It is one of those things that work better in paper than in execution. In theory, it was supposed to be about Morgana's growing insecurities about who he really is and his own usefulness. Where it falls flat in regard to the latter is that while Futaba is the better navigator, I'd say Morgana is still one of the most competent party members.
Not only that, the outburst he had was barely related to his own issues since that outburst was more about the others being indecisive, and to varying degrees, them starting to do things for the wrong reasons. All in all, it sort of feels that the writer(s) wanted to do a while lot for a single arc, and it did not mesh well together.
Don't catch you slippin' now.Well he is the game's Butt-Monkey for better and worse. Pretty much everyone calls him dumb at one point or another, not to mention him getting beat up by all the girls after Shido's Palace.
Don't catch you slippin' now.there's a convo buried somewhere in the depths of the thieves den where the girls acknowledge they acted out of line beating up ryuji and should apologize one day. Doesn't do much for the scene but I liked they added that.
I think the morgana conflict works better than it's given credit for. Yeah, morgana cannot take what he dishes out to ryuji, but the point is that this particular dynamic was never the problem, merely the catalyst through which morgana's insecurities are channeled into anger. I've seen that happen quite a couple times in a circle of friends I have and I find this behavior very true to life.
The shortcoming of the arc is more, indeed, that the plotline completely overlooks his utility during combat. That's one of the things I fundamentally disagree on the game with, and it's that line ryuji has when he tries to apologize, "look, i don't care if you're useless or if you're a cat, i'm useless too". Like yeah, it's terribly worded, but he's right. By morgana's logic, ryuji's useless too, ann is useless too, but nobody would ever question removing them from the team.
But that too, works with the idea that it's not the actual problem, merely morgana trying to rationalize him leaving the team as a shitty rationalization "it'd be better that way" because the actual probelm is that he's insecure about his humanity and fears he doesn't actually belong here.
Edited by Yumil on Apr 24th 2020 at 3:57:06 PM
"when you stare too long into the abyss, Xehanort takes advantage of the distraction to break into your house and steal all your shit."Done and platinumed. Gotta say that the platinum trophy was much easier to get in Royal than in the original.bi even tripped myself up a few times doing needless things since I mixed the trophies up. At least I can say I've gotten all the trophies for both versions.
Anyway, I'm a bit salty that Sumire didn't get a real farewell scene. It was also weird how there wasn't many hangout spots for her.
Don't catch you slippin' now.Anyone else really enjoying the discourse surrounding the new endings? That Maruki, in contrast to almost every other "utopian" in the franchise (Zelenin, Madame Cuvier, Tayama, East Mikado in general...), actually means everything he says and truly is as good as advertised really does make it a hard choice, I think. Apparently the proper names for the two endings are "Real" (reject Maruki) and "Ideal" (join him) rather than "good" and "bad" which I like.
Edited by HamburgerTime on May 18th 2020 at 9:57:35 AM
Eh, I'd put him above Nyx if his third phase wasn't scripted, but for the most part he's a fun and decently challenging fight.
I also like that opinion on Maruki's plan is divided, rather than uniform. Granted, there are people willing to call you an apologist if you don't think Maruki is as bad as Shido, but at least they aren't the majority.
All the final bosses in the series from 3 onward have a scripted last phase (3 with the Great Seal, 4 with Myriad Truths, 5 with Sinful shell, and 5R with the MGS 4 styled slugfest) so I don't think its a big deal.
Watch Symphogear![]()
Just pointing out what happens during the actual bosses, dude.
No need to be dismissive.
Watch SymphogearMe too. I've always felt the entire Shin Megami Tensei franchise was very, very biased against Law as a whole.
Even in the games where they try to claim Law and Chaos are equally bad (and they actually are) Law always comes off as a little bit worse.
One Strip! One Strip!

it's exactly as bad as in the original, sadly.
"when you stare too long into the abyss, Xehanort takes advantage of the distraction to break into your house and steal all your shit."