[Let's Play] Shining Force 2 -- Feb 2012: Imageshack is turning into shit, I know already

TehSpectre

How dare you, Jaro is great.

TekDragon

Awesome game. Couldn't beat the tentacle raft battle, though, when I was a kid. Might just try again.

Blackjack

TehSpectre wrote: »

How dare you, Jaro is great.

At sucking.

Sollah

Adus wrote: »

Who the hell is Sollah?

sup 8-)

Henroid

Decided to add a somewhat snazzy image to the OP and for use to easily spot updates in the thread.

Also, Adus, be thankful Sollah is present; I was scrutinized for not identifying actual game dialog vs. the shit I make up. So I've done so! Italics are stuff I've written.

Reynolds

I have a bad feeling about who I'll show up as.

Max and Jogurt shoutouts already!

The only problem with the characters in this game is that you get so many. The awesome ones are very easy to spot, and you wind up with lots of duplicates for certain roles. And, it's not much of a choice between, say, one of a half dozen centaurs or

Spoiler:

blood-soaked immortal vampire killing machine General.

Henroid

I could tell you who you ended up as, Reynolds. Do you want to know? :3

Reynolds

I think I'd rather be horrified in real time.

I played through this game so many times. I actually did a full rename run twice. First run, they were all Dragonlance characters. Second time, GamePlayers Magazine employees/characters.

Henroid

During uploading for the latest update my net gave out, which was no problem because I was doing it in batches and this was the next to last. But when my connection was stable and I double checked on image shack, half the images I had "done" were all of a sudden not present anymore.

Henroid

Let's Play Part 2

Spoiler:

opportunity for you to learn how to properly serve your King. Are you ready, Henroid?
Yes sir!
Good! Let's go to the tower. Follow me.




Wait a sec.
What is it?
My Spidey-Sense is tingling.


Where the heck are we going?


Ba-daaaaaa!


What a view.


I'll take a look inside the tower.


I have a strange feeling about this place.




Look! Something is appearing. What's that?


Why are you here?




We'll stop the evil Gizmo here. Henroid, defeat these fiends!


LET BATTLE BE JOINED or something!


Hi, I'm a Gizmo! The lowest of lowly demons! Nice to meetcha! The red dots are us and the green dots are the Shining Force! They're totally going to lose!


Rent, flank left! We're heading up the right!


Flyyyyyyyyy...


Well, turns out blinking is involved in a lot of aspects of this game, behold the first flubbed screenshot as a result.


Oh crap!


That almost hurt!


Good thing we trained up!


In most cases, we bad guys only move a couple spaces, sometimes in random directions. If someone is in range though, watch out!


That text totally mentions how I dodged that.


I did this on purpose so you guys could see the sweet enemy animations.





The heck are you asking me for, TEACHER?





It disappeared again.


We must hurry to the King!


This is what happens when you live in peace.


I don't know why, but everybody ignores my questions...
Better add a few more to that list.


Wow, something crazy must've happened here.
Ooo, ouch! I didn't think he could be so strong!
*poke poke* Who did what?
Ouch! I was knocked down!
Hurry to the Princess's bedroom! Hold the King down!
What? Why?
The King knocked down the Princess...
Let me pass! I must see my father!
Princess Elis! I can't let you up there. Trust Sir Astral! He knows how to cure the King!
Minister, what happened?
I saw a devil enter the King's body... and the King became violent!



Guooooorrrr!
He's possessed! He needs an exorcism right now!


Yeow! My head!
Yikes! You need help sir?
No, I'm OK, Henroid. I must use a powerful spell. It may be dangerous. Stay back!




Ooh....


Are you alright? Let me use your soldiers. We must kill it before it finds another victim.
What are you talking about? I don't understand.


Astral!





So all we have to do is find the evil Gizmo and kill him.
That's right. Kill him before he possesses somebody else. You may go.
Yes sir. Let's go and defeat the evil Gizmo.



The King is upstairs looking in on Sir Astral. I'm worried.
Is he going to be OK?
We...we are...
He just fainted because he was exhausted by the two battles.



Minister! Is the Minister there?


Did our soldiers leave for the subjugation?
Yes, just a few minutes ago.
Oh, I'm too late. Astral came back to his senses just now.
That's great! Did you talk to him?


We must study the ancient history of Grans Island.
How?
A historian named Hawel lives northwest of Yeel. Astral asked me to send soldiers for him, but...
Ah, I understand.
What should we do now?
What should we do?
... *cough*
Oh yes!
Ah, yes!
Minister, I have a good idea.
As do I.


I heard that you did a very good job in the Ancient Tower.
Why don't you go to Yeel and bring Hawel back here?


Of course, sire!
(Kiss up...)
Thank you. Depart to fetch Hawel immediately.


Yes, sir.
I wouldn't let you go alone if I weren't... I trust you, son.


Well, I erm, uh...
I heard that you are going to Yeel. I'll take care of Sir Astral for you. Please be careful.
Dude the Princess totally talked to you!
Boys are WEIRD.




