the rest of the route. I don't know - stop asking me.

This 22-minute episode has about 17 minutes of game and 5 minutes of trying to work out what just happened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsGXRc6ffV0

0:10 Previously
0:35 First mess-up
2:50 11 Wisdom
3:30 Next year
4:20 Pre-empting the game
5:25 Coo.
6:05 Kazuaki narcolepsy
6:45 Yuuya interjection
7:30 Anghel bursts in
7:55 Gage/gate
8:20 11 Wisdom (2)
9:00 Panting
10:00 Yuuya/Anghel
10:30 Beak smile
11:30 Recorder/homework music lesson
11:40 11 Wisdom (3)
12:30 Cultural Girl
13:05 Confusion
14:45 11 Wisdom (4)
15:30 Game mutation!
18:00 The pit of insanity and confusion

Comments

[davidn]

As much as I would never tire of being told how great I was at any point... don't deflect a compliment on to me! That 'coo' really did break everyone up (it was just one of the points where I had to turn my microphone-blasting laugh down)... sometimes there's no telling what will set us off :) I did the same thing, unfortunately not captured in a recording, when you had Sakuya impatiently intone "Dot dot dot" during that unexpected pause.

The part in this endeavour that did it the most to me was... Kaye's dramatic declaration that "we would all have got there without a single traffic violation", after which I completely broke down at the game's sheer absurdity and was struggling not to make any helpless laughing/crying/gibbering noises throughout the rest of the conversation.

It's quite extraordinary how it still managed to surprise us! In any other game I could just imagine that... it has a couple of different sub-scenes depending on some other decisions you made, but... with this one, being a game that already behaves so much like one straight out of a nightmare, I'm afraid of what it might be thinking to itself underneath.

And I can't pronounce "Yup." in a depressed voice! It is an inherently chipper response.