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Let's Finish Noctropolis (Update #15)

Radisshu

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This game's backgrounds might be the most well-drawn ones I've seen in any game, especially the cityscapes.
 

Gonchi

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Codex USB, 2014
Let's Play Noctropolis, Part 12: Errand for a Mad Hatter

We don't have much choice but to do what Tophat demands of us, so off we go to the Observatory.

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Well, if the guard post is unmanned there shouldn't be any problems.

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What the...?!

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The place has been in disuse for over a century, dammit!

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Crud.

Okay, we need to avoid being seen by that camera. What I wouldn't give for a Five-seveN... but we have to make do with what's in our inventory.

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Worth a try.

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Success! We've avoided the security camera. I feel very heroic now.

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And we've lost our glass cutter too.

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The wall looks like its about to fall apart. You'd think that if they can install a high-tech security system to keep people out then they could take better care of the building.

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We need to get creative again.

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... nah, too easy.

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Let's look at the bright side. At least someone else is going to take the blame for breaking in.

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We need to get to the other side of the room and ride the platform up to the telescope. Walking into the spotlights means becoming Bubba's prison bitch. Thankfully, the guards kindly adhere to a strict pattern full of blind spots.

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We pick up the screwdriver on our way.

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Their arms must get really sore...

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We also pick up the oil can.

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Cygnus again? All these coincidences are piling up around me...

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Good thing that screwdriver and oil can were just laying around there, eh?

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Done. We can't just hit travel from here though, we have to backtrack out of the observatory through the spotlights.

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To the Opera!

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: Where is everyone? What have you done with Stiletto?!

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Oh snap.

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: What are you going to do? Damn it, get me off!

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: You know what I meant.

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: I should've known I couldn't trust you.

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: I'm a Super Hero not an entertainer!

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: Damn you! We made a deal! Where's Stiletto?!

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Treacherous swine!

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Owned.
 

Darth Roxor

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Whoa, she hit him right in the nuts.

Ouch. Guess he'd be better off as a prison bitch after all.
 

lightbane

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That darksheer is really naive, wasn't there an option to throw a liquiddark grenade and stun the bitch?
 

Cassidy

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The latest update just confirms that this game introduced the worst superhero of all times. At least Gabriel Knight, despite having a quite similar start, didn't fail that much.
 

Gonchi

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Let's Play Noctropolis, Part 13: The Puzzles of the Opera

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: Really...?

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: Would you like one of mine?

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: Is there any chance I could get you to help me out here?

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Yeah, get me down and I'll make you my honorary crime-fighting partner.

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It's so hard to find good help these days.

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: That's not quite what I had in mind.

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: You did fine. But I think I’m ready to get off now.

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Why'd he just leave me here when I'm in clear need of medical assistance? It's no wonder so many have turned into psychopaths, people in Noctropolis are pricks.

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We have plenty of time to look for clues before our wounds kill us, so let's snoop around.

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We take the knife/knives as memento of our encounter with Tophat.

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Magic!

Unfortunately the drop is too long to jump down, so we get creative.

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We steal the jewelery box and make-up kit. Because that's just the kind of hero we are.

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Look at that, a tiny door.

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Hi there! You haven't perchance seen a magician with a Tophat dragging a blonde chick wearing a catsuit pass by here, eh? No? Pardon me then.

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People just leave screwdrivers all over the place.

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:x

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Take this, wall!

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Peter's the bane of walls.

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: Did you see anyone go through here?

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: Listen... you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.

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: No, I meant that we could maybe help each other out.

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: How about...

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Master Whisperman? Another freak to get owned by?

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: What about the woman? Did you see the woman go through here?

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Damn punks. If Darksheer were here he'd kick their butts.

Unfortunately, he's not, and if Peter tries anything heroic:

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So we pucker up and assume the position.

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: It's really important. I need to know.

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: Okay how about...

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: Do you know where they took her?

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: Thank you.

It's not much of a lead, but it's better than nothing.

We backtrack through the opera and hit travel.

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In the next update, we go meat shopping.
 

Gonchi

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lightbane said:
That darksheer is really naive, wasn't there an option to throw a liquiddark grenade and stun the bitch?

'fraid not. Whole thing plays out kinda like a cutscene. Most dialogues with actions play out while sparing with Stiletto.
 

lightbane

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That confirms it: This main character is the WORSE hero. Ever. Even Guybrush has bigger balls than him. Especially when he's unable to beat a bunch of nigger trash with his bare hands. Anyways, continue the good work, maybe he'll improve with time.
 

