Bad news: I made the wrong choices so I can't have either Gilbert or Gammel in my party, so I'm restarting my game. It's not all bad, since Gammel isn't actually that bad of a guy and I missed some plot stuff with Gilbert. Plus I get to kill Melisandre.
She/Her | Currently cleaning: N/AGammel is such a weird character. Introduced cackling like a moustache twirler when killing a guardsman who refused to surrender. When given mercy, instantly 180s and turns his life around. Just... what.
Seriously, when I let him go, I fully expected him to be constantly back to fight me, like some kinda Team Rocket clone.
FE: New Mystery Only Feet 7PM PT Sun, Mon, Fri; Umamusume Haru Arima 7PM PT Wed, Thurs: http://www.twitch.tv/kuroitsubasatenshiWell, she does lead a Zenoiran army with the intent to kill Alain (but so do 10-15% of our potential recruits).
At first, I was like "ok, she is open about her sexuality, I'm fine with that". But as soon as I recruited her, she begins making rather sexually crass comments towards Alain and that instantly turned me off from her. Additionally, from what I read online, she becomes a stalker if I don't marry her and let me just say that was the breaking point.
Like I posted above, this Vine perfectly encapsulated my feelings about her:
I'm confused on crass thing, do you mean her recruitment scene?
Melisandre is kinda weird one because her most memorably scene is her recruitment scene, after which she is surprisingly prone to "swooning/pining at distance" and more timid than aggressive in rapports contrary what you would expect. She is treated somewhat comedically, but only time iirc she gets stalkerish is epilogue and I'm not sure if its intended to come across that way or not because of how her character keeps flip flopping.
Edited by SpookyMask on Jun 14th 2024 at 3:10:33 AM
Her solo ending card has her sneaking into the palace on a regular basis, since she still wants Alain. It definitely came across as stalkery to me as well. But I value Honors from converting auto-collected loot to Deliveries enough that I don't execute anyone (and the game definitely encourages this even more by having the rewards for not recruiting be largely comparative garbage).
FE: New Mystery Only Feet 7PM PT Sun, Mon, Fri; Umamusume Haru Arima 7PM PT Wed, Thurs: http://www.twitch.tv/kuroitsubasatenshiSpeaking of which, I do love rapports in the game. Used tavern to see all of them xD
I do wish kinda wish there was more of them but I get that if there are too many of them writing quality would suffer. Still though would be fun to see more owl mom interactions x'D
Edited by SpookyMask on Jun 14th 2024 at 3:20:35 AM
The mega troll play to make things as awkward as possible is to marry Colm instead.
FE: New Mystery Only Feet 7PM PT Sun, Mon, Fri; Umamusume Haru Arima 7PM PT Wed, Thurs: http://www.twitch.tv/kuroitsubasatenshiHey silly question: If there would be a Unicorn Overlord X Sanrio Collab, which Sanrio character and UO character would be seen together?
She/Her | Currently cleaning: N/AAfter the Sanrio x Yu Gi Oh by way of Mcdonalds Crossover I don't know if anything is crazy with those.
The easy answer is Hello Kitty and Alain, since they're both the faces.
I imagine Berengaria and Badtz-Maru would get along since they're both the "Edgy" party members. For a certain definition.
You are not alone.Ayumi-chan: you’re not alone in being kind of blindsided by Gammel. As someone who figured from the start that his Monster Sob Story and the option of pardoning him indicated that he’d genuinely turn around later… I still thought the actual Motive Rant, and how nobody actually questions whether his Freudian Excuse was just an elaborate ploy in the even he was caught (Clive merely says it doesn’t justify his actions and Rolf is rightly mistrustful of him), was handled sloppily. Particularly as, whenever you face Mandrin in “The Winged Knight” (unless you already completed Gammel’s later recruitment in which case he can convince his buddy to do a Heel–Face Turn), his own relaying of this is met with Ochlys’ disbelieving scoff.
Or more simply put, Alain being called out for punishing Gammel (who unlike other cases he doesn’t even execute himself) feels like Informed Wrongness.
Got to the part where I was before I restarted my playthrough, where we learn that Aramis is actually Gilbert's older brother Ludwig.
You know, now that this fact is now sinking with me, there is some sad subtext in my original playthrough. Gilbert never found out that his brother is alive and Aramis never got to properly reconcile with Gilbert like Travis and Berengaria did a scene earlier.
Next up, Elhiem!
Edit: forgot a word
Edited by Ayumi-chan on Jun 19th 2024 at 4:23:22 PM
She/Her | Currently cleaning: N/AHe kinda fell flat for me, since the story never demonstrated his claims, turning the bit into a "tell, don't show" situation.
FE: New Mystery Only Feet 7PM PT Sun, Mon, Fri; Umamusume Haru Arima 7PM PT Wed, Thurs: http://www.twitch.tv/kuroitsubasatenshiCome to think of it, we don't even get to see other rat bestrals at all—oppressed or not, which makes it feel extra tacked on. The closest thing we've got are, what, the rabbit shopkeepers?
FE: New Mystery Only Feet 7PM PT Sun, Mon, Fri; Umamusume Haru Arima 7PM PT Wed, Thurs: http://www.twitch.tv/kuroitsubasatenshiDouble post but I've given the Maiden Ring to Gilbert because why not. They have good chemistry and the idea of finally (metaphorically speaking) bridging the gap between Drakenhold and Cornia is pretty cool.
I was about to give to Nigel but I found out you can't so unfortunately, I can't give the ring to the hot blonde church man voiced by Chris Hackney 😞.
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Me at Melisandre:
Anyways, progress wise:
- I manage to get some new party members (from the Blue Rose knights to Jeremy)
- Now moved on to Drakenhold
- Now it is getting overwhelming as I try to get new party members (not counting mercenaries) and rearrange parties to see what can happen.
She/Her | Currently cleaning: N/A