Wrong Number's Ha Ha Hut (humor arc reviews)
By
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Posted on: 2009-06-08 07:25 in Mission Architect
Ok retry, then as this arc is intended to be humorous.
Love spurned 1934 Can you help out a desperate guy?
Hanging out in Pocket D can become hazardous, you never know when a desperate guy (one of my favorite NPC's over there) spots you and request your help. This was supposed to be your evening of.
Warning, this arc comes with the WORST custom costumes possible. You have been warned, mental health can be in jeopardy here.
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Grin, |
Originally Posted by GrinningSpade
Ok retry, then as this arc is intended to be humorous.
Love spurned 1934 Can you help out a desperate guy? Hanging out in Pocket D can become hazardous, you never know when a desperate guy (one of my favorite NPC's over there) spots you and request your help. This was supposed to be your evening of. Warning, this arc comes with the WORST custom costumes possible. You have been warned, mental health can be in jeopardy here. |
I sent you a tell about this, but in case you missed it. I got to the 2nd mission and finished it, but the mission would not end so I was forced to abandon the arc. Check into it and lmk when it is working properly so I can rerun it.
WN
Check out one of my most recent arcs:
457506 - A Very Special Episode - An abandoned TV, a missing kid's TV show host and more
416951 - The Ms. Manners Task Force - More wacky villains, Wannabes. things in poor taste
or one of my other arcs including two 2010 Player's Choice Winners and an2009 Official AE Awards Nominee for Best Original Story
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Hmm strange, perhaps a bug that got into it in i-16. I will check it out and send you an email when I find out what was going on. Shame that I will be afk this weekend though.
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Originally Posted by Wrong_Number
Grin,
I sent you a tell about this, but in case you missed it. I got to the 2nd mission and finished it, but the mission would not end so I was forced to abandon the arc. Check into it and lmk when it is working properly so I can rerun it. WN |
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Originally Posted by GrinningSpade
Ok retry, then as this arc is intended to be humorous.
Love spurned 1934 Can you help out a desperate guy? Hanging out in Pocket D can become hazardous, you never know when a desperate guy (one of my favorite NPC's over there) spots you and request your help. This was supposed to be your evening of. Warning, this arc comes with the WORST custom costumes possible. You have been warned, mental health can be in jeopardy here. |
Lowdown A love stuck and delusional fellow needs your help rescuing his "One True Love" who seems to be not all that into him. He has stumbled into something that goes beyond his simple aspirations and it is going to take a hero to sort this all out.
Funny Level Mildly Amusing, I found the main character (contact) who drives the story more sad and pathetic than funny. Maybe it is because I am a woman, but I did not see much humor in it.
Fun Level - A cheap Carnie ride.
Lets up it to 11! I liked the customs in the last mission and had fun fighting them, but I feel they may be tough for a lot of ATs. The number of ambushes in the first two missions seem excessive. Double check your spelling and your grammar. If this was my arc I would change One True Love for "One True Love?" and play it more for humor by letting everyone but the main character in on the joke. Hopefully by doing this the arc would be more about saving a love struck fool and you could have an ending that is more heroic feeling.
Overall Rating The idea is a decent one: A love stuck fool in over his head. It can be played for humor for sure, but not so much here. That does not mean it is bad arc, just not one I found all that funny. That said, it is worth a play.
WN
Check out one of my most recent arcs:
457506 - A Very Special Episode - An abandoned TV, a missing kid's TV show host and more
416951 - The Ms. Manners Task Force - More wacky villains, Wannabes. things in poor taste
or one of my other arcs including two 2010 Player's Choice Winners and an2009 Official AE Awards Nominee for Best Original Story
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The contact is indeed a very sad case. You can spot him whenever you go to Pocket D normally named Desperate Guy or Bad Karma. I agree it is not slapstick humor but on the plus side: He as a NPC, made it into his own storyarc. The humor is more of a shake your head in sadness at the folly of human nature and the way they can fool themselves. |
Originally Posted by Wrong_Number
Lowdown A love stuck and delusional fellow needs your help rescuing his "One True Love" who seems to be not all that into him. He has stumbled into something that goes beyond his simple aspirations and it is going to take a hero to sort this all out.
Funny Level Mildly Amusing, I found the main character (contact) who drives the story more sad and pathetic than funny. Maybe it is because I am a woman, but I did not see much humor in it. Fun Level - A cheap Carnie ride. |
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Lets up it to 11! I liked the customs in the last mission and had fun fighting them, but I feel they may be tough for a lot of ATs. The number of ambushes in the first two missions seem excessive. Double check your spelling and your grammar. |
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If this was my arc I would change One True Love for "One True Love?" and play it more for humor by letting everyone but the main character in on the joke. Hopefully by doing this the arc would be more about saving a love struck fool and you could have an ending that is more heroic feeling. Overall Rating The idea is a decent one: A love stuck fool in over his head. It can be played for humor for sure, but not so much here. That does not mean it is bad arc, just not one I found all that funny. That said, it is worth a play. WN |
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Title: Mission: Awesome Arc ID: 337438 Creators Global Name: @Dr. Aeon Mission Count: 4 Notes Help Captain Dynamic defeat the Great Face's evil plans... The true author is Rooster Teeth. |
Lowdown Captain Dynamic, of the popular videos you no doubt have seen, needs your help or actually he really doesn't, but you can bask in his awesomness up close and personal! The main villain (no surprise) is The Great Face and his super annoying henchmen that you will be sick of before the end of mission one.
