Let's Play Live-A-Live!

[Lazyboy21350]

Welcome to....

Let's Play Live-A-Live!

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What is Live A Live?

Live A Live is a Japanese RPG for the SNES, never released in the states.

Because of crotch lizards.

...Possibly. Anyway, thankfully for us non-Japanese speakers some really nice bros translated the game.

THANKS JAP SPEAK BROS!

Now this game is very unique in many ways as you shall see in the LP.

Who the fuck is that other text?

Yeah, we had a great idea for this LP. Me and Stinkosar are collaborating and making the LP together.

Lazy will be playin', and providing the info, and I'll just be providing some lolz.

Indeed. Also I have already beaten this game so I already know whats going on. Stinko however has not played the game and is in the dark. Expect to see some...Reactions from him.

Yes. I just know basics, basically, what the people look like..their names however....

Yeah, the names shall be provided by you viewers.

Not only that, but other fun decisions that the game has to offer, so we WILL be asking for a lot of viewer input.

Now we please ask those of you who will discuss the game to avoid any spoilers in parts we haven't gotten to yet. Stinko is trying VERY hard not to spoil it for himself.

I'm like...2 weeks sober guys.

Right...Anyway, there is one decision that needs to be made first.

WHO DO WE START WITH?

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Perhaps we could start in the era of dinosaurs and cavemen.

Character Original Name: Pogo
Character Practice Run Name: Tomato



Or with Psychic Mecha Riders in the Near Future.

Character Original Name: Akira
Character Practice Run Name: Cyrus




Maybe with Ninjas in the land of the rising sun?

Character Original Name: Oboro
Character Practice Run Name: Cobalt


Maybe with some crazy Kung fu?

Character Original Name Martial Art Original Name: Xin Shaun Quan
Marital Art Practice Run Name: Hanzou



How about in the distant future with robots?

Character Original Name: Cube
Character Practice Run Name: Metool



Maybe in the (outdated) present with MANLY JAPANESE WRESTLING!

Character Original Name: Masaru
Character Practice Run Name: Rocky



Or in the kinda past with badass cowboys and outlaws?

Character Original Name: (The) Sundown (Kid)
Character Practice Run Name: (The) Skull (Kid)

SO CHOOSE MOTHERFUCKERS!


Pick a character and a name. We accept if you choose to go with the practice run names.

Edit: Also theres a 6-letter limit, forgot to mention.

UPDATES:
Cowboy:
Episode 1: Mad Dog the Stalker
Episode 2: Success Town, the Unsuccessful Town
Episode 3: Not Brokeback Mountain
Episode 4: Russel The Cowboy Sheriff
Episode 5, Part 1: Deception, Cowboy Edition
Episode 5, Part 2: Here Comes the Crazy Bunch
Episode 6: O. Dio, the Hate-Filled Outlaw
Episode 7: Epilogue. Or: In Which We Pretend To Ride Off Into The Sunset

Robot:
Episode 8: 7 Days An Ironic Portal: An Alien Oddessy
Episode 9: Robot Racism
Episode 10: Captain Square: Completely Irrelevant
Episode 11: Every Dangerous Alien Has it's Two Massive Fangs; AKA Space Coffee
Episode 12, Part 1: Death of the First
Episode 12, Part 2: Space Necrophilia
Episode 13: Crazy Bitches in Space (Not Porn)
Episode 14: Ghost Domestic Abuse
Episode 15: Corporal Spy
Episode 16: End of Robot Chapter

[Ganato]

>Time to be a bad-ass Cowboy!
Yeee-haw!

> Jack Rifle
(If not enough room, Sixshot)

[Stinkosar]

So bros, Hi! It is I.
I mean, So bros, Hi! It is I.

Imma throw my vote in for Caveman chapter;
Name: Meaty.
Or Name: Meatbn
Or Name: Tom
Or Name: Badass
Or Tomato.
Or Name: Stick (Get it? Pogostick?)

Oh fuck we forgot!


SIX LETTER NAME LIMIT!

[Lazyboy21350]

Oh we forgot to mention, theres a 6 letter limit. Also remember the name for the Cowboy will come out as "The ____ Kid" so pick something fitting.

