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Slipping on the Rain Slicked Precipice of Darkness

TheidarTheidar Registered User regular
edited December 2008 in Social Entropy++
So apparently Episode 2 is out now, so I will be downloading it from XBLA when I get home. Should be a good time.

Anyone else try it yet? What's your first impression?

Hopefully the range of available garden implements has broadened.

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  • MittenMitten Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    It was pretty neat. I liked it more than Episode 1.

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  • FrylockHolmesFrylockHolmes Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I liked it a lot too. I liked how they added more 2d comic style cutscenes

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  • QuestionMarkManQuestionMarkMan Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I haven't finished it yet but the writing is a lot better than the first game.

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    oh i didn't even know episode 2 was in production, what a nice surprise

    i assumed that all episodic games would follow Valve's release schedule of "shorter games, for less money, with equally ridiculous gaps between releases"

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  • EvanderEvander Disappointed Father Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    The reduction in price was enough to make it an impulse buy.

    I'm not very far in, but so far it seems so good.

    My only gripe was that when importing my character it changed a couple of features, and I had to play around to figure out what they were before to make it look right.

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Sweet. I forgot this was out.

    There was a price reduction?

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  • DaemasDaemas Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Evander wrote: »
    The reduction in price was enough to make it an impulse buy.

    I'm not very far in, but so far it seems so good.

    My only gripe was that when importing my character it changed a couple of features, and I had to play around to figure out what they were before to make it look right.

    It turned my guy from clean-shaven into a dude with classy as fuck facial hair

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  • CampionCampion Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
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  • Mr. Henry BemisMr. Henry Bemis God is love Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Campion wrote: »
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  • Auntie ShibbyAuntie Shibby Horrible Visalia, CARegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2008
    Campion wrote: »
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  • nefffffffffffnefffffffffff Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I hadn't played the first one yet, but when I saw it's price got reduced I decided to play through it before I hit up #2. I have all the collectibles and shit, but I still can't beat the last boss. For some reason I'm just having a crazy hard time with it. Any tips?

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    The first one only just came out on the Playstation Network

    but only the US store

    FFFFFFFF

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I'll buy this after I get some money

    That is, if I get some money

    Somebody give me money

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  • TheidarTheidar Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I hadn't played the first one yet, but when I saw it's price got reduced I decided to play through it before I hit up #2. I have all the collectibles and shit, but I still can't beat the last boss. For some reason I'm just having a crazy hard time with it. Any tips?
    Explosives are your friends.

    Use individuals specialize not team ups, if you pull them off you do more damage.

    Hopefully you used Violet a lot before reaching the boss, she gets more powerful each time you use her.

    EDIT: Oh and make sure you block like crazy.

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  • BedlamBedlam Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    It just seems like a bad time to release shit as the holiday rush is coming. I'll probably wait a month or two and maybe get the steam version this time around.

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  • nefffffffffffnefffffffffff Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    fuck me, I finally beat him. On to episode 2!

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  • TenTen Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Beat Episode 2 last night, awesome fun and I'll probably try going through it on Insane mode at some point, especially since this episode seemed a lot easier than the first one

    Had to try a few times for the final boss, mostly because it bugged out after I failed the first time and wouldn't continue, so I had to load my game and do the first part of the battle again, same thing happened in the first episode strangely

    Bring on Episode 3!

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  • sonictksonictk Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Insane mode really earns its name. No more flashing enemy health bars makes blocking the first attack a little difficult which sometimes is fucking unfair when the first attack floors your whole team.

    Also the pathfinding is still as horrible as ever, apart from that and a few bugs Ep2 is pretty much worth the buy in all respects.

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I'm really liking this one so far.


    The Brain Game is awesome.

    and Twisp and Gatsby (?)
    Show up and it totally makes sense why they do!

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Theidar wrote: »
    I hadn't played the first one yet, but when I saw it's price got reduced I decided to play through it before I hit up #2. I have all the collectibles and shit, but I still can't beat the last boss. For some reason I'm just having a crazy hard time with it. Any tips?
    Explosives are your friends.

    Use individuals specialize not team ups, if you pull them off you do more damage.

    Hopefully you used Violet a lot before reaching the boss, she gets more powerful each time you use her.

    EDIT: Oh and make sure you block like crazy.
    Open up with using all your explosives - he's weak against dynamite and hot toddies so use a toddy, a clown nose, a toddy, etc. until you're out of clown noses.

    Once you're done with all the explosives, his first move will be to boost his attack - so use a Weak Sauce on him. Use your character's individual specials on them (remember that the 2nd attack for Gabe and the PC are better against individual targets than the 3rd one) and fill in the gaps between the specials charging by using the Allies. He shouldn't even get an attack in until he's in the second form.

