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 And we’re back, Hyouma and Iczer-1 having joined the team as our new top and second top aces. You may realize that Iczer-1 isn’t in the Robo – she, as a proper super android, can just fight on foot while Nagisa’s out. Her range isn’t as good as the Robo’s but she moves way faster, so she’ll do fine.  Oh, and she joins pre-loaded with 40% upgrades. My guess is to make up for her lack of Ignore Size difference to compensate for the damage hit she’ll take due to being SS sized? Regardless, most of my cash went into getting the Combattler and Godannar up to speed.  We’ve seven slots for the upcoming mission, so here’s how we’re going: Ichitaka/Miu Jeeg/Kyo Kouji/Yagyuu Yamashita/Tetsuya Iczer-1/Shizuru Goh/Mira Combattler/Deceive The Godannar can Twin Drive at 130 morale, so having Mira nearby’ll spare the hassle of having to get her adjacent to Goh. Moreover, her Accelerate will help him tremendously. Yamashita’s our only range-focused unit, so Tetsuya’ll give him a boost. I paired the Combattler and Deceive together just to make them both hardier – I’ll likely break this duo later. Iczer-1 got stuck with Shizuru for lack of option; could’ve been Boss but I’m still queasy over the thought of sending him into the front lines. Off we go! By the Darius world, deep underground…   : I must say, I am impressed. (Her name’s Proist.): Not only did you manage to steal the Tenku Maryu and Daichi Maryu from me, you’ve also mastered the Raiking and Vulking. Impressive, indeed. : But you still have NO CHANCE IN HELL against my Chou Maryu Dvorak!  : The Chou Maryu… that thing’s a monster! (Puria): No, it’s not! The Dvorak’s beautiful and it’s what’ll let me get payback on Garis and destroy all you surface worms!: And while it’s still not 100%, it’s still more than good enough to burn trash like you to cinders! Have a taste of the Dvorak’s power! DEATH FIRE! *Peew, woop! Flash!*  : I-It can’t be… a Death Cross Point?! (Rosa) : What the hell… how can its flames trigger a Death Cross by themselves…?! (Sakon) : drat, that’s a real major card she kept on her sleeve. (Lee): AHAHAHAHA! And I won’t stop with you! I’ll turn my sights on the surface itself and kill everyone that lives here! : Psh. Now that ain’t something I’m gonna let happen, Chou Maryu or not! (Daiya): Excuse me…? : However big the enemy we face, if all our hearts are united, then we will find a way to win! (Lulu) : Daiya Tsuwabuki, I am no longer Proist’s puppet. If it takes my life to defeat her, then so be it! (Norza) : I’m also ready to fight by your side. I’ve a debt to repay to Lee Jian-xing! (Vestanu): Norza, Vestanu, you blasted traitors!: But alright – I might as well get rid of you worthless worms here and now! Disappear along with the surfacers!: If anyone’s disappearing around here, it’s you, Proist! Lee, Norza, we’re hitting her together!: Aye, aye! Vulking, go!: Raiking, forward! : Gwaaargh!: How do ya like that, Proist?!: Hrm! It might be far from complete but I’m still surprised you could damage the Dvorak!: And there’s more where that came from!: Haaaaah!!: What’s the matter, Proist? Your unit isn’t living up to its name.Quick tangent: Tenku Maryu and Daichi Maryu would be, literally, Sky Dragon and Earth Dragon, while the Chou Maryu would be something akin to Grand Dragon. : Don’t get so full of yourselves, maggots…! And, actually, I just had a wonderful little idea! A way to both split your forces and carry on my plan to slaughter the surfacers!: Not happening ‘cause you’re going down right now!: Think again, Gaiking!*Proist charges after Daiya and grabs him.* : What?! Lemme go, Proist!: Heeheehee… Let’s cut you down to size first!*Brrrrt!*  : Crap, Parts #1 and #2 were broken off!: Daiya Tsuwabuki… Your forces will be nothing with you gone! And I’ll take my sweet time dealing with them!: The hell are you up to?!*Proist jumps off, the Dvorak pulling the Gaiking away.* : You and the Dvorak’s parts are going on a trip to the surface, Gaiking!: Uwaaaaah!! : drat it, Daiya got dragged into the Death Cross Point!: DAIYAA!!*Puria flies into the portal.* : Puria?! : Sis! (Yanma): Hahaha, it’s done! Daiya Tsuwabuki is off on the surface now!: Proist…!: But I didn’t just get rid of that pest with this. The Dvorak’s parts went up with the Gaiking… : And those’ll regenerate and multiply, spawning Demonic and Iron Beasts to destroy the surface! Aahahahahaa!: Urk… How could this happen…!  : My lady Proist, we’ve come to rescue you. : Thank you, Nikita. Let us return to Arkholand for a moment and reorganize. With the Gaiking gone, the other are but minnows… there’s no rush to dispose of them.: Yes, ma’am! : Curse you, Proist…!: Captain, we need to get in touch with the surface ASAP!: Right. Mr. Sakon, if you could see to it.: Aye, aye, I’ll go tell NEX about this.: (Daiya, Puria… please be safe.) Somewhere up top, Puria has woken up at a beach and Daiya’s right by her side – they’re both in one piece but their situation ain’t exactly good. While she was passed out, Daiya took a look around and it seems they’re on a deserted island. Plus, both the Gaiking and Stinger are out of energy and immobile. But Puria has a bigger concern: why is she NAKED?! Daiya explains that they got tossed into the ocean and that obviously left their suits soaking wet. He couldn’t well have left her like that, right? That’s not a very good excuse for stripping her, Puria grumbles, but Daiya figures it beats her catching a cold or worse. Besides, it’s not like he cares much about seeing her naked. “Hrm… You could care A LITTLE, drat it,” she quietly fumes. Furthermore, Daiya ponders aloud that Puria’s looking to have about half of what Shizuka’s got… half of what?! “Y-You really shouldn’t waste your energy on nonsense,” Daiya stammers. “And what, exactly, is nonsense?!” Now, now, he asks her to calm down as she oughta be hungry, right? She actually is, so they’ll split up and start looking for food: Daiya’ll poke around the waters while Puria checks the trees. Sounds good but, first things first, go and grab her clothes as they should be dry enough!  Some time later, Puria’s gathered up some mushrooms but Daiya quickly tosses a few away, saying that those are very poisonous. Still, looking at the local flora and fauna, he figures they’re somewhere around Japan. Well, isn’t he a regular know-it-all? Courtesy of his father, Daiya says, who taught him loads of stuff about the sea, the mountains… everything nature-related, really. Regardless, the rest of the food is safe to eat, so Puria starts digging in. Daiya does find it odd that while they’re come back to the surface, it now feels like they’re in a wholly alien world after the time they spent on the Darius world. He can’t stop himself from worrying about the folks still down there. The two of them need to find their way back and the irony isn’t lost on Daiya of a surfacer like him, standing on the surface, acting like the underground is his home.  Over by JUDA’s lobby, Iczer-1 says Nagisa’s still in a coma. She’s considered using the Iczer Robo to try and speed up her recovery but figured that’s make the girl even more upset. Goh is a bit curious, though, wondering why Iczer-1 needs an earthling like Nagisa as her partner; unfortunately, she can’t give him any explanation other than saying that it might be fate at work. Miu likes the idea of two people, predestined to meet, but Kenji isn’t too sure that sorta thing actually exists. Kyo points out that we’re living in a world where people have transcended time and space to be brought together with one another; that could well be seen as the hand of fate, operating at a level human imagination can’t even fathom. Why’s he speaking like he’s seen that happen? Because he did, Kyo says, though he understands why Kenji wouldn’t be in on the take. There aren’t many examples of such encounters happening but the most famous one would be of the Daiku Maryu’s former captain. See, he was a Darian man but he fell in love with an earthling woman and, together, they had a daughter – said daughter has followed in her father’s footsteps and now captains the Daiku Maryu herself.  That’s cool but Kenji’s got a question: “That girl, is she hot? Like, she’s gotta be bangin’, right?” Kyo begs him to cut it out, lest Iczer-1 get the wrong idea about humans, but she tells him not to worry. A friend of hers has told of how different earthlings can all be. Her friend? Yes, someone who also noticed Big Gold’s control over the Cthulhu and left with Iczer-1. She wagers she’s likely mustering for their counterattack in a different dimension and hopes to introduce us to her eventually. So, Mira sees, she wasn’t fighting all alone, huh? Indeed and that’s even less so now that she’s made such stalwart allies as us. All that’s missing is for Nagisa to wake up and Miu’s hoping she’ll get better soon.  