Quiz opening

[Ryan]

I'm a little confused about the question "Are you familiar with the Cyclops Killings?"
It sounds like if you say you are, they will make references to the first game. Is that correct? If so, testing you before allowing you to progress is kind of BS. I played the first game, unlocking all paths and all achievements, but that was three years ago. I remember the broad strokes, but not random events, let alone character names. Honestly kind of annoying.

[whodafreak]

It's there to see if you've played the first game. But if you haven't, it won't stop you. It will just try to hide spoilers so you can still play the first game without ruining it.

[Ryan]

Originally posted by whodafreak:

It's there to see if you've played the first game. But if you haven't, it won't stop you. It will just try to hide spoilers so you can still play the first game without ruining it.

So as I assumed. Testing you is still an annoying choice. Not everyone has memories of everything that happened three years (real time) ago. If people want to be spoiled, they should just allow them to do so by selecting yes and leave it at that. It's not like the answers aren't just a google search away, which is what I--again, someone who played and beat every last inch of the first game--had to do.

[Ting]

Agreed. Hopefully they just patch this into the options? I got it wrong, but it was a while ago lol

[Xaneorath]

Yeah, it left a bad first impression for me too.
I mean ... the idea to ask if you know the first game (and are fine about spoilers for its conclusion) is nice, and since I played the first game I definitly want to have the version which includes prior knowledge of the characters and happenings.
But then barring it with a question, passivly suggesting I might be lying with my yes/no-answer is borderline insultive.
And no, I too have a bad memory for names and also didnt memorize THAT particular detail of the story which was asked, so I pretty much had to check for the right answer now, already harmin my immersion by doing so and looking through the discussion board this early after starting the game.

Off to a bad start.

[Ashura Mazah]

Yeah, the questions were a bit.... specific. But you can look them up on the internet pretty quickly.

[Ryan]

Originally posted by Poki#3:

Yeah, the questions were a bit.... specific. But you can look them up on the internet pretty quickly.

Which only reinforces how poor of a decision to include it is. It isn't a gate for people who didn't play the previous game: it's only a hassle for people who did.

[packy17]

so far, opting into it doesn’t even change much. you get a couple extra dialog options here and there with joke answers, essentially. you can ask date the obvious question pretty early and his answer is so dumb lol

[Ryan]

Originally posted by packy17:

so far, opting into it doesn’t even change much. you get a couple extra dialog options here and there with joke answers, essentially. you can ask date the obvious question pretty early and his answer is so dumb lol

Fair. Not really the point of the discussion, though.

[Copain]

Originally posted by packy17:

so far, opting into it doesn’t even change much. you get a couple extra dialog options here and there with joke answers, essentially. you can ask date the obvious question pretty early and his answer is so dumb lol

So what's the question? Cause I said I did know, but didn't get the answer right since it's been so long. I want to know what I'm going to miss so I can check

[Llyes]

so go back and get the question right?

[Ryan]

Originally posted by packy17:

so far, opting into it doesn’t even change much. you get a couple extra dialog options here and there with joke answers, essentially. you can ask date the obvious question pretty early and his answer is so dumb lol

Since this was necroed, I didn't think the answer was as dumb as it first seems. It really threw me off on what the twist would be when "Mama" said to look for a man wearing a mask.

[Timur2345]

I think checking if you have completed save file from 1st game would be better, than having a quiz questions about it. Or at least have it as alternative option.

[Llyes]

Originally posted by mottim:

I think checking if you have completed save file from 1st game would be better, than having a quiz questions about it. Or at least have it as alternative option.

The entire purpose was to set up later plot elements like Mama's.... sigh... milky balls, and the voice that talks to you in Ryuki's somnium. However, we have zero idea what any of that really means so it all falls a little flat. Is the voice in Ryuki's somnium associated with blue eyeballs? Does it have anything to do with the other voices? We have no real answers, and so once again Uchikoshi has made the game into a story fragment, and all we can hope is a sequel will fix it, however unlikely that is.