Random Acts of Fandom: Shadow Hearts Covenant

Shadow Hearts Covenant.

General impression, from partway through disc two: this game is on crack. And it's the good crack, too. They appear to have mostly given up caring too much about taking it very seriously about halfway through - never mind that it's set during World War I; Japanese mecha? Sure! Letting the "Ring Soul" yammer about its wife and daughter and generally break the fourth wall a lot? Dandy. Green alien wolf in a fishbowl space helmet? Awesome. Sci-babble about brainwaves and sexy experimental mutant apes? Right arm.

Which makes it pretty fun, if occasionally egregiously silly.

Also, best hero party ever, for their complete inability to take the grand schemes and threats of their enemies at all seriously. Yama Garan: "Laugh now, little ones! Soon you will weep tears of pain!" Our Heroes, in a huddle, trying to figure out how Yama Garan is levitating: "It's the pillow he's sitting on! I'm sure of it!" "You think so?"

I'm kind of cranky with it right now, though. ( Spoilers through Immortal Mountain, if you care about that kind of thing. )

Bah. From now on, all my love goes to Joachim. Come on. He's a vampire pro wrestler superhero who calls himself Grand Papillion and fights crime in a butterfly mask, and lets an eight-year-old a fourteen-year-old girl kick him around. For a while there he wielded a frozen tuna as a weapon. That's just fantastic.

Also, thanks to annwyd I am stuck pondering ways to make Andy/Murrue/Neo work (well, Andy/Murrue+Neo/Murrue, anyway, since Andy and Mwu are both So Very Straight). This is a cheering thought. All your awesome scarred pilot are belong to Murrue!