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So basically the mc wakes up with amnesia with a girl talking inside his ear giving him orders, telling him to complete objectives or she kills him. His main goal is to kill the boss but it turns out the boss is his brother and that the mc is a clone used for spare parts, and the girl is an ai virus who wants revenge on the brother. Gameplay was fun and the story had a nice twist that pleasantly surprised me.

>>16205220

Well yeah, that's the central motivation for the protag to help Shina, the main heroine. On the second playthrough (NG+) you can get endings for the other girls, if I what I heart and almost spoiled myself for is true. Haven't beaten it yet.

>>16205164

Absolutely different from every other Compile Heart game ever made. The most interesting aspect of Corpse Party was its mystery aspect, that a simple game of "don't die by the ghosties" turned out to be a cold case murder mystery (the first game, the others sucked) was pretty surprising, too.

And that the young girl you see who was most abused was actually the culprit all along, acting in twilight existence of a living grudge because the principal raped and murdered her mother and then kept her hidden away for horrible abuse until she died. Then the retarded caretaker was manipulated by her to abduct kids and take the fall for the victims while the principal goes paranoid, crazy, and then commits suicide–all just some of the trauma which led to the school becoming a parallel world where the dead remain and slowly erode into grudge spirits as others are forgotten in the living world.

The same writer was brought on for this game as I mentioned and it's Steins;Gate levels of intricate plotting with way more character than usual CH stuff. Also dark bad ends. Game gets brutal.

>>16205185

That was great! But anon you left out the surprise surprise twist: The girl who used/helped you get revenge while tricking your brother is actually the AI of the E.Y.E satellite system, which only makes sense if you listen to the ghoul-masked homeless woman in town and read the description of the E.Y.E that comes up in the menu reference. I want a sequel so bad.

>>16205518

>E.Y.E

>>16205518

Yea its a good game, I forgot some of the story parts at first but even relearning more about it made me start a ng+ and its still pretty fun to go back and play. But yea theres probably gonna be a sequel I bet hopefully its a fun as the first, Ive been playing some games where the sequels butcher their predecessors and it makes me hope for the best.

>>16205032

Why do the Japanese like the semicolon so much?

>>16205852

Because their titles are half-assed

It's a simple one but for Forbidden Siren

The game starts off presenting like a japanese supernatural horror story. Zombies, a ritual that needs to be completed, Spiritual mediums, and psychic powers. Standard affairs if you've ever seen J-horror. Turns out this is actually a sci-fi story with a lovecraftian horror seeking to attain it's body back and the game ends with a stable time loop to complement the loops you've had to play through with the mission modes.

Bloodborne did this as well but it's far more telegraphed.

>>16205032

>What About the Droid Attack on the Wookies: The Game

When I think "Republic Commando," I'm not thinking about the abolition of carpet slavery.

I picked up Inazuma Eleven because of the comfy Level 5 aesthetic and because I really like sportsball sims and there's just so little in terms of RPGs (Captain Tsubasa is a thing but other than that most other sportsball rpgs are very middling). I was NOT expecting the sheer insanity the series would delve into and I greatly enjoyed every second of it (nip version though because Britbong accents are too weird for a Japanese centric title).

>You wanna play soccer

>You REALLY like soccer

>You join your school's team and save it from certain disbandment

>You beat a paramilitary organization that is actually just a normal school but with apocalypunk dorks

>Then imageboard dweebs

**>Then Greek deities aided by liquid steroids and led by a Korean boipussy

>Then the Coach of Bad Guys Team is taken in custody but he was really just a pawn in the grand scheme of things and aliens invade and take over Japan and the PM

>Then you beat the aliens while touring Japan and it turns out they were orphans juiced up on some Meteor Meth shit all along and defeat their foster father who was actually an arms dealer whose son died because of the Japanese govt

>Then you beat your brainwashed teammates and Michael Jackson

>Then, with everything forgiven, former aliens and brainwashed teammates and your original team form the Japanese Youth Team and you fight racist caricatures of other nations' kids

>Then you find out that all the insane power ups you've been using all throughout the games are actually a gift by the Abrahamic God to Angels and Demons to fight wars without shedding any blood and it was just casually passed on to humans

