66. Planet of Pisces II
Syrupentine: I know you're drawing out the tension but come on, it's staring us right in the face!
Llord_Kuruku: planet of pisces 2, part 2, the clone wars
Klickitat_Street: I hope this isn't where the games start to repeat, that last one kind of sucked
"Mmp, caffeine." Bea just finishes the last of her coffee. "Time for Bea's coffee reviews. This is dark roast. It's very bitter, just like me. Well that's the show, thanks for coming by everyone"
HNV: Oh good, Bea's doing impressions of obsure Phoenix Wright characters
"Wait I am? Who are you.. oh, uh YEAH yeah, good reference huh? Anywho.." With her nerves steadied, its time to move on. "POP2, 2! It's two pops, it's twice as many dads, you have to save BOTH your dads this time and they're in opposite corners of the universe! It's very inconvenient."
The new Planet of Pisces 2 starts with a familiar-looking house appearing on the title screen, pink and blue in the rising sun! This title screen is much more dramatic than the other one, with the title and the Roman numeral 2 fading in slowly as the sun rises, tranquil music playing.
HNV: Hey that's the house they built at the end of POP1!
Syrupentine: Hey that's the house from Last Of Them All!
...
HNV: Jinx? Partly?
TaichouSenseiKun: Holy shit I think its both
Baconnaise: We have continuity. except not really cause things aren't all ruined yet wait which comes before the other
Syrupentine: Now I have a weird tummy feeling because I didn't realize Last Of Them All didn't take place on Earth
When the game begins, a new screen appears but with familiar sprites: it's the kids from Last Of Them All, but this is a character-naming screen!
"Oh we're naming him Glem this time, I'll show you who's dead, game!" The default name on the screen is GUREMU, but Glem fits in even easier
berd_snurglar: damn bea show some respe- oh
A star appears when she types in the name, looks like Glem approves!
HNV: What were the other kids' names? There was Zark and Morg and the baby was something
Glockroach: Narp, Grunk, and Splongus. Splongus was always my favorite
aroseahorseboy: someday we will learn why joyce named all her babies after stomach noises
When Bea has named all the kids, the game begins proper, irising in on the house... and it was indeed the house from Last Of Them All. The second floor layout is the same, the family is the same! The only difference is that this time, instead of 'Zoku', she's playing Glem.
TaichouSenseiKun: Glem inherits the burning fighting spirit and hair of his mother
First things first, Bea tries talking to the other family members in turn! Glem's little brother Renk is playing with a truck downstairs. "Is there gonna be a special breakfast or are we gonna eat at the carnival?"
berd_snurglar: something smells Renk am i right folks, hah thank you
The twin brothers, Zork and Marg, come tumbling down the stairs wrestling with each other, just like the last time they were seen. "Glem! Go get mom and dad!" "Yeah, Glem! Go get dad and mom!"
"This is before we go to the carnival and get sent back in time! Gotta go get the folks again... HEY MA GET UP, it's Glem. Not dead anymore, feeling pretty good today actually!"
Mom and Dad are asleep in their room, and all Dad will say, just like last time is "mmm... ask your mom."
But Joyce wakes up and says. "That's right, it's your big day! We're going to enter your invention in the contest at the fair! Are you excited?"
Whether Bea chooses YES or NO, Joyce's answer is the same. "You should be very proud of yourself even if you don't win! But i'm sure you will, yours is the best I've ever seen, especially from a boy your age!"
"Ohh, the discus! Yes, mother, you have NO idea, do you.." No more questions asked, she's off to the fair.
"An invention convention in *this* universe should be allll kinds of crazy, maybe I can buy a time machine and it turns out I'm the caveman from the other game"
Before Glem gets back downstairs, the tiny little girl, Rikel, meets him at the head of the stairs and gives him a big hug! "I hope you win, Glem!"
Bea does a deeper, heroic voice. "I won't let my family down! We're gonna win this thing! And go on to invent a whole planet!"
Syrupentine: I'm jealous of Joyce. I want a son like Glem. :_:
aroseahorseboy: god damn it mom i try my best *sob, run away*
Back on the bottom floor, Joyce is already down there making breakfast for the family, who are sitting at the kitchen table. When Bea talks to her, she says, "Almost ready. Get the paper before your father comes down, OK?"
Baconnaise: This IS a sequel, right.
HNV: What's weird is that we played the original, then a spinoff of the original, and now we're playing the sequel, but we already played... a spinoff... of the sequel? Wait, I confused myself.
