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i pretty much agree with you on all of that.
999 = best writing also best art direction. ez.ShowEver wanted a playlist full of a lot of music I really dig? Here you go.
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I'm finding it hard to rank the three games. After thinking for a bit, I'd describe the series as two halves to the same coin - 999 is one half, VLR and ZTD is the other.
999 is the best standalone game, but VLR expands on the more meta aspects like the flowchart in a great way, and I even like ZTD a ton despite some questionable story decisions.If you don't know how to lie, then how do you know when you're being lied to?
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Spoiler:Also, what is NM doing? Worst play I’ve ever seen.I can't remember the last N_M post that wasn't bland, unimaginative and lame. Some shitposters are at least somewhat funny. You are the epitomy of the type of poster that nobody would miss if you were to suddenly disappear. You never add anything of value.I'm guessing you haven't read the game and probably never will? Why even sign up to play?- Quilford
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I was hoping they'd do something with his~~~~spoiler length filler~~~~~ brotherin his backstory but nope it's just a reason for him being the shitty character he is
He could have maybe been kind of a decent clover-esque character if they toned him way down and just made him get aggressive when Mira was in actual danger, but no, he's just an angry moron for the entire game except when it's useful to the plot for him to be IN WUV- Quilford
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Also 999>VLR>>>ZTD.
999 has the best characters, VLR is close (Alice is pretty forgettable but everyone else was interesting by the end imo, even if Quark does spend half the game napping), and ZTD has the entire Q team being not particularly good.
Do think that VLR had the best puzzles+gameplay sections though.
I really like the concept of "split everything into fragments and have the player try to slowly piece everything together from the little chunks they know about", but I think that made the designers feel like they always had to have one person arguing for each side in all of the choice decisions that weren't just math or puzzleish things (and even then usually you'll have something similar). And that means half of the non-leader characters need some justification for being an asshole for most choices and their characters get a bit pulled away from what makes sense for them to do as actually good fleshed out characters.
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Eric could have been interesting and sympathetic given his backstory but they never made him anything more than a cowardIn post 134, Gammagooey wrote:yepppp
I was hoping they'd do something with his~~~~spoiler length filler~~~~~ brotherin his backstory but nope it's just a reason for him being the shitty character he is
He could have maybe been kind of a decent clover-esque character if they toned him way down and just made him get aggressive when Mira was in actual danger, but no, he's just an angry moron for the entire game except when it's useful to the plot for him to be IN WUVAlso, what is NM doing? Worst play I’ve ever seen.I can't remember the last N_M post that wasn't bland, unimaginative and lame. Some shitposters are at least somewhat funny. You are the epitomy of the type of poster that nobody would miss if you were to suddenly disappear. You never add anything of value.I'm guessing you haven't read the game and probably never will? Why even sign up to play?- Equinox
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Excellent. More exposure is fantastic.ShowEver wanted a playlist full of a lot of music I really dig? Here you go.
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Just about ready to finish Virtue's Last Reward! I have two endings left.
Such a marked improvement over the first. Hated how I played through most of the game only for it to be like, the worst of the endings and have to play the whole thing over again.
VLR has its faults (love seeingthe path from the elevator to Warehouse A on the mapfifty times) but the way its constructed just works so much better.There will be no kisses tonight
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i think the steam remake of 999 fixes the multiple-playthroughs issues and adds voice acting too
i dislike that it removes the dual-screen aspect and "adventure mode" sounds like a complete disaster but other than that it's probably better to play on steam
regardless i recently finished a replay of the entire game on DS because i just, really like the dual-screen aspectShowEver wanted a playlist full of a lot of music I really dig? Here you go.
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i would drop 2 down to 4, and move 3 and 4 upIn post 147, Chevre wrote:Finished! Here is my ranking of characters:
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and switch 6 and 7
solid rankings thoughvonflare (21:40)
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