Your comment is too clever by half.
Why would cyberpunk necessarily be materialistic? Ghost in the Shell comes to mind for one (and I haven't even seen it). And since you used the word "weeb" - I don't know if The Matrix is considered Cyberpunk, but it takes place in a world that could have a materialistic mechanism for nearly any sort of phenomena, but it goes out of its way specifically to point technological "magic" and spiritual "magic" directly at each other. (Trinity bringing Neo back to life, Neo having this special light sense after losing his vision. Even if you could come up with good materialistic mechanisms for those occurrences, its clear their purpose is spiritual.
That's pretty interesting. I felt like the action began immediately in Once in a Lifetime, even with the fight with Tom. Especially how the internal thought was fearing a fight with Tom, but then confidently and fearlessly destroying Tom even with Tom pulling a knife. Add to that refraining from talking about it with Lauren afterward, and you quickly get a sense of the player character's character beyond just a guy who doesn't study).
I dunno, I see more courage being involved than just sheer boredom. After all, Dad had always been mysterious and only intense about that room to where he yelled at innocent-and-perfect-kid Judie enough to make her cry just because she got too close.
Man, you guys are brave souls, I hate horror, and for me it made no difference AT ALL that Once in a Lifetime's danger was real-world while Eternum's has been in a game. On that note, Once in a Lifetime's dream sequence was one of the scariest parts of all for me, lol. Overall, Eternum has probably been scarier for me.
I said "usually materialistic", not necessarily. the cyberpunk genre is heavily science based and realistic so materialism prevails considering the complete lack of evidence to support dualism, gods and spirits, aside from the usual reach some ppl like to do with quantum physics.Why would cyberpunk necessarily be materialistic? Ghost in the Shell comes to mind for one (and I haven't even seen it). And since you used the word "weeb" - I don't know if The Matrix is considered Cyberpunk, but it takes place in a world that could have a materialistic mechanism for nearly any sort of phenomena, but it goes out of its way specifically to point technological "magic" and spiritual "magic" directly at each other. (Trinity bringing Neo back to life, Neo having this special light sense after losing his vision. Even if you could come up with good materialistic mechanisms for those occurrences, its clear their purpose is spiritual.
That's pretty interesting. I felt like the action began immediately in Once in a Lifetime, even with the fight with Tom. Especially how the internal thought was fearing a fight with Tom, but then confidently and fearlessly destroying Tom even with Tom pulling a knife. Add to that refraining from talking about it with Lauren afterward, and you quickly get a sense of the player character's character beyond just a guy who doesn't study).
For me, stakes were already as high as they could be upon attending the Sons of Astaroth meeting.
I dunno, I see more courage being involved than just sheer boredom. After all, Dad had always been mysterious and only intense about that room to where he yelled at innocent-and-perfect-kid Judie enough to make her cry just because she got too close.
Interesting about Mike, I hadn't really thought about it from a plot mechanics standpoint (but I usually don't think about that anyway). No contest to your point, but it didn't impact my enjoyment in any way.
Man, you guys are brave souls, I hate horror, and for me it made no difference AT ALL that Once in a Lifetime's danger was real-world while Eternum's has been in a game. On that note, Once in a Lifetime's dream sequence was one of the scariest parts of all for me, lol. Overall, Eternum has probably been scarier for me.
I was yelling out loud at Caribdis during Red Herring for putting in more scary parts and begging the game not to give me nightmares, lol. I was REALLY tempted to let Luna go to the house and really had to pep myself up to make the brave choice
thanks for the reply!