Out the front door is a perfectly lovely-looking front walk and lawn. Bea walks Glem down the front walk toward the newspaper. "Got the Newspaper!" says the message box.
But the game doesn't resume from there-- instead it slowly, seemingly pixel by pixel, begins to scroll to the right, the message box itself scrolling off the screen.
Glockroach: Its the devil guy from Smash Trophy
the one who moves the screen, dont question me
TaichouSenseiKun: BEA RUN THE SCREEN WILL GET YOU
DueyDecimal: You mean the Devil from Devil World, featuring Tamagon, the character whose trophy was excised from Melee in the United States?
aroseahorseboy: yes duey him
When Glem himself is almost scrolled off the screen, we see the next house over, which has a white van parked in front of it.
Almost as slowly as the scrolling, something begins to emerge from the window not facing the camera.
aroseahorseboy ...is that a fucking rifle
"Oh here's somebody's crime van, definitely. What kind of neighborhood is GLEM NO!!" She shouts, unable to help herself!
The gun fires; the same loud 'bang' they heard in Last Of Them All is heard. The screen scrolls back to Glem, who is still holding up the newspaper.
Glem turns around, and takes two steps back to the house, before falling over.
"FFFFWHAT KIND OF BULLSHIT?!" Is all she can get out amid a bout of upset sputtering.
aroseahorseboy: who the fuck made this
HNV: What happened to his head?!
Glockroach: someone seriously made a game about a little boy getting shot
berd_snurglar: bea. glem died and it was your fault
"SHUT UP BERD its not over yet, this is the opening!" She says, hammering on the control pad as if it will help move the scene along faster.
The only animation is Glem's head-- the rust-colored smear that was once his head-- seeming to quiver like crackling static.
Then the door finally opens again. Rikel comes out. She runs out to see what's happened, and then returns to the house.
The screen fades to black, except for the familiar words, that they kept seeing over and over, seemingly by accident.
aroseahorseboy: ahem
FUUUUCK THIIIIS GAAAAME
Baconnaise: God damn it Bea
DueyDecimal: Was this all a cinematic? Could you have dodged that even?
"I didn't know!! all right, Duey's right, we missed something didn't we.."
Llord_Kuruku: maybe you should have played all the games that came before?? Or after???
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Ch210, More spoilers
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So, we definitely get some action here, as suggested by the cover art (posted earlier).
I'm not sure if this is inside, or outside in a paved area. I'm thinking they might still be inside, perhaps still under the barn. There seems to be an open sewer here, and they might be discussing the possibility of escaping through it.
It's pretty dark there, so it could just be the low lighting, but they could be looking at something besides just water there. Maybe it's runoff from the dissections, etc., so it could be rather gross.
Perhaps Theo has the determination to go for it anyway, and then it looks like Artie maybe jumps in? Oh, I think he removes his tailcoat and gets in.
Ok, so now Oliver is trying to decide whether to get into this sewer, while Mabel and the others are getting in. Finny notices staff running towards them.
Theo tries to coax Oliver into the water, as the staff members get closer. Perhaps Oliver can't swim or is afraid of the water? Finny can't let Oliver stall anymore, so he rushes at him and grabs him to take them both into the water... just as the staff shoot.
It's hard to tell from the image above, but it does look like Finny takes a bullet to his left leg (the one that's still extended back).
Oof the Mother3 vibes I get from this scene! Because Lucas and his pals go through the sewers of New Pork City and find Leder. I had a similar feeling about our earl and company slogging through the sewers of London when they were approached by Lau and Ran-Mao. But, unlike in Mother3 and that previous Kuro sewer scene in London, this time we probably won't find allies. Not for a while, anyway.
That's all the spoilers I have so far, and I'm thinking it's near the beginning of the chapter.
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Mar 15 - made a vat of chickpea curry today, because there was a bulk tray of lean ground beef that went into the freezer without being divided up into smaller lots, and I already have both chili and meat sauce made in bulk recently so no point making either of those. It’s ground beef, chickpeas, baby spinach, onion, garlic, sweet peppers, tomatoes, tomato paste, lemon juice, yellow curry powder, ground cumin, ground coriander, turmeric powder, cayenne pepper, black pepper, salt, and cilantro. Had enough for tonight’s supper (with basmati rice) and to freeze 5 margarine tubs full, plus leftovers in the fridge.
Mar 16 - Didn’t do anything much today. Made corned beef hash for supper.
Quilt set and leaf-shaped throw pillows arrived today, so just waiting on sheet set to have everything. Disappointed with the maple leaf pillow though - this is the colour I ordered vs the colour actually received, which is very much not orange:
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