Expanding On My Idea That The Hypothetical "they Stole Sam's Brain" Episode Would Have "noir" Max Pretty

expanding on my idea that the hypothetical "they stole sam's brain" episode would have "noir" max pretty helpless and vulnerable in contrast to noir sam who is brutish and high-handed. max makes a lot of big talk but without sam, he doesnt have much going for him

and THEN i was wondering how that character shift would affect the gameplay and i think with noir max the beginning of the episode would have more of a horror mystery vibe instead of a noir mystery... skun-ka'pe's men are trying to kill max to cover the whole thing up and max is pretty powerless against them without sam. the game would have more of that terror feel until you get him back.

also i think sam and max should have a good horror spoof episode

💙Future Leonardo Guide🐢

(updated 06.04.2023 - release!)

A guide to my future Leonardo desktop ghost! You can learn more get this boy on your computer here!

This post is for people who want to learn more about how Leonardo works. You can jump in and experience it all yourself, but if you feel like things are not going anywhere, this will be a kind-of-a-walkthrough to unlock all of the content you can for him

Such as that, ⚠this post contains spoilers for Leonardo Ghost's features⚠ I recommend playing around with him a few times yourself before diving into this

💙Info under the cut💙

✨Mood✨

Leonardo's mood resets every time you boot him up, and increases and decreases depending on your actions.

You can see his current mood in your stats list

His mood actually slightly raises with every minute he's booted, and there's only a few ways to bring it down. So, you don't have to really worry about it.

🟢You can bring Leo's mood up by (in order from the most to least):

Asking him questions about himself, Michelangelo, April or Casey Jr for the first time since you booted him (essentially asking how they've been doing) (big boost)

Giving him things (big boost)

Giving him a compliment, or ask about puns, Casey Jr, Michelangelo or April (a bit)

Ask him about himself, the past, his powers and the other people (slightly)

🔴And his mood decreases if you:

Ask him about how he lost his arm (a lot)

Ask him about Raphael, Donatello or Splinter (quite a bit)

Ask him about the invasion, resistance, (slightly)

◾If you ask about Splinter and Leo replies with a random Lou Jitsu movie, you can say 'what a classic' and it will cancel out mood decrease

There is also a couple of events where Leo will feel distressed, and his mood will automatically go down.

Leo having a bad mood will impact your ability to ask him questions, give him things, and his idle and patting dialogue. Good mood will unlock more idle dialogue.

✨Relationship✨

The more you interact with Leo, the more he grows to trust you. The more he trusts you, the more dialogue options unlock.

You can see the current state of it in your stats list

🟢You can improve your friendship level by (no particular order):

Asking about himself, puns, the past, Michelangelo, April and Casey Jr

Petting his head

Give him compliments and things

Calling Lou Jitsu movie a classic if you asked him about Splinter

🔴There's not a lot of way to disappoint him (for now, anywa), but it will decreases if you:

Ask about Raphael, Donatello or Splinter before a certain point of trust

Ask how he lost his arm (not simply about his arm)

🎇Friendship unlockables🎇

Most of the things are unlockable with your friendship level, and here's a more straightforward list for those who want to see what you unlock with each level described in the status menu:

◾'He's getting a read on you' - new line if you ask him about yourself

◾'He think you are alright' - when you ask about his arm you might get an option to ask what happened to it. You can certainly try.

◾'He thinks you are cool' - unlocks new dialogue when you ask about April, new idle dialogue, new line if you ask him about yourself

◾'He calls you his friend' - unlocks new Raphael, Donatello and Splinter dialogue (and it doesn't negatively impact your friendship level anymore). Halfway through this level you also unlock the possibility of Leo opening up about Splinter

◾'He completely trusts you' - unlocks new dialogue when you ask about Michelangelo, as well as the possibility of Leo opening up about what happened to Raphael and, a bit more into the level, Donatello

◼ There's a few bonus lines sprinkled around that unlock at the high friendship level

One for when you ask about Raphael post-reveal, Donatello post-reveal, Michelangelo, April,

Three when you ask about Casey Jr

✨Raphael, Donatello, Splinter✨

So... you wish to know what happened to Raph, Donnie and Splinter. And Leo can tell you. And I'll tell you how.

