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00:00:00Oh
00:00:30To develop necrotic dementia, but she's also split her soul in half into two distinct people,
00:00:58and, like, and, like, they talk with people, and, like, they talk and interact with each other,
00:01:06and each one holds the other in contempt.
00:01:14With each other, and each one holds the other in contempt.
00:01:28But in another piece of candy, Nami's, and, like, they talk and interact with each other,
00:01:39and each one holds the other in contempt.
00:01:45Actual self-inflicted split personality that is its own unique character.
00:01:49Also, as we'll find out in a later game,
00:01:52Soul Extraction is actually really fucking difficult.
00:02:00And leaving half of herself behind was completely intentional.
00:02:03How powerful is Vinegar?
00:02:05Her illness feeds off magic, so if she casts too many spells, she'll die,
00:02:08but, like, that is a scarily powerful lady.
00:02:11Oh my god, CD, are you just taking this chance to...
00:02:14Oh my god...
00:02:15Oh my god, CD, are you just taking this chance to gush about Vinegar?
00:02:19No, kinda.
00:02:21No, kinda.
00:02:22Vinegar?
00:02:25No, kinda.
00:02:31The rest aren't exactly all that interesting, I guess it comes down to personal taste.
00:02:35The rest aren't exactly all that interesting, I guess it comes down to personal taste.
00:02:39Strudel, the dog girl, drags Marzipan out to the graveyard to find a bone,
00:02:43and then licks her face.
00:02:44Poffin, the Poffin, the Princess of the Moths, will...
00:02:48Poffin, the Princess...
00:02:51Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the Poffin, the P
00:03:21But it turns out that he f**ks him off onto his brother.
00:03:24Rude, man.
00:03:25But Marzipan thinks he's handsome, and so she just lets it go.
00:03:30Lastly is Jam.
00:03:34Lastly is Jam.
00:03:35The BFF Marzipan went to the party with.
00:03:40If you take the route to Periwinkle, and then don't go through with talking to him, Marzipan
00:03:50will go through multiple characters at the Punchbowl, all of whom assume- all of whom
00:03:54assume that she and Jam were already dating.
00:04:01After a number of dead ends, Marzipan decides to leave, and she and Jam have a heart-to-heart
00:04:04before deciding to kiss, and they're actually dating now.
00:04:07The Jam ending is only available after you get every other ending, and in Starry Flowers
00:04:10it's revealed to have been the canon ending, because of course it is.
00:04:13Why wouldn't it be?
00:04:14They're big cute, and it's the only one that ends in an actual relationship.
00:04:18Love that for them.
00:04:19You guys find an actual relationship, love that for them.
00:04:25You guys still struggle for you for any pronouncements.
00:04:28Uh, so what's your favorite?
00:04:28Oh yeah, kinda friends?
00:04:30Why Cat Cat Catouаю always shows us, as Lacey it's mead?!
00:04:31But, that's the only last one of whom I'm looking for.
00:04:34Jei's kids are out of this plan of the work to teach their wen on album.
00:04:37Helen Wilkie and Monetta français, who have an outfit.
00:04:39Um, I love having sex with your kids, my friends just מק make the comeback of this.
00:04:40Ah it's always taking notes you a couple things up and I'm sorry for ending,
00:04:43Oh, I love having fun...
00:04:45How that is?!
00:04:45It's a great one thing!
00:04:46My friend's Tégami, who haven't been with my child.
00:04:47I'll see you next time.
00:05:17I'll see you next time.
00:05:47I like to live with self-loathing.
00:05:49About knowing someone with depressions in the underwater village, it turns out that it's a genuinely romantic one.
00:05:55It's just that Starry Flowers is about boys, and this game has a very sharp wit.
00:06:00Drowning, drowning, drowning.
00:06:05I'm gonna split these up.
00:06:10Drowning, drowning, drowning.
00:06:13Drowning, drowning.
00:06:13I'm gonna pull someone into a hug and tell them that everything's going to be okay.
00:06:19Reinforce what she feels about herself, until she...
00:06:22One of the mermaids was already coming back.
00:06:25Being honest here, this isn't Nami's strong head.
00:06:27It is still good.
00:06:28I like it.
00:06:29It's on the market today.
00:06:31It's still worth...
00:06:31It's still worth playing.
00:06:33Play it again.
00:06:34Starry Flowers.
00:06:46Starry Flowers.
00:06:47Sticking in his head more than...
00:06:51But Pastille is sticking in his head more than anyone else.
00:06:54Pastille doesn't necessarily regret making her...
00:06:56Which has this problem...
00:06:58Ten fucking...
00:07:00Visual novel I've ever played, just earlier this...
00:07:02None of this is helped by the fact that it's a kinetic novel, so there's no dialogue choices, no gameplay, and no branching paths to engage your brain.
00:07:09It's not the longest or even the most unnecessarily padded visual novel I've ever played.
00:07:15Just earlier this month, both of those titles were snatched away from it by Decay.
00:07:20It's not the longest...
00:07:22Play.
00:07:23Coburn stories will often simply extend the denial phase long past the point of being...
00:07:27Fast, our sex tape is called Any Percent.
00:07:30I beat my wife off...
00:07:32But speaking person...
