Who knows how many updates and comments. (Seriously, anybody know?)
Somewhere in the region of 459.
I just went ahead and did math just because I have nothing better to do.
Episode
Updates
Comments
1
27
75
2: Poor Parental Cabbage
30
140
3: Tears in the Rain
36
80
4: Takin' it to Harlem
27
49
5: End of the Tropes
34
39
Total
154
383
This is prior to this post, obviously.
Also--a day late because I didn't want to lock myself out for the finale--my earlier Soul Eater references panned out even better than I could have planned.
This is it. The final update. But before we get to it, a little bit of behind the scenes trivia. To get the final image in this update (which you're no doubt scrolling down to as I write), I had to 100% the game. I thought I did that over the course of the feature. Unfortunately, that was somehow not the case. Turns out I forgot to nail Lilly's neutral ending until now. (It's exactly the same as her good ending; it just ends a little earlier.) So I essentially had to kill any chance Hisao had with Lilly before I could leave him with Rin. Consider that my gift to her.
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And that's the Screenshot Ballad of Heartbreakin' Hisao Nakai. 6052 screenshots. Five months. Who knows how many updates and comments. (Seriously, anybody know?) But let's take a closer look at these stats, shall we?
Lilly
First up is Lilly, who I am now noticing is an exercise in efficiency. 1076 screenshots, with only six left over. All spread across 720 MB. Very nice. And the lowest number of Photoshops yet: 46. But don't get too excited. Remember: one ending, and half of Sugar Milk is just setting stuff up for future updates. Besides, the girl's only got 27 Misha heads. That just won't stand.
Shizune
How does it feel, Parents? How does it feel being this close to the much hated Sugartits? Anyway, the actual stats...aren't that far off from Lilly, honestly. 1195 screenshots, and only 8 left over, spread over 823 MB. 57 Photoshops, and 31 Misha heads. So only a modest improvement over the previous thread. That is about to change soon.
Emi
Remember her? I sure as hell don't. Look what we're dealing with, here. 1397 screenshots with 16 left over, spread over a whole gigabyte. That's twice as many left over from before! Photoshops rose modestly to 70, whereas the Misha heads rose to....109!? What!? 109 fucking Misha heads!? There's no way her route was that sexy! I refuse to believe it!
Hanako
So it was clear at this point that things were getting out of control. Fortunately, Harlem was kind enough to rein things in. Her thread is a noticeable step back with only 1096 screenshots to her name (although that came with 34 left over). Photoshops also fell to 61, and Misha heads came within a respectable range of 50. That is the proper amount of Misha. Top it all off with 763 MB, and....well, I think the results speak for themselves. (That's my way of saying she has my favorite thread.)
Rin
That said, Happy Ending's my favorite character in this whole feature, Harlem being a close second. And holy hell, does the former show. 1276 screenshots, with 24 left over for the end. (Fun little side-note: about 61 one of those are from the very brief Kenji arc. And that's not including our detour into The Answer.) And atop that we have...102 Photoshops? I WAS SO CLOSE! DAMN IT! And it's not like the other numbers are much better. It's only 1 GB (nothing special) and 18 Misha Heads (RIN DESERVES BETTER).
So with this lengthy feature finally wrapped up, only one question remains: what comes next? Well, I don't want to prematurely spoil anything...
New day, new update. Needless to say, the events of yesterday's update confused Hisao to no end. "Half of that stuff never happened", he says. "In fact, I'm absolutely certain that library part never happened. What kind of asshole would I have to be to tell Yuuko to kill herself? And how were those loving moments? Rin wasn't there for half of them, and when she was, I was just insulting h-"
"Listen here, you little shit! Do you think I'm running a fucking charity!? I've got a job to do, and I don't need some nosy little brat tel-"
Elizabeth cuts in and explains things. "Hisao's been part of a screenshot Let's Play the entire time. (It's essentially scrapbooking for the Internet.) The reason he hasn't been able to understand Rin is because she's been breaking the fourth wall the whole time." But her master has something that will put them both on the same level.
"What? Oh, fine. I bestow upon you the ultimate power of the universe itself. Killed the last unlucky bastard I gave it to, but maybe you'll do better."
Now he can break the fourth wall just like her. One Philemon ride later...
And we're back at the choice that drove them apart. How will Babyface handle it?
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It's at this point--with less than a week left in the feature and after her final appearance--that I realized I never gave Sae a voice. How about...
Like the G-Man, our Velvet Room companions have decided to let Hisao work things out for himself along most of his journey. But this time, they can't just sit back and watch. He's almost reached the end of his journey. He mustn't lose hope when the end is in sight. Igor then shows him everything he'd be giving up if he just stopped here.
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