Author Topic: Dot Dot Dot: Let's Play Caf? Zero! (Read 12712 times)

FinnKaenbyou · « **on:** January 17, 2014, 03:40:34 PM »

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Part 1 (17/01): Silence of the Dolphins
Part 2 (18/01): Chop Sui
Part 3 (19/01): Shou-Time
Part 4 (19/01): Heaven...
Part 4.1 (19/01): ...Or Hell?
Part 5 (22/01): A Tooru Order
Part 6 (22/01): Sango Tororetsu, Discount Hitman
Part 7A (23/01): Everything...
Part 7B (23/01): ...Falls Apart

Garlyle · « **Reply #1 on:** January 17, 2014, 04:05:01 PM »

...suddenly I am hyperaware of my own writing...

Kasu · « **Reply #2 on:** January 18, 2014, 05:18:04 PM »

Well. Seems like this is off to a weird start, haha.

Glad to see you doing this again Rou!

Suikama · « **Reply #3 on:** January 18, 2014, 06:37:32 PM »

FinnKaenbyou · « **Reply #4 on:** January 18, 2014, 09:20:51 PM »

Part 2: Chop Sui

Garlyle · « **Reply #5 on:** January 18, 2014, 10:51:27 PM »

really? Only 25 so far?

I vote doctor.

~~also Sui kills us doesn't he that's the twist~~

Shizumarashi Mayuzumi · « **Reply #6 on:** January 19, 2014, 12:52:23 AM »

I'm pretty sure Ami and other dude are in school uniforms. =P

Also wow I still haven't played Amnesia yet but this just seems like a really bad Amnesia ripoff.

Schezo · « **Reply #7 on:** January 19, 2014, 03:53:11 AM »

Sure let's go with the doctor option

qMyon · « **Reply #8 on:** January 19, 2014, 09:26:18 AM »

So, do the '!!!'s count on the counter?

Tengukami · « **Reply #9 on:** January 19, 2014, 12:21:40 PM »

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If that's what my face looked like, you'd be damn sure I'd look unpleasant most of the time as well.

I am pretty sure the boy isn't looking at Sango. He seems to have his eyes firmly intent elsewhere DOT DOT DOT

FinnKaenbyou · « **Reply #10 on:** January 19, 2014, 02:18:21 PM »

Quote from: qMyon on January 19, 2014, 09:26:18 AM

So, do the '!!!'s count on the counter?

No. At least !!! signifies some sort of emotion.

Quote from: Garlyle on January 18, 2014, 10:51:27 PM

~~also Sui kills us doesn't he that's the twist~~

I hope so. Then I can murder him in self-defense.

Anyway, have an update:
Part 3: Shou-Time

Yukarin · « **Reply #11 on:** January 19, 2014, 03:44:02 PM »

Serela · « **Reply #12 on:** January 19, 2014, 03:54:16 PM »

those eyes on the character select screen

shou why...

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Stuffman · « **Reply #13 on:** January 19, 2014, 03:59:57 PM »

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Christ, how short is this game? Seems like the absolute minimum effort went into writing it. It's literally go directly to see dude -> day is over.

Sui is pretty entertaining though. See if there's a route where we can team up with him and fight crime.

Garlyle · « **Reply #14 on:** January 19, 2014, 04:24:29 PM »

people in japan actually thought this was good enough to get voice actors for wha

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I'm sorry I picked vampire doctor but I have a feeling the other options are going to be just as trash so excuse me while I buckle in for the ride

BT · « **Reply #15 on:** January 19, 2014, 05:32:58 PM »

better love story tha-- okay

I'm wondering if they expected you to pick this route last, considering the whole boyfriend scene.

UncertainJakutten · « **Reply #16 on:** January 19, 2014, 06:32:04 PM »

So this means if you pick Ami you get to date her right? Right?

(You don't, do you

?)

FinnKaenbyou · « **Reply #17 on:** January 19, 2014, 08:33:13 PM »

Now for the Shou Route finale - so dramatic, it needs TWO UPDATES to contain the raw POWER OF EMOTION!

Part 4: Heaven...
Part 4.1: ...Or Hell?

Next update may take a day or two. Don't want to burn myself out too hard on this.

Also, @stuffman: The game's advertised as having 2-3 hours of gameplay. I suspect I've already managed to go through a considerable portion of that.

