Aquaria notes.
Oct. 11th, 2012 05:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xyzzysqrlUsually I don't just dump notes out on the journal. These are barely edited and unlikely to make much sense. Nobody has to read this stuff. Still, I'm wanting to post them so I can make a record of how this is going and note some stuff that I want to check back against later. Obviously, spoilers for Aquaria below.
Game starts with meteors hitting an airship. A young boy plunges into the ocean below, apparently drowns. This has got to mean -something-. No idea what.
Our Heroine: Naija's a blue... I hesitate to call her "mermaid". Fish-person. She has gills and flipperfeet. She sings! This makes plants react, ocean life react, and she can ride seahorses while singing to the background music, which sounds trite but is -awesome- in-game. Seriously.
Okay first power up, the ability to wrap objects in song and drag them around with Naija's voice. Hardcore vocals.
I'm going to assume that the wall in front of Naija's house says "HOME" and start from there on translating. There's also the sign you're outright told says "MITHALAS" and that has the right characters to make 'home' look like 'home' so I'm right about that yay.
Found armor. Guessing that this says "flesh is weak", because what I've got is "--esh is -ea-" and the Krotites were apparently a warrior culture, so they'd want something stronger than flesh.
(I later found a way while looking at other pages on the net to translate all the symbols by renaming some files in the game directory. Yay cheap lazy way out.)
Form 1: Energy Form. Fire 1 blast of energy. Charge to fire 3 homing blasts. Charge, dash and florish to fire four homing. Wall-grab, charge, dash, florish to shoot six homing blasts. I have no idea why I would NOT at least charge/dash/florish every time, unless in tight quarters.
Form 2: Be A Fish. This lets you be a fish. You move really fast and you can squeeze into cracks. Also you are a fish.
Form 3: Beast Form. Naija roars and darts around -eating things- with her fearsome teeth and claws. Also you can swim against currents. Incredibly handy, incredibly fast. Oh and you absorb ammo from this? But that seems completely useless when energy form y'know EXISTS.
Form 4: Energy Form. Naija leaves her body floating there (note: I AM NEVER DOING THIS AROUND ENEMIES) and drifts off as a wisp. Good for getting across steam tunnels. Not good for, uhm, anything else.
Form 5: Nature Form. Naija wears a cape! Glee! Cape! She looks AWESOME in her plant-cape! ...also she shoots flowers and can go through plant gates I guess. Uhm. ... CAPE. She can also charge up and shoot a thorn thing that blocks passageways. Fantastic. I have no idea why you would do this.
Mithalas Cathedral is MADE OF HORRIBLE. Oh my god what. FLESH EVERYWHERE. WHY.
Kelp Forest is pretty.
You only get three cooking slots at home. I should make a big spread of foods if I'm going on a boss run. But it takes so LONG to get home and then back. Ugh.
So far there's kind of a pattern arising here. Aside from the Krotites, who went off to kill their next door neighbors and stopped them early (so said neighbors did not get to this point but I -think- the Krotites did) there's a common narrative between these civilzations: They get really powerful at the expense of their local goddess, they find out about a NEW god called The Creator, they make contact and he shows up, and then everyone in the species dies except the mother goddess, who becomes a hideous monster.
DRAWING FROM THAT:
A: The Creator is kind of a jerkbag.
B: The Creator has a thing about mothers?
C: Naija is probably in trouble, since she's been referred to as the "daughter of the 13th" [civilization] and there is this dark shadowy woman who keeps appearing every time she gets a new form apparently for the express purpose of STARING AT HER CREEPILY and then vanishing again. Odds are good this is her mother, who is -probably- in the process of becoming a hideous monster.
Game starts with meteors hitting an airship. A young boy plunges into the ocean below, apparently drowns. This has got to mean -something-. No idea what.
Our Heroine: Naija's a blue... I hesitate to call her "mermaid". Fish-person. She has gills and flipperfeet. She sings! This makes plants react, ocean life react, and she can ride seahorses while singing to the background music, which sounds trite but is -awesome- in-game. Seriously.
Okay first power up, the ability to wrap objects in song and drag them around with Naija's voice. Hardcore vocals.
I'm going to assume that the wall in front of Naija's house says "HOME" and start from there on translating. There's also the sign you're outright told says "MITHALAS" and that has the right characters to make 'home' look like 'home' so I'm right about that yay.
Found armor. Guessing that this says "flesh is weak", because what I've got is "--esh is -ea-" and the Krotites were apparently a warrior culture, so they'd want something stronger than flesh.
(I later found a way while looking at other pages on the net to translate all the symbols by renaming some files in the game directory. Yay cheap lazy way out.)
Form 1: Energy Form. Fire 1 blast of energy. Charge to fire 3 homing blasts. Charge, dash and florish to fire four homing. Wall-grab, charge, dash, florish to shoot six homing blasts. I have no idea why I would NOT at least charge/dash/florish every time, unless in tight quarters.
Form 2: Be A Fish. This lets you be a fish. You move really fast and you can squeeze into cracks. Also you are a fish.
Form 3: Beast Form. Naija roars and darts around -eating things- with her fearsome teeth and claws. Also you can swim against currents. Incredibly handy, incredibly fast. Oh and you absorb ammo from this? But that seems completely useless when energy form y'know EXISTS.
Form 4: Energy Form. Naija leaves her body floating there (note: I AM NEVER DOING THIS AROUND ENEMIES) and drifts off as a wisp. Good for getting across steam tunnels. Not good for, uhm, anything else.
Form 5: Nature Form. Naija wears a cape! Glee! Cape! She looks AWESOME in her plant-cape! ...also she shoots flowers and can go through plant gates I guess. Uhm. ... CAPE. She can also charge up and shoot a thorn thing that blocks passageways. Fantastic. I have no idea why you would do this.
Mithalas Cathedral is MADE OF HORRIBLE. Oh my god what. FLESH EVERYWHERE. WHY.
Kelp Forest is pretty.
You only get three cooking slots at home. I should make a big spread of foods if I'm going on a boss run. But it takes so LONG to get home and then back. Ugh.
So far there's kind of a pattern arising here. Aside from the Krotites, who went off to kill their next door neighbors and stopped them early (so said neighbors did not get to this point but I -think- the Krotites did) there's a common narrative between these civilzations: They get really powerful at the expense of their local goddess, they find out about a NEW god called The Creator, they make contact and he shows up, and then everyone in the species dies except the mother goddess, who becomes a hideous monster.
DRAWING FROM THAT:
A: The Creator is kind of a jerkbag.
B: The Creator has a thing about mothers?
C: Naija is probably in trouble, since she's been referred to as the "daughter of the 13th" [civilization] and there is this dark shadowy woman who keeps appearing every time she gets a new form apparently for the express purpose of STARING AT HER CREEPILY and then vanishing again. Odds are good this is her mother, who is -probably- in the process of becoming a hideous monster.
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