00:07:33But speaking for myself, edging has never really...
00:07:36Speaking only for myself...
00:07:38Oh god.
00:07:40Everyone's got a different...
00:07:41I had to get my case permission for this joke.
00:07:45Everyone's got a different taste for this.
00:07:46Some people live for that shit.
00:07:48They want to see the...
00:07:49They want the slowest possible burn imaginable.
00:07:53They want to get 350,000 words deep into a story,
00:07:57and the characters are only just starting to accept that they have feelings for each other.
00:08:01But personally, edging has...
00:08:03But personally...
00:08:04But speaking person...
00:08:05But speaking for myself, edging has never really been a kink of mine.
00:08:08I live for the quickie.
00:08:10I beat my wife off so fast, our sex tape has any percent in the title.
00:08:15...for it and love Syrah puts into actions...
00:08:18Slots into the larger group.
00:08:21Both periwinkle and...
00:08:22Bad at...
00:08:23Bad End Theater.
00:08:25Is everything you don't like about...
00:08:27Oh, jeez.
00:08:30The starry flower section is long.
00:08:32Spitting.
00:08:35Bad End Theater.
00:08:37...
00:08:37...
00:08:37...
00:08:57Aster's Garden is a game about...
00:08:59On death.
00:09:11To get good grades and raise the money to get into a good and advanced school.
00:09:15You play as Q Min, a succubus who runs a business where clients pay to have two...
00:09:19...who spent a brief time with you, but who influenced you in a very...
00:09:22...immediately apparent.
00:09:24They take the form of Picross puzzles where you have to...
00:09:26...
00:09:27...
00:09:27...
00:09:28...
00:09:49You may go a very long time without thinking about them.
00:09:52You never really forget the people who mattered to you.
00:09:54You never really forget the people who mattered to you.
00:09:55Sex Advice Succubus.
00:10:00Ow!
00:10:01Ow!
00:10:02Ow.
00:10:02Sorry.
00:10:03That's not part of the thing.
00:10:04That was me having a back spasm.
00:10:05...for a given character, so you just have to use your best judgment.
00:10:08Though sometimes the wrong thing is...
00:10:09...advice succubus.
00:10:10I'm just kidding.
00:10:11It's alright.
00:10:12You should play it.
00:10:14Princess Poffin.
00:10:19I feel like...
00:10:21...with Starry Flowers as Pastille's relationship...
00:10:23...to seek out new life.
00:10:25Well, then...
00:10:28...where the first game left off, which...
00:10:30...god.
00:10:31God, I mean, it's a simple request...
00:10:32...god.
00:10:34God, I mean, it's a simple request, Pixie.
00:10:35God!
00:10:37That's true, but I'm also not an asshole.
00:10:39You know, it's a simple request, Pixie.
00:10:40God!
00:10:41I'm not gonna get too...
00:10:43...
00:10:43...
00:10:44...
00:10:44Alright.
00:10:45My lie is made.
00:10:49I really don't want to...
00:10:50...I can...
00:10:51...I can never tell what a waveform is gonna be.
00:10:53I just...
00:10:54I'm not gonna get too...
00:10:57You don't need to hear that.
00:11:01Princess Poffin.
00:11:04Princess Poffin's very short.
00:11:05That's good.
00:11:12And the back spasms had gone away for a while.
00:11:19No one ever needs or should hear that.
00:11:36Yeah, sorry about that.
00:11:40Imagine watching the video.
00:11:41It's just a random...
00:11:42...and the video plays like normal.
00:11:45Well...
00:11:47It's not like the usual back spasms.
00:11:50That was like prolonged agony.
00:11:52I...
00:11:53Like...
00:11:54This looks like I did it all in one take.
00:11:56I did this in four...
00:11:57...over four different days.
00:11:59Specifically because the back spasms eventually made it.
00:12:02I could not sit in the booth anymore.
00:12:07They are back with a vengeance.
00:12:11Pfft.
00:12:15Oh god.
00:12:18Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:12:19This isn't like my back is sore or like...
00:12:22This isn't like my back is sore or like...
00:12:25It's like stiff or anything.
00:12:27This is...
00:12:28Excruciating.
00:12:29Pfft.
00:12:40Pfft.
00:12:40Pfft.
00:12:45Okay.
00:12:47What about...
00:12:48Kaima is an RPG maker game about a guy...
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00:16:15Kaima is an RPG maker game about a guy trying to kill his evil cannibalistic sister.
00:16:40Puppet cut.
00:16:41Oh, wait.
00:16:41Hang on.
00:17:02Oh, wait.
00:17:02Hang on.
00:17:02Yeah, no, that's the wrong footage, babe.
00:17:09No, no, they're two different games.
00:17:11No, I'm not gaslighting you.
00:17:14That was an RPG maker game about a guy trying to kill his evil cannibalistic sister.
00:17:18Oh, wait.
00:17:18Hang on.
00:17:21To kill his evil cannibalistic sister.
00:17:24Oh, wait.
00:17:24Hang on.
00:17:24Yeah, that's the wrong footage, babe.
00:17:27Yeah, that's the wrong footage, babe.
00:17:31No, no, they're two different games.
00:17:33No, I'm not gaslighting you.
