05 October, 2008

Sausage, Being Made (Odin Sphere)

"I say stupid things." You're darn tootin' I do, slogan! In most of my posts, I try to communicate fairly well (even though I know I use too much jargon). I try to keep things organized. As a result, these pieces don't really sound much like me. And they don't communicate the experience of playing games very well. To that end, and to test out a microphone, I recorded the first hour and a half of myself playing Odin Sphere (100MB). Be warned, it contains swearing and blasphemy, with some mild racism and sexism for flavor. If you want to jump around, here are the various sections.

00:00 preamble
00:40 intro music
01:05 PS1 controller's start button doesn't work
01:25 more music and attract mode dialog as I get a PS2 controller
06:05 new PS2 controller opened (and old controller eulogy)
06:55 list of old busted consoles


08:15 getting started
09:00 the weird starting menu
10:40 starting the game
11:15 opening cut scene


15:15 tutorial
15:30 basics (move, attack, jump, glide)
16:10 downward attack
16:20 guarding
16:55 power gauge
17:40 phozons
18:55 mistake about how phozons level stuff up
19:25 learning how to actually use phozons for magic
20:00 phozon help text and menu list
20:35 cypher help text
20:50 food and food help text
21:30 racist comments
21:45 seed stuff
22:55 tutorial grade (A) and loot
23:25 nonsensical treasure help text
23:40 additional mistake about how phozons level stuff up
24:25 cut scene
26:10 save game


26:40 talking to everyone before first battle
30:05 buying stuff from vendor
33:20 travel to battle (world map)
34:00 cut scene
35:25 insensitive comments
35:50 first fight
36:10 grade (A)
37:00 small worlds
37:40 second fight (first seed planting)
38:55 grading
39:10 area map
40:40 third fight (first butterfly)
42:45 grade (A)
42:50 butterfly help text
43:50 shopping (EXP stone)
45:00 more coin babbling
45:55 selling back is fail
46:40 talking to friendlies
47:55 fourth fight
49:10 grade (B)
50:20 fifth fight
51:40 grade (?)
52:55 figured out how food levels work
53:40 planting shenanigans
56:00 save
57:20 mini-boss one
1:04:00 grade (D)
1:05:35 shopping
1:08:40 can't repeat boss fight (wasted seed)
1:10:10 sixth fight
1:11:45 grade (C)
1:12:10 how to fight help text
1:13:00 can't fight old stages again
1:13:40 shopping
1:14:50 mini-boss two
1:17:10 grade (B?)
1:18:25 seventh fight
1:20:00 fairy fight
1:21:00 grade (C)


1:25:00 final boss cut scene
1:27:00 final boss
1:33:00 post boss cut scene
1:36:00 more talking to NPCs
1:41:20 all done

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