With that in mind, it's fascinating that Let It Die was woven into Suda's greater body of work, and surprisingly deftly at that. The 26th Ward reference, the warzone aspects, Earth Rage, the Death Drive, etc. all feel totally natural. Maybe Suda saw LiD as an unlikely storytelling opportunity.
Expounding on the second point a little more, while Suda was credited as the executive director for Let It Die, he has said that he was more of a "normal-level worker" as part of the collaboration.
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For that matter, I didn't find the Trigger cast to be particularly endearing, so my reaction to how they were used in Cross was more "hey, this is actually interesting" than anything else.
I played Radical Dreamers between them, Cross effectively being a large-scale reimagining of its story, so I was already familar with the plot points and tone that carried over. That said, I certainly don't expect everyone to be familiar with an obscure, only-recently-localized Satellaview game.
I never quite bought the criticism that Chrono Cross "killed off all of the Trigger characters." Not only does that oversimplify the story, the game is about alternate timelines/universes (and the existential ramifications therein). Lots of space to fill in the blanks there.
Somehow forgot to take a picture! Here's my copy (with a partial view of my GHM shelf that desperately needs to be reorganized).
No More Heroes (Switch) screenshot. GHM No. 06 "Silver Incident" Shirt Shows all of the Transmitter chapter names for The Silver Case as well as 4.5 Face.
Case 4.5 was even referenced in No More Heroes 1, on the "Silver Incident" shirts.
If you're looking for more of The Silver Case, here's an English translation of the light novel Case #4.5 Face (written by Naoko Korekata). It's a nice side story centered around Sakura Natsume. Also snagged a physical copy for myself years ago! fftranslations.atspace.co.uk/tscnov/index...
Chrono Cross ~ γ―γγγ»γ―γγΉ (1999)
Developed by Squaresoft.
This is still my loose plan for now, though it has been so long that I've considered changing it up a little. If nothing else, Let It Die is pretty set considering its upcoming offline shift. bsky.app/profile/adri...
The next stream is still very much TBD, but I will get back to streaming eventually. I haven't quit! Still have lots of plans and ideas, but just waiting for the right moment to fire it all up again.
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NEW VIDEO!
Guys, you remember Wario Land? Incredible, incredible!
As someone with over 300 public videos: yeah, Youtube will always recommend your own videos to you, which I find annoying, but to each their own.
Nothing specific, just the usual off-putting nonsense that I usually manage to avoid
(Killer7) Yeah, Susie's eye color on PS2 lends a different quality to her character, almost feeling like a deliberate choice to make her stand out on PS2 rather than just being a straight downgrade from GCN.
(Order: PS2, GCN, PC)
PS2 Killer7 Kess screenshot
PAL GCN Killer7 Kess screenshot
PC Killer7 Kess screenshot
On a whim, I revisited some of my PS2 Killer7 footage, and I still chuckle at the awful character models. Here are some screenshots taken from various videos of mine.
The order is PS2, GCN (PAL version in German), and then PC.
Killer7 screenshot of Susie Sumner: So much bull that it makes me sick.
Accidentally exposed myself to material from the No More Heroes Reddit.
I'm in spaces that talk about Killer7 all the time, it's a game that is basically one of the pillars of my online existence, and I sometimes get comments on Youtube expressing surprise that people are still playing it. Let's not limit ourselves here!
I tend to balk at any "nobody talks about [blank] anymore" assertions because they tend to be self-defeating; not only does it inherently spur conversations right there, we all exist in our own spheres, and it's all but guaranteed that a sphere outside of your radar is probably talking about it.
GUY ON TWITTER: bluesky is an echo chamber
OTHER TWITTER GUY: yeah itβs totally an echo chamber
MORE TWITTER DUDES: yeah echo chamber
LIKE A BAJILLION MORE TWITTER DUDES: echo chamber
And speaking personally, an even stranger thing is that despite my initial wariness coming into the game for a variety of reasons, I actually wound up liking it a lot. I've put nearly 800 hours into the game, and will put in many more in the future. You truly can't Let It Die, can you?
Supertrick developed a sequel (Deathverse), which crashed and burned within months. A few years later, they released another sequel (Inferno), which frankly isn't doing so well. Throughout these shenanigans, they *still* kept supporting LiD, and are ironically keeping it alive with an offline mode!