00:17:36Yeah, that's the wrong footage, babe.
00:17:38What?
00:17:38No, I'm not gaslighting you.
00:17:43No, I'm not gaslighting you.
00:17:47Oh, I'm not gaslighting you.
00:17:51Pfft.
00:17:52Yeah, that's the wrong footage, babe.
00:17:56No, no, they're two different games.
00:18:02Two different games.
00:18:04No, I'm not gaslighting you.
00:18:05Oh, I'm not gaslighting you.
00:18:08No, I'm not gaslighting you.
00:18:18His evil cannibalistic sister.
00:18:21Oh, wait, hang on.
00:18:23Yeah, that's the wrong footage, babe.
00:18:26No, no, they're two different games.
00:18:28No, I'm not gaslighting you.
00:18:38Hang on.
00:18:42Yeah, that's the wrong footage, babe.
00:18:44No, no, no, they're two different games.
00:18:49Wait, hang on.
00:18:52Wait, hang on.
00:18:54Yeah, that's the wrong footage, babe.
00:18:56No, no, no, they're two different games.
00:18:57Yeah, that's the wrong footage.
00:18:59Yeah, that's the wrong footage, babe.
00:19:04Yeah, that's the wrong footage, babe.
00:19:07Wait, hang on.
00:19:08Yeah, that's the wrong footage, babe.
00:19:11No, no, no, they're, uh, they're two different games.
00:19:14No, I'm not gaslighting you!
00:19:22Anyway, Kaim has an RPG Maker game about a guy trying to kill his evil cannibalistic sister.
00:19:26It's actually one of the most token RPG Maker games I've ever seen.
00:19:29The maps are all abstract shapes, the combat is basically one-
00:19:32...and the whole thing is about twenty minutes long.
00:19:34And none of that was a criticism, I actually love it this way.
00:19:36You play as Syrina, a girl facing the end of the world, as squiggly nightmare creatures start eating the floor.
00:19:40So, Syrina flees to stop the-
00:19:42...flees to stop the-
00:19:44...so, Syrina flees to stop the-
00:19:46...so, Syrina flees to-
00:19:48...so, Syrina flees to-
00:19:50...the-
00:19:52...the-
00:19:53...the-
00:19:55...the-
00:19:57...the-
00:19:58...the-
00:19:59...the-
00:20:00...the-
00:20:01...the-
00:20:02So, Syrina flees to stop the one responsible.
00:20:04So, Syrina flees to stop the one responsible.
00:20:06So, Syrina flees to stop the one responsible.
00:20:07To that end, she recruits the ultimate s-
00:20:09...recruits the-
00:20:10...recruits the-
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00:20:31The ultimate simp!
00:20:35The ultimate simp!
00:20:37The ultimate simp!
00:20:46Responsible. To that end, she recruits...
00:20:50The ultimate simp!
00:20:52The ultimate simp!
00:20:59After the evil Prince Vito for killing her lover, Princess Ezelle.
00:21:03Well, actually, he's keeping her in stasis, but, you know, but that's just as dastardly.
00:21:09I find Vito just in stasis, but, you know, but that's just as dastardly.
00:21:14...down the street and kill him in two swings of Serena's mighty hammer.
00:21:21And that's how they learned that Vito had actually been trying to keep his sister from devouring all the souls in the universe.
00:21:26And that's how they learned that Vito had actually been trying to keep his sister from devouring all the souls in the universe,
00:21:30including Serena's, who has been an emotionless, moralist, smiling husk the entire game.
00:21:34Illy refuses to believe any of this, but then Ezelle wakes up and goes,
00:21:37Mmm, that was a good nap, and time to get back to eating souls. Illy, destroy that puppet for me.
00:21:42For me, the game goes in three ways. Well, actually, it goes in multiple ways, but I mean...
00:21:46Whatever, I didn't get footage of those, so we ain't talking about them.
00:21:50...kills...
00:21:51Either Illy kills Serena, prompting a game over.
00:21:53Serena kills Illy, which means Ezelle takes a shining to her instead and suggests that she come along and do dust and do...
00:21:58...and suggests that she...
00:21:59...Ezelle takes a shining to her instead and su...
00:22:01...and suggests that she...
00:22:03...and suggests that she...
00:22:05...and suggests that she come along and do dastardly evil...
00:22:09...things...
00:22:11...evil things...
00:22:13...evil things...
00:22:14...evil things...
00:22:15...evil things...
00:22:16...evil things...
00:22:17...and since Serena's utterly bereft of a soul, she agrees. Bad ending.
00:22:23...
00:22:28...
00:22:31...invincible armor, yes, that's what it's called.
00:22:33Onto Serena, you can...
00:22:34...before the end and equip the invincible armor, yes, that's what it's called.
00:22:37Onto Serena, you can just keep guarding until Illy gives up.
00:22:41Once she does, she has to accept that Ezelle...
00:22:43...the Ezelle she loved is gone.
00:22:45...Illiy gives up.
00:22:47Once she does, she has to accept that the Ezelle she loved is gone.
00:22:49...and the two of you team up and free the lost souls and the...
00:22:51...and the two of you team up and free the lost souls...
00:22:53...and the two of you team up and free the lost souls...