[Varkarrus]

Cowboy.
Name: Fuccon

[Reecer6]

Sure why not cattlemale?
Name: Windy
Alternatively: Nice
ALTERNATIVELY: Undead

[Ganato]

> (The) Steak (Kid)

[DevilEd]

Cowboy
Name: Male

[Stinkosar]

Cowboi.
Name: Skull.

Because I'm the one who came up with it for the practice run!

[Bobster]

Just curious, where did you get this game and its translation, are you using an emulator? It looks like a fun game, and I think I'd like to give it a shot myself.

[Stinkosar]

Just curious, where did you get this game and its translation, are you using an emulator? It looks like a fun game, and I think I'd like to give it a shot myself.

No emulator talk on the forums.
Sorry for backseat modding but I just know this from experience.

[Bobster]

Just curious, where did you get this game and its translation, are you using an emulator? It looks like a fun game, and I think I'd like to give it a shot myself.

No emulator talk on the forums.
Sorry for backseat modding but I just know this from experience.

Yeah, I should have known better, was actually thinking that when I posted then. I can probably manage finding it myself then.

[Superfrequency]

>Sci-fi
Guyman

[KawaiiMelon]

BTW they've already chosen the cowboy, and named it Skull. B)

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why do i feel like i just leaked government information if i just leaked something minor as fuck

[Stinkosar]

BTW they've already chosen the cowboy, and named it Skull. B)

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why do i feel like i just leaked government information if i just leaked something minor as fuck

Because you're a whore.

[BRPXQZME]

Rhymes with Five Alive, ayup.

[Lazyboy21350]

Episode 1: Mad Dog the Stalker

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Welcome back to Let's Play Live-A-Live!
Today our lucky winner is...




The Skull Kid!
Yee-Haw!

Yes we decided to go with Skull, it's cool and its a nice reference when said quickly with Kid.

This totally wasn't rigged in my favor.

Well tell me, were there any other better names?

Now, our poor cowboy has ellpisitis.

Yes, ellpisitis. A condition that inflicts many a protagonist.

It causes them to say nearly every line of dialogue with ellipses in them, in extreme cases ONLY ELLIPSES! But our cowboy has the former.

Please, we ask of you, donate to your local charity that deals with this condition. Its quite serious.







Lets start this shit.

Ass kick time!



We begin in a town so western that they have tumbleweeds.

Obviously they do.
It's a western Town.



The Sheriff-

-Is fat and slow.

...



He goes to the local saloon. Whats interesting is that they actually took the time to make sprites for the door so it actually-

-SWINGY DOORS!

Yes exactly.



The guy walks into the bar and...God this sounds like the start of some joke.

Oh, I KNOW THIS ONE!
He dies from head trauma because he wasn't looking where he was going and hit that bar!






WHO'S THIS DOUCHEBAG?

It's obviously Zoosmell Pooplord, famous outlaw.
His crimes include; Smelling Animals, sitting on thrones made of shit.




Sundown is one of the few characters whos default name exceeds the normal character limit. Sadly, putting in a new name sets it back to the normal 6 letters

Just Skull it up.



The big man...HASS been Skulled

Boned.

That sounds so wrong

EXACTLY!



Say that quickly and tell me what it reminds you of.

Majoras Mask....I came up with the name Lazzy.

I was talking to the readers, dunkass

Also; HOPY FUCK WE'RE AN OUTLAW!
Also Also; Sheriff, Look out for falling moons.



We join Skull as he rides across the wild west. His theme kicks in at this point.

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He reminds me of Flint.

This game was made before Mother 3 so really Flint reminds you of Sundown/Skull

HAX!



The horse begins to slow...



And some one off-screen speaks

"Oh...God...Fuckin...Mad Dog."
" 'Sup Skully."
"Fuck..."



"Heh, We meet again Skull"
"Hey Mad Dog...Here's an idea...Stop...Stalking me..."




"If I'm having...a final period...There...should...be...THREE OF THEM!"
"Haw Haw"



"Thank you Mad Dog... for attempted murder...



"Don't need to..."




"Thats...Creepy..."
"Whateva"



"Too..Many...You...Stalker..."



