davidn | Class 7 Part One

The great Bad Boys Love performance concluded tonight! But for people who don't think they've had enough pigeons in their lives even after all of that, here are a couple more finished videos. It turns out the remaining classes are absolutely immense - two back-to-back epics of about 80 minutes each - and so I'm going to upload them in four batches in total.

This is the first half of class 7, and true to form for Hatoful Boyfriend, we're back to laughing again! But, er, not for long. A funny scene at the start of the chapter gives way to Sakuya sounding like he really is distressed, and then it climbs back into us wanting a Saturday morning cartoon called "Okosan and Friends". The first half of this video is pretty much what I imagine this programme to be like - after the tragic revelations last time, the defeat of the scarecrow, having been one of the scariest things in the game so far (although competition is stiff in this department) becomes a comic caper at the hands of Anghel, Ryouta and Kazuaki.

Then it gets frightening in part two as we descend to the abandoned medical centre, and it all becomes too much for even the voice of the villain. Ryouta is commendable in this part - he's been narrating the whole time, but he really has to go on a comeback tour of anger, sadness and confusion here... and unfortunately, it's only going to get worse!

7-1: The Scarecrow

0:25 Pretty big opening
1:35 We never know
3:20 Breakout
6:00 Running gag payoff
8:20 The underground base
10:00 Midnight Hunter
12:00 Holy water
14:00 The saddest line in the game
14:30 Sakuya and Okosan
18:10 An addition that never came
18:30 Okosan And Friends
19:40 I'm not actually sure if this sound effect is the game or not

7-2: The Murderer

0:50 Coffee maker
2:00 Heroic
2:10 Indiosyncracy
3:00 Chicken wings
4:35 No smoking
5:15 Entrance of Shuu
6:40 Like a bird in a...
7:50 Pugnacious
8:35 Virus
12:50 Murder
14:45 Can't say it
15:20 RED TEXT
15:35 Villainous breakdown
16:25 Labor 9
18:00 Ethical complaints
19:05 What's in the bag, Shuu?
21:15 Body and mind
22:00 Follow me
23:10 Poison pudding
23:30 Hugbox

I really want to see a GIF now of Kazuaki turning on the fire hose and then going squirting off into the air.

Edit: And

ravenworks did it! And... his brain didn't then stop...!

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From:

xaq.livejournal.com

I have to confess, I'd been waiting rather impatiently for that video to come up; I wanted to hear how it sounded to you lot to see just what the heck you were talking about. I didn't really think it was that good when I was actually recording the lines.

...Is it strange that I have a hard time believing that was actually me at that point?

From:

kjorteo

WE TOLD YOU

Not that I'm any stranger to eagerly awaiting these posts to see how I sounded, of course.

From:

xaq.livejournal.com

Yeah, yeah, I know you did...that's actually part of the reason I was so impatient. :b

Glad I could deliver on that scene, though. I was a little disappointed with it m'self, to be honest...I was rather expecting a long, overdrawn, top-of-the-lung "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigNo) at some point in there.

Still, yeah...ubersad beaks for certain. Now I definitely want to do the Coolene scene.

Which reminds me....

*few test lines later* Hmm...falsetto's not quite what it used to be. Drat. :[

From:

davidn

Yes, er, about that - sorry for everything Shuu did to your character, destroying his life and those of everyone around him and then infecting him with the Charon Virus and everything. Would buying you a drink make up for it?

It is a sign of how... choked your performance was getting that I had to stop and take a breather before I could even continue!

From:

kjorteo

I really wanted to add some extra Sakuya anger-at-Shuu in my class 8 performance, given what he had done in class 5, which is why I even embellished the "miserable medical man" line to add an extra "YOU!!" in front of it, but ... honestly, even when I was trying as hard as I could and even bending the lines to assist in my endeavor like that, I don't think I came anywhere near Xaq's rage at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkdCMBtshyw#t=5m47s .

Murderbeaks really is the worst.

From:

xaq.livejournal.com

Well, I'd say Ryouta definitely had the biggest reason to want to tear his head off, so I felt it deserved a bit of embellishment...

