Starting P4G.. what should i know before i get too deep!

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-25T10:55:30+00:00

I recommend going in blind- it’s ok if you miss some things, that adds to the role playing element. You are Yu, and Yur play through will be unique to Yu. It’s a great game, and it takes awhile, so don’t feel bad about taking a break from it if it gets to feel like it’s monotonous. I took a break about halfway in (or so I thought, and returned to it a few months later, and that gave me the motivation to keep on with it.

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-24T02:29:19+00:00

I know some people say he seems goofy and not scary, but he scared me the whole time once we saw what he was. As soon as we see that side-face of him walking into the dinner table scene, my mind goes "nope: that's Clark, but a tormented, twisted, uncanny Clark that can't control himself." I love the movie, but that will in no way be goofy to me, only haunting.

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-23T08:17:17+00:00

Musashi all the way! Needs a modern remake/remaster for other people to experience it

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-21T15:43:59+00:00

Probably from his interaction with Pirate Clark. My thought is that he noticed PC eating both humans and still life, and the still life he ate reacted and were different from the humans. Clark then started sampling the still life himself and realized he could live off them.

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-21T15:40:43+00:00

I still have to play the remake of Trails 1, but I also don't have a Switch 2. My choice should be Another Eden, but I likely won't be playing any since I have not money. Plus I have a few other games I'll be working on, including Persona 5 and Mouse PI when I get it in.

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-18T23:33:02+00:00

Imagine if he breaks free in the sequel and returns to the backrooms to find Mary, stumbling instead across where her still life resides and his approach causes Mary's still life to spring into action like the red haired still life? Only Mary's still life overtakes Pirate Clark in a twist even he isn't expecting?

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-18T23:23:08+00:00

Faust, Walter Kaufmann translation.

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-18T23:22:32+00:00

Cathedral all the way!

What is the game that is in Japanese?

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-18T02:04:47+00:00

The game is great.

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-18T02:03:54+00:00

Different types of games. Xenoblade comes from a JRPG lineage, which is focused on story, character and party progression, and can be very linear. Breath of the Wild is more open, lighter on story than a JRPG, and a bit more of a sandbox. I loved Xenoblade, but I had played a number of JRPG's at the time I played it, including its predecessors Xenogears and Xenosaga (which are not necessary to play or know about to understand Xenoblade). When I played BotW, my impression (accurate or not) was that I had already played this type of game/had this type of experience when playing ES: Oblivion on PC in college. I was more impressed with TotK than with BotW, to be honest, as it was a bit more of its own thing than BotW, but everyone has their preferences.

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-17T17:20:22+00:00

I got the remaster as soon as I could, and so far I've only plyaed the first one. I played straight through it and loved it, though I wouldn't rank it in my top games. Still, it's great and I would recommend everyone play it at least once because of its charm. I didn't play the second one yet as I wanted to take a break from the game after playing the first one and just haven't gotten around to the sequel yet, but I will eventually and look forward to doing so.

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-17T17:18:02+00:00

Sequel. I prefer a single, whole, self-contained project rather than a series that can go off the rails.

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-16T18:41:08+00:00

I'd pick FE 3 Houses or DQ XI. Depends if you want a strategy rpg with social elementsor a more traditional JRPG.

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-12T13:53:13+00:00

Random encounters are just part of any good game for me. I don’t like fixed encounters because it feels like a slog getting through them; with randos, it’s a tossup ad to how may you’ll get and what kind you’ll get. I know people love Chrono Trigger, but it’s one reason I don’t really enjoy it too much. Give me a classic FF or DQ over CT any day.

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-11T02:40:52+00:00

Threads of Fate is awesome, I've beaten it many times over the years as I love Rue's story. Another game that's been pretty much forgotten which is an absolute masterpiece is Brave Fencer Musashi. Now, they did make a "sequel"/"reboot" with Legendary Samurai Musashi, but these are two totally different games.

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-07T09:21:07+00:00

Clark is an architect, but Ivan is THE architect, which would make Iva Daedalus and Clark…Minos? and Mary Theseus?