◾ You need to reach a certain friend level. You can find out which one in the above section

◾ After you reach the 'he calls you his friend' level, you need to ask about them at least five times (if you want to know about Raph, you ask about him five times, at any point after you reached that level. Same thing for others)

◾If you met the requirements above, you can ask Leo for idle dialogue, or it will come up by its own if you don't have his talk rate turned to not talking. At some point he should get sad, and you get the prompt where you can ask him if he's doing alright. If you ask him, the reveal should start

◼ You can unlock those separately - earliest being what happened to Splinter.

◼ You don't have to do them in order of unlockability, so if you meet requirements for more than one reveal he will tell them in a random order

◼ If you don't ask him if he's alright when the prompt comes up, or he doesn't finish the whole story after the event triggers, it will trigger again later from the beginning

🎇Post-reveal unlockables🎇

After you find out what happened to the character, Leo will actually answer your questions when you ask about them! Woo! His mood still goes down when you do so, but not by much.

◾ For Splinter, when asking about him you can get the option to ask Leo to stop telling you Lou Jitsu movie names. No matter what you choose, the option to turn it on or off will be added to the stats menu

✨Pets✨

Leo is not very excited about being pet on the head like a kid by someone he just met, but, as the time goes on, he can warm up to it. Tired old man do be craving affection...

You can unlock new petting dialogue:

After first 20 pets - less surprised, but still on edge

After 100 pets - accepts his fate. And the pets.

◾ If he's in a bad mood, he will get way more snappy about them.

◾ There's one special pet he just says 'Nice' to. Guess which one.

◾ Certain number of pets unlock new idle dialogue

✨Other things✨

A couple of other unlockable things that did not fit in the sections above

◽ Things like giving Leo a pizza or asking about his day for the first time actually don't reset daily. They reset with each time you boot him up. Well, for all you know, it's been a whole day for him in the time it took for you to close and open SSP again!

◽Most of the lines in 'ask about yourself' are unlock with the things I've mentioned above, but I didn't mention them there because there's quite a few of them, and they unlock with different things - mood, friendship level or number of pets.

◽If you've not been good about entering your name... Leo will know. And he will remember. There is a couple of lines that unlock if you do so, but... do you want him to judge you?

◽ He has different dialogue if you close Leo after he's been on your screen for less than 5 minutes, but you may not want to see what it is

✨And that's about it! If you still have any questions, want to report a bug or a mistake, have a suggestion or want to share an opinion, my ask box is open here, or over at my main blog @venelona! Thank you for checking my boy, I worked quite hard on this and would appreciate a word 💖

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lemenns-blog

2 years ago

Sam loves picking on Max ;b

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lemenns-blog

7 months ago

I didn’t know there was cut dialogue in the game? I knew about the cut puzzle from the commentary but I didn’t know they had recorded stuff for it.

Was Episode 3 the only one with cuts? I know they mentioned almost cutting the docks out of episode 4.

yes hi omg so there’s several unused pieces of dialogue and just general unused assets/ideas/music/etc. the devil’s playhouse is the big one that i know we have proof of. mainly 302 through 305. that said i’m sure there’s plenty of unused stuff for all the episodes of all the seasons that just never saw the light of day. like you said, the docks were gonna be cut, or the bad ideas in transportation exhibit, or like how hell llc was originally gonna be a middle school during early production😭

here’s a link to unused dialogue for papierwaite (for 302, 303, and 304). the cut puzzle for him had something to do with giving him fleas and him blaming skun-ka’pe LMAO there’s a reason we kept seeing all those enigma deodorant billboards everywhere….

here’s a link to unused dialogue for dr. norrington (303, 304, 305)

link to unused dialogue for the narrator (some of this was in the demo but not in the full game)

link to unused music that was allegedly gonna be for a minigame inside max’s mind

MY PERSONAL FAVE: unused flint dialogue! references to actual lore for him…something about losing his partner…😔 was meant for 303 when sam’s remembering flint’s advice—originally sounds like flint stumbles upon him and tells him face-to-face how to interrogate suspects in the usual noir fashion. no fancy link for this one i just Happen to have the audio😭