Let's Talk About Lisa: Painful and Joyful (Pre-Definitive Edition)

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Published on May 7, 2023 1:00:19 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8wUuX-wUEI

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Lisa: The Painful (2014)

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Fresh off being placed on some sort of government list, Noah Campbell, who may have held one of the random floating pieces of the Yakumo but he won't divulge, covers another game about misery and the past. Except instead of assassins and election plots, this tale focuses more on the world's saddest dad and his daughter in the apocalypse. Lisa may be the name of the game, but the title character is but one player on the field.

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Chapters:



0:00:00 (The Foreword)



0:02:09 (History - Of Indie Titles, Mothers, and Martial Arts)



0:18:20 (Story Recap - Act 1: Have you seen my daughter?)



0:33:19 (Story Recap - Act 2: A Merry Band)



0:45:34 (Story Recap - Act 3: Painful)



1:04:09 (Story Recap - Epilogue: Joyful)



1:18:10 (Story Analysis - The Pain of the Past and the Joy for the Future)



1:39:01 (Presentation - Free Software ≠ Lazy Decision)



2:03:00 (Gameplay - Sad Dad Simulator....In The RPG Format)



2:20:02 (Good - Survival, Sacrifice, and Perverts)



2:36:26 (Bad - Benjamin Keane's Revenge)



2:44:50 (Overall and Afterword)



Links:



https://store.steampowered.com/app/335670/LISA_The_Painful/



https://rpgmaker.net/games/4412/

(Lisa the First)



http://www.lisatherpg.com/



https://earthboundcentral.com/2009/03/quick-history-of-the-mother-series

(EBC’s Quick History of Mother)



https://www.wired.com/story/yume-nikki-japanese-game-that-took-14-years-to-officially-come-out/

(Wired’s Article on Yume Nikki)



https://www.pcgamer.com/the-horrifying-legacy-of-yume-nikki-the-homebrew-game-that-became-a-phenomenon/

(PCGamer’s Article on Yume Nikki)



https://web.archive.org/web/20220730014506/https://www.usgamer.net/articles/over-a-decade-later-yume-nikki-wakes-up-on-steam

(USGamer’s Article on Yume Nikki)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0TbSw8xSJw

(Sup, Holmes? With Austin Jorgensen)



https://www.gameskinny.com/8oezk/interview-lisa-creator-austin-jorgensen-on-story-and-choice-in-video-games

(Gameskinny Interview with Austin)



https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/131274701/lisa-the-painful-rpg

(Lisa the Painful’s Kickstarter page)



https://www.pastemagazine.com/games/earthbound/exploring-the-motherlike-or-a-genre-that-never-was

(Further reading on Mother-likes)

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