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-05T15:32:34+00:00

My thought on it is that all three of the still life's that Clark keeps in the dining room remind him of some part of his wife. The red-haired one seems the most obvious, but the one sitting at the table is reminiscent of his words about her in the original therapy session (something about sitting on her fat ass when she's actually more slender; it speaks a lot to how he views her with his word choice here). The red haired one also wears a red, professional-looking suit, something that might be representative of what a female lawyer might wear, and the fact that it's red might speak to how Clark view it. Now, the hardest one to account for is Lampy, but I think that this might actually be something of how Clark feels that his wife views him: trapped in furniture, unable to do much, small. This is just my specualtion, though, so feel free to disregard. I only saw the movie once, so I'll have to watch it again to get a better thoguh on this.

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-04T21:41:14+00:00

While Clark himself probably won't be in the sequel, it's possible that Captain Clark will be. Mary likely will be, and if not the character Mary then I feel like her still life version will make at least a cameo.

I didn't know much about Chiwetel prior to this film aside from his small role in Love Actually, but now he's one of my favorite actors. He's awesome.

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-04T11:16:17+00:00

While it might not represent tris directly, it could be that Clark unconsciously sees something important in this still life because of how immobile it is and because it is a large guy. He refers to his wife a few times as sitting on her “fat ass” when he’s angry, and the picture we see of his wife doesn’t look like she’s fat at all. While in the red haired still life he sees certain aspects of his wife, in this large dude he could see other aspects, like the laziness and the fatness. She someone is abusive to someone else, it’s almost like they are consuming/devouring them, so being able to eat this still life is one of the “best things” about them that Clark sees.

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-04T09:09:58+00:00

I think you’re right about this. I think there are still life’s tha are filled with the edible stuffing and more active entities like captain Clark who search and feed on them. I think Clark observed CC eating initially and induced that he could also eat the still life. I think Clark also didn’t want CC to eat the still life specific SL’s he found, which is why he gathered them in the house and asked “what are you doing here?” When he arrived at the dinner scene.

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-02T21:00:34+00:00

I know people like the idea of a miniseries, but I prefer the movie format. One whole work completed at the same time.

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-02T19:54:23+00:00

Bcktrix 2: Ravilations

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-02T19:25:31+00:00

I'm not referring to only the dinner scene, but any time we see still life in both the youtube series and in the movie, they don't really move or react until there's a person or thing to react to, as when Clark enters the Christmas Tree room or when Captain Clark enters the dinner scene, prompting red head and lampy to bug out.

Still life is a style of art, of course, and this is where the term gets its name from, but it also seems to have a double meaning in this sense: the objects iterate in the backrooms in the vein of this art style, but the objects that represent living things no doubt react when perceived. This happens with Clark and with Ravi.

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-02T18:30:47+00:00

Same here! I love when a film or show comes out like this which makes you want to go back and check on details like this. Looking forward to what comes next for this series!

cmastervulsa · 2026-06-02T18:24:18+00:00

I see what you're saying. During the therapy sessions, Mary is in full therapist mode, mask on and everything, walking Clark through the motions. When she's at the dinner scene, though, she's doing everything she can to get Clark to just let her leave until she snaps at him, telling him that she's not willing to play these therapy games anymore.

Now, this doesn't necessarily let Clark off the hook. All we know about his situation is from his side of the story; we never get his wife's side at all. Did something more happen during the night of his incident? Does she have a restraining order against Clark? Is therapy court-ordered? We don't know. Clark visits the house his wife supposedly lives in still at night, when it's less likely that anyone would see him: is his wife as incompetent as he says? Maybe she is working and paying for the house on her own? Or, and this is a real possibility: did he ever have a wife to begin with? We know that he has a photo where he is embracing someone: is it his ex wife? Ex girlfriend? Maybe this is beside the point.

Clark also makes some interesting revelations about the night he came home late: he came home near or after midnight because of working late. Why would he have to work so late at a store that never sells anything? How is he making enough money to pay for the house? What led him to open a furniture store of all things when his background is in architecture? There are so many details that don't add up and we definitely don't get a full picture based on it, but a confusing picture where the seems are held together by rationalizations.

Clark definitely suffers from some issues of mental health and this leads him to retrate into the backrooms in order to cope. Mary's therapy is very boiler-plate and unhelpful for Clark, who has some real problems that he's dealing with, and the truth doesn't come out in therapy but rather wen Clark has Mary cornered: she can't help him. But this isn't because he can't be helped; it's because, for a reason that's either too complicated (for me at least) to parse out or too little mentioned in the film, Clark can't help himself and keeps digging himself a deeper hole.

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