Jq1790 · « **Reply #18 on:** January 19, 2014, 08:59:19 PM »

With the items carrying over thing... Wasn't there a well-known VN that did something similar? I think it wad Clannad, but I forget. Read about it on TVTropes before.

Anyway, you once more have my sympathy and appreciation for going through these terrible things. Your tears are delicious.

Can't wait to see how everything goes in the other routes!

Schezo · « **Reply #19 on:** January 19, 2014, 09:22:36 PM »

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Jesus Christ this game.

Shizumarashi Mayuzumi · « **Reply #20 on:** January 19, 2014, 09:32:01 PM »

Quote from: Garlyle on January 19, 2014, 04:24:29 PM

people in japan actually thought this was good enough to get voice actors for wha

To be fair it's not any voice actors I have ever heard of, ever, though given Sui's there's also a good chance they're pseudonyms... that I can't find the matching real people for, so still probably nobodies. :V

Edit now that I'm actually reading all these updates: "The Mysterious Boy Who Is Definitely Not Ami" actually definitely isn't Ami, the hair's the wrong color. :V (Really does look like Tooru to me actually, same hat, same t-shirt just with a button-up tossed over it, same hair color...)

And oops the actors are all in the credits anyway duh. Well, have them in already textified non-screenshot form in that link at least? :V

Garlyle · « **Reply #21 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:24:14 PM »

ahahahahahaaha WHAT

okay that was genuinely sort of not expected and I'm glad for it. gj game.

also did anyone notice

Spoiler:

Stuffman · « **Reply #22 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:28:21 PM »

Wait so both the good end and bad end are technically canon??

What is happening D:

FinnKaenbyou · « **Reply #23 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:47:25 PM »

Quote from: Garlyle on January 19, 2014, 10:24:14 PM

also did anyone notice
Spoiler:
generic 'boy' has the same voice actor as dickass waiter because uh I'm still standing by my HE KILLED US theory

I didn't consider that.

Spoiler:

We'll see one way or the other.

Serela · « **Reply #24 on:** January 20, 2014, 12:10:52 AM »

...the evil Shou route actually suddenly makes this game not seem so bad

qMyon · « **Reply #25 on:** January 20, 2014, 01:13:00 AM »

Absolute comedy gold for me. Especially the 'bad' end.

I wonder if there's any twist in the true end. Are all routes true? Will there be evil Sango vs 'good' Sango?

FinnKaenbyou · « **Reply #26 on:** January 22, 2014, 04:29:06 PM »

Part 5: A Tooru Order

Garlyle · « **Reply #27 on:** January 22, 2014, 04:51:57 PM »

these men are horrible people ~~they're not even good eye candy I mean come on~~

Also I'm kinda curious now, what happens on day 6 if you didn't spend all your time with one person? Hm. ~~why do i care about this terrible game~~

Spoiler:

:V

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #28 on:** January 22, 2014, 06:18:39 PM »

Okay. Bad end made reading through the rest...not worth it, but justifiable.

How can you make yourself do this, Roukan?

Is it possible to 50/50 the good and bad ends?

FinnKaenbyou · « **Reply #29 on:** January 22, 2014, 06:51:52 PM »

OK, some small points I'll make here for things that aren't big enough to justify their own update. (I'll probably paste these questions into the LP, so you can consider yourselves co-contributors!)

Quote from: Chaos Purvis on January 22, 2014, 06:18:39 PM

Is it possible to 50/50 the good and bad ends?

No. There are only three choices available for each guy, which ensures one end will always get more attention than the other. In order to get an ending of any sort you must do all three choices with one of the guys before the end of day 4. Otherwise you're locked into the bad end - not the evil end, but the one where you just fail.

Quote from: Garlyle on January 22, 2014, 04:51:57 PM

Also I'm kinda curious now, what happens on day 6 if you didn't spend all your time with one person?

All that happens is that ~~Marin~~ Sango decides there's nowhere she wants to go and just sleeps in for the day. So basically, day 6 just never happens.
In fact even if you spend 6 days ignoring the boys and doing nothing but talk to Ami, you STILL get roped into the cruise on day 7. Tooru's driver pretty much shows up and takes you along while you're on the phone with Ami, which of course means Ami also comes. This time you just get the bad end where Sango fails to collect her entire body, and Sui tells her she has to try again.

So yeah the bad end is pretty uninteresting. The EVIL end, on the other hand...well, I'm about to start work on the Tooru evil end, and I have extremely high hopes.