It's been almost a goddamn month, but... hey, I'm back with another update! A number of things delayed this one. First it was Xenoblade Chronicles 2, then it was personal stuff, then it was Disgaea 5 (which is a must-play, for the record), but now I've finally managed to pry myself away from the infinite galactic grind of the Item World to play more NitW. So let's get right back to that.
Due to the way the game's autosaving works, I need to play Weird Autumn again. Mae's confidence in bass-playing abilities (or lack thereof) echo my own. I forget, was this dialogue always there, or do the characters sometimes say different things if you haven't played in a while?
I still don't entirely suck at the rhythm minigames! Yay! Time to go commit crimes with Gregg!
- Gregg: "Awoooooooooooooooooo!"
But Gregg, haven't you heard? There's a $350 penalty for awooing.
- Mae: "Awoooooooooooooooooooo!"
Oh no Mae not you too
Mae and Gregg arrive at the abandoned Food Donkey while talking about... something, and before long we're allowed in by some Steve Scriggins fellow. Mae's not fond of him, apparently he locked a teacher in a closet for a night. Eh, I'm sure something'll happen to him eventually. Now then, since someone locked one of the doors leading deeper in, it looks like it's time to find the keys.
- Mae: "I am the keymaster! I will unlock your ass!"
Oh, Mae, never change.
Deep within the darkest corners of the Food Donkey lie three animatronic heads. Go ahead, make your FNaF jokes. Steve says we get one, and of course, I pick the bunny because it's obviously the correct option. ...Or at least, I would, but I think I have to examine them all first. Steve's being an ass about the whole thing, unfortunately.
- Mae: "SCRIGGINS! BITE MY ENTIRE ASS!"Steve: "What?!"Mae: "GO LEGALLY BRAIN DEAD FROM LACK OF OXYGEN DUE TO CHOKING ON MY ENTIRE ASS!"Cal's NoteSteve: "I... I... What?"Gregg: "Classic."Mae: "THAT'S RIGHT, STEVE! CLASSIC!"Steve: "OH MY GOD CAN WE GET THIS DONE ALREADY"
She said the thing, boys and girls, we can all go home now. Again.
Now that I've picked out the bunny head, it's time to carry it up the stairs.
...I think I broke Gregg. Twice. At least I got a good screenshot the second time, though. More consoles need a screenshot button like the Switch does.
Goddammit I keep breaking him. And I only got one good screenshot out of this ordeal.
Well, now that we've gotten the bunny head back to Gregg's place, it's diner time! There's a cute little minigame where I chuck pierogis into Gregg's mouth. Honestly, in the month since I started playing, I've bumped into a lot of spoilers, but I saw nothing about this. It's fun seeing the pierogis bounce off his face when I just barely miss his mouth.
After getting a majority of the pierogis into Gregg's mouth (if you count 50% as a majority), he tells Mae about his plan to move to Bright Harbor with Angus. This plan's the reason he has a stable job and hasn't gone off committing crimes in a while. It's nice to see that he's keeping himself out of trouble for Angus' sake, that's a sign of a good relationship right there.
I keep almost spelling Angus as Angues, what is wrong with me
After getting back home, Mae and her dad spend a little time watching tv. Nothing like a couple of wacky comedians calling each other ugly and saying they're gonna join a cult, am I right?
I was gonna cut the update off right here but it looks like Mae's having another psychic dream. And for some reason I'm allowed to go left... Weird, I didn't think that defying a gamer's basic instinct would bear much fruit, but I found an ethereal violinist and now the dream has music. Lanterns light themselves as I pass, and after scaling a building, I find a tuba player who adds his instrument to the mix. I'm liking this. Another building has a saxophone player atop it, and I find an accordion player at that building's base. At first, I thought that finding the musicians was optional, but upon returning to where I arrived in the dream world from, I realize this isn't the case. The song lights these four little pillars, and after once I come back to them, a giant glowing bear appears in the background and annihilates the dream. ...Well, that was fun.
I think that's about it for this update. Picking this game back up makes me wish I didn't put it down to begin with, and I could go on about the aesthetics and the dialogue and all the other stuff that makes the game so charming, but I'll wait until I've finished playing to give my thoughts on this as a whole. Besides, I think my opinion of this game's pretty obvious.
NOTE: oh my god how the hell did i not notice it was peter jackson and not percy jackson who was the actual real life director
