Drainus - Full Story Playthrough (all Cutscenes & Recordings)
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
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Just a run through of Normal difficulty in the Story mode showing all of the dialogue in the game. The story's really good, especially as far as shmups tend to go. The story is incorporated well without feeling like it's distracting since you can skip it as much as you want on subsequent playthroughs. Normal difficulty, the default, is intended to be more for casual shmup fans, and people with arcade difficulty games are going to want to play on one of the harder difficulty settings.
I messed around with suboptimal weapon loadouts for fun. Formation bits suck as far as I'm concerned. :3 For a run that showcases more skill, check out this no death Ridiculous 1CC I did: • Drainus - Ridiculous d...
Poor Gehnie. ;w; (he gets better though: • Drainus - secret post-... )
I'm actually not crazy about the time travel trope of "if the future changes you can instantly disappear from the present". As far as I'm concerned, if you travel back in time and then change the future, you still exist in the new present, you don't just "poof" out of existence, that'd make no sense. It's my only complaint with the plot.
Shoutout to Shining Force Gaiden II for the thumbnail. :3
If you collected ALL of the recorder and complete the story mode, you’ll get the secret ending
This run collects every recording and the ending is exactly the same as if you did not collect every recording.
edit: You're right though, there's some kind of extra dialogue in the text files I've never seen before that hints at a way to save Gehnie.
I see…
I remember I've saw the ending that another Gehnie has appeared
@@rax2296 Do you have footage of this or a CZcams link to it?
Okay, so thank you for reaching out with this info! I think you're right that there is a secret ending, it's just the trigger requirements must be more complex than simply getting all recordings.
I'm doing a bit of research, all of the text for the game in every language is contained in plaintext in the dial_[letter].txt files. dial_e.txt has all the English dialogue and it does contain two sets of text I haven't seen before:
#S21
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Irina, come with me!
We're heading off to the future...!
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Geh-... Gehnie!
You're alive?!
But... but how...?
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Unfortunately Ver. 01 is no longer with us; you created me, in the future.
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Do you remember anything?
Like heading to Earth with me, stuff like that...
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Technically they aren't proper memories,*but I do retain bits and pieces of info on Ver. 01's experiences.
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But more importantly, your powers are needed in the future.*Will you come with me?
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What's going on??
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I'll explain on the ship, now hurry!
#end
It confirms that the person you see talking to Gehnie in the future who looks suspiciously like Irina is in fact Irina and was responsible for sending Gehnie to the past to help past Irina.
I'm not sure how to trigger it though. No recordings on CZcams manage to do it. Event S21 is placed immediately after the ending dialogue (event S20). However, there's a potential answer in another line of dialogue I've never seen in-game:
"We haven't enhanced or bolstered the Drainus at all...*But we still managed to neutralize the Kharlal Empire army,*which had been reinforced under Izumo's orders. It's all thanks to your piloting, Irina.* You really were a brilliant pilot after all."
It's positioned after the the text for beating the first loop but it may trigger upon beating both loops. If Irina were such an amazing pilot that she didn't need Gehnie's extra help, maybe that's what serves as the trigger for the future to change and Gehnie version 02 to be born?
So there does appear to be a secret ending, but it seems the trigger requirements are more complex than simply collecting every recording. I suspect it may be tied to the dialogue that you're supposed to get if you beat the game without upgrading? Things to test would be:
1) Beat the game without upgrades and collecting/watching all recordings.
2) Beat the game on Ridiculous without upgrades while collecting/watching all recordings.
3) Don't die at all, beat the game (possibly on Ridiculous) without upgrades, collect and watch all recordings.
Given that the game's default modes are intended for a more casual audience, and given how damn hard Ridiculous is as it is, I doubt the intention was to lock part of the story behind the hardest difficulty mode, so I'll try to do a no upgrade, no death, all recordings run tonight of Normal and Hard and see if one of those trigger an alternative ending.