00:22:55...and then kill Ezelle, restoring the world to the way it was and giving Serena her soul back.
00:22:59Aw, I like to think she and Illy lived happily ever after.
00:23:01And that's it, it's a very quick story about souls, love, grief, and killing your toxic ex...
00:23:05...and also their evil sibling for good measure.
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00:30:52That's true, but I'm not an asshole.
00:30:54That's true, but I'm also not an asshole.
00:30:56You know, it's a simple request, Pixie.
00:30:57God.
00:31:01Syrup 2...
00:31:03...right from where the first game left off,
00:31:05which interprets Pastille's ending as the canon ending.
00:31:08I feel...
00:31:09I feel like if you ask most players of the first game which ending is canon,
00:31:13they'd say either Pastille or Gumdrop,
00:31:15and here Syrup is still a touch standoffish with Gumdrop and Pastille,
00:31:18and here Syrup is still...
00:31:20Gumdrop and Pastille is no longer hiding the fact that he's a witch.
00:31:25It also runs concurrent with Starry Flowers,
00:31:30as Pastille's relationship with Periwinkle forms the bulk of his story.
00:31:33And both game...
00:31:34And both games either...
00:31:36Starry Fl...
00:31:40Starry Flowers...
00:31:40Starry Flowers...
00:31:41And Starry Flowers briefly brings up this game's primary plot of...
00:31:45Well, Gumdrop's creation and her existence as a being made of candy.
00:31:49Unlike the previous game, which had a short 30-minute story
00:31:51and made you play it multiple times to see everyone's story to the end,
00:31:54this time around, everyone's story happens concurrently.
00:31:56Progress by little heart meter...
00:31:58Progress by little heart meters that show up...
00:32:01Progress by little heart meters that show...
00:32:03...bond with that character.
00:32:09...that character.
00:32:10However, while everyone has their own story,
00:32:12and advancing all of them is required to reach the end of the...
00:32:14And advancing all of them is required to reach the end of the...
00:32:17While everyone has their own story,
00:32:20and advancing...
00:32:22And advancing all of them is required to reach the end of the available con...
00:32:27And advancing all of them...
00:32:29And advancing all of them is required to reach the end of the available content,
00:32:37Gumdrop's story is very explicitly the main plot.
00:32:40Huh.
00:32:42Contrasting how Pastille's ending is the one considered canon to the previous game,
00:32:46Gumdrop is the one who...
00:32:47Turn this thing back up!
00:32:58Gumdrop is the one who...
00:33:00And advancing all of them is required to reach the end of the available content,
00:33:03Gumdrop's story is very explicitly the main plot.
00:33:05Contrasting how Pastille's ending is the one considered canon to the previous game,
00:33:09Gumdrop is the one who gets the most content, deals with a lot of the heavier subject matter,
00:33:12and her story is very reminiscent of the Commander Data episodes of Star Trek. Starfleet was-
00:33:22I always read aloud my editing notes so I don't have to go back over the script,
00:33:27and I can never, I can never help doing it in character.
00:33:39Two-Nine.
00:33:55What happened to him?
00:33:57What's that? What's that?
00:33:59It's a reminder of, I would robotics in a legal hearing to determine-
00:34:05What is he then? I-
00:34:07What is he then?
00:34:09Significantly redefine the-
00:34:11of our genius.
00:34:12Proceed and rep-
00:34:14Now the decision you reach, we are left with a pure-
00:34:18Now sooner or later, this man-
00:34:19Freud.
00:34:21Courtroom and this-
00:34:23Yes.
00:34:24It will reveal the kind of a people we are.
00:34:26What he is destined to be today will-
00:34:29So what if we meet the third-
00:34:31A wonder even, but thousands of data's-
00:34:34Give me-
00:34:34They are supposed to dismantle him.
00:34:37So-
00:34:41Or others-
00:34:46Your honor, Starfleet was-
00:34:48Starfleet was founded to seek out new life.
00:34:51Well there it sits!
00:34:52You are those who are one of the characters.
00:35:09Yes.
00:35:10You are, you are a king.
00:35:11I feel like you are a king to come.
00:35:12Yes.
00:35:13And you are the king to come.
00:35:14I saw you, in the third-
00:35:16I think we've got to be the one of the king.
00:35:16We will be the one of the king.
00:35:18But it's the one of the king.
00:35:19I think we're not the king.
00:35:19Okay, I need this, one of these, preferably one that's happy.
00:35:49Perfect, perfect, I can never figure out how to align this.
00:36:16Yep, that works.
00:36:36Perfect, perfect, I can never figure out how to align this.
00:37:04Perfect, perfect, I can never figure out how to align this.
00:37:11Perfect, perfect, I can never figure out how to align this.
00:37:17Perfect, I can never figure out how to align this.
00:37:32I'm gonna make the signal.
00:37:47Perfect, I can never figure out how to align this.
00:38:02Perfect, I can never figure out how to align this.
00:38:09I can never figure out how to align this.
00:38:12I can never figure out how to align this.
00:38:15Starfleet was found.
00:38:26Given that Syrup and Gumdrop are my favorite characters from Nami,
00:38:39the main plot being about them and their bond is literal Christmas in May for old CD here.
