Let's Steal An Unstealable Jewel - Radical Dreamers

For some reason, this is my favorite part of the game.

Wonder if that's in the original script, or if it's a liberal translation.

The original script probably called him a "lolicon."

Huh. I could see that, I guess. Pedophile's a good translation then. (although.. it's bad to have a picture of your child? what? would Kid have preferred a naga-ette bromide?)

The coming updates should show just who his adopted daughter is, as well as—if I recall correctly—how he didn't become her guardian under the noblest of auspices.

♪Sneaking Around♪

THEY'RE DELICIOUS!


I'm pretty sure the blue filter means that they restored my health.


Well you shouldn't have offered them then!




That centipede plays a very crucial role in the plot later, once we find out about Lynx's paralyzing fear of bugs.


Come on, lipstick isn't that expensive. Besides, I think the mouth looks rather dapper now.

DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!


*EXPLOSION*


You know how some times a game tells you that you feel one way, but you actually don't...


You know in another world, instead of becoming a thief, I decided to become a dental hygienist.


Apparently, Kid coats everything she owns with a fine layer of Crisco. Also, I didn't get a good shot of it, but the screen flashed white before the text about Kid slapping me appeared.

Wow, how far down does this throat go?


Wackity Schmackity Doo!



This obviously doesn't want anything we have. We'll try back later if we find anything.


Despite what the highlight implies, we went down the passageway.

♪Snake Bone Mansion♪


Perhaps there is something hidden in the box.

♪Far Away Promise (Dream Shore)♪

I think Mitsuda has a think for music boxes. They're in a ton of his games.


Uh-oh.


We'll try that again later too.

♪Sneaking Around♪

♪Gale♪


*Incoming The Goon reference*


Well she was successful. Let's give it a shot!


KNIFE TO THE EYE!!!






It seemed like a good idea in the heat of battle.


Here's another instance of reaction time in the game. If you don't press A fast enough this dude will wreck your shit.


VICTORY!

♪Sneaking Around♪


I think that implies experience or something, but really these battles a very random. I really lucked out with this one.

Yeah, let's drink some unidentified liquid that we found on a monster's corpse!



♪Snake Bone Mansion♪


She never get's tired of doing that.


Yeah, we should tough stuff when trying to sack this guy's room. Wait, what?




Another trap?



Descision Time: We can ask either about Kid or Magil. Which should we know more about, Talking Time?

I want to know Kid's three sizes!

The Venus statue... that's facing AWAY from the mirror... opened its eyes FACING you. Squaresoft, you fail reflections forever.

Anyway, may as well ask about MaggyMagil.

It's kind of hard to tell from the small screen shot, but it looks like the Venus statue is facing towards Serge and the statue turns its head and looks through the mirror. Unless my eyes are poor, it looks like the reflection is just fine.

Anyways, I chose measurements when I played through the game last year so I wouldn't mind hearing about Magil either. Can we see both?

Look again: The face is looking away in the mirror, too, until it turns to look at you from inside the glass. It's meant to be creepy.

Ah yes, I see now that there is a difference. Of course, it's hard to spot with small screenshots and a lack of animation.

...

Sure, I'll cover the route that isn't chosen briefly.

Did I mention that I keep animated GIFs disabled because they're usually incredibly annoying? I keep animated GIFs disabled because they're usually incredibly annoying. Though that one isn't, of course I couldn't see it was animated as a result. Again, my bad.

I screwed up on something. Photobucket apparently has something against me uploading images in bulk, so it just skipped over this:



I put it back in, so the fight scene should make a bit more sense now.

Ask it how many times a week Lynx bones Viper's daughter.

Venus: "Oh man, he's all like, BONE...BONE...BONE..."

This just shot to one of my top five LPs.

Ask whether Magil is a blond who dyes his hair blue.

Ask the thing where Kid buys her lipstick from.

Hey, is you gonna finish or what?




...please?

So, we're back from our nearly one-year break. Yeah.

Anyway, when we last left off, y'all were saying we should ask about Magil, and so we shall, but let's just see what would have happened if we had selected Kid.


Huh, that's a lot of scene setting for just getting her measurements.


Seems pretty obvious that the child is significant, but who is the abductor? (Hint: It's probably Lynx)


And after that we leave with a some newfound awkward tension in the group.

Worse: I never got any measurements!

What a great origin story. Action-packed.


Magil Seems to be popular around these parts, so let's trust him. He's wise and shit. He'll probably find something.


None of these options actually turns up anything worthwhile.


There's probably something important or valuable in here, right?


WRONG. Also, I didn't get a good capture of it, but you can see tiny sprites of the characters walking around in the mirror, investigating the room.

As we leave:


See previous Goblin fight.

Back to walking:

my preternatural thief's instincts (and not the experience of previous playthroughs) lead me up.

To an ambush. It's kind of hard to see him, but I like the design of the phantom. Not pictured: He slowly undulates, which is done subtly enough to avoid that weird mode 7 look.


Unwise as it seems, I decided to try to scare the phantom.


Alright! Focus! Let's do this!


Or not. Let's pass out like a sissy! At least I feel loved.


Yeah we're back in the study. Actually I captured these screens some time last year, so I can't remember exactly what I was thinking when I was taking them. I know it's alternate text, since I picked different options, but I'm pretty sure it won't advance the plot.


No it's just the acid, man.

Oh, this is back?! That's good. But, I've forgotten everything that happened before in this LP. That's bad. I will have to reread everything. That's good. I have no time. That's bad.

Can I go now?

Shush! Stop spoiling later parts of the game, Kid!


DOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOIT


Kid steps in with her rapier wit to really show Lynx what's up.


Let's see how differently this scenario plays out.


We get the same thing with out the Evangelion-esque lusting.

Anyway, I'll update this with some significant progress next week. Sorry about being so negligent. School and various unpleasantries interfered, but we should be back on a regular schedule now.