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Good Scene Breakdown: A bit a few hours into Omori that really stuck with me
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Omori is an Earthboundian RPG
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for the first long period of the game you're in a surreal weirdworld
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fighting goofy-looking nonsense monsters with like
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knives and baseball bats
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standard stuff
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Omori and his friends
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Omori, the protag, uses knives
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handy for cutting down vines on the map n' shit
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but the weirdness starts after a major arc concludes
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and you wake up
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as a boy named Sunny, who looks exactly like Omori
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except, you're in the real world now
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no monsters, no whimsical rainbow dimension
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just a random suburb, hanging out with one of your friends
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at one point, one of the other party members shows up, but she's a weird asshole now
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https://images.plurk.com/1YpxzZR1WennVkP1WrKNGp.png so you end up getting in a fight
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I'm like oh boy, Audrey looks strong, I'd better get ready for a long fight
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round 1
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Sunny attacks
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Aubrey: Wait is that a fucking knife
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Aubrey gets stabbed, starts bleeding
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fight ends immediately
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everyone loses their fucking minds
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https://images.plurk.com/7gwwoOuB54Lp89drzsCY5z.png
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like "what the fuck sunny you can't just stab someone"
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"give me that"
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I just completely defaulted to RPG Logic
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I have a knife equipped, it'll do some HP damage
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but then it turns out you shouldn't stab people in the park in the real world
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they take it really badly
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i like how in your liveplurk you were like you know what this would be so much faster if you gAVE ME MY KNIFE BACK
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because well, it's true
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knife, the great communicator
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knife ends fights real quickly
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REAL quickly
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but in the real world, escalating has consequences
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The funniest thing about this is Aubrey wielding a bat with nails
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It's so well set up because everyone sees the familiar battle screen so like yeah okay I've done this before
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I completely forgot I even had the knife equipped
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I was just going to like
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attack her hit points
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for damage points
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honestly yeah that's the funniest part
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everyone is so horrified you stabbed aubrey and yet aubrey has a fucking nail bat
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technically she did lose some hit points!
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LIKE STABBING SOMEONE IN THE PARK IS BAD
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just, also, some blood,
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BUT ALSO
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THAT BAT WILL ALSO DO
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LOTS OF REAL LIFE DAMAGE
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SHE'S A DELINQUENT
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IT'S COOL WHEN SHE DOES IT PROBABLY
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the knife is also just, like, mechanically an AMAZING weapon
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like when you have it, Kel does about 30 damage with his basketball
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and you knife Audrey for 104 damage
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then he confiscates your knife and you're doing like 15 damage
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knives hurt
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sunny has noodle arms
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the knife is so much more effective
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there's also this sense of like
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why... is Sunny like this
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we get into basically a schoolyard brawl over stupid shit
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and Sunny's like >equip knife
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It's a rare case where having a silent protag really works for a scene
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the fact that you don't know what Sunny is thinking makes him scary
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also the fact that he seems to actually be ICly silent
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like, Basil tries to have conversations with you
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and gets uncomfortable
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because you aren't replying
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anyway Omori had a slow start but I'm really getting into it
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i feel like i might be wearing out this sentiment lately but it's one of my new all-time favorites i think
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Things are happening in the plot that are making me go, in a good way, https://images.plurk.com/1XEFFag4JTSpoCLZmHj8gR.png
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Especially as the team's very first game, like, there's some design bits that could have been streamlined but overall? I like it quite a lot.
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a shitton of content crammed in there too
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god yeah actually. i beat the game months ago and i'm doing an entire second playthrough now and STILL discovering new things
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the real world segments keep reframing things in the fantasyworld segments in worse and worse ways
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like, to not spoil but to allude in a way that spoiled folks will understand
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mari
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It's a very fun game to just your way through
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I did not
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would you like a clip of what happens if you do
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sure, I'm not gonna go back and replay this one
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erk
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let me try that again
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Highlight: OMORI | Hi, Mari - thetacriterion on Twit...
don't watch earlier than the linked timestamp, i talked about stuff that's probably not spoilers but i'm playing it safe
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oh cool normal stuff
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late, but, YEAH i 100% agree with you on all of this
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the actual bits that are supposed to be horror in omori are hit-or-miss for me with a few exceptions but the atmosphere in faraway town when it's just, like, normal
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always hits you like a punch to the gut
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more rot13 stuff but
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pertaining to the section quinn just finished
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