Every time this convo comes up I have to bring up Spiderman 1 (the sam raimi movie tie in game), which had a post game mode where you go through the entire game as Harry Osborn wearing the Green Goblin suit. It changed the plot, the mechanics, etc. Rather than having webslinging, you flew on the glider, and threw pumpkin bombs or used guns instead of webs. It even changed the green goblin boss fights to not be Norman (this canonically takes place after the events of the game, Harry is investigating his father's murder, I think) and instead be this dark voiced villain who I never actually finished the game against. Is crazy that another spiderman game from literally right before it also had a strange alternative gamemode.
They were having way too much fun with the P-Organ joke; even the voice over had him cracking up which made me smile.
I love that you can hear Andy smiling as he says "P Organ" in the voice-over.
We need every outtake of Andy attempting to say p-organ with a straight face, and everyone else trying to hold it together!
"The Stan Lee Parable", I see what you did there!!!
You have no idea how happy I was to see Bravely Second on the spoiler list When i think 'above and beyond ng+' i ALWAYS think of bravely second incorporating ng+ into the story and how blown away i was i applaud the fact that the writers managed to make something as silly as 'coup de gravy' sound epic
A Yellow Submarine? I bet it's infested with beatles.
8:37 Even in voiceover, you can tell Andy is suppressing laughter
The comedic genius of Andy immediately mispronouncing "Coup" right after the character mangles coup de grace!!! So good!
The P-organ is the Peenacle of humour.
I always dismissed those ads telling me "upgrade your P organ now" as scams. What a fool I was.
The Hundred Line Last Defense Academy is built around this. First playthrough of the game: You spend most of the game having no clue what the actual plot is because the bosses you fight speak some bizarre alien language you can't understand until you've beaten the final boss, your mascot character who knew everything got axed first, you lose your Jagen-equivalent first, and you find out way too late who the traitor in the group is. Second playthrough: Oust the traitor immediately, save the mascot character, keep your Jagen on the team, you can understand what the bosses are saying now, and you can make decisions that'll take you down the games 20 or so different routes to each of it's 100 endings such as the routes where... The game becomes a comedy flick or a slasher movie or the MC becomes a cult leader or the routes where you forget about figuring out what the plot is to date your party members/the final boss.
"So Cal, what are you going to do once the Empire has been defeated and the Jedi can come out of hiding?" "I'll tell you what I'll do. Two chicks at the same time."
Spoilers for Oxenfree ahead! If you interact with all the radios, at the start of the next loop you'll get an extra scene where Alex receives a phone call from her past/future/alternate self. If you picked the right dialogue options with the radios, you can convince the current Alex to not go to the island, breaking the loop and ending the game early.
My second playthrough of OG Oblivion was completely different because now I knew how the skills actually worked 😂
Wild that the perfect game for this topic, The Hundred Line - Last Defense Academy, just came out recently. The first playthrough is relatively linear taking you to a pretty downer ending, but on replay you get extra options utilizing your knowledge of what happened the first time to open up the game's other 99 possible endings.
Bravely Default and Nier Automata. You think you know the plot until you notice the train has been derailed a long time ago. Now you’re just approaching the cliff.
Viewtiful Joe (PS2) let you play the entire game over as Dante from Devil May Cry! Every time you cleared the game on a new difficulty mode you'd unlock another character to play the story as, with their own voiced cutscenes and abilities, but Dante's playthrough turned it all up to 11 by voicing the entire game in satanic-panic backwards speak and giving you his moveset and story from DMC (guns and Trish).
Chrono Trigger's a classic. In your normal playthrough, it gives you the ability to fight the final boss, Lavos, whenever you want. However since the game's an rpg, you won't actually be strong enough to beat him until the natural end point of the game. But in NG+, since all your levels, stats, and equipment carry over, you now CAN fight Lavos early, and there are a ton of different endings you can get depending on how far you got in the story when you win.
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