Speaking of, I wonder if Scottsman is up.


She totally thanked me. So take that!


(OH CRAP SPRITE MISSING) I'm an inventor. I'm looking for some sulfur.
In the street?



I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT DAD.


The war! Granseal will fall in the war! Believe me!
How about no?


Awww. D:


O_o
Sorry, my husband is angry. He didn't catch any fish today.


Oh man, this is slang I can use around my mother!


It's for us now!
Spread out so he can't catch us!


Sweet!


Not sweet! Detour time!


Hey look, real weapons for you guys!



Okay, if we're fast enough we can leave before Scottsman catches up to us.


Aw nuts.
A soldier said you went into the castle. Is that true?
Sure is!
Oooww! I missed it! I would've woken up early if I knew that...! You're going to Yeel, right? Under the King's orders! Cool! Of course, I'm going too!


Let's go!


What's the big deal with this messenger guy?


UDScots, or Jaha by default, is a front-line fighter. He can generally take a beating and dish it out. I think he falls behind later in the game. He can promote to a gladiator or baron.

BlitzAce1981

Henroid wrote: »

Spoiler:

Best line in the game.

Henroid

Something really dumb happened overnight somehow - my save file disappeared. Poof, gone. I have an idea of how it happened though so it shouldn't again.

Thankfully I'm not far into the game, so I'm already working back up to where I was.

elliotw2

Assuming you're doing this in a collection or something, make save states, and if your system lets you, backup files too. LP's always have something stupid happen during them

Henroid

elliotw2 wrote: »

Assuming you're doing this in a collection or something, make save states, and if your system lets you, backup files too. LP's always have something stupid happen during them

Ding ding, we have a winner. Pre-caution is something I should promote in the Archive thread now that I think about it.

So far the dumb shit I've run into in my LPs is Photobucket crapping out during my Diablo LP, the whole "oops our landlord is an idiot, house foreclosed in Portland" issue from EO2, and now this save file crap for SF2. I'm on a roll!

elliotw2

Backing up in this case means putting the save files on everything you possibly can. Stick a file on a USB disk, your hard drive, your cell phone's memory, a floppy disk, a stack of punch cards, whatever you need to keep a copy somewhere.

Blackjack

I have a request! If it's possible, can you try to get screenshots of the whole battle dialog? Like, "Rent got damaged for 1!" instead of just "Rent go"? The latter looks a bit sloppy, is all. Other than that, I'm enjoying this so far.

Henroid

Blackjack wrote: »

I have a request! If it's possible, can you try to get screenshots of the whole battle dialog? Like, "Rent got damaged for 1!" instead of just "Rent go"? The latter looks a bit sloppy, is all. Other than that, I'm enjoying this so far.

I'm not making promises on stuff like that, because it's going to require me checking on every screenshot I take, which is impossible when the enemy is making its move and I want to capture that as well. I'm capturing as I play.

Adus

Does the battle dialogue only stay up for a short time or something? If so I can understand it being hard to always capture appropriate screenshots.

Henroid

Adus wrote: »

Does the battle dialogue only stay up for a short time or something? If so I can understand it being hard to always capture appropriate screenshots.

The dialog stays up for about a second before it continues with the rest of what's going on. The last message is up for a couple seconds before it goes back to the overhead view. Screen Captor acts funny sometimes where it'll start taking screenshots a half second after I hit the button, and when it starts doing that I start trying to react faster. That "Rent go" picture is an example of it backfiring.

Adus

This is why Fraps is better. It always takes shots right when you press the button!

elliotw2

Adus wrote: »

This is why Fraps is better. It always takes shots right when you press the button!

Or, if you're willing, you can just record it and then pull stills

Henroid

I don't have the rig to be doing any sort of recording.

Edit - This is why I go through the trouble of pulling up sprites and what not and adding dialog. 'Cause if it was recorded, some of you would just be doing commentary with me.

Edit - Also working on the third update (already!). It's way brief compared to everything else so far.

Henroid

Let's Play Part 3

Spoiler:

Egad, monsters outside! Here we face:




Charge!


Watch out for that invisible rat!


Nyah nyah! Didn't hurt!


D'oh. D:



Well, that kinda stinks.



A rat taught me how to do this.


Hmm, to overkill or not overkill this experience gain...


What a life safer!
No need to be sarcastic.


Killing these things doesn't make me feel special.


The last rat, seeing its allies killed, decides to run for it (well, not really, it blows up shortly after).
Good job gang!



How do you know where to find this stuff?
My father hid some supplies around the world for me, for when the time was right.
Wow, really?!
Pfft, no. He's Mexican, he's not gonna hand anything down to me aside from a toolbox and latin temper. HEYO.


Hark, my treasure sense is tingling.
Isn't this like one of our national monuments or sacred ground thingers?
Yes, which means it was meant to be plundered by the likes of us children.
... Cool!


Aw, someone beat us to it.
I feel a draft from the left.
Hey, secret stairs!



Man, what kind of chump leaves this behind.


Something tells me something very important is here. Or was.
We should probably leave, my sense of responsibility is starting to emerge.


At last, Yeel!
It was hardly an afternoon's walk away.



I hope nobody needs this.
As long as we play it safe in fights, we shouldn't.
No I meant I hope whoever lives here doesn't need it.


You should come to Granseal, we're never boring.
But we're a peaceful nation?
I'm tired of living in such a rustic small village.


And so our heroes lost hours chasing around chickens.


Do you consider deep frying torment? 'Cause I'm powerful hungry after all that tormentin'.


What are you talking about? Fighting stinks.
War is not fun, but they think it is.
We do?
There are no soldiers, no rules, and no noise here. I don't understand those who want to leave this town.
Well, it is like a retirement town. Those are never fun.


Yes, I know him. He's famous, and he's kind of a screwball. He lives northwest of this village. You can't miss it.


Granseal, lady!
Many Galam soldiers asked me where Hawel lives.


I'm starting to recognize a pattern or two here.
You mean why the old people love Yeel and the young hate it?
And that nobody respects the elderly anymore.


Should we know that name?
Mr. Klyka is the leader of the Galam Army, but he is a very kind man.
Maybe he's like dad.
Maybe he IS your dad!
Maybe you're stinky and fat.


He probably just has an accent or something, girls can be silly like that.


Oh, you're the reason why the old people here don't like youngins.


Sure do! Can yo-
Then why don't you go with him?


You uh, didn't hear me a second ago?
I am studying at his house. Please, follow me.



I smell a trap. And if not a trap, you not being very helpful. But lead the way!

Adus

I'm gonna trap you. Gonna trap you so hard. Cause I'm a wizard.

Reynolds

Ah, yes, time for the horrible pun they used for this stage in GamePlayers, which I will never forget.

"With a Rebel Yeel"

Henroid

Aw, if I knew that I would've used it as the title. And it is a horrible pun yes.

cooljammer00

Are anyone else's photos all half chopped?

Reynolds

GamePlayers always had some of the strangest little jokes in their magazine. I'll be looking forward to the appearance of "Birdman X" later.

And, yeah, half the photos don't load for me, or only load halfway.

Henroid

cooljammer00 wrote: »

Are anyone else's photos all half chopped?

Imageshack acts up sometimes. There's two updates on this page, well over 100 images total. Refreshing can solve it.

I'm not really able to proof read my posts since it's a lot to load for dialup, but as far as my imageshack interface shows, the images are uploading properly.

Henroid

Wait you guys are confirming half-loads? Son of a bitch. Has this been happening the whole time? :?

Crotchless Gorilla Suit

I laughed at the line: "A rat taught me how to do this."

Good stuff, keep it going.

MechMantis

BlitzAce1981 wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

Spoiler:

Best line in the game.

I assume you haven't played this game because there are far far better ones later.

Reynolds

After reloading the page for new posts, I went back and checked. Looks like all the images are fine now, guess they just struggled to all load at once.

Henroid

Crotchless Gorilla Suit wrote: »

I laughed at the line: "A rat taught me how to do this."

Good stuff, keep it going.

Well I'm glad at least one person likes it. :3

So far I've been able to hammer out one update a night. Don't get use to it. It was a holiday weekend afterall. But another update will come tomorrow night.

Caveman Paws

Henroid wrote: »

Crotchless Gorilla Suit wrote: »

I laughed at the line: "A rat taught me how to do this."

Good stuff, keep it going.

Well I'm glad at least one person likes it. :3

So far I've been able to hammer out one update a night. Don't get use to it. It was a holiday weekend afterall. But another update will come tomorrow night.

I like it! I only played Shining Force 1 but it is nice to see what I missed out on with 2.

Henroid

Caveman Paws wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

Crotchless Gorilla Suit wrote: »

I laughed at the line: "A rat taught me how to do this."

Good stuff, keep it going.

Well I'm glad at least one person likes it. :3

So far I've been able to hammer out one update a night. Don't get use to it. It was a holiday weekend afterall. But another update will come tomorrow night.

I like it! I only played Shining Force 1 but it is nice to see what I missed out on with 2.

Have you had a chance to play the remake of part one on the GBA? It's tremendous. Lot of story gaps properly explained.

DasUberEdward

Ahh sega channel how I miss you. Too bad I could never beat this game though.

Rhan9

There are some pretty hilarious lines in the game, true dat.

BlitzAce1981

MechMantis wrote: »

BlitzAce1981 wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

Spoiler:

Best line in the game.

I assume you haven't played this game because there are far far better ones later.

You assume wrong. Of course, maybe I should've put "most memorable line in the game", since I honestly can't remember any that are far far better. That, and the fact it comes after the very first battle, so the only people who won't have seen it are those who haven't played it.

EDIT - Ugh, just as I finish posting, I remember

Spoiler:

"Well, he needed a bath anyway."

Corehealer

I really enjoyed the bit with "Mr. Klyka".

They must be big fans of sarcasm in this game.