    Keep paying attention to when the Weak Sauce wears off and throw another one on him, if you keep that up while hitting him and blocking you should have everyone at almost full health and him almost dead by the time you run out.

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I missed one art somewhere again :(

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  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    trentsteel wrote: »
    I'm really liking this one so far.


    The Brain Game is awesome.

    and Twisp and Gatsby (?)
    Show up and it totally makes sense why they do!

    IT'S FUCKING CATSBY YOU FOOL. IT'S BECAUSE HE'S A CAT.

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Kagera wrote: »
    trentsteel wrote: »
    I'm really liking this one so far.


    The Brain Game is awesome.

    and Twisp and Gatsby (?)
    Show up and it totally makes sense why they do!

    IT'S FUCKING CATSBY YOU FOOL. IT'S BECAUSE HE'S A CAT.

    I believe Catsby is actually the little imp fellow. As we see here in The Crocotillian, the imp clearly asks "And for you Twisp", meaning he is ironically Catsby instead of the cat.


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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited November 2008
    episode 2 runs way worse on my computer than episode 1 did and I can't figure out why

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  • Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    episode 2 runs way worse on my computer than episode 1 did and I can't figure out why

    In what way?

    Are the backgrounds all fucked up?

    Set the graphics to high if they are. That should clear things up.

    Anyway, this game is fantastic and it is so good doggies yes.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited November 2008
    Spectre-x wrote: »
    episode 2 runs way worse on my computer than episode 1 did and I can't figure out why

    In what way?

    Are the backgrounds all fucked up?

    Set the graphics to high if they are. That should clear things up.

    Anyway, this game is fantastic and it is so good doggies yes.

    there are like weird lines that occasionally pop up and I'm all "whaaaaa" also it stutters

    I will set it to high and attempt this again!

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  • Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    The stuttering isn't the game's fault I think but yeah the lines is definitely the graphics being set to not-high.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited November 2008
    wow, did that not work, what the hell

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  • Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    hmm

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited November 2008
    I'll restart my PC and try it again later.

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  • RabidDeathMooseRabidDeathMoose Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Kagera wrote: »
    trentsteel wrote: »
    I'm really liking this one so far.


    The Brain Game is awesome.

    and Twisp and Gatsby (?)
    Show up and it totally makes sense why they do!

    IT'S FUCKING CATSBY YOU FOOL. IT'S BECAUSE HE'S A CAT.

    oops!

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Kagera wrote: »
    trentsteel wrote: »
    I'm really liking this one so far.


    The Brain Game is awesome.

    and Twisp and Gatsby (?)
    Show up and it totally makes sense why they do!

    IT'S FUCKING CATSBY YOU FOOL. IT'S BECAUSE HE'S A CAT.

    oops!

    NO YOU UNCOUTH STRUMPET CATSBY'S THE LITTLE IMP

    TWISP IS THE CAT

    BAH, JUST FORGET IT

    IT'S NOT FOR YOU

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  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I'll admit

    I was a little let down by the end boss fight

    Too quick

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Yeah I noticed the game doesn't run as well on my computer as the first one did too.

    It stutters a lot which is really annoying. It stopped after awhile but for the first hour it was really annoying. The sound and the screen would stutter.



    Catsby, right. Forgot.

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Hey what's in the chests that you can only open on Insane mode?

    Also are the harder modes just harder minigames for pulling off the special moves? I'm having a hard enough time with these new ones as it is.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    trentsteel wrote: »
    Hey what's in the chests that you can only open on Insane mode?

    Also are the harder modes just harder minigames for pulling off the special moves? I'm having a hard enough time with these new ones as it is.

    The third costume is in the chests.

    And for Insane Mode, you have no visual cue on their HP bars for when to block.

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    trentsteel wrote: »
    Hey what's in the chests that you can only open on Insane mode?

    Also are the harder modes just harder minigames for pulling off the special moves? I'm having a hard enough time with these new ones as it is.

    The third costume is in the chests.

    And for Insane Mode, you have no visual cue on their HP bars for when to block.

    That's the only difference? That's not so bad.

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Hah, that's awesome!
    Dr. Raven Darktalon Blood

    is in this.

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  • CrashmoCrashmo Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Man, I need to fit this into the current season's backlog somewhere.

    It may be years before I can catch up to all this jibba jabba coming out at once.

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I love this game. I look forward to many more episodes.

    "Stop being a wuss and put your hands in the malevolent artifacts."

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