Let's Play Dungeon Travelers 2-2! Anonymous 10/10/23 (Tue) 04:01:17 No. 114877 [View All]
Alright, so I'm going to make an attempt at a Let's Play thread of what will surely be a fantastic game. I played the original Dungeon Travelers 2 on Vita and it was the last physical game I ever bought (remember when we could buy and own media?) It's truly an amazing game for many reasons. Fantastic characters, great classes, great boss battles and spectacularly frustrating dungeons. Its sequel, Dungeon Travelers 2-2 , came out years later, but unfortunately it never received a translation. Dungeon Travelers 2 if the final battle was lost. There's a Demon Queen that wants to corrupt and conquer humanity and blahblah that part isn't very exciting. Since the characters are the of the highlights (Aquaplus is involved after all) I'll give a brief introduction of each character before I start the game.
165 posts and 119 image replies omitted. Click to expand . Anonymous 12/26/23 (Tue) 01:21:39 No. 117725
>>117722 OBS and I use Handbrake to give it a reasonable filesize. My monitor is an ultrawide which this game understandably doesn't support, so I have to trim off the sides which had been working fine until a few days ago. I wonder what I messed up.
>>117707 Yeah, it's her Joker outfit. She has great outfits, too.
Anonymous 12/27/23 (Wed) 22:47:31 No. 117824
Finally got around to testing some item drops and made a little list. It's kind of annoying to do this, but some of the effects are really strong! I might farm some of them depending on how strong the upcoming bosses turn out to be. Berserk - Red Feather, Deep-Fried Mystery, Graduation Yearbooked Mandraeal 100 - Forbidden Fruit - Evoker of Spring - Refreshing Eye Drop, Youthful Love Letter Bubble Lotioneal - Sacred Bud, Paper Crane of PrayersPrimordial Clay, Crimson JewelOasis Water Chemical 4969 (100 damage) Key, Living Shadow of Jealousyage Paralyzing Clawavity Machine Items - Soul Pact (TP Drain), Crystal Skull, Tempest Orb, Methane Hydrate, Water of Wrath, Habiki Figurine (All), rryman's Boat Cloaking Device - Mandra Trefoil
Anonymous 06/07/24 (Fri) 02:18:19 No. 126500 >>126507
>>126483 I guess I'm going to do what I did at the beginning of this thread. Dungeon Travelers 1 uses characters from ToHeart 2 so I'm being introduced to them now.
IT'S TIME FOR TOHEART 2! I have put this off for far too long. (the unofficial translation patch was late 2017 and was a decade in the making according to the guy who did it, Ittaku/conman)
Konomi is the childhood friend and she's very cute! I think these characters are hard to do well because there's the implied familiarity you're supposed to have at the beginning. She is currently the bulk of character interactions, so I suppose I'm getting familiar with her. I've even already seen her with bed hair, and no it's NOT for perverted reasons. This is one of those things that let you know that you're reading something done by the masters. Something she should be sensitive about is instead silly (especially with the pajamas) because they're childhood acquaintances. But still, there is still something intimate about seeing her this way...
One downside with the 'controller-as-mouse' thing is it keeps re-appearing on the screen...
Anonymous 06/07/24 (Fri) 04:12:47 No. 126507 >>126508
>>126500 Mind me asking whether you're playing the PC or PS3 version? Not sure if there's any major difference but the PS3 one's far larger in size.
Anonymous 06/07/24 (Fri) 04:22:04 No. 126508 >>126509 >>126510
>>126507 The PC "X-Rated" version. It's the only one with a fan translation. The PS3 seems like a superior experience without NSFW, with animation and even a new character, but there's no translation. So, I don't really have a choice. I'm also someone that thinks sex scenes are important for character realization if they were written with that in mind so I think I'd go with this one anyway.
I'm not aware of any WTC-style PS3 patches, but I guess I didn't really go searching outside of vndb, ab and nyaa.
Anonymous 06/07/24 (Fri) 04:50:21 No. 126509
>>126508 Oh, here it is specifically:
The following contents have been added or changed in PlayStation 3 version. AnotherDays is a side story thing so I assume it just means it's included as a bundle.
Anonymous 06/07/24 (Fri) 07:53:27 No. 126510
>>126508 this skirt is very cute
Anonymous 06/07/24 (Fri) 23:45:13 No. 126535 >>126605
Lastly, I'm quite curious about this "robot maid" who is most likely not actually a robot maid.
If she's not, the description was at least realized with Ist:
>>114894 Just like with Ist, the ear covers are very heavily emphasized. I think it's fair to say someone on staff really likes maid robot ear covers.
Man, it's going to be very hard to choose a girl. I hope the decision comes naturally. Often in these games I have to choose between who I would think would have the most entertaining route and who I best mesh with and appreciate.
Anonymous 06/08/24 (Sat) 02:30:56 No. 126541 >>126542
holy on topic sager
Anonymous 06/09/24 (Sun) 00:25:40 No. 126604
sager
Anonymous 06/09/24 (Sun) 00:29:59 No. 126605 >>126625
so dungeon travellers 1 uses characters from toheart 2... does toheart 1 have different characters, do they appear in any dungeon travellers game? are dungeon travellers 2 characters original or same characters?
>>114925 i dont think i said it but i did think this robomaid was cute. questions above were because was wondering whether
>>126535 was same character
Anonymous 06/09/24 (Sun) 01:07:20 No. 126610
i got my mum to listen to touhou rearranges back in the day
Anonymous 06/09/24 (Sun) 03:44:25 No. 126624
>>126532 >Speaking of, I hope this isn't one of those VNs that locks you out of "true romance" routes because you didn't choose to spend time with the same girl every time right from the very beginning. It seems like Sasara disappears if you spend time with anyone else from the first time you see her, so it looks like I'm doing her route first and ignoring everyone else apart from guaranteed story, which is kind of... eh. She did draw me in and I'm enjoying her story a lot, but making a choice so quickly before even half of the girls have been introduced and nearly all of them are still strangers is quite strange. I spent one introductory event with her (which was great) and I have to decide right away if she's the route I want. As I said her type/situation is definitely something that appeals to me, but this is practically a "love at first sight" situation with how quickly you need to abandon everything. Argh, these multi-route VNs feel so unethical sometimes because I "cheat" on them so I can see their individual stories. I would have loved to have learned about Sasara and helped her without necessarily going on her route.
But, I will say that I really like her route so far. It has the heartfelt stuff that I crave. I don't require much to start tearing up in these and sure enough it's there.
I did see another character introduction, a certain redhead, but it feels wrong to introduce anyone in the thread now since I'm supposed to have already chosen Sasara, so it will have to wait.
Anonymous 06/09/24 (Sun) 04:06:08 No. 126625
>>126605 Toheart 1 has different characters and you don't need to have any knowledge of it for ToHeart 2, but I think it's in the same universe. I'm sure there are references, but nothing concrete.
It seems vndb has an entry for the announced Toheart 2025 Project!
https://vndb.org/v51053 I'm pretty sure the robot shopkeeper in DT2-2 is a completely new character, but maybe she's a reference to something.
I remember this broom mentioned here being a great Maid weapon in the Dungeon Travelers games. (why do I remember this useless stuff...)
Anonymous 06/10/24 (Mon) 06:55:40 No. 126721 >>126784 >>126908
I guess she's showing up more than I thought she would in Kusugawa's (Sasara's) route so it's time to mention her.
Tamaki is a fiery, strong-willed older sister type that is very mischievous and occasionally overbearing with behavior teetering on bullying at times, but it's the fun kind (a bit harsh against her brother though).
She reminds me of
Kuon for various reasons and even shares a pose or two with her from the relatively little I've seen of her so far. Not entirely Kuon-like of course, but it's difficult for me not to see it since I think of myself as highly responsive to Kuon signals. She even has her own Nekone in Konomi.
>>126483 I have to admit that I'm finding it difficult to not immediately restart and pursue Tamaki.
Anonymous 06/10/24 (Mon) 22:46:57 No. 126784 >>126785
>>126721 >She reminds me of Kuon Sigh... You don't get to claim that when you couldn't see how Nobeta reminded me of Yume...
Anonymous 06/10/24 (Mon) 22:59:15 No. 126785 >>126786
>>126784 But I was joking and did say that the hair and eyes were similar afterwards. I only know of Nobeta as patreon bait and not as a character, but she was a witch action game or something, right? Quite a bit different from Yume's show.
It's deeper for Tamaki and Kuon since they share some personality traits in addition to sharing the exact same format of origin and creators.
Anonymous 06/10/24 (Mon) 23:07:35 No. 126786
>>126785 In the nobeta/yume case I only meant it in the first place as an appearance-based resemblance and not something deeper.
>sharing the exact same format of origin and creators. I don't think this counts for anything unless you're prepared to say that all N characters in ToHeart remind you of all M characters in Utawarerumono and vice versa.
Anonymous 06/12/24 (Wed) 21:48:48 No. 126906
>>126896 Oh, yeah, that girl is
Sasamori . Her introductory event was quite fun, but I'm not sure if I like her that much based on first impressions. But, you can't judge a VN character that way so I'll have to learn more. The paranoid/supernatural obsession characters can be fun, I guess, but it can also get tedious.
Anonymous 06/12/24 (Wed) 21:55:39 No. 126908 >>126910
>>126721 How short are these routes if you seem to be blowing through them?
Anonymous 06/12/24 (Wed) 23:23:07 No. 126920
dumb routard
Anonymous 06/15/24 (Sat) 06:13:16 No. 127002
The route has entered the most serious phase and wow, it's really good! Quite the emotional rollercoaster of beautiful highs and sorrowful lows, but nothing too severe. Great support from friends nudging the relationship along in their own way and her parents, well, that's a spoiler. I feel like I know Sasara very well now. Her quirks, positive and negative, make her a very interesting person. Just one character here in Toheart 2 stands above so many others in characterization. It's no exaggeration that Sasara, just one girl, is more interesting than entire rosters of most media. I know this will be true for almost every character, too.
Anonymous 06/15/24 (Sat) 20:20:15 No. 127019
Ah, the wonderful experience of love...that she had involuntary urination. Not the "female ejaculation" thing, but an actual yellow stream in the CG. This was something alluded to since she has some developmental issues to to poor parenting, so while it would make fetishists happy it also had an emotional connotation to it. s posting.
Anonymous 06/16/24 (Sun) 12:11:37 No. 128871 >>128881
on topic sager
Anonymous 06/17/24 (Mon) 04:18:58 No. 128881
Tamaki is great. It's early in her route so it's just fully silly and fun, but I saw glimpses of her kindness in Sasara's route.
I bet I''m going to enjoy this route a lot!
>>128871 Well, I don't just want to bump the thread every time so it's like a semi-sticky of me doing a VN commentary thing. But I'll bump it this time for you!
Anonymous 06/17/24 (Mon) 20:09:45 No. 128885 >>128887
Tamaki's route was way too short.
Initially I thought it might be the "time flies when you're having fun" effect since I'm prone to ignoring the outside world when I get into these, but no, it was definitely not something that I should have been able to get through in such little time.
I don't understand... she's a major character and she features prominently in official art. This was waaaaay too short. Some of her scenes were even shared as you can see on the "map" here with Konomi:
>>126910 . Then on other days I actually had to choose the 'go home' option because there simply wasn't any event with her. Huh?
But, I guess enough complaining about the length. It was a really nice and heartwarming story as expected. Unlike Sasara's route the confession was not until the very end, with no regular scenes as boyfriend and girlfriend apart from the short epilogue scene hinting at the future. This is something I strongly dislike, but I guess it's not too unusual. The climax of the story that contained the confession and love scene was quite long and emotional! If you count the pre-sex parts the scene had 7 CGs not counting variations, so that was quite impressive. But... I wanted more time with her....
Anonymous 06/17/24 (Mon) 20:41:18 No. 128888
>>128887 Yeah, that would have been fun. Spending time together as a couple was completely missing; a nice continuation of the story and celebration of love would have been wonderful. Instead I'm simply taken to the title screen and encouraged to start the process over again with a different girl. It's wrong! It's cruel!
I don't know if writers think that there needs to be the "conflict" and pursuit in order for the story to be engaging, but it's definitely not true. Well, it's been 20 years so hopefully they know better by now.