Ichitaka’s running the sim with Yamashita and tries going for a feint attack. Yamashita likes to see him using the move he taught but, of course, he’s not falling for it. Boom, direct hit, Ichitaka loses. He really thought he had a chance today but at least he’s learning well. A loss is still a loss, though. Alice tells him to keep his chin up: “Yamashita is a far more experienced pilot, so I see no problems at all with you losing to him a few… a lot of times while sparring!” If anything, Ichitaka appreciates the pep talk. Goh steps out the simulator as well, a bit miffed with himself for the difficulty he had beating a rather low-level trial. He’s quite a bit rusty after these couple months of moping around. Can a seasoned vet like him actually lose his touch, Ichitaka wonders? Indeed, if you skimp out on training for even a day, it weakens you. Still, Goh is determined to soldier on and overcome this – he better, lest he come to regret when an actual powerful enemy shows up. Ichitaka understands and thanks him for the lesson. Alice’s also paying attention and she’s eager to help Ichitaka figure out the best way to use that feint in battle. Yamashita’s going down next time! That’s good to hear, because Yamashita wants to get Ichitaka way stronger before Reiji actually comes around – the JUDA squad leader is a very strict man.  Tsubaki comes in to try her hand at the sim and Alice is quick to hop off to let her have it. As soon as the girl sits, however, she lets out a yelp. What for? The seat’s burning hot, that’s what – she thought it’d even burned her legs. Taking a closer look, Ichitaka notices that Alice’s literally very hot… though he doesn’t really know what her normal temperature is, of course. “Erm… The truth is that my main systems have been overheating these past few days…” she says. Is she sick or something? Not really, as everything is operating within normal parameters and it is not unusual for her interior temperature to fluctuate depending on the processes she’s running. That said, her current surface temperature is nearing 90 °C / 194°F!! OK, that calls for an analysis and Rachel is ready to help with that (she promises a worried Ichitaka that she’s not looking to pry her open, like before). Running a few scans, she sees the problem: since Alice was never built with the needed thought patterns for combat, her neural network is overloading under the strain of assessing the new input. Additional synapses are being built to compensate for the calculation lag, but as she tries to optimize for combat the process constantly clashes with the maid AI’s own development.  Ichitaka didn’t get any of that, so Maki simplifies: could he study for his high school entrance exams AND work on his training and jobs as part of LOTUS? No way – his mind would probably break down from all that. And that’s exactly what’s going on with Alice. Ichitaka can see how that’d overload her and says she needn’t worry about this added work – she can just focus on helping folks stay healthy and the basic sub-pilot stuff she’d already been doing. Rachel says that won’t fly, as trying to stop her AI from thinking about X or Y will just put added strain on her. While Goh is no tech expert, he sees that perhaps the only option here is simply to wait until Alice’s AI has fully adapted itself to her new work circumstances. Rachel agrees: we’ll have to help her AI slowly develop around combat and get those thought patterns to take root. Kinda like weight-lifting. Alice apologizes and says she’ll try not to think too much about combat, though Tsubaki also warns against her worrying too much about that.  There’s no time to relax, though, as Ishigami calls in and says we’ve just picked up an SOS from the Gaiking’s pilot. The bot’s currently stranded on a desert island and we’re warned to expect Darius pursuers as we head over. So much for letting Alice cool off; best she can do is work hard, but not too hard, out there and hope that keeps her temperature low. The mechanics will have their own job to do, too: transport the recently manufactured Gaiking parts that NEX ordered over there. When the things are loaded aboard the carrier, Shibakusa takes the helm and off he goes.  Mission 4 – Enter the Giant of Flames  Back at the island, Puria’s trying to generate enough flame in her unit to get it airborne but it’s not happening. There’s no land in sight and with the amount she’s got, she couldn’t even fly a few dozen kilometers. Still, Daiya takes solace of the fact that the flames haven’t gone out. That’s true and Puria remembers Daimon saying that the flame is like the machine’s own life and it never really runs out completely. What they need right now is some Hydrute to really stoke the flames. Indeed, Daiya figures they can keep trying this by themselves all they want, they’re not getting anywhere without a decent amount of Hydrute Flares. And their situation is getting worse as the flame inside Gaiking starts flickering – a sign of incoming enemies. What are they going to do, when they can’t even get their units running properly?  