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

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

Satisfy my paranoia... how much did you edit stalling, 'uhhh's and mumbling out of the middle of lines...? I caught one point where you trimmed out the bit where we were confused who was speaking in a flashback but... there was also a line where Ryouta is telling Shuu to stop running away, and I was like "well you'd think the farther he could get from them the better", and I was just remarking how in my head it felt like I dragged the whole conversation to a screeching halt while I searched for my words, but in the playback it wasn't so bad... but then that reassurance was thrown into question when I realised that might just be the edited version :P (I'm also pretty sure the flubbed line in Yuuya's big death speech was more of a train wreck than it sounded in this video...)

[davidn]

I really do very little editing beyond cutting the chapters up into digestible parts (er, much like one of my characters) and noting down the parts that I think particularly stand out. I'll cut a section of confusion out if it causes a significant length of time dawdling without being funny in its own way (and over the course of the game I've removed several completely blank pauses when people were waiting a few seconds for the Hangouts screen to update), but my micro-managing edits tend to be limited to just suppressing any microphone blows/scrapes, or shifting my speech a little if I accidentally talk over someone.

Usually, large edits will be obvious because the music will shift (I'm working with everyone's speech on the same channel as the game sound). To the best of my memory, I didn't edit anything at all in either case you mentioned - that was how you said them in the original!

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

"To the best of my memory, I didn't edit anything at all in either case you mentioned - that was how you said them in the original!"

That is terrifically reassuring to hear :) Well... slightly worrying to discover that reality is so different from how I experience it... but reassuring to find out that it's different for the better, at least ;)

"I really do very little editing beyond cutting the chapters up into digestible parts (er, much like one of my characters)"

Aaaaaaand there goes all my newfound comfort ;P

[davidn]

I just checked - there are no cuts anywhere near the "run away" part, and there is one cut before a Yuuya line but I'm pretty sure that it was just to remove a gap, not to cover up a stutter - and it was well before the death speech.

I don't think I know anybody who's... confident in their voice, in recording it or hearing it played back to them. It's actually through this - and the other videos that I did back when my Youtube account had other games on it - that I've received the greatest boost in confidence in that department. I hope that this happens to you as well :)

[kjorteo]

I've actually always been envious of people who have "sharper" voices, like Raven and Xaq, as opposed to the fuzzy Big Bird thing I've got going on. However, it's surprising just how much better one can feel in the interim just by getting a new microphone that doesn't make everything horrible the way the last one did.

[davidn]

Describing a voice beyond accent is difficult, but... from when I first heard it, I thought that one of the things that was distinctive about your voice was that you talked very precisely, with each word being very distinctly sounded - a property that I also noticed on the people from the Albuquerque transport authority when I accidentally contacted them last year.

I find that people have difficulty understanding me and often have to get me to repeat things (it's been mentioned that I speak very quickly, and it takes conscious effort for me to slow down) - and I can sometimes feel myself sounding less distinct than I would like. But that doesn't seem to be a problem with the Shuu voice. Maybe I should just talk like that all the time

[kjorteo]

Do it at work! "As you can see, the UI for this program has been mmmmmmuch improved. Hohohoho."

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I was actually a bit concerned about this from the get-go due to how conversations tend to go for me in real life...apparently I don't speak very loudly in real life, so I was kinda worried you guys would have trouble hearing me.

[kjorteo]

Microphones can do a lot to level that sort of thing out. I mean, my other character is Nageki, and he seems to pick up relatively well. (If anyone was actually curious, I achieve his distinctive subdued-yet-audible voice through basically the audio equivalent of the Vertigo Effect. I have a desktop stand type microphone, I yell out Sakuya's lines at normal 18" or so distance from it, and for Nageki I speak barely above a whisper but compensate by getting so close that I accidentally hit my glasses against the pop filter in the middle of his flashback last time and I'm just hoping it didn't pick that up....)