00:38:53Actually, the best comparison is to Astra's Garden, it actually feels written closely like that.
00:38:58In Astra's Garden, in Astra's Garden, Cassava, Astra's Mother, and Vinegar all kind of intertwined with each other to form the bulk of the main plot.
00:39:09In Syrup 2, that's Syrup Solo Story, Gumdrop, and Pastille.
00:39:14Periwinkle Story is only tangentially related and is a much-needed levity from how heavy the rest of the game is.
00:39:37And that's generally how Butterscotch and Toffee stories play out.
00:39:40They don't really interact with the main plot very often, unless you bring them to areas where the main plot happens and then they offer commentary.
00:39:47They overlap with the main plot to a small degree, mostly just offering perspective after the fact, but for the most part they're doing their own thing.
00:39:53This is actually really good, as if everyone was involved in the main plot then it would quickly get way too heavy.
00:39:59Just like in the first game, Syrup is the most unique and enjoyable character Nami has.
00:40:06She's got this relentless, aloof cool girl image, wallpapering a sort of social ineptitude to the level of Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka.
00:40:15Syrup is also the lead character of another piece of candy, and there she's practically cranked up to 11, bordering on somewhere between flustered nutcase and supervillain waiting to happen.
00:40:22And there she's practically cranked up to 11, bordering on somewhere between flustered nutcase and supervillain.
00:40:27And there she's practically cranked up to 11, bordering on somewhere between flustered nutcase and supervillain.
00:40:32And there she's practically cranked up to 11, bordering on somewhere between flustered nutcase and supervillain.
00:40:37...and there she's practically cranked up to 11, bordering on somewhere between flustered n-
00:41:07...somewhere between flustered nutcase and super-villain waiting to happen, but in-
00:41:32...violence. Okay, Sai, it's time to stop now. God forbid women do anything.
00:41:43...
00:41:50...
00:41:54...
00:41:58...
00:42:02...
00:42:06...
00:42:08...
00:42:12...
00:42:17...
00:42:21...
00:42:22...
00:42:25slander, but most of the people, but most of the game, but most of the game amounts to syrup going
00:42:34out of her way to do nice things for people. She gives away a lot of free candy in this game,
00:42:39often completely unprompted, and to people she just met. There's a bit early on where you meet
00:42:45a deer girl who mentions looking for mushrooms. Apropos of nothing, syrup gets the idea to make
00:42:50mushroom-shaped marshmallows, which she then gives to the deer girl, completely unprompted. She does
00:42:54this multiple times, multiple other... she does this multiple times... she does this multiple
00:42:59times... multiple other times people approach her wanting to request completely brand new candy
00:43:03for their partners for a special occasion... multiple other times people approach her wanting to request
00:43:09completely brand new... prompted... multiple other times... she ate marshmallows, which she then gives to
00:43:15the deer girl, completely unprompted... she does this...
00:43:18She does this multiple times, multiple
00:43:29times, multiple other times, people approach her wanting to request completely brand new candy
00:43:34for their partners for a special occasion. Syrup comes up with the recipes perfectly fitting the
00:43:38recipients on the spot, and in all but one case does it free of charge. Hey, like, I wanted to
00:43:42give my girlfriend some special candy that has, like, symbolic meaning, but I have no idea. Already
00:43:47had the idea, here it is, I'm a fucking genius. Hey, I mean, I wanted to give my girlfriend some
00:43:52Hey, like, I mean, I wanted to give my girlfriend some special candy that has symbolic meaning,
00:43:59but I have no idea. I already had the idea, here it is, I'm a fucking genius. I already
00:44:05had the idea, here it is, I'm a fucking genius.
00:44:17I already had the idea, here it is, I mean, I want to, hey, I mean, I wanted to give my girlfriend some
00:44:36special candy that has symbolic meaning, but I have no idea.
00:44:40I already had the idea, here it is, I mean, I want to, hey, I mean, I wanted to give my girlfriend some
00:44:47special candy that has symbolic meaning, but I have no idea.
00:44:53Hey, I mean, I wanted to give my girlfriend some special candy that has symbolic meaning,
00:45:00but I have no idea.
00:45:23I already had the idea, here it is.