>Then you beat both Angels and Demons and prevent Armageddon

>Then you beat the Congolese National Team, which was led by your gramps who was a national legend but MERELY PRETENDED to be dead just to raise a replacement grandson to be a dick

>Then a fascist dictatorship from a far off, cyberpunk future tries to undo your achievements because you made everyone gay by playing soccer, you beat them with the help of your own grandson

>Then you grow up and soccer is now state sponsored worse than Chinese shit**

I could go on throughout the series but the original six games (or three depending on your interpretation) is some of the tightest fucking story telling ever. Like you'll put up with everything else just to see what kind of bullshit they'll come up with.

>>16208703

lmao fucked up the spoilers like a true giganigga

>>16205711

They keep mentioning a wealthy secret society and the main villain corporation is literally "Aggle". And that's not a translation thing, even in Nip they call them "Aggle".

>>16205759

I just want my super satellite waifu

>>16205032

the greatest and most surprising plot bar none.

>play pic related

>expect Human Centipede-tier schlock

>get it

>and a dark story with plot twists that legitimately threw me off

>>16209120

Never forget.

>>16205711

Also Aggle's majority shares and executive positions are staffed by "Aphesis", an international corporation masked as a social welfare non-profit front which influences younder followers through social media. Some speculate they are tied to a religious cult going back to the 15 century who practiced the occult and used young followers on "Twister" (Twitter) to help grow their AI software.

Aggle is the company with a near-monopoly centralizing hardware, OS and globally scaled IT infrastructure.

>Wanted to try out Death End;Request for myself

>No PC version

>>16223948

Cheer up anon, it was just announced to be coming out spring 2019.

The rabbits get fucked up, and whatever shit they were on gets them paranoid. They think for whatever reason people from the moon are going to get them, so they replace the moon with a fake one. There's nobody after them and Reimu has to beat them up and then convince them it's just a paranoid break.

So then Aggle(Apple) purchased designs and AI software from the U.S. State Department's military technical division (basically the NSA) and created "Eriza" (literally a Siri/Alexa parallel) which then collected ALL users' metadata which they used to create the first supercomputer capable of unparalleled processing speed from their Neuralware department.

>Mankind did not know how to wield such potential.

So how did they get their supercomputer to be so unfathomably capable? Well, you know how it's said that the greatest computer ever known is the brain?

"To survive, it found a way to subvert the adage that humans onle use 10% of their brains. Thus __10,000 people were abducted to power its CPU."

So the secret cultist society of insane wealth masquerading as a non-profit group funds and staffs the executive positions of the world's biggest Silicon Valley company, takes technology from basically the NSA and makes Alexa, then sets about secretly stealing terabytes upon terabytes of user data so they can create a supercomputer/human hybrid amplified by the brainpower of abducted children and teens to use them as part of their AI's processing power.

But wait, there's more!

They run "Experience Farms" where players of their supremely realistic VR games can interact with AI with full responsive control, but really they were collecting "enough data to fill the Library of Alexandria" (meaning a lot) for the purpose of educating their AI god built upon government technology amplified by ABDUCTED KIDS' BRAINS.

GLOBAL ABDUCTION RINGS

I just thought this was gonna be a waifu mystery not Deus Ex meets Made in Abyss what

Anon's Bizarre Adventure

>nobody mentioned Deadly Premonition

Hands down the best plot twist I've ever seen in a video game.

<-mfw playing DiabloIII.

>>16205032

DiabloIII. Diablo1 & 2 had lore from books or items you found. You were a nobody finding out this hidden war.

D3 made you the chosen one. Ffffffffffffffffffff… Guess that happens when WoW people do a gothic game like Diablo. Boring nostalgia and dumb Lesser Evils rounded out this snoozefest of a story.

The only decent plot twist was that Leah was Diablo's daughter.

>>16247785

wrong game anon

>>16247815

That sounds great, actually. Never gave it a look before because of the aesthetic.

>>16247845

Deadly Premonition is what Twin Peaks fans wished Twin Peaks was. It was the first time the derivative copy was actually completely superior in every way to the original.

