Let's Play Laura Bow II (DOAR) 8: Gettin' ready to PARTY!

[xLiKx]

I like Lo Fat, hahaha

[Templayer]

So, when will all the murdering start? I WANT BLOOOOD !! XD

[edog123100]

Laura sure is innocent huh?

[Bajamamut]

Because Tuesday is Barrel's Night ! In China, I guess :P

And because we all love Lo Fat and hercrabbiness voicing the lady in the toilet of the speakeasy ^_^

[princessZelda089]

Hello Mr. Ed Call I call you fat? Owo Bordem because of Lo Fat's name. ^^~

[Stealthknight1]

Laura is ether altruistic or stupid to get rid of professional clothes that she uses for work

[demonofhiddenmist]

Was LateBlt doing Bulls On Parade when Act 2 started?

[KayMonarch]

Hell yea!

[NewYorkDefenderTalon]

Alright, we've made it to the party! I love the voice for everyone they seem to fit so well!

[thatrandombloak]

well a perky demenor will make people more apt to open up to a detective, especially a female one.

[huaxiong90]

Damn it, why didn't you ask the lesbo about Yvette?

[hercrabbiness]

Because supposedly she doesn't know anything about her. I think it's really dumb; of all people, she should definitely be one to be acquainted with her, right? *sigh*

[huaxiong90]

Well, Yvette does get around...haha.

[Kijikun]

@huaxiong90 Could you not refer to lesbians that way?

[huaxiong90]

@Kijikun You just necro-bumped my year old comment for THAT?

*sigh*

Well if it offended you I apologize, but it wasn't my intention.

[WhiteMageMentality]

The color reminds me of the dress from the first game. XD

[ShinRockman]

Ahahaha I WORK at a Salvation Army, and no we didn't sell any dresses to Laura Bow :(

[hercrabbiness]

Yeah, kind of. The dress is a bit lighter, though. I think the style's different too.

[SchlossRitter]

Remember, the kids were going to go break somebody's windows after they were done crushing ants. Way to encourage the hooligans, Laura.

Something tells me zwobot doesn't naturally have quite the accent they are spoofing with Heimlich.

[hercrabbiness]

I'm pretty sure that Laura Bow was trying to encourage the kids to actually *play* baseball instead of breaking people's windows, but... eh. Best to walk away and pretend she didn't hear that.

As for the accent... for one thing, everyone's accent in this game is horribly stereotypical and often incorrect. And for another thing, Zwobot speaks English so well that he doesn't have such a horrible accent.

[misterzwobot]

Yeah, I have to pretend to have such an extreme accent. Also, German English accents don't work like that, especially the "-ink" part - we have "-ing" to and use it a lot. Heimlich's cool though. And thank you, hercrabbiness, for praising my phonetical skills =P

[LateBlt]

Yup, the "-ink" suffix is of course a Russian thing, but luckily, most American audiences probably couldn't distinguish a Russian accent from a German one anyway.

[misterzwobot]

That is truly a bad thing, Brüderchen.

[SchlossRitter]

Wow, if someone can't distinguish a Slavic accent from a Germanic one, they would have had a pretty hard time on the Eastern front during WWII.

But, I also know there are actually a number of variations in German accents, due to it being a mash up of smaller kingdoms. I'm sure someone from the Berlin area has quite a different accent than a Bavarian, for example.

[hercrabbiness]

You're welcome, Zwobot. :)

I think the reason Heimlich keeps using "-ink" instead of "-ing" is because whoever wrote his lines was overgeneralizing the devoicing rule (in which voiced stops become devoiced at the end of a word). Looks like they thought this rule applied to the spelling itself rather than the actual sound.

...okay, I'm done geeking out about phonology (hopefully). :P

[misterzwobot]

Well, I have to continue then =P

The history of German accents is a long one, even in written word. Back in the Middle Ages there were about 20 different German languages and I'm not counting Austrian accents (Bohemian shall be enough). Authors back in the day (like Ulrich von dem Türlin oder Ulrich von Türheim, Walther von der Vogelweide) are only really distinguishable from each other because of their accent - it's the only way to determine from where each of them hails.

[misterzwobot]

The courtly era in Germany began in the 12th century which had a big impact on literature. Everybody wanted to have poets and novelists at his court and so on... yeah, I read at least one book about the development of German literature in the Middle Ages =P

[Crowley9]

Act 2 - where things start getting interesting. With these games that can only mean the bodies start piling up.

[hercrabbiness]

Indeed. :) But what I like about this game in particular is how incredibly fucked up the deaths are. They're hilarious in a really morbid, twisted way.

[misterzwobot]

There'll be one, two, thrree... etc. deaths at the end, ha ha ha. Yeah, that's an inside joke.

[LateBlt]

*lightning crashes*

[ThatNickGuy28]

Thank you for posting these videos. I used to play this game quite a bit when it was out originally. Man, that makes me feel old. :p

This was my first experience with any kind of murder mystery type story, so being a typical 13 year old, my favorite parts of the game was finding all the bodies. *grin!*

[misterzwobot]

I think my first murder mystery was a movie called Terminator 2 back when I was 5 or 6 years old. "Murder mystery?" you say? Well, the mystery is: who's responsible for the murder of humanity? Eh? Eh? I think that makes it a mystery.

[justanotherwise]

That's no mystery, humanity as a species is generally suicidal.

[misterzwobot]

Not really, there's just quite a few of humans who don't think about the consequences of scientific advance.

[justanotherwise]

But not thinking or caring about the consequences of your actions because you don't care whether you live or die (or by extension, humanity) is a very common behavioral aspect of a person (or group of people) with suicidal tendencies.

[misterzwobot]

That's completely different to disregarding consequences due to POSSIBLE highly advantageous results of your actions. And I don't think there's something like unintentional suicidal tendencies.

[hercrabbiness]

You're welcome! :)

I believe it was my first murder mystery too, although I think I was 11 years old at the time.

[misterzwobot]

What? Terminator 2? =P

[hercrabbiness]

Whoops, I wasn't very specific, was I?

Nah, I meant LB2. I was replying to That NickGuy28.

[LSFoxhound]

time for extremely long conversation scenes :D

[hercrabbiness]

Haha, yeah... people are going to get so sick of them after a while. At least it's only for one act.

[justanotherwise]

So what happens when you let the girl at the speakeasy give you a body rub?

Boom shika bow bow...

[LateBlt]

The game doesn't provide such an option. (Un?)fortunately, Laura's not that kind of girl...

[hercrabbiness]

Haha, believe me, if I *did* have that option, I would've done it in a heartbeat.

[dreaminshadow]

lol, I think LateBLT made a RATM Reference

And does anyone think its strange that by dumb chance that Laura Got the same evening gown she had in the first game?? O.o??

[LateBlt]

I'm surprised someone actually recognized my badly-dropped beats... But yes, that was indeed an attempt to render the opening notes of "Bulls On Parade." Thanks for noticing. :)

[hercrabbiness]

It's not the same evening gown, actually. But Laura *does* seem to have a fondness for blue, doesn't she?