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rionaleonhart) wrote2021-04-07 09:33 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2021-04-07 09:33 am
In Summary: Question Marks?
With the slight easing of restrictions, my family were able to have a socially distanced Easter meal in the sunshine, which was lovely!
This was the first time we'd been able to gather since the last-minute cancellation of Christmas, so we were finally able to exchange presents, and my brother gave me 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim.
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim may have hit a new record for time from 'I'm hitting "New Game"' to 'I have no idea what's going on'.
I feel I'm going to hate this battle system, but I'm already excited to get to know all these characters and watch them suffer.
I was listening to two characters have a conversation in the background, and suddenly one of them interrupted their chat and called me out for eavesdropping! I'm not prepared for this sort of thing to happen in videogames!
Kind of shipping Kurabe and Fuyusaka already, twenty minutes into the game, even though all I know about them in relation to each other is that they've both had dreams about each other and a few days from now he'll save her from a giant robot.
The way you hear concepts or names whispered as you select them in the thought cloud is simultaneously hilarious and a genuinely nice touch.
Fuyusaka overhearing the conversation about dreams and assuming the guys are dating! Is this game going to have ridiculous shippy subtext all over the place? Because I am entirely in favour of that. I'm absolutely ready to come out of this with an OT13.
I had no idea this game involved time travel, so I was very confused when one of the character introductions took place in the 1940s.
I'm interested in this weird manipulative nonbinary semi-antagonistic relationship. 'Because I know you like it' was a great response to 'why are you still wearing women's clothes?' and I enjoyed how much it flustered Hijiyama.
The more I get into the story, the less I get into the battle system.
WAIT A SECOND, IT TOOK ME A MOMENT TO REGISTER I LAST SAW HER IN 1985, WHY IS TOMI KISARAGI HERE IN 2024 AND STILL A TEENAGER
I realise the answer is presumably 'she's travelled in time at some point', but TELL ME MORE.
Okay, Kurabe appeared from the future, said his name was Izumi and then collapsed face-down in a puddle. This explains why everyone calls Kurabe 'Izumi', only actually it doesn't explain it at all and I have so many questions.
'Half a Year Later: 1985'. No, game. 1985 is not half a year after 2024. That's not how this works.
Is Kurabe a mess haunted by traumatic things he can only half-remember, i.e. one of my favourite character types? Yesssss.
THE CAT JUST TALKED
'Cats can't talk,' the cat just said to me.
'If it's so easy, why don't you just do it yourself?'
'You're not serious, are you? In case you haven't noticed, I am a cat. You really want to leave the fate of the world to a cat? I don't even have thumbs. If I screw up, you're dead too.'
I didn't know anything about this game when I started, and now I'm three hours in and I still don't.
This was the first time we'd been able to gather since the last-minute cancellation of Christmas, so we were finally able to exchange presents, and my brother gave me 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim.
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim may have hit a new record for time from 'I'm hitting "New Game"' to 'I have no idea what's going on'.
I feel I'm going to hate this battle system, but I'm already excited to get to know all these characters and watch them suffer.
I was listening to two characters have a conversation in the background, and suddenly one of them interrupted their chat and called me out for eavesdropping! I'm not prepared for this sort of thing to happen in videogames!
Kind of shipping Kurabe and Fuyusaka already, twenty minutes into the game, even though all I know about them in relation to each other is that they've both had dreams about each other and a few days from now he'll save her from a giant robot.
The way you hear concepts or names whispered as you select them in the thought cloud is simultaneously hilarious and a genuinely nice touch.
Fuyusaka overhearing the conversation about dreams and assuming the guys are dating! Is this game going to have ridiculous shippy subtext all over the place? Because I am entirely in favour of that. I'm absolutely ready to come out of this with an OT13.
I had no idea this game involved time travel, so I was very confused when one of the character introductions took place in the 1940s.
I'm interested in this weird manipulative nonbinary semi-antagonistic relationship. 'Because I know you like it' was a great response to 'why are you still wearing women's clothes?' and I enjoyed how much it flustered Hijiyama.
The more I get into the story, the less I get into the battle system.
WAIT A SECOND, IT TOOK ME A MOMENT TO REGISTER I LAST SAW HER IN 1985, WHY IS TOMI KISARAGI HERE IN 2024 AND STILL A TEENAGER
I realise the answer is presumably 'she's travelled in time at some point', but TELL ME MORE.
Okay, Kurabe appeared from the future, said his name was Izumi and then collapsed face-down in a puddle. This explains why everyone calls Kurabe 'Izumi', only actually it doesn't explain it at all and I have so many questions.
'Half a Year Later: 1985'. No, game. 1985 is not half a year after 2024. That's not how this works.
Is Kurabe a mess haunted by traumatic things he can only half-remember, i.e. one of my favourite character types? Yesssss.
THE CAT JUST TALKED
'Cats can't talk,' the cat just said to me.
'If it's so easy, why don't you just do it yourself?'
'You're not serious, are you? In case you haven't noticed, I am a cat. You really want to leave the fate of the world to a cat? I don't even have thumbs. If I screw up, you're dead too.'
I didn't know anything about this game when I started, and now I'm three hours in and I still don't.