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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
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The fighting itself was neat(Though the thought of a scythe being used as a legitimate, serious weapon against a polearm and sword both amuses and disgusts me), but any of the actual story elements were, well...
The thought that Nightmare Moon was just an extension of Luna's already apparently vaguely dark powers flies in the face of pretty much everything we've seen related to the event in the canon itself - every time it's referenced more and more evidence piles up that Luna turning into Nightmare Moon was influenced by another, outside force(Which if you take the comics for canon is outright confirmed), and what evidence their is for her fight against the night is, at best battling minor creatures(Granted a Owlbear is not necessarily minor, but compared to a god...) and at least pretty metaphorical.
Moreover, I found the portrayal of Sombra having sold his soul to darkness, or whatever, to be pretty insulting to him. It takes away the potential for competence for one of the most competent villains we've seen so far - most of the villains have preferred brute-force magic over any degree of finesse, which Sombra clearly excelled at in his use of traps and subtle demonstrations of psychological warfare against The Crystal Ponies and Twilight herself. He was very, very clearly an intelligent unicorn, and the comic suggests he must be extremely powerful in his own right - even if you don't consider the comics canon the fact is he continued to exist somehow despite not having a real body of his own, which is impressive. Overall, to me it just feels like it's not giving him enough credit. If it hadn't been for that, if his power had been his own and not the result of some sort of bargain, but of intense study, practice, and intelligence, then I'd have taken it a bit better.
Also again, the scythe was stupid.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.
Uh, funny you should mention that..... I kind of have the headcanon that Sombra use to be a normal unicorn until he experimented with dark magic.
edited 27th May '14 8:35:41 PM by marston
It's only 10 minutes.
Yep. I bailed after 5.
I just found out that someone out there was dedicated (insane) enough to tally up all the points awarded on Whose Line Is It Anyway (the run with Drew Carey, at least) in order to find out who "won". The winner is Wayne Brady, with 50,072,587,425 points. The runner-up is Ryan Stiles with 11,113,372,791.5 points.
But it hits for 4x crit. Wait, you mean using it for something other than coup de graing? Nevermind.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayWow. That's impressive and also scary.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play@Marston: Well, I dunno. there's a difference between "Experiment gone wrong/right" and "Sold my soul to Satan for superpowers".
I didn't dislike it, I just didn't care for the implications about Sombra. It wasn't really about the story anyways, it seemed.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.@Irish: Well, for someone out there, the points did matter.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectDammit, you guys talked about Luna's plot without me?
Well, one of you did. I'm still mad.
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/Not THAT plot. We mean the hectares of farmland she has in Appleloosa.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectI'm not sure what a hectare is.
Screw it, I need some sleep. See ya tomorrow.
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/Luna's plot is very secret, and not to be shared with just anypony.
Despite what those slanderous gossip mags would have you believe. Her relationship with her guards is strictly professional!
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.It's mostly just Featherweight spreading them. Kid has no journalistic integrity whatsoever.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectA solid future ahead of him though, if Equestrian news is anything like ours.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.Just killed the Bonus Boss of this game. The toughest fight in the game, he was quite capable of wiping out my entire party in one turn if he had the chance to. I managed to cheese the fight by using a strategy that roughly boiled down to, "Three of you use quick attack, then one of you cast a 2-turn barrier that keeps either one of us from attacking the other. Two turns later, repeat."
A bit disappointed when it turned out the only reward I got was a badge that essentially says "Congrats, you beat this guy". Didn't even get any gold or experience from the fight.
Well, on to the final boss, I guess.
On the subject of scythes as legit weapons - yes, it's possible, but they wouldn't look like that.
Instead they would look like this
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Also I do love how that of all things is a point against an animation of technicolor horses duking it out with magic.
For me I prefer to think Luna's transformation was caused by her own will, not some dark force that did it for her. A super powered evil side from her anger and jealousy and hopelessness.
NM could be thought of as another personality within Luna, but to give that to some vague otherworldly powers stripps Luna of her own accomplishment, dark as it is and the comics aren't canon at all.
From what's been going on they're losely tied to the show anyway, more of it's own thing than something meant to firmly tie into the show, as apposed to the books.
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Now that looks like something you would take to a fight.
