There’s at least one instance of this that I’ve found so far
There’s a sign at the south of town, near the roadblock (sidenote: I love that they lampshade how they block the route of places you’re not supposed to go by saying the police just do that whenever something happens) where there’s a person in front of a sign and if you use the contextual button you always talk to them, but you can also inspect the sign
Oh I see, and given the movement is not tile based you can just hit the wrong hitbox and do the wrong action. Although seems like an exception (since there could be two characters or two thingies close to each other), I guess we have to finish the game first to make a conclusion.
Btw a question for those who used the menu on the phone, what have you tried first: “checking” it or “talking” to it?
Oh nice, thanks for that. Couldn’t be a better mix, goes straight to my heart, twice!
Or maybe it’d be more appropriate if he wasn’t a Moon Child but a Star Child
It’s interesting they went withエナジー instead of エネルギー, iirc I heard the latter gets used in Japanese because it was based off the German pronunciation
Also I noticed that the robot you fight before this was called フランキースタイン２, and I always thought stein was したいん because of Mad Scienstein/アレヲシタイン博士 from Wario Land 3/4. And speaking of WL4/Japanese Mcdonald’s
smiles are free
I had a busy week but finally can read what ya’ll are saying! I probably could’ve sped up the first two sittings, I just really wanted to talk to everybody in town and absorb how everything works, I think the game’s great so far
Edit: oops I accidentally misread the stopping point and ended up playing slightly past where we’re supposed to, this whole time I thought dang I’m really far behind everybody’s finishing this week so early lol
Also some more thoughts, @VikingSchism mentioning Toby Fox got me thinking about how when you check the items they give you a little description and it reminded me of when you use items in battle in Undertale
I also went back to the character that wanted to talk to talk to Ness in private, and when I heard the song I instantly knew what one of the Deltarune chapter 3 songs was inspired by
Also also, I’m learning to play the banjo and I REALLY want to learn how to play the shop theme “Buy something, will ya!” but there’s no banjo tabs of it anywhere. I found a video of a banjo cover though, and by trying to copy it I accidentally learned a different part of the song, the part from the break near the beginning!
Ah, thank you for that, this word kept tripping me up and I was sure that it was not the usual spelling but forgot to check afterwards.
My guess would be that エナジー sounds more American and will be used when you want to make things sound… American. Would make sense to use in a marketing context given the association of the USA with modernity and progress and cool stuff.
I’ve been kind of absent at this point because like I mentioned in the main thread I am currently like dangerously ill but I wanted to mention.
It’s super funny to me that now I’ve forgotten this was a thing and I just put it out my mind to even pay attention and try because playing a lot of old NES/Gameboy RPGs recently has gotten me used to the items telling me nothing at all about what they are
Oh I missed that. Take care. There’s time to catch up with Xenogears if you feel bored.
Thanks. I haven’t bothered with another update but it’s still pretty much only getting even worse and antibiotics are not showing a single positive impact yet, but at least they are torturing me with a dozen side effects.
I’ve lost enough of my will to live without interacting with Xenogears again.
Damn, sounds rough. Try eating hamburgers and cake, that seems to help.
Wow that’s a lotta examples, now that you mention it I think I remember hearing somewhere that エナジー can be used for energy drinks
oh yeah I love that ability and the loadout with the soda cans, I’m not very good with it but I like throwing soda everywhere and I made my player name MUG MOMENT, I think I mentioned it earlier but I even named the brown dog in Mother 3 MUG
It’s time to get that key and seek out destiny!
I have to admit that I’m struggling with the dialogue, probably I still don’t have enough understanding of Japanese to play it a bit more fluently and it’s a bit frustrating and slow… 頑張っています！
A little late, but I’ve finally gotten started 
The kana-only dialogue is a bit difficult to parse at times but it’s not as bad as I was expecting, considering there are helpful gaps after particles and conjunctions and stuff.
The dialogue is so charming. The cops making the Guinness book of world records for road closures and Pokey’s wild battle actions are my faves for sure.
I don’t know if he’s talked directly about this? But I would guess Mother 3 might be even more directly inspirational. Definitely both anyway, though.
Glad to have you now!
Considering he made an Earthbound romhack as one of his earlier projects (when he was a teenager) I think it’s a safe assumption