00:45:43had the idea idea here it is i'm
00:46:13one case does it free of charge hey i mean i wanted to give my girlfriend some special candy that
00:46:33has symbolic meaning but i have no idea i already had the idea here it is i am a fucking genius
00:46:38i already had the idea here it is i am a fucking genius i already had i already had the
00:46:52already had the idea here it is i am a here it is i am a fucking because i am a
00:46:59i am a fucking genius
00:47:02syrup is a generous kind thoughtful and loving person but her personality is of this bitter
00:47:11jaded misanthrope who hates being around people syrup is more about actions than about words
00:47:16trying not to spoil syrup will balk at the idea of letting gumdrop hug her or referring to her as her
00:47:21friend to her face but will but will then promise to do something that is quite literally completely
00:47:29impossible and which no person in this universe has ever managed to achieve completely off the
00:47:34cuff like she's offering to grab someone a drink at the shop syrup seemingly can't stop herself from
00:47:40being the most thoughtful and kind-hearted person in the entire cast but it's all coded in this very
00:47:44unapproachable persona which i find interesting because from the perspective of a player people
00:47:49tend to ignore a character's kindness if they aren't also people tend to ignore it people tend to
00:47:54a player people tend to ignore a character's kindness if they aren't also present maybe at best
00:48:00they'll call them still call them tsundere
00:48:13and turn the character into a meme and turn the character into a meme
00:48:25it harkens back to the first game where syrup it harkens back to the first game where syrup has to
00:48:29actively go actively go out of her way to be truly cold-hearted because while she's deeply
00:48:35antisocial she's also just very kind this game really lets you sink your teeth into that aspect of
00:48:40syrup's personality god damn that was a very authentic dry heave you say that as if i didn't actually dry
00:48:47heave i especially like the aspect of syrup's personality i especially like how this aspect of
00:48:58syrup never really changes a character like this in a lesser game would eventually stop being so prickly
00:49:04with people but syrup doesn't again trying not to spoil there's a point toward the end of the main
00:49:08story that is a big emotional climax for the three lead characters that leads to gumdrop openly expressing
00:49:13that she loves syrup and trying to hug her but syrup despite displaying a level of devotion not seen
00:49:18in any other character in this series still completely recoils at any open
00:49:43display of affection flees from her flees from her and goes right back to
00:50:13and goes right back to calling gumdrop candy weirdo
00:50:29and goes right back to calling gumdrop candy weirdo
00:50:36i don't know about you weirdo i don't know
00:50:43i don't know about you i'm here you know i don't know about you but i'm hearing wedding bells
00:51:02already
00:51:19yeah i'm not gonna lie yeah i'm not gonna lie kind of ship it
00:51:25yeah i'm not syrup and gumdrop have a dynamic that mirrors a lot of other couples
00:51:34syrup and gumdrop have a dynamic that mirrors a lot of other couples in nami's games particularly
00:51:38pastiel and periwinkle camel and eleni the maiden and the overlord treating her girlfriends you know
00:51:43the energetic one you know the energetic and upbeat one plus the reserved and easily
00:51:47and upbeat one plus the reserved and easily embarrassed one it's a common motif in her work and it's big cute
00:52:04her other works has sort of had this recurring
00:52:07her other works has sort of had this recurring ship tease with butterscotch
00:52:10other things that syrup appears in
00:52:19other works
00:52:20other things that syrup appears in tends to have this recurring ship tease with butterscotch but
00:52:25syrup displays a much stronger attachment and care toward gumdrop than any than she does anyone else
00:52:30and not gumdrop than
00:52:31and she does anyone else and not for nothing gumdrops ending in the first game in and not for nothing
00:52:39in gumdrops and and not
00:52:42for nothing in gumdrops ending in the first game they do dress up and travel so like
00:52:46i'm probably reading i'm probably reading too much into it no scratch that i am definitely reading too
00:52:51much into it i i'm probably reading too much into it no scratch that i am definitely reading too much
00:52:56into it i think nami is actually going in an intentionally celibate direction with syrup but you know
00:53:00Now, it's fun to be a conspiracy theorist when the conspiracy is extremely low stakes.
00:53:04Gumdrop calls Syrup baby girl when no one else is around, and Syrup likes it,
00:53:07and if you try to convince me otherwise, you're a fed.
00:53:30Gumdrop calls Syrup baby girl when no one else is around, and Syrup likes it,
00:53:42and if you try to convince me otherwise, you're a fed.
00:53:44Gumdrop calls Syrup baby girl when nobody else is around, and Syrup likes it,
00:53:47and if you try to convince me otherwise, you're a fed.
00:53:55Interestingly enough, this game actually has a gameplay loop of managing the candy shop in
00:54:00the loop of managing the candy shop.
00:54:04Oftentimes, the main plot is put on hold, and it makes you synthesize new candies,
00:54:16which involves going into different locations with different characters to gather rare ingredients,
00:54:21which involves going to different locations with different characters,
00:54:25and it makes you synthesize new candies, which involves going
00:54:29which involves
00:54:30which involves going to different locations with different characters to gather rare ingredients,
00:54:37kill monsters for ingredients, and discover new ways to use them for candy.
00:54:40Many of the recipes Syrup just thinks of when she encounters a new ingredient,
00:54:44many of the recipes Syrup just
00:54:46many of
00:54:46thinks up on the spot when she encounters a new ingredient, like she picks up a literal rock,
00:54:58like she picks up an actual rock, and has the idea to make a chocolate cake that prevents death.
00:55:07No, seriously, I didn't just make that up for a joke.
00:55:09And yeah, since you're battling monsters, this game has an RPG
00:55:12And yeah, since you're battling monsters, this game has RPG battling, with leveling up and everything.
00:55:18NAMI created an entire custom RPG framework specifically to work in RenPy.
00:55:22So we've had a visual novel made in an engine primarily intended for making turn-based RPGs,
00:55:29and a turn-based RPG made in an engine primarily intended for making visual novels.
00:55:33Game engines have now discovered gender non-conformity.
00:55:38So we've had a visual novel
00:55:40So we have had a visual
00:55:41So we've had a visual novel made in an engine primarily intended for making turn-based RPGs,
00:55:47and a turn-based RPG made in an engine primarily intended for making visual novels.
