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joiedecombatShadow 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. Mostly due to the scene following the Neo Astaroth boss fight... the tragedy of which I failed to entirely appreciate for sulking over Nicolai. For a while it was looking like they were going to do, if not a redemption arc exactly, at least something making him not irretrievably bloated hellbeast evil... but, nope.
Okay, so I'm shallow. He's pretty. And he has a cute accent. And if Yuri and Karin hook up, the world will probably end.
I dunno, it just seemed like they were leading up to something with his cutscene with Raspumodeus and the dream-scene with him and Karin (even if I did giggle my way through that one because, well, what![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
funwithrage said). But given that last scene, they might as well have flashed "HE HAD IT COMING" on the screen in big red letters.
(I am not yet through the whole game, and all things considered I cannot put it past them to bring him back somehow. But that crunch sounded pretty final.)
Why must the cute ones be gay, evil, or dead?
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 letsan 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 toannwyd 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!
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. Mostly due to the scene following the Neo Astaroth boss fight... the tragedy of which I failed to entirely appreciate for sulking over Nicolai. For a while it was looking like they were going to do, if not a redemption arc exactly, at least something making him not irretrievably bloated hellbeast evil... but, nope.
Okay, so I'm shallow. He's pretty. And he has a cute accent. And if Yuri and Karin hook up, the world will probably end.
I dunno, it just seemed like they were leading up to something with his cutscene with Raspumodeus and the dream-scene with him and Karin (even if I did giggle my way through that one because, well, what
funwithrage said). But given that last scene, they might as well have flashed "HE HAD IT COMING" on the screen in big red letters.(I am not yet through the whole game, and all things considered I cannot put it past them to bring him back somehow. But that crunch sounded pretty final.)
Why must the cute ones be gay, evil, or dead?
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
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!