Funny Level Grandpa can be boring most of the time, but once in awhile he says something really funny.
Fun Level - As much fun as paying full price at the movies to see something you should have just waited for the DVD to see.
Lets up it to 11! Rebalance the customs and better yet make them more diverse. I am betting this arc has plenty of space left so why not put it to good use? Set the mission level to 25+ since lower it will be too hard and there is no reason this can not go up to 50.
Overall Rating There are some real good laughs in this arc, but they are too few and spread out. Still, if you like the videos the characters in this arc are based on it is worth playing the arc. 3 stars
WN
Check out one of my most recent arcs:
457506 - A Very Special Episode - An abandoned TV, a missing kid's TV show host and more
416951 - The Ms. Manners Task Force - More wacky villains, Wannabes. things in poor taste
or one of my other arcs including two 2010 Player's Choice Winners and an2009 Official AE Awards Nominee for Best Original Story
"Weep Day" has undergone some serious revisions, and if I could talk you (or anyone reading this, super-please
) into a replay, it'd be much appreciated. Thanks again for the feedback - the infamous Mission 4 is an entirely different animal now, taking about half the time to complete, with NO backtracking except maybe one room right at the end, but no real content was removed.
) now has tons more dialogue. If there's one thing I got a million jokes about, dating back to like the first day I could talk...
The boss in question (thanks for not spoiling that any more than the title does
"Weep Day" now contains more merciful objectives, two more clues (that should help explain a plot development a little more to team members who won't see the contact dialogues), a lot more boss dialogue, and another horrible little poemy thing :P. Arc number and vitals are the same, and it's actually more soloable now, I think.
Ran through "Have a Blap, Blap, Blappy Day, Kids" today. Five solid stars, although I'd recommend a build more durable than mine for anyone who's going to solo it. Review's below. Thanks again.
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Eraserdog's Stream-of-Consciousness Reviews
"Have a Blap, Blap, Blappy Day, Kids!"
Ran solo with Molly Monochrome, Lv. 45 Ice/Eng Blaster
Anti-social *******, I know
- The contact is a hideous pile. I'm liking this already - already sensing signature Wrong Number comedy.
- Great map choice for mission 1. You found a stock map that actually makes a convincing TV studio - impressive.
- I finally caught what I was deja-vuing on - Scooby Doo! It must be all the doors. Once again, props for map choice, something that you seem to have a good handle on in all your missions.
- I didn't garbage-pick that clue, I "freecycled" it - saving the Earth right ways all the time, it's Molly Monochrome!
- Really like the first boss. He killed me, by the way, so I saw the player defeat text. Nice one :P
- Got to say, you've already made what's often misused as the stock twist of all stock twists into something interesting, and funny on a few different levels. Now, keeping in mind that I'm swearing that I've ONLY ever seen the pirate song, never a complete episode or anything, am I seeing a Lazy Town reference with Bright Angel's design? :P
- Nice, balanced challenge level. The patrols really liven up mission 2 - and if that one patrol is the subtle music reference I think it is, nice one.
- Dead again, but that one was really my fault - fleeing blind, as a blaster has been known to do, I smacked into the boss.
- More really good boss dialogue in this arc. Just triggered a quote that promises an interesting development. When I wasn't railing into him, good character, nice fair fight.
- Nice use of character descriptions to flesh out the story. Curious to see where things are going with Jail Bird's quote.
- Like the transition into act 3. Now, things are really starting to move along.
- Really getting the full impact of your custom mob, now that it's in a closed space and my monitor's not solid glare. The cats like the shade up, and I'm a complete freaking sucker. Anyway, really like the custom mooks, especially the Jail Bird and Pep Squad.
- Okay, now I'm really intrigued. Especially for a comedy arc, this is a cool mystery going down.
- Now THAT was a boss fight. The cheerleader enemies are really well done.
- I waited all arc for my Simpsons reference (unless we're counting "Jail Bird"), and I finally got it. Much obliged.
- Yet another great boss fight. You've really got a knack for these.
- Ow. Heh, time for the big finish. As soon as I get back from the hospital.
- Holy crap I just got one-hit killed with my toggles up. Getting slaughtered, but it's nothing some strategy can't overcome. I'm getting annihilated, but not unfairly annihilated.
- D'oh. Failed the last mission - that one boss is a pain to solo with my build. Not counting it for or against, but team advised, ouch. One minor point - the teaser description for Jail Bird never seems to get fully paid off, unless I missed something.
- Great gameplay, better story. *****