Darth Roxor

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Brick wall behind a door. Classic :salute:

Also, he should have bribed the niggaz with a watermelon.
 

Brother None

inXile Entertainment
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Man some of the shots look weird. It's like it's got beautifully painted backgrounds, those FMV characters and then...effects that look like they were made in Microsoft Paint?

A lot of screenshots of motion generally doesn't help the viewer figure out what's going on with these kind of games either, Gonchi.
 

Gonchi

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So, less screenshots and more descriptions? I can try that.

The effects don't look too bad in play, they're shown for only a second or so...
 

Gonchi

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Let's Play Noctropolis, Part 14: Meat the Butcher

I promised myself I'd get this done before the year ends. I'm used to disappointment, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't try anyway. So here we go!

In our last update, the new Darksheer searched the Opera House for clues to Stiletto's whereabouts. After knocking down a bricked doorway with a water hose, he bartered his life and the necessary information from a group of hoodlums: Butcher shop.

After stopping by Shadowlair and taking a dip in the pool of Liquidark, we head to Main Street.

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We speak to the newsstand's proprietor for directions.

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I guess we're lucky there's only one butcher in the whole city.

But before we leave, we stop by the Hall of Records to follow up on another lead the gang under the Opera House gave us: Master Whisperman.

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He built the observatory? He would have to be well over a 100 years old by now, that can't be right... can it? *dun* *dun* *DUUUUUN*

With this startling possibility, we head over to the butcher shop.

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Sanitation regulations must be virtually nonexistent in Noctropolis.

Where does all this meat even come from? The only animals we've seen were conjured up and obliterated by Tophat.

Perhaps it's best not to dwell on it...

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: Do you own a tricycle cart?

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: I saw it the other day down in Subterrania

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The guy's twice our size and has a meat cleaver, let's not piss him off.

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: Yes... I must have been.

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: Do you make your own sausage?

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: Yes, I'll take half a pound.

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: I don't have any money. How about a trade?

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We offer him the newspaper we've been lugging around since Update #3.

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You never know when a sausage might come in handy.

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While the butcher's busy wrapping his meat, we sneak into the back to try and find his delivery boy and ask him some questions.

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Oh, it's the freezer. Surprisingly we don't lock ourselves inside, so no need to panic.

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Hmm... that gives me an idea, let's grab a meat hook.

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Guess it was a fairly silly idea.

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Or not.

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That sick fuck maimed our sidekick!

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Just before passing out, Peter manages to gather enough strength to mock The Special One and his Merengues.

In the next update we find out if Master Macabre chops Darksheer's sausage.
 

Darth Roxor

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Hey, cool, I recalled this LP a while ago and wanted to demand more, but forgot.

I think I already forgot what the whole game was about by this point, too... :lol:
 

Brother None

inXile Entertainment
Developer
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Update, cool!

Mutilation, not cool!

You'll be forgiven not finished before the year's end if we do get tits before year's end.
 

Gonchi

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Brother None said:
You'll be forgiven not finished before the year's end if we do get tits before year's end.

I'm starting to feel as though I should have just posted a screenshot of the tits to begin with and skipped the rest of the LP.

Here's a teaser, then, shamelessly stolen from the (sole) Noctropolis fan site.

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ghostdog said:
LP necromancy is my favorite necromancy.

So I take it that you're picking up your BloodNet LP soon?
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Luzur

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Gonchi said:
Brother None said:
You'll be forgiven not finished before the year's end if we do get tits before year's end.

I'm starting to feel as though I should have just posted a screenshot of the tits to begin with and skipped the rest of the LP.

Here's a teaser, then, shamelessly stolen from the (sole) Noctropolis fan site.

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dude, no links works on that site.
 

Brother None

inXile Entertainment
Developer
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Gonchi said:
I'm starting to feel as though I should have just posted a screenshot of the tits to begin with and skipped the rest of the LP.

Haha, you know we all joking bro, this be a good LP of an interesting game.
 

Luzur

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Brother None said:
Gonchi said:
I'm starting to feel as though I should have just posted a screenshot of the tits to begin with and skipped the rest of the LP.

Haha, you know we all joking bro, this be a good LP of an interesting game.

but seriously, just post the tits.
 

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