Here’s a brief recap from tonight’s NicoNico Live Broadcast #7!!
As with anything on these pages, please read at your own risk! Spoilers may be within!!

** EDIT:  Be sure to check out the full broadcast, now available on YouTube by Flying Wonkey!  Thank you!! **

The broadcast started out rather awkward with the three hosts Hirohashi Ryo, Aoi Eir, and Matsushita Tadatsugu from Dengeki talking like normal without really giving much regard to the start of the broadcast…with no sign of producer Shiba Takamasa in sight…  Until the camera panned over to the cracked-open door!  He was just standing there, listening…  He later talked about why he was a few minutes late and why they started the broadcast out that way… but I missed the details.  Sorry!  It was pretty funny how they kept panning over to him inching closer and closer to everyone at the table.  He was shown sitting on the floor in traditional seiza form at one point, too.  haha

The first main topic of discussion was player responses… mainly complaints.  The most common complaints about the game were the following:

• It was too difficult.
• Loading time took too long.
• DOD3 was too different from previous DOD titles.

Although I completely agree with the people saying that the game was overall too difficult… but I agree that it likewise wouldn’t have been good for it to be too easy either.  There have been many people saying that the game was TOO EASY…and to those people, I am completely envious.  I don’t believe it is within my skill range to even clear the Platinum Trophy.  🙁

 
This is a photo of Producer Shiba Takamasa looking serious at some point during the broadcast… probably when he was discussing the somewhat negative feedback from gamers who have played DOD3.

Before getting into the details of the DLCs, we were able to see an exclusive uncensored version of a cut-scene that takes place at the end of Chapter 1.  This is not in any way related to the DLCs, so unfortunately there is no way to actually see this version of the cut-scene within the game.

Next was a long segment detailing on the new DLCs that will be coming out weekly starting this Thursday with One & Two’s DLCs.  They also announced that Two’s chapter will be FREE as a trial DLC until March 13th!

To better show what the DLCs will be like, they showed several video clips of both specially made trailers and realtime footage of the gameplay (check my videos until Wonky Monkey posts his HQ videos!).

First we were shown a really nice trailer that gave is a quick and simple view of what to expect from the various DLCs.  It looks like we will certainly be able to get a deeper understanding into the sister’s personality and backstory.

During the short clip of One’s chapter, we can see that her younger brother One will fight alongside her, not against like I had previously stated.

The third video clip shows more of One’s gameplay as well as a first look at Gabriella…and his/her voice!!  It is *VERY* different than what I had expected Gabriella to sound like!!  xD

Next they talked a little bit about Zero and Mikhail making an appearance in the card arcade game “Lord of Vermilion 3: Ark-cell” which will be out on March 27th!

The illustration of Zero was done by DOD character designer Fujisaka Kimihiko and Mikhail was done by Takagi Masafumi.

Moving on to news about the comic series, the 2nd volumes of both Utahime Five and Shi ni Itaru Aka will be released on April 25th and can be pre-ordered via online shops like Amazon.  They expect the next volume to be sold out like before as well, so pre-order your copy today!!  To commemorate the release of the 2nd volume of the comic, they will be having a lottery for more cute cell phone straps like before, but this time it will be of Two and Three!!  If they will be doing this for every new release of a book… I really, really hope they will sell this as a whole in the end…!!!  They would be absolutely awesome to collect!!

Next, they touched briefly on the Complete Guide Book that will be released on April 10th (my birthday!! YAY!).  I believe they said that it will be 256 pages long, but it seems kind of short compared to the other DOD Complete Guide Books…  Hmm.  I guess that’s why we have the 10th Anniversary goodies!!  <3  We were shown several sample pages from the book as well as a couple pieces of art that were made by fans, which will also appear in the complete guide!  😀  There are many, many talented artists out there making awesome DOD fan art!!  😀

Then the talked a little bit about the mysterious “DOD 1.3” game idea that was dropped a month or so ago… and it seems like it will be yet another novel written by Eishima Jun and others!?

There was also a segment of the broadcast where Aoi Eir gave the audience another keyword to type in the comments to be eligible to win a copy of the soundtrack, signed by the four of them.  It was one of Octa’s classic lines toward the very end of the game.

Lastly, Aoi Eir introduced her latest album AUBE once again reminding us that the complete music video for “Kuroi Uta” appears on the DVD that comes with the album!  😀  She will also be having more concerts around Japan in March and April!

So, that’s the majority of the broadcast tonight!  The main event was obviously about the new DLCs that will be coming out this week!  I will be watching the video again and taking more notes and adding photos from it, too.  <3

And here are some updated video clips from the broadcast:

Censored Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAk1-HM0FGU

Utahime DLC Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecEzr96ps7w

One’s DLC Preview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzwzJ3uzKhY

The Full Broadcast on YouTube by Flying Wonkey!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMoPW_bKtyE