Class 8 Part One

[davidn]

DavidXN: This board's gone mad recently. Or perhaps I have. I have been spending most of my spare time with a bird-based dating simulator, so actually that's probably more likely.
BodeciaBust: You been oogling at a bunch of bluetlts, or a cockatoo?
Dark RPG Wizard 06: Remember, don't trust the doctor. For everything that is good and kind, DON'T TRUST THE FAT BIRD.
DavidXN: I AM THE FAT BIRD!

I think that this game might have driven me a little crazy.

And it's not difficult to see why. This is the first half of the final chapter, an episode primarily starring me and kjorteo, in which my reward for having acted a melancholy backstory for Shuu is to act an absolutely despondent backstory for Kazuaki. I've been reliving the whole thing as I edit it, and to hear my own voice as this victim of such tragedy, keeping a brave smiling face for Nageki while unknowingly sending him to his ultimate death... I have huge great arcs of water squirting out of my eyes sideways. kjorteo was amazing at... making me feel terrible for his character - thank you very much!

I also get to hear two of my own characters' voices for the first time ever, as they change so unexpectedly so close to the end of the game - and it's got to the point where it's strange to hear something quite so close to my natural accent, now. That worked out much better than Kazuaki's sudden ending-diverting scene, where I tried to add an aggressive tone to his weird David Mitchell voice and he came out sounding somewhat like a poor impression of Michael Caine.

8-1: Hitori

0:30 For good and for evil
1:25 Non-creepy Shuu
2:30 Blame
3:10 MAD laugh
3:45 Defeat
4:30 Bill and Ted
5:30 Emotive cooing
6:50 And things return to normal
7:25 Shot in the dark
8:05 What hand?
8:35 Kazuaki's transformation
10:00 Kazuaki's memory
10:40 Five years
11:55 Hatoful House
13:00 Incident
14:55 Nageki survives
16:15 New room
17:55 I'm fine
18:25 Immune system

8-2: Tragedy

0:10 The letter
1:00 Facilities
2:10 Family
2:40 :(
3:45 Letters
5:20 Fine
6:20 Medical center
7:50 Flames
9:35 Taking Nageki home

Comments

[kjorteo]

It's that sort of obvious fake Hollywood version of British that led me to conclude the "Baby Sakuya" segment was basically me channeling Luke from Professor Layton (only I wasn't quite that high-pitched.)

I was honestly quite surprised when I did Sakuya's route in the original stream and discovered that the voice actually still worked for heavy scenes. That pales in comparison to this entire route with this group, though, in which I think I took Sakuya and his voice to whole new levels of trauma. (And Nageki, but we already knew the Nageki voice could be sad.)

[davidn]

Baby Sakuya sounded so cute :) I could imagine him in a little flat cap with a schoolbag. My Little Bigot.

I think that all of us are taking our voices well past the factory recommended settings, by this point :)