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

[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....)