They better think fast because the enemies are here: a bunch of Darius Army monsters. Daiya figures this is it and tells Puria to run off but, of course, she’s not even willing to entertain that idea. Daiya apologizes, saying it’s his fault she’s in a situation like this but Puria doesn’t mind – she was ready to die fighting the second the came aboard the Daiku Maryu. As the monsters start blasting them, Daiya’s irked by something: the aura he’s sensing from them is just like the Chou Maryu’s. As the attacks start piling on, Puria decides to go for broke and gets her unit flying: she tells Daiya to go hide while she buys as much time as can be. Her flame’s not doing too good, yes, but if he’s right and they’re near Japan, then some help should be on the way. She oughta be able to keep these things busy until they get here. Daiya decides to trust her with this – she IS the Daiku Maryu’s top ace – but she better not die. That’s her line, of course.  There are plenty of enemies and losing Puria’s a game over, so keep your distance. You just need to make it to turn 3.  Stinger (Puria Richardson) Pilot Skills: Flame L2 (炎) - Increases Accuracy, Evasion, Critical %, and Armor. Increases with each level. Prevail L3 Support Attack L1 Support Defense L1 Spirit Commands: Accelerate Alert Mech Features: Repair Module Squad Bonus: Mobility +5, Air terrain rating = A Standard support unit, only decently survivable with Puria’s Flame giving it that bonus. It won’t be hitting too hard but it could make for a decent squaddie with that Accel and squad bonus.  But I’ll play it safe and move her far away.  Enemy Phase!  Only three mooks move, the others standing by. Repeat this for the next turn, so let’s skip ahead.  Player Phase!   : Huh?! What’s the Dancouga doing here?! : Heh, what’s going on here? A buncha baddies ganging up on someone? : The Darius have sent quite the feast over today – we’ve got both Demonic and Iron Beasts to pick from. : So, how do you guys want your BBQ today? Medium rare or well done? : Eeh, I’m gonna have to pass on undercooked Demon Beast, thanks. *Beep, beep!*  : Come on, now, kids. Go and do your part as good ol’ champions of justice!: Yeah, yeah… Psh, but I really don’t like having to work with NEX.: How come, Sakuya? You’ve a problem with them?: Even a homeless like me does, yeah.*Aoi moves over to Puria.* : Richie, wasn’t it? Back off and let Team D handle this one.: I owe you one – didn’t expect the Dancouga to show up, that’s for drat sure.: Just doing our job and all that. Don’t worry about it.: Alright, I won’t then. But just lemme get one thing clear: the name’s Puria Richardson. Not “Richie”. : Ah, my apologies, Miss Richardson. : …Hm? Already? Roger that.. : Um, Team D? You’ve been cleared to use the Dankuuken.: The “Dankuuken”? I’m guessing that’s a new secret weapons or something?: I’m sending the data over to you right now. The weapon should be unlocked.: This data’s for… an ultrasonic sword?: And why, exactly, did you just come out and give us a new weapon? Orders from the top?: Eeh, something like that, yes.: Are you ever going to give us a straight answer?: Sorry, I’m just the middleman here. And, in any case, it’s just for a little bit longer, alright? Now if you would…: OK! Then…: Let’s go wild!: Aw, I wanted to say that… Alright, we can get on the offensive now.  : Ain’t no other way around it after Daiya said that – I have to make it through this!    Eeh, only 1.2k…  Get busy, Aoi.     And he lives with 93, son of a bitch. Enemy Phase!  Aoi gets mobbed, killing her old target and doing a number of the remaining two – they don’t do much against L’s beefy Dancouga. The other Demonic and Iron Beasts are moving in now. Player Phase!   : Backup! Now that’s just what we needed! : Those are… ah, I get it! That LOTUS group Lulu talked about is finally open for business!: Here come the legit Champions of Justice.: And the bot we helped in Miura’s also here. : Ooh, it’s the Dancouga! … Ergh, no, I gotta stop fanboying so much! Breathe…!: Huh, he’s joined LOTUS too?*Ping!*  : I’ve detected the Gaiking – it’s inside those woods.  : Yeah, that’s the Gaiking right there! And the enemies are all closing in on him! : More like some of the Gaiking, what with us having to bring over his legs and arms ‘n’ all. : OK, then the Dancouga’ll run interference while we get those parts over to him!: Can you hear us, Daiya Tsuwabuki?: Y-Yeah, I do! : We’ve brought some spare parts for you, so hurry up and combine into the Gaiking! : These arms and legs got a whole lotta flame in them! You’ll be all set to go crazy after you’ve combined!: Alright! Send ‘em over, please! : Gaiking, parts #1 and #2 – launch!  : Haaaaah! Take a look, Puria! My flame’s burning hot again!: Yeah, now you can take the fight to them!: Are you watching, pops? Seems the new parts are working just fine.: Yeah, I’m monitoring them. ‘Course, I wouldn’t expect anything else from our work!: Hm? But the color’s a bit different from usual.: It looks kinda ugly, really… : Oh, I learned about that the other day! Those parts have lost their Phase Shift effect because the battery’s running empty!: Nah, much as I’m sorry to say, we couldn’t slap some Phase Shift Armor into the Gaiking.  : Meaning it’s just an aesthetics issue, right?: Aesthetics, schmestetics! All that matters is if it does the job!: Here goes! Hydro! BLAZER!! : What?! It didn’t do jack!: The hell? Then the faux-Zolmanium we made really can’t generate flame on the same level as the original?: You alright, Daiya?: Yeah, it’ll be fine! I’ll just cover the difference with some of my own inner flame! : That said, this one feels a lot weaker than the Gaiking… so let’s call it the Kaikink.: “Kaikink”? Well, I guess that name does sound like it’s missing something.: Still, a lot of folks from the surface poured their hopes into these arms and legs and this flame! So I’m gonna be fighting as hard as I can with ‘em! Good to be working with all you guys!: Well, we better bolt outta here before we start getting in the way. Take care out there folks – wrecked mechs can be fixed but there ain’t anything we can do for the dead!  : Heh, guess Shibakusa’s given us the go-ahead. Time to get to work, people! Now we just need to keep Daiya and Aoi in one piece and that’s not difficult, provided you don’t rush them up front.  Kaikink (Daiya Tsuwabuki) Pilot Skills: Flame L4 Sword Cut Shield Defense (…the Kaikink has neither sword nor shield. Maybe the Gaiking?) Prevail L3 Spirit Commands: Invincible Strike Squad Bonus: Crit ratio +10, accuracy +5 If you’re coming here from K, you’ll find that the Gaiking-series bots are actually usable in that they massively reduced the EN costs of its weapons. Range is pretty piss and it’s got looooow armor (550 less than the Dancouga!) since surface construction is so much crap but at least that’s somewhat made up by Daiya’s Flame. Still, do stick with Daiya because he’ll eventually become a powerhouse (though he doesn’t cheat like Kouji and Kenji) – the kid’s a good pilot, just stuck in a subpar bot right now. The Kaikink does fly and has decent movement right out the box, though, so he doesn’t even NEED Accel like Kouji does.  Just a few steps forward, lest he get mobbed next turn. : The people of the surface made these parts… and my flame’ll make ‘em burn strong enough to rival the Gaiking!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFqi7gYLwL4 I do like how the hand crumples up after the hit.  Iczer-1 doesn’t need a mech to kick rear end.   : Rest easy, Nagisa… I’ll bring a swift end to any who try to invade Earth!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4Yv4vD1640 Bam! Nothing else in range now, so everyone moves forward. Enemy Phase!  The main wave of mooks is right upon us, though only Ichitaka gets attacked.  : How’s your temperature going, Alice? You’re not overworking yourself back there, right?: I-I'm managing to rearrange my thoughts and processes based around parallels with chores! No problems… mostly!: Our movement is a bit more sluggish now… but we should still be fine. Here we go! He and Miu block pretty much all damage before laying the hurt. Player Phase!  Iczer-1 also has a lightsaber, in case you still weren’t sure if she kicked enough rear end by herself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofzfv8ykEEo The Darius beasts are beefy but not enough.  Ichitaka finishes his target and learns Strike after the level up.  Little help from Yamashita and this one’s primed up for Aoi’s new trick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56gymG7_3Eo : Wow, it’s so pretty… This is the Dankuuken?: Why exactly is the Dancouga so strong? What for…?: Oho, so it had a big, bad sword tucked away, eh? You’re pretty good, Dancouga. : Yup; that was a nice swing. : Ahahah… Guess it was, for a first timer, huh?: Hey, I love a pat on the back as much as the next guy…: But how about we save that glee for when we get back to base? And, for that matter, we’ll take the weakened Galgoras and use it to show off Jeeg Breaker’s cool dynamic finish:   : So this is the Darius Army, eh? Yow, they’re huuuge… Still, they’re gonna need more than size to take me out! How about a demonstration?!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G48I8WKtbMc “WHO’S UP NEXT?!”  Still a bunch to go, so Kouji and Yagyuu focus-fire this here Galgoras.  : I’ve never fought these things before… Still, you’re gonna find that I didn’t spend all that time handling Mechabeasts for nothing! Good, good.  Hyouma’ll take this one, in hopes it’ll kamikaze against someone good.  : