Board 8 > 428 Shibuya Scramble Playthrough Topic

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the 17:00 route is so annoying with its multiple KEEP OUTs, and this specific one requires a choice that even if you select a different answer, leads to a To Be Continued.

the jump you're looking for is in Minorikawa's route

at 17:35, choose C for the first choice. Second choice does not matter
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sigh. thank you for the quick reply. i kept refreshing the page for replies but your post was at the top of page 4 so i didn't see it

but in my wandering around on my own trying to find it, i did get minorikawa murdered with a butcher knife by a soba chef from hell

so there's that

now let's see...

oh god.

picking endo as a wrong answer there opens up a jump?!

that's pretty annoying, yeah

i guess it makes sense, but, meh.

geez

i thought bringing hitomi to endo would be fine because, yes, the dad was plotting this bad stuff, but surely with his son right there, and with the innocent girl right in front of his eyes, he wouldn't do anything crazy

and yet

ahhhhh!!!! organ trafficking!

i like how maria is just standing watching all this go down

like, daisuke should still be, like, arrested and go to prison for this, right? it's all very sentimental, and this is a video game, but will we just make up and have him say "i won't do it again" and that's that? lol

hm. really not sure where this is going. kano, achi, hitomi, maria, canaan - all together.

and they know about the virus and everything, so they should be getting in touch with osawa... that must be what his "keep out" is from.

only minorikawa will be left doing his own thing

i wonder if this will be like 24 where the first arc ends and a second arc takes over for the second half.

"So you're a martial arts badass but your speciality is lock-breaking?"

lmao

achi asking the real questions

like, canaan really is kind of a, uh

"mary sue" isn't the word

but like

she's, what, a 16 year old assassin who is a perfect fighter, perfect espionage agent, and an expert at locks to be able to break into a super secure lab?

i'm glad they sort of started giving her some backstory in the maria flashback last chapter because she's sort of my least favourite character because of how perfect she is

like, chiri's superpower is fine because she's a comedic side character

but canaan isn't, so can we have her be a bit more realistic plz

yeah, definitely weird that everyone is together except osawa. i guess they couldn't get him over to endo electronics for this, huh.

oh ho. alphard says he'll show up in person... iiiinteresting!

Osawa END.

Man, I shouldn't be surprised to reach another END, but I am.

But that was a really sweet ending. God, why is this game getting me so emotional?

Osawa driving off to save Maria as he imagines her sitting in the rain waiting for him that day...

It's so sad...

And the sun begins to set.

I always loved the times in 24 when daytime would switch to nighttime, and vice versa.

I do hope this game goes a full 24 hours, but maybe it really is just building to an ending now - That's why characters are getting ENDs, because everything is converging.

nah, this is definitely building to a climax and then an ending.

i won't get my hopes up that the game goes on =P

maria and osawa won't be replaced by new PoVs, its just the story is ending.

oh, but wait. minorikawa's plot really hasn't converged lol. i mean, sure, he has the printing deadline at 7, but he's barely gotten involved in the actual main plot. guess there does have to be more...

ah! for a moment there, i thought the preview clips were saying we were gonna get stanley and canaan PoV! but looks like no.

and achi starts this next chapter KEEP OUT'D, hah.

Probably because him and Kano are together still and they're not gonna show the same scene twice.

wait a minute.

18:00 - 20:00?!

(for those who can't tell - i'm a big fan of trying to "metagame" stuff - hence my strong focus on trying to figure out how long the game will be, how many episodes, if there'll be new PoV characters, etc. formatting and logistical stuff like that always interests me, same way how in my umineko play through i was so fixated on the character chart and wondering if there'd be room for more characters and etc)

i'll spoiler bar this next chapter until the others catch up

i can't really put this down atm though

don't worry, I didn't stop after clearing 16:00 all the way to the end
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now this is where i'd try and predict alphard's identity, but i'm actually just going to go with the flow here and be shocked by the reveal when it happens

what was it. tall, black hair, spoke fluent japanese?

...doesn't even mention if male or female lol. technically implies its a foreigner.

oh god, Leland Palmer?!

(i mean he's the only side character who hasn't become relevant, really...)

Arti posted...

don't worry, I didn't stop after clearing 16:00 all the way to the end

i guess you're telling me the game is ending soon LOL

speculation cancelled then

the thing is, daisuke isn't playing games with me. he won't be like "hey, all i said was they spoke fluent japanese, so it being <insert japanese character here> fits!" it really should imply a foreigner lol

18:00 from here on out, you are warned. i'll spoiler big stuff if any though.

god i'd forgotten how stressful minorikawa's plot is

this has nothing to do with the main plot but

51 minutes to interview gang members and write an article and finalize everything?!

there's no way!

this is flashing me back to the most stressful deadlines in my own life and it's actually physically painful

lmao the ice machine =(

my biggest regret is not warning them about it

lmao, minorikawa really trying the aggressive interview style with a gang leader? is this seriously going to work? lol

seriously, this all must be a bad end. i gotta pick an option to end up somewhere else, right? lol

lol, minorikawa's got a superpower too. can survive being beat up by a dozen thugs.

chiaki we don't have time for your sob story right now! come on!

huh.

Minorikawa END.

really?!

we didn't even get to the deadline?!

is it really so simple to say he'll spend 30 minutes writing the gang article, but actually only 20 because he's going to interview achi?! and then... what?

i'm sort of confused by this one lol

it's so weird that osawa contacted minorikawa to bring him in to the main plot, but then minorikawa barely does anything for it and they don't talk again (except in the bad ending where they go to the lab) and minorikawa's plot just ends here.

yaaassss kano, disobey those orders. be jack bauer!

tateno with the redemption arc!

and so achi's plot with susumu and kiryu, which was one of the only threads (get it, thread? cradle?) left unresolved, is of course resolved in this chapter, which... may be the final one? this game does a very good job of weaving all its plots together, that's for sure

but... all i'm thinking during this fight is, minorikawa better be writing his copy over in the corner somewhere! its almost 7!

i don't quite feel confident about our ability to thwart alphard here, lol. we're just a small group, even with the gang. doesn't stanley have allies...?

oh wait, the organ trafficker was tall, black hair, fluent japanese. not necessarily alphard. okay. yeah.

if this were 2006 i'd be like "alphard must be a woman, since we all assume it must be a man", but we're kind of past that trope now in 2019 and it really can be either one. hm.

how fitting that we'll be ending (?) like we began - with a scramble. this game's plot sure is intricately designed, very nice

as long as alphard isn't yanagishita

...could it be?!

the only plot thread we haven't dealt with, actually, is aya kamiki! and kano's fiancee who we've never met...

also, where has kajiwara gone...?

oh man, i love seeing similar shots to all the ones from the initial scramble at the start, but now at night

Leland Palmer being Alphard isn't satisfying at all LMAO. I wasn't even trying to make a prediction and I still called it. But he may not be Alphard? Maybe he's still just an accomplice...?

Guess he is, lol.

I mean, when you wanna have a surprising reveal like this, you need to finely balance making it a surprise because it's someone you didn't think about, but also someone you remember. This dude is so forgettable I didn't even recognize him when he showed up here, I was just like "I bet that's Leland Palmer even though I don't remember what he looks like" lol

and we don't have any PoV character over at the lab, so we have no clue what's happening over there with tateno, canaan, maria, and osawa...?

hmmmmmmm

I want someone else to be Alphard =P This guy's just pretending. He's a lackey. I want a real twist!

OMG! A JUMP TO STANLEY! YES

YES

YES

BUT IT'S X'ED OUT

YESSSSS

WE ARE GETTING NEW POV CHARS! At least one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"There are no hints after 18:00."

:O

still, i guess hitomi was definitely innocent after all lol. i really thought she was hiding something for those first couple of hours. but she was just shy.

the game hasn't explicitly confirmed that he's alphard, though... hmmmm. ahhh. i shouldn't get my expectations high.