00:55:51Game engines have now discovered gender non-conformity.
00:55:54Actually, the battling skews on the easy side, as NAMI's games with
00:55:57Actually, the battle of Nami's games with combat have a tendency to do, but it's actually not brainless, either.
00:56:20Syrup always takes a single party member into battle, except in one very specific case.
00:56:26Syrup has one attack and an assortment of battle items.
00:56:29The party member has two abilities they'll use on their own at different times.
00:56:32For example, Gumdrop will usually cheerlead, raising Syrup's attack, and if Syrup's health is low, she'll heal her by...
00:56:40Force-feeding her a piece of her-
00:56:42It could've been anything, it could've been just giving it to-
00:57:12...attack, and if Syrup's health is low, she'll heal her by...
00:57:38...attack, and if Syrup's health is...
00:57:40...effect, and if Syrup's health is low, she'll heal her by...
00:57:49-...force- feed-
00:57:51...attack, and if Syrup's health is low, she'll...
00:57:56...attack, and if Syrup's health is low, she'll heal her by...
00:58:06...she'll heal-
00:58:07... Gustavs low, she'll-
00:58:39I don't have a particularly delightful laugh.
00:58:55I cackle like a hyena.
00:59:09Huh, I'm just starting to re-
00:59:11They overlap with the main plot to a small degree, mostly just-
00:59:15Hello, she'll-
00:59:19Hello, she'll heal her-
00:59:22Hello, she'll heal her by force-feeding her a piece of her-
00:59:44Force-feeding her a piece of her-
00:59:58A piece of her-
01:00:01Force-feeding her a piece of her-
01:00:09It could've been anything, it could've been just-
01:00:14It could've been anything, it could've been just giving it to- it could've been just giving it to her.
01:00:18You can make Gumdrop's hair as a healing item, but no.
01:00:22You can make-
01:00:23Now I've gotta find the exact 10 second spot where I actually made Gumdrop's hair the item.
01:00:53It could've been anything, it could've been just giving it to- it could've been just-
01:01:19It could've been anything, it could've been-
01:01:23It could've been just giving-
01:01:26Giving it to-
01:01:27It could've been-
01:01:31It could've been just giving it to her.
01:01:33You can make Gumdrop's hair-
01:01:37Make Gumdrop-
01:01:46You can make Gumdrop's hair as a healing item, but no.
01:01:50It's explicitly shoving it in her mouth.
01:01:53I was nut-
01:01:54Okay for like 10 minutes when I first saw that.
01:01:56I saw that.
01:01:57I saw that.
01:01:58I saw that.
01:02:00I saw that.
01:02:18Okay.
01:02:19Hey, Vincity.
01:02:31I've been okay.
01:02:32But no, it's explicitly shoving it in her mouth.
01:02:36I was not okay.
01:02:49I was not okay.
01:03:19I was not okay for like 10 minutes when I first saw that.
01:03:40You just have to attack and occasionally use an item.
01:03:42Hell, if you're feeling lazy, you can craft 50 meta steals, which automatically heal you
01:03:46when you take fatal damage and break the game in half.
01:03:49Except some enemies can inflict nauseous on Sarah, preventing her from eating candies.
01:03:54I'm not okay.
01:03:58I'm not okay.
01:04:00I'm not okay.
01:04:02I'm not okay.
01:04:07I'm not okay.
01:04:12I'm not okay.
01:04:17I'm not okay.
01:04:18I'm not okay.
01:04:20I'm not okay.
01:04:22I'm not okay.
01:04:31Just have to attack and occasionally use an item.
01:04:33Still, if you're feeling lazy, you can craft 100% automatically heal you when you take fatal
01:04:36damage and break the game in half.
01:04:38Except some enemies can inflict nauseous on Sarah, preventing her from eating candies.
01:04:42So yeah, it's on the easy side, but it still has a few tricks to keep you on your toes.
01:04:55Actually, if you have Pastille in the party and Syrup takes fatal damage, Pastille will retaliate and deal
01:05:009-9-9-9-9.
01:07:05I know I had this recorded.
01:07:07Oh, here we go.
01:07:23Actually, if you have Pastille in the party and Syrup takes fatal damage, Pastille will retaliate
01:07:45and deal...
01:07:49Pastille will retaliate and deal...
01:07:59Pastille will retaliate and deal...
01:08:03Pastille will retaliate and deal...
01:08:09Pastille will retaliate and deal...
01:08:19Nine, nine, nine, nine damage to the enemy.
01:08:29That's a hard-coated max, right?
01:08:36Yeah.
01:08:38It doesn't win the...
01:08:39It doesn't win the fight, and it's just a little flavor ability to show how deeply Pastille cares about syrup, and also...
01:08:49Win the fight, and it's just a little flavor...
01:08:59Win the fight, and it's just a little flavor ability to show how deeply Pastille cares about syrup...
01:09:04And also...
01:09:12How fucking powerful he is?
01:09:14Like, what does this boy eat?
01:09:16Like, what the hell does this boy eat?
01:09:18Like, what the hell does this boy eat?
01:09:20Like, what the hell does this boy eat?
