Class 5

[davidn]

Class five! It's another hour-long one and I usually try to space these out a bit over days, but people had been waiting for this one - and I don't think they'll be disappointed!

This is an amazing chapter - a climactic part of the game with great performances from absolutely everyone. It's very illustrative of the game's ability to toss its players around like they're in an emotional tumble dryer - we go on a very long journey through here, from absolutely laughing our heads off during much of the first part to fear and anguish in the third.

This is the genius of this game. The immediate draw of its bird-related craziness honestly pales in comparison to the lunacy that it lets you into once you break the surface, and you keep on exploring deeper and deeper until you're this far into a storyline that you would never have thought it had. Anyone who's just heard about the game in passing may accuse us of overacting here, but... honestly, I don't think that much of this was actually acting by the end!

5-1: Sakuya and Shuu

0:25 Dad/Mum
0:45 Baby Sakuya
2:35 Doctor...
3:00 Assessment of Sakuya
4:55 Cleaver
6:40 Lack of fingers
7:15 Save point
9:10 Mmmmmmmegalomania
10:55 Distraction
11:55 Delayed reaction
12:35 Corpsing the doctor
15:25 Fate
16:25 Listening to Shuu
17:20 Massive thing
18:35 Drawers and hesitation
20:40 Literacy

5-2: Preparation

0:55 Take a drink
3:40 Physical labour
4:35 Take a look at him
6:45 Nobility knows no illness!
8:10 A Yuuya scene, do I even need to say anything more specific about these by this point?
10:05 Pause for thought
12:05 Dodge the scarecrow!
16:15 Plan

5-3: Brothers

0:00 Oh, the whole blasted thing.

Well done.

Comments

[davidn]

I think that everyone knew exactly who was voicing Sakuya from the very start ;) During my catching-up session, I tried to come up with some sort of voice for absolutely everyone, with some having a great deal more success than others (your Sakuya voice, for example, stands out much more than mine because your voice is actually appreciably different when reading his lines) - apparently Kazuaki and Shuu were the ones that stuck in people's minds, and I'm very glad for it! I think during that first part I invited Ravenworks to make the decision on Kazuaki, and he gave him to me... but I did definitely want to be Shuu :)

I honestly can't think of a better way to have cast anyone, either - the chirpy, slightly unhinged narration of Budgiebin (which we unfortunately haven't had enough of in this route!), the boisterous Okosan and melancholy Ryouta, the saucy Yuuya and enthusiastic Anghel, the classic Nageki and especially Sakuya voices... and how much I'm loving having a comic and villain part. Something would seem missing without any one of them.

So many comments praising each other like this might turn it into a hugfest, but... God knows we all need it, after this!

[kjorteo]

I'm all right with this turning into a hugfest! You people all put on such phenomenal performances (everything we've seen up to this point, of course, and since we're actually farther ahead than what you've posted, I can mention that Xaq also completely brings down the house in early class 7) that you truly deserve it.

I keep surprising myself with the extent to which Hatoful is never truly over--I already hundred-percented this game (or so I thought) back when I did my own stream, before this group even assembled, and I just wanted a run-through of Anghel's route as a recording equipment and group chemistry test before HolidayStar came out. After that, then it went so well that I just had to see how we did BBL. After that, now I kind of want to do a Ryouta or Nageki route run-through just to give BudgieBin the kind of dramatic tear-jerking performance everyone else has enjoyed (or will enjoy) in BBL. And then, of course, there's HolidayStar....

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Well, at that point I felt like I had to do something to stay on par after the end of class 5...and to cleanse my mind of all the innuendo. Especially that line at part 1's 18:35 mark. (I had a powerful urge to just say "NO, I AM NOT READING THAT.")

[kjorteo]

I did notice it took you a bit to work up the nerve to read it! But it was hilarious, and then, on the other end of the spectrum, I think that your early chapter 7 performance more than matched my contribution to chapter 5. So it worked out rather nicely, I think!