"Fag..."






"Whatever...you...say..."



"Let's Dance!"
"Alright..."

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BATTLE TRANSITION



Alright, seeing as this is our first battle in the game, i'll take a moment to explain the mechanics.



Everything you do takes a "turn", despite it looking like it takes place in real-time. You can stop and think about your actions. Usually enemies won't start responding until a certain number of "turns" have passed so move quickly to get some damage in.

So yeah, onto battle.



Pressing "A" brings up the battle menu, everything here is self-explanatory

That was kinda obvious.



And every character has a list of moves, they have their strengths and weaknesses. Also, you can use moves as many times as you want, no MP system here. Skull here has some moves I may as well explain real quick.

Single Shot- Don't use it, there is no reason to. Double shot is way better even though it has a shorter range. Forget this move exists.

Just like C-DI.

Double Shot- Skull fires two shots at the enemy, does much more damage than Single Shot. Like I said, use this.

Bang Bang X2 Reacharound.

Hollow-point Shot- This move is...Meh. There is no reason to use it yet there is no reason not to use it. I didn't find it effective on any enemies, not even Mad Dog here.

Meh.

Piercing Shot- Same as above.

How descriptive of you.

Multi-Counter- It's obvious what this does. Useful when it happens.

Very descriptive again, you're on a roll.

What am I supposed to say? Besides, i'll have to explain some other moves later, these are just too basic to go into any detail about.



Anyway, pick a move, pick a target (The game is nice enough to auto-target for you if an enemy is in range), and hit A to kill.

Bang Bang. Kill Kill. Shoot Shoot.



Enemies also have different ranges for their own moves, if you are crazy enough to learn exactly what those ranges are, well, good on ya. The enemy can still move over slightly to kill you.

Wait...HIS BULLET IS ELECTRIFIED?

Yes it is, he can do that. Does shit damage though.

Aww.



Needless to say, Mad Dog is easy and was killed by Multi-counter (Which is always a shot behind the back).

Wa. Wa. Wawawaaaaaaaaa.



A winner is us

Right On!



Okay yeah, he's not dead yet even though I just shot him in the heart three times.

I like 'im.



"Because...Hell is too good for you..."



Skull gets back on his horse to ride off.

"The hell did that mean?!?"

"..."

Mad Dog then tries to get back on his horse but then...



BANG

"THE HELL?!?"

"..."





And he gets thrown off, the horse running off to god knows where

"DAMMIT!"

"...Hmm..."



Wow, Skull has great aim to do something like that.

"Because...You..Suck.."



"Nah...I'm good..."



And there he goes. The big man rides off into the sunset.

I see no sunset.

Well I say that because we have to end the update here.

Ah.

As a note; I make the character dialouge.

And I made these spiffy Avatars.

Thats nice. Anyway, join us next time when Skull rides into a town and we get some plot.

PLOT?!? THIS GAME HAS PLOT?!?

Yes it does

Nice.

[Stinkosar]

Yee-Haw.

[Lazyboy21350]

By the way, quick question, what do you guys currently think of the size of the screenshots? I was thinking about making them larger for the next update. Any suggested sizes?

[basicParadox]

Maybe you could make them 384x336 or 512x448?

Also, enjoying this so far. Keep up the good work~

[Stinkosar]

Maybe you could make them 384x336 or 512x448?

Also, enjoying this so far. Keep up the good work~

Thank you~
We love you very much.

[basicParadox]

No prob~

[Lazyboy21350]

Okay, I had to use imgur and a screenshot program for resizing to work because apparently the thing I was using before to take screenshots hard code the screenshots to stay the same size all the time or something. I'm going to put the shots here to compare the sizes, I used the ones Paradox suggested and the site presets. Please let me know which one looks best or if you have a better suggestion.

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320x240:


384x336:


512x448:


640x479:

[Superfrequency]

Is there any reason you pretended like the readers had any input on character selection?

[Lazyboy21350]

You guys picked the Cowboy scenario to start with at least. I just liked the practice run name better than what was suggested. If its going to be made a problem I could just change the name, not like i'm that far in the game anyway.

Besides, i'm going to ask you guys some other things when they come up. You will see.