Looks like I'm back for more, so lets get to it!
Chapter 3:
- Stuffing a whole dress into your Saddlebags? Bag of Holding at its finest. I guess that's the video game mechanics at work again. Pip is just collecting Vendor Trash.
- Man why is is that bad guys never go for killing the hero in their sleep? I guess they enjoy a victim that can fight back.
- How to use a grenade 101: Don't throw it if the fuse is long enough for them to throw it back.
- Pip's Body Count: 1
- Again with the terrible sniper. The raiders really need to fire that guy.
- The Watcher seems friendly enough. That little bot certainly packs a punch.
- A book in the library about the Wasteland? That's a bit recent for it to be in the library, isn't it?
- Well, there's the gore. No comment.
- At least somepony's grateful for the help.
- Pip's Body Count: 2. Justified by regarding the raiders as something less than a pony, which I'd say works pretty well.
- And now she's making Spider Man-esque combat quips.
- Healing potions make thing much less complicated, don't they?
- I'm guessing the zombie pony was a ghoul?
- And now Pip's Hyperspace Arsenal is beginning to grow. I wish I had bags like that.
- That's a great way to win a hostage situation. I guess hyper-competent Pip is here to stay.
- And so ends the saga of Terrible Sniper Pony (or TSP, for short). So pathetic he didn't even get an on-page death. May he forever rest in irrelevance.
- At least Big Mac died a war hero.
- Ditzy (I've always liked Derpy better, but this was before the name was canon) wrote a survival guide? She lived long enough after the end for the wasteland to become inhabitable enough that she could even write a survival guide for it? Sure, I'll roll with it.
Thoughts on Chapter 3: Lots of gore, lots of hyper-competency, and a Bag of Holding. I guess this is Pip's established baseline skill level, and that's that. Aside from the distasteful bits, though, the fights were well done and entertaining, and it was nice to see ponies being grateful for the help. No new friends, though, which was odd. At least this was the worst of the gore from what I understand.
Chapter 4:
- Creepy talking robots? Why in the world would ponies even invent those?
- Self-levitation is apparently quite difficult. Makes sense, as most unicorns have never been shown lifting anything greater than or equal to their weight. Twilight being the exception here, of course.
- Wow, they really do use real brains. That's... a bit much. I don't even want to try to think about how that could even work.
- Invisibility Spell? Gotta love random loot. It puts the best things in the weirdest places.
- Applejack's personal gun? Talk about epic loot.
- I guess Apple Bloom's voice was the recording that Velvet had. Makes sense, seeing as she was the first Overmare of that Stable.
- Yay, more depressing skeletons!
- Sparkle Cola? Really?
- Pinkie Pie is Big Sister? Lovely. I can't wait to see what the justification for that is.
- I'm with Pip on this. How does identifying yourself with one of the Elements of Harmony help anything?
- Just how easy are those Sprite Bots to hack, anyway? Also, I guess growing up in the Stable makes you unable to recognize obvious propaganda when you hear it, considering that said propaganda was what staved off depression in the first place.
- Ah, looks like we have a competent sniper now. Poor TPS, getting upstaged already.
- Friendly fire's a bitch, ain't it?
Thoughts on chapter 4:
Certainly some interesting stuff, and far less Fridge Logic than before. The robots were bizarre, and I can't really see Braeburn running a factory, much less a weapons factory. Come a long way from using Apple Pies, hasn't he? At least we finally get to meet non-hostile ponies who don't immediately run off. The quality seems to be improving overall, but now I'm becoming concerned for the characterization of the canon ponies. Hopefully they aren't botched too horribly.