It even had a cuter Naomi Watts

>Starts off as a story where a shipwreck brings a bunch of castaways together

>Evolves into a ghost ship story, a time travel story and a story where you defy a god and then accidentally create a new one

This entire fucking game.

Most people will recommend Max Payne for its fantastic gameplay, but the story is good as well.

>starts out as a revenge story, two thugs broke into your house and killed your wife and baby daughter

>then your partner gets killed and you're framed for it

>you track down the people responsible for it, and get involved with a weird cult, drugs and powerful people

>everything you come across is named after nordic myths, for some reason

>you find out that the hottest new drug was originally a serum used to create super soldiers, but got illegally repurposed into a "recreational" drug when all the tests failed because it was simply too addictive and it made you insane and bloodthirsty the more you consumed it

>your wife found out about this first, and was going to publish it in the newspaper, but she got offed before she could, so the two random thugs that killed her weren't random thugs at all

>then it turns out the drug wasn't illegally repurposed at all, the (((government))) simply decided it cost them too much to develop for it not to turn a profit, so they gave it to one of the people who developed it, fully knowing how devastating this new drug would be

>even though you're balls deep into this conspiracy all it takes for you to get out of it is to make a deal with (((woden))), you kill nicole, a former coworker and nemesis, and he cleans your name, even though you gunned down government agents, soldiers, broke into a secret research facility and then shot down an helicopter in front of the cops

>he actually fucking does, and it leaves max wondering just how powerful this man is

It's a shame they mostly dropped this in the sequel in favor of a stupid romance plot, the third game doesn't even mention any of this, max only remembers his wife and kid.

>game starts in a forest next to a cabin and a safe on the ground

>explore a bit

>go into some cabin and talk to a girl

>you both love each other, but she's to be wed to a rich noble, while you are just an apprentice at a mill

>decide to perform a year walk, an old Swedish tradition, which involved walking to the church at night performing various rituals before and during the trek, in order to see the following year ahead

>you encounter creatures from Swedish mythology that test you at every turn

>the Huldra sings to guide you deeper into the forest, only to attack you for a blood sacrifice

>the waterhorse asks for you to bring him back the ghosts of drowned children, and you end up encountering the spirit of the woman who drowned them

>the night raven steals the key to the church, only to reveal that he could be far more fearsome if he felt the need

>the church grim guards the church, and when you shatter his heart, you literally see the universe

>the year ahead is of the woman proclaiming she does not love you and that you should leave her be

>you wake up in a forest, the snow is all gone and the sun is out. As you explore, you find the woman lying in front of you, blood soaking the grass

>meanwhile, one or two hundred years later, a mythology historian decides to explore a town known for year walking

>he finds an article about a man who performed a year walk and was sentenced to death after they concluded he killed the woman he loved

>he decides to go visit the mans cabin, only to find out the most recent residents left after their baby son drowned in a nearby lake

>he finds a safe and decides to take it to his hotel room to study

>soon after his employer calls him, a university, informing him that he is both being ridiculed and is wasting both their resources and their reputation on nonsense

>he wakes up one night to hear a baby screaming under the floorboards, and after tearing them off, realizing it was empty

>the phone won't stop ringing, and whenever he picks up, no one is there

>finally opens the safe

>it's empty

>realize that the safe wasn't meant for him alone

>his final journal entries describe him preparing for a year walk, which includes isolation and depriving oneself of warmth and nourishment

>the man in the past manages to open the safe

>it contains three items

>a newspaper clipping describing a man in court for killing a woman he loved, mumbling in court and his lawyer not even being able to form a defense for insanity

>a letter from a man claiming to be from the future, saying that 'you know what you must do'

