A new one for the big name scream roll...
Jan. 5th, 2010 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foxinthestarsBack in the day, the ex and I had a whole list of unintentionally humorous big name screams, and when we saw a character do that sometimes we would go through them all.
1. KHAAAAAAAAAAAN! (you should know that one)
2. COOOOOO! (obscure anime of the same name)
3. IKARAAAAAAAAAA! (first season Babylon 5 episode)
and perhaps for good measure:
4. SQUANTOOOOOOOOOH! ...a warrior's tale... (self-consciously funny MST3K version)
Well, I've got one to add to the list now. I guess my desire to fold Lament into the fanfic universe hit critical mass, my ability to play it was falling short of requirements to just see the story already, so I watched a YouTube playthrough of it with all the cutscenes, wth. I'll just say someone screamed someone else's name in that ham-and-cheese kind of way.
I think there's also a rule somewhere that all Succubi must have annoying and laughable voice acting. I expect the whole thing plays better in Japanese with subtitles.
The plot did strike me as kind of dumb in places. It's fun to go through it replacing every mention of "the Ebony Stone" with "the MacGuffin" and "the Crimson Stone" with "the Super-Deluxe MacGuffin." In general it was like it had trouble threading the needle between clichéd and contrived, but there's definitely stuff here I can work with. Maybe some finessing and retooling, but nothing too drastic...
Of course this one was made during my long hiatus from CV from about 2001-2008 (from Circle of the Moon to Order of Ecclesia in game-release terms). They did a lot with the series in that time and it was a lot to absorb and try to work in. I'm still not done sussing it all out; Portrait of Ruin is completely up in the air whether I'll use it. Curse of Darkness I still think is going to get trashed (or at least mostly trashed), but you never quite know...
Of course some of them, my knee-jerk is to ignore them, then I play them and get attached to them and decide to work them in and it generally comes out to my liking. (When I get around to playing Portrait of Ruin I think the odds are in its favor in this kind of way...) My first instinct was actually not to use Lament at all, but then I thought of how it could work quite nicely together with how I had finessed the Sonia thing, and started liking the idea and here I am now...
BTW, by "finessed" the Sonia thing I mean I took a wrecking ball to that game and left nothing standing but the fact that there was a Sonia Belmont who fought Dracula before Trevor did. (Alucard, btw, not involved; he wouldn't be born for another century or so in my timeline.) The idea was that, as legend had it, the Belmont vampire hunting legacy began with her, previously a poor peasant-type-person, when an angel appeared to her and told her to destroy the evil creatures of the night, and when she protested that she had no money for a sword or anything, the angel told her that the whip she used to drive animals would be her sacred weapon, and so off she went.
I still liked that, and then I thought, I could use Lament and still keep it. So... What do you suppose that "angel" looked like? (And how horrified do you suppose he was to find the kids, er, using his whip for a whip? We might get a reprise of that cheesy name scream...)
When challenged by a woman cow-herder, Dracula thought it was pretty damn funny that Leon's promised vengeance showed up looking like that. Funny until she kicked his ass, anyway.
(Just telling little bits of the story on my blog might not be interesting to anyone but me, but I remember, when I started this blog, I had tried to resolve not to care about such things; I'd rather blather about things no one else cares about than not blather at all, if it comes to that...)
1. KHAAAAAAAAAAAN! (you should know that one)
2. COOOOOO! (obscure anime of the same name)
3. IKARAAAAAAAAAA! (first season Babylon 5 episode)
and perhaps for good measure:
4. SQUANTOOOOOOOOOH! ...a warrior's tale... (self-consciously funny MST3K version)
Well, I've got one to add to the list now. I guess my desire to fold Lament into the fanfic universe hit critical mass, my ability to play it was falling short of requirements to just see the story already, so I watched a YouTube playthrough of it with all the cutscenes, wth. I'll just say someone screamed someone else's name in that ham-and-cheese kind of way.
I think there's also a rule somewhere that all Succubi must have annoying and laughable voice acting. I expect the whole thing plays better in Japanese with subtitles.
The plot did strike me as kind of dumb in places. It's fun to go through it replacing every mention of "the Ebony Stone" with "the MacGuffin" and "the Crimson Stone" with "the Super-Deluxe MacGuffin." In general it was like it had trouble threading the needle between clichéd and contrived, but there's definitely stuff here I can work with. Maybe some finessing and retooling, but nothing too drastic...
Of course this one was made during my long hiatus from CV from about 2001-2008 (from Circle of the Moon to Order of Ecclesia in game-release terms). They did a lot with the series in that time and it was a lot to absorb and try to work in. I'm still not done sussing it all out; Portrait of Ruin is completely up in the air whether I'll use it. Curse of Darkness I still think is going to get trashed (or at least mostly trashed), but you never quite know...
Of course some of them, my knee-jerk is to ignore them, then I play them and get attached to them and decide to work them in and it generally comes out to my liking. (When I get around to playing Portrait of Ruin I think the odds are in its favor in this kind of way...) My first instinct was actually not to use Lament at all, but then I thought of how it could work quite nicely together with how I had finessed the Sonia thing, and started liking the idea and here I am now...
BTW, by "finessed" the Sonia thing I mean I took a wrecking ball to that game and left nothing standing but the fact that there was a Sonia Belmont who fought Dracula before Trevor did. (Alucard, btw, not involved; he wouldn't be born for another century or so in my timeline.) The idea was that, as legend had it, the Belmont vampire hunting legacy began with her, previously a poor peasant-type-person, when an angel appeared to her and told her to destroy the evil creatures of the night, and when she protested that she had no money for a sword or anything, the angel told her that the whip she used to drive animals would be her sacred weapon, and so off she went.
I still liked that, and then I thought, I could use Lament and still keep it. So... What do you suppose that "angel" looked like? (And how horrified do you suppose he was to find the kids, er, using his whip for a whip? We might get a reprise of that cheesy name scream...)
When challenged by a woman cow-herder, Dracula thought it was pretty damn funny that Leon's promised vengeance showed up looking like that. Funny until she kicked his ass, anyway.
(Just telling little bits of the story on my blog might not be interesting to anyone but me, but I remember, when I started this blog, I had tried to resolve not to care about such things; I'd rather blather about things no one else cares about than not blather at all, if it comes to that...)