"8/10 it missed rendering her glorious freckles" - A Church of Nova member working at IGN, probably
I think a member of the Church if Nova would be tougher with the grade and would start insulting the AI for it's unforgivable mistake
It also made her look Asian when IIRC she's supposed to be European/of European descent.I think a member of the Church if Nova would be tougher with the grade and would start insulting the AI for it's unforgivable mistake
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As far as i can be agree that cyberpunk is heavily materialistic in it's fundamental base, there are shit dualistic in this game, considering the fact that MC is called to help this ppl trapped in "Eternum", what was shown "in-game" as a whole make suspect in the possibility that "the servers" works as dimensions, with mankind having a real experience as they are playing because their information is being transmitted and reconstructed in those universes. Calypso could end at some point opening a portal to the reality of MC, as being him even experienced a connection to Eternum without the technology into it. The problem is, Calypso is a "magical being", her abilities cannot be done in the normie reality of MC to save the ppl trapped in Eternum but it can be performed wherever she is, if by any circumstances the plot or just a path that makes canon Calypso help to save those ppl or even put a step in the normie universe of MC, she would be the living prove of the rape of the entire physics laws. But don't worry, according to the Quantum Mechanics the atom is compose in a 99% of just fucking empty space, in a sense, the fucking universe is very idealism, as we see and touch things having a sense of security that matter is solid, but Quantum Mechanics says "not exactly" and there's a probability for any object to trespass another, lil (to the point to disqualified it in normal conditions) but exist...
Mmmm, more like 6/10: missing the freckles, something not quite right about nose and chin and eyebrows are too dark. Also, she looks more serious than mischievous, so that kind of takes away from her essence.
I love the horror sequences in OIALT/Eternum. The reason is because outside of JVNs I have not played a western VN where I really liked the horror scenes - maybe its because developers dont feel comfortable enough to add horror in their games because of patreon but OIALT managed to do horror well without adding anything too gross/disgusting (the body horror with characters like Lilith was kinda tame yet that was a great scene). So when the horror is good in a game, it sticks out and becomes immediately memorable to me.Man, you guys are brave souls, I hate horror, and for me it made no difference AT ALL that Once in a Lifetime's danger was real-world while Eternum's has been in a game. On that note, Once in a Lifetime's dream sequence was one of the scariest parts of all for me, lol. Overall, Eternum has probably been scarier for me.
I was yelling out loud at Caribdis during Red Herring for putting in more scary parts and begging the game not to give me nightmares, lol. I was REALLY tempted to let Luna go to the house and really had to pep myself up to make the brave choice
There was action in 0.1, yes (if you can call it that, because to me all that adrenaline pumping was spoiled by the trial-and-error choice system for the combat. Can't believe switching to QTEs in Eternum was actually better, considering how much I dislike them (or more specifically, how much I dislike devs using them after a tough fight where a cutscene in between fights should serve as breathing room for your hands before you subject it to more torture. Thankfully that's not the case in this VN)). But the thing is that other than establishing the animosity between Tom and OIAL's MC, it never contributes anything to the main plot.
Yeah, but it took until 0.3 for us to get to that point. And then we meandered AGAIN in 0.4 up until Moloch showed up and is revealed to be Jasmine's dad and shook OIAL's MC so much that he remembered the plot (kidding about that last thing but...you get the point). Meanwhile, in this VN we managed to jump to Eternum as early as 0.1, witnessed first hand what happens when you fuck around with Eternum's rules, managed to get ourselves in our first gem hunt (with introduced us to the storm that is approachingImean Thanatos), AND realized the real-world consequences of fucking around with said rules.
Except the man wasn't around to yell or go Omniman on him if he so much as entered the room (as opposed to poor Judie, who tried to do so while the dad was at home). Can't really call that courageous or anything. Had the dad been there though and he still went with it, then maybe you could call it that.
My interpretation is that he used that term due to how prominent "spiritualist" elements are in recent LN, manga, and anime-related media (i.e. the entire "isekai" genre, XC3's main and final DLC story focusing on the idea of "eternal recurrence") and how "weebs" seem to lap that up (basically accusing me of being one since I'm attributing said elements to this VN when he thinks that this is a cyberpunk story). Personally I find this funny because even if you hadn't played the dev's past game (which I think pretty much spoils one to the idea that the setting has "spiritualist"/fantasy/occult elements to it), there's a lot of stuff that has happened in the real world segments of the story so far that veers into "spiritualist"/fantasy/occult territory...
Yes, this game may very well be dualistic.
Every one of these phenomena could possibly be explained with mental illness and technology.
