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Mathwyn
Oct 31, 2012

Ante up.


Wait, didn't original game say it was a war between the humans and the Gods caused by human greed, and decidedly not a war amongst the Gods themselves like we hear here? Has the game captured the fundamental essence of historical revisionism now or am I misremembering? :psyduck:

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Mathwyn
Oct 31, 2012

Ante up.


The whole battle in the past thing is very confusing to me, and I've been trying to pay attention to the lore. Who was wiseman fighting an enormous battle with? Why didn't our Malpercio pals go ally with them instead?

Who were the children of the earth planning to murder with their godslayer robots before Malpercio showed up?

:psyduck:

Mathwyn
Oct 31, 2012

Ante up.


The fact that a continent-sized airship went unnoticed is hilarious to me. Like it would have taken decades to build, employed thousands of workers and I don't wanna even think about how got the materials without consuming their entire island. Maybe Alfard was made entirely of metals beneath the surface and is just hollow now?

God I love JRPGs and the anime nonsense they pull to have a super cool flying fortress :allears:

Mathwyn
Oct 31, 2012

Ante up.


I'll be honest the reveal that the top two politicians in the empire were both power hungry megalomaniacs makes far too much sense.

Verus' reveal also explains why he had so much patience for Sagi's failures. The only thing he didn't get was the PR for having one his agents win, he didn't actually care about stopping promachination and he wanted the afterlings dead anyway. It was just a straight up power struggle for Verus, he had no ideals to uphold.

So far I'm actually liking the whole segment, I just wish it'd been foreshadowed better.

Mathwyn
Oct 31, 2012

Ante up.


Considering the last two (and a half if you count Verus) emperors had been murdered in quick succession I'm not surprised the other senators weren't too keen on the job. :v:

It also has amusing ancient rome vibes with just appointing the nearest vaguely legitimate guy to the position.

But yeah, good LP, but you can just feel the game buckle as it fails to support itself without the cut plots and content.

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