>the last item is an intricate knife

A Dragon steals your heart but you don't die, instead becoming Arisen. You're visited by otherdimensional people who call themselves Pawns that resemble humans but each must answer to a single master; you create your own and you are told you can hire a few from other masters from other worlds. In the process of hunting down your heart you learn a lot of things about the world and the people in it that don't end up mattering at all. Once you destroy the Dragon, acquire a Godsbane, and restore your heart (which actually doesn't do anything), the world plunges into darkness and a massive hold opens into the core that loops forever. You find a freed Pawn who will teleport you to her old master if you give her a king's ransom in magic stones. Turns out the world is overseen by a god that doesn't really do anything but defend the seat of god from those who would claim it and send those who perish back to a world as the next Dragon. You find that that those who defeat the god only have the opportunity to do nothing and wait to be killed by another Arisen to be freed by the cycle. However after killing the old god you are given a second copy of a blade that does nothing but make you kill yourself, used in the game mainly to reroll chests to get what you want; the first god you encounter pulls his from his chest. At this point if you commit sudoku with it, you don't actually die, but you free your pawn and it gains independence in the world you quested through and you wait for a challenger from another cycle to come and destroy your MC as the new god. The MC you create in NG+ confronts and fights the MC from the last time you completed the game. There are infinite cycles and infinite worlds so it stands to reason that all the pawns and masters from these worlds are all actually going through the same cycles you are. There's a little more to it but I've forgotten a lot.

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>>16249654

Mein neiggers.

>>16250054

Thanks for the info about TM anon. 2 and Black had me interested enough that I enjoyed this to help flesh out the strangeness of contradicting lore.

>>16251147

It's literally part of the title of the first image, and repeated several times in the black spoilervoid. I still don't think it's a good game; it would make a far better light novel.

>after a grizzly intro movie it continues on pretty light hearted

>you've got dumb customization options to make yourself look funny

>first side quests are mundane slice of life stuff with the occasional joke character

>about the half way mark or so it becomes a completely serious story with a strong anti war message and the side quests also change their tone completely

The Silver Case.

>expect an elaborate murder mystery point and click about a possibly supernatural serial killer

>instead get a 20+-hour long VN about the Y2K scare, the rise of the internet and the effect it has on the growing generations, what it truly means to have an identity with the rise of the digital world where we can be whatever we want to be, references to literary theory, figuratively and literally killing your past to be able to live on free from pain

>it turns out the reason you got to give your character a name is because he never actually had one, he's literally a hollow shell that was trained to become the new kamui, but because he wasn't a successful creation he was let go

>the kamui you were chasing the entire game is actually just another kid who had the name and identity attached to him, there have been several kamui throughout the years

>the original kamui was a guy who had a genetic mutation that gave him silver eyes, which somehow made him immortal

>the reason they keep breeding new kamui is to find another child that grows silver eyes, because government superiors all want them so that they can be immortal

>the entire game is also literally a game created, orchestrated and controlled by a fat neet looking at anime girls all day that you end up shooting to end the game

>there's also a subplot where a character is literally haunted by ghosts and sent emails by a blind guy

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>>16240239

I heard the news a few days after that post. Honestly, I'm glad. Hopefully the other Idea Factory games will come to PC uncensored.

Brawls subspace emissary was twists and hype the whole way through.

>skyrim

>stormcloaks v imperials

>fags hatin on ulfric

>keep hearing NPCs talk shit about him

>very rare moment hear one say he is a puppet of the thalmor

>think nothing of it

>see a skyrim webm on here

>some dude walks up to him and says some phrases

>ulfric flips his shit and starts attacking

>you can find some notes around saying that he was just a puppet

BRAVO TODD

>>16249071

That was the ONLY twist. Yes, that was the only good thing about the plot in a story of predictable clichés. It brought back Diablo without the retconing that his essence was destroyed permanently at the end of DiabloII.

The rest of the Diablo3 was shit. Chosen one aka nephilim repeated like a broken record, why remake New Tristam, the Lesser Evils showing why they were lesser, pointless nostalgia like Skeleton King and Butcher and I can go on. This isn't even mentioning GAMEPLAY issues. Diablo3 should be a textbook example of what happens when the original team is gone and you assign someone who has no respect for what was done. Diablo3 got WoW-ified in a bad way.

>>16255573

It's plausible without being impossible or silly. It's a nice workaround around to the situation as mentioned above.Not sure sbout your feeling on black paladins or black Tyrael. Guess you're happy crusaders are white?

>>16255737

He wasn't apart of the chess club after all