01:09:46Like, what the hell does this boy eat?
01:09:50Oh.
01:09:51Oh.
01:09:52Oh, I had a horrible joke.
01:09:55Oh.
01:09:56Oh.
01:09:57Oh.
01:09:58Oh.
01:09:59Oh.
01:10:00Oh, I had a horrible joke.
01:10:05Oh.
01:10:06Oh.
01:10:07Oh.
01:10:08Oh.
01:10:09Oh, oh.
01:10:11Oh.
01:10:12Oh.
01:10:13Oh.
01:10:14Oh.
01:10:15Oh. Oh.
01:10:16so
01:10:23nine nine will retaliate and deal
01:10:43How fucking powerful he is?
01:10:51Like, what the hell does this boy eat?
01:11:13What the hell does this boy eat?
01:11:30Like, what the-
01:11:31Like, what the hell does this boy eat?
01:11:50This whole-
01:11:57Like, what the hell does this boy eat?
01:11:59This whole part of the-
01:12:00Like, what the hell does this boy eat?
01:12:06This whole part of the game gives off a chill-out, workaday life sim vibe, a la Stardew Valley
01:12:11or Starstruck Vagabond.
01:12:16The gameplay isn't especially difficult, but it sets a mood by balancing Syrup's time
01:12:19with her friends with, y'know, her job, almost like you're a real functioning adult.
01:12:23I mean, if this-
01:12:24I mean, if this stem lord who-
01:12:26I mean, if this stem lord who hides in her basement all day and makes $40 a week can achieve real-world
01:12:33life balance, then what's your excuse?
01:12:34The gameplay loop of RPG battles, gathering resources, crafting things, and making money-
01:12:41The gameplay loop of RPG battles, gathering resources, crafting things, and making-
01:12:45And making moony eyes-
01:12:46And making moony eyes-
01:12:46And making moony eyes-
01:12:53This生-
01:12:56And making moony eyes-
01:12:59A cute-
01:12:59girls, it's very bio-wari
01:13:15And making moony eyes of cute girls is very bio-wary, and making moony eyes of cute girls is very bio-wary,
01:13:45and has a very ambitious-wary, achieve real-world-life balance, then what's your excuse?
01:13:49The gameplay loop of RPG battles, gathering resources, crafting things, and making moony eyes of cute girls-
01:14:04...to explore.
01:14:05Gameplay loop of RPG battles ga-
01:14:15We'll see you next time.
01:14:45We'll see you next time.
01:15:15This game is up to two hours, two hours, but my recording of this game is up to like six hours.
01:15:21This is like the second longest visual novel I've ever played.
01:15:24And there's more to come.
01:15:27It's also really useful at just breaking up the story as you enter this rhythm of dialogue
01:15:40and gameplay so neither situation overstays its welcome for too long.
01:15:44It's this very well thought out ebb and flow of gameplay, more so than any of our other
01:15:48games.
01:15:48And it really works.
01:15:50Any of our other games and it really works.
01:15:52It makes the whole experience just mwah.
01:15:55And there's still more to come.
01:15:57The main plot cliffhangs at a point where Sierra promises to do something that is borderline
01:16:00impossible.
01:16:01And so there's a long way to go.
01:16:03Out of all the visual novels I played, this is, um, I am eagerly looking forward to how
01:16:13this game ends and it has quickly shot up to being my favorite.
01:16:16And well, we can't close out a video like this without.
01:16:46Favourite.
01:16:48Honey, what?
01:16:50Favourite.
01:16:51Honey, what you waiting for?
01:16:55Welcome to my candy store.
01:16:58Time for you to prove you're not a loser anymore.
01:17:04And step into my candy store.
01:17:16The gameplay loop of RPG battles, gathering resources, crafting things, and making moony
01:17:40eyes of cute girls is very bio-wary.
01:17:42It has a very ambitious number of flags and checks, and the areas available to explore
01:17:46are quite expansive.
01:18:12True.
01:18:17True.
01:18:17True.
01:18:17Kaima is an RPG maker game about a guy trying to kill his evil cannibalistic sister.
01:18:45Anyway, Kaima is an RPG maker game about a guy trying to kill his evil cannibalistic sister.
01:19:03It's actually one of the most token RPG maker-
01:19:15Mostly accurate, D-Woof.
01:19:37Mostly accurate, D-Woof.
01:19:41Okay.
01:19:45It's 2.16, about a half hour.
01:19:55Alright, so I imagine- I imagine this video will probably be about an hour.
01:20:13I'm making- I'm making good time.
01:20:25I'm gonna bounce, I'm big sleep.
01:20:31I'm gonna bounce, I'm big sleep.
01:20:35I'll be ahead of my shift go.
01:20:39I'm glad to hear it.
01:20:43Video progress, thanks.
01:20:49I'm probably going to go to bed too, if only- if only so that the time between McKay gets-
01:21:01between now and quicker.
01:21:13Alright, see ya everybody!
01:21:15I'm gonna bounce, what does that mean?
01:21:17I'm gonna bounce.
01:21:19Alright, see ya.
01:21:21I'm gonna bounce, I'm gonna bounce.
01:21:23I'm gonna bounce.
01:21:25I'm gonna bounce.
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