Plus, if I'm to be entirely honest here, not all of the emotion in those scenes was acting. I kinda fear for the next partridge to cross my way in real life, to be honest....

From:

kjorteo

It's not like Sakuya didn't have a lost-loved-one-induced grievance with him, too!

Since I knew the line was coming, I was very tempted to throw in a sort of Sophisticated as Hell Precision F-Strike in Sakuya's confrontation--when Murderbeaks throws out that taunt about what an honor it is to receive a visit from the esteemed son of the great Le Bel line or whatever it was he said, I was going to have him respond with something vaguely along the lines of "in accordance with my noble upbringing and all that it entails, fuck you."

I ultimately chickened out, though (hah) partly because the whole point of Sakuya's actual response is, after his Okosan-given character growth, Sakuya should be above the obvious cheap shot and the reaction the doctor is clearly deliberately trying to provoke. It just seemed like it would be regressing to have him say that.

Murderbeaks is still a bastard, though, and I still tried to add as much anger in my Sakuya lines as I could (which, again, was nowhere near what you managed but I at least tried) all the way until after the credits, when Sakuya finally realized Yuuya was okay.

Edited Date: 2012-10-01 03:30 am (UTC)

From:

davidn

As the voice of Murderbeaks, I'm so sorry about this D:

I... think that you're ultimately right about that line, and that it wouldn't have fit with what Sakuya's reaction actually was there... but it doesn't meant that I still want to hear it said in the Pidgeworth voice ;)

It's strange how much I love Sakuya after this route, though... after having been a "love to hate" character throughout a lot of the normal game (which is rapidly becoming "the thin drape over the actual game" once again in my mind) and being subject to my own rather crude ad-lib through Kazuaki, he underwent a huge transformation during this part, and became something of a straight man to the lunacy around him by the end of the game - even when not directly angry he's in a constant state of complete exasperation. It really is rather like watching Miles Edgeworth in Ace Attorney Investigations :)

And a thought struck me recently -it odd that his string quartet theme never plays during the Bad Boys Love route at all, as I think everyone else still has theirs intact.

From:

kjorteo

I adore Sakuya and Nageki after this route. I think a lot of it could just be how much I'm fixating on my own characters; since I voice them, I have to get deeper into their heads to get the necessary emotion and everything, whereas with everyone else I can just not worry about it and let you guys handle them. But ... still. I do. They are great. I even love this icon because I love the character and it's just such a perfect depiction of him.

Honestly, the Sakuya/Ryouta pairing couldn't have been better for the main "party" of investigators throughout BBL. They're each the straight man in their own ways, Sakuya fancying himself to be above all the ridiculous nonsense and jack-acting of the pheasantry, and Ryouta being a straight man to Sakuya when the latter gets too deeply into ... well, fluffy-arsed cockbag mode, as you so delicately put it earlier on. The chemistry between those two and any particularly unusual third character (particularly when they met Anghel, or when Ryouta met Nageki) was spectacular. Plus, having two of them allowed one to keep going whenever the other was too busy being completely broken and emotionally devastated by dying loved ones and whatnot. (Despairing "it's raining" Sakuya in 7-1 was amazingly fun to act out, I will not lie.)

His theme has the sort of mixture of serenity and stuffiness that there's really only one place in the entirety of BBL in which it would have been musically appropriate, and that's when he finally pulled himself together after Okosan's pep-talk. However, the game actually goes with Yuuya's theme for that part, which is just ... even more appropriate, on several levels. It's actually touching if you recognize it as such and not just as "a cute jazzy piece of some sort." It's a brilliant decision and I don't mind the lack of Sakuya's theme if it made room for that instead.

Edited Date: 2012-10-01 03:56 am (UTC)

From:

xaq.livejournal.com

Oh, no need to apologize! If you hadn't delivered his maliciousness as well as you did, our lines wouldn't have come off nearly as well; you fanned those flames beautifully. It's Shuu I'm wanting to run feet-first through a ham slicer, not you. :]