1. Claude, Star Ocean: The Second Story
2. Garrus, Mass Effect 2
3. Neku, The World Ends With You
4. Practically every character, Eternal Darkness
5. Solomon Starbuck, Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies
6. Dante, Devil May Cry
7. Deckard Cain, Diablo 1/2/3
8. Ultima spell quote, FFT
9. Maya, Threads of Fate
10. Viola, Radiant Historia (name was Stocke)
11. "Lisa"/Succubus, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
12. Squall, Final Fantasy 8
13. Shu & Apple, Suikoden 2 (name was Mathiu)
14. Sans battle text, Undertale
15. Jump across the lava death, Shadowgate
16. Lord Yuna, Breath of Fire 4
17. Bob Page, Deus Ex
18. Zorn & Thorn, Final Fantasy 9
19. Ashley, Wild Arms 2
20. Nall, Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
21. Palmer, Final Fantasy 7
22. Mithos, Tales of Symphonia
23. Justin, Grandia
Bonus theme was song lyrics.
B1. "Snake Eater", Metal Gear Solid 3
B2. "Still Alive", Portal
B3. "Lost in Thoughts All Alone", Fire Emblem Fates
B4. "Reach Out to the Truth", Persona 4
B5. "Otherworld", Final Fantasy X
Results:
superaielman: 3.5 (SO2, FFT, FF8. Half credit for G3.)
El Cideon: 10 (SO2, ME2, DMC, FFT, C:SOTN, Undertale, FF7, MGS3, Portal, FFX)
Excal: 8.5 (SO2, ME2, DMC, FFT, FF8, S2, FF7, Portal. Half credit for G3.)
Sir Alex: 21 (SO2, ME2, TWEWY, ED, DMC, Diablo, FFT, C:SotN, FF8, S2, Undertale, Shadowgate, BoF4, DX, Lunar, FF7, G1, MGS3, Portal, P4, FFX)
Twilkitri: 11 (SO2, ME2, DMC, S2, Undertale, Shadowgate, FF9, FF7, G1, MGS3, Portal)
Hunter Sopko: 5 (SO2, Undertale, WA2, Grandia, MGS3)
CmdrKing: 14.5 (SO2, ME2, ED, DMC, Diablo, RH, FF8, Undertale, BoF4, FF9, WA2, FF7, MGS3, Portal. Half-credit for ToF.)
AAA: 12 (SO2, ME2, ED, DMC, Diablo, FF8, Undertale, DX, FF9, ToS, MGS3, Portal)
Dragonknight Zero: 11 (SO2, ME2, FFT, FF8, S2, Shadowgate, FF9, Lunar, FF7, MGS3. Half-credit for WA3 & G3 rather than WA2/G1.)
Reiska: 7 (SO2, DMC, Diablo, FFT, FF8, Shadowgate, FF7)
Otter: 13 (SO2, ME2, DMC, Diablo, FFT, C:SotN, S2, Undertale, Shadowgate, DX, FF7, MGS3, Portal)
DarkHolyElf: 10.5 (SO2, ME2, PWDD, DMC, FFT, FF8, S2, BoF4, FF7, FFX. Half credit for G3.)
Ciato: 9.5 (SO2, ME2, DMC, FF8, S2, Undertale, BoF4, FF9, FF7. Half-credit for TotA.)
NotMiki: 14.5 (SO2, ME2, DMC, Diablo, FFT, FF8, S2, Undertale, WA2, Lunar, FF7, MGS3, Portal, P4. Half credit for G3.)
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Congratulations to CmdrKing and NotMiki, joint winners of the no-Alex division. (and, uh, Sir Alex for the less-prestigious open division that doesn't ban OP submitters.) Good times.
Frequently gotten:Excal guessed that FFT (9/14) would be the most-correctly-guessed entry, and FF7/8/Portal/DMC wouldn't be bad guesses either (11/14 for FF7 & DMC, 10/14 for FF8, 8/14 for Portal), but it was actually our Star Oceany opener, which received around eighty correct guesses for 100% completion. Who knew it was the memorable Work Of Our Time. Crawd Kenni, advancing forward! (
ME2 calibrations also did better than expected to at 10/14, not bad for the DL. Undertale at 9/14 was also impressive.)
Rarely gotten: Nobody got B3., which was admittedly very evil (It's a line ONLY in the
ending version of the song, not the in-game dialogue & final boss music, so pay attention in the credits), although a lot of the track titles & chapter titles in Fates reference the lyrics, and one of the main big battle themes is "Thorn in You" which makes it vaguely fair? Apparently not. (I liked NotMiki's guess of VA-11 Hall-A, seems like it'd fit, though.) And while CK got the Threads of Fate clue, it was only with a prod that "hey you actually know this one submit a darn guess." AAA was the only one who directly recognized some vintage Mithos (I actually unironically like that quote of his), Elf the only one who got grim spaceship cover-shooter Phoenix Wright, Alex the only one who recognized TWEWY spicy tuna rolls (except apparently due to a reference in
MTBMMCAHANIHTDWAGSAADBWWMIAB?!), and only CK knew his Radiant Historia endings as yet another game with a dying badass swordswoman.
Other oddities:#9 gathered four guesses of "Ogre Battle", and it does seem like it might be a Deneb quote. A lot of people went for "Secret of Mana" for #19 (both here and on an FB group for a different group of RPG fans), and I can totally see why with the reference to the sword... but as a reminder, Secret of Mana was translated by Ted Woolsey, and Wild Arms 2 was translated by very smart and erudite Martians with access to a Japanese-English dictionary.
Alex's answers were all a joy to read, but I'll just call out these two:
- "YOU'RE NOT MY REAL MOM!" - Alucard, SOTN, shortly before killing his real dad.
- Lord Yuna, Breath of Fire 4, except he won't because shortly after the credits roll Ryu uses the last remnants of his power to teleport the party to Yuna and gank him.
Twil gets bizarre psychic bonus credit for wildly guessing Legend of Dragoon in the bonuses for B3., when that was actually the last song lyric I cut to knock it down to 5. (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBabT4hDZts , good times.)
DragonKnight Zero guessed "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" for #5. Young SnowFire actually *did* play that game, although using 80s Infocom Text Adventures might be a little brutal with this crowd! At least Vogon poetry can't be transmitted in the vacuum of space, either...
super went with "Mortal Kombat" for B5 which was pretty amusingly good as a guess.
Both NotMiki & DarkHolyElf threw some shade at the stately, cultured punctuation famed Italian poet Dante used in #6, preferring instead the more plebian " fill your dark soul with liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!" Not here, I say, if you want wacky dialogue and expressive characters, go play the sequel "Dark Souls".
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Random YouTube links:Threads of Fate, Mint opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcPgMZKsGDg&list=PLB85581F199BB8E0C&index=37 For those that didn't play the game - it's super charming, and one of the rare games where you do get to properly be a villain protagonist. WORLD DOMINATION!!1!
Grandia 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6Gz1VjaAYs . More charmingness! Maybe?! (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGy49B5FvRo&t=1s if you want a few tears to well up in your eye as well , at least toward the end of that video)
Symphony of the Night
https://youtu.be/I5fGavPsQa8?t=36s Begin by watching this one, over here! I'm determined to prove Elf wrong from last time with his "oh who remembers any of SOTN other than THAT scene." You dare question one of the great works of our time that produced like 3 quotable lines from one pathetic battle?! Death in the quote world will set your soul wandering for eternity, doubter. (I also stuck this one next to Squall's dream for fun in the list.)
Deus Ex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyirktQHw28 --> Grade A ham scenery chewing from Bob Page.
[05:31] <+Ranmilia> some people don't remember every line from SOTN and the entire deus ex opening, they're weird
Persona 4 lyrics
https://youtu.be/Mk0A5uFoG3c?t=50s - Just proof that yes, this is allegedly what the lyrics are. A more honest clue might have been "Can you let me out? Can you set me free from [incomprehensible gibberish]?" but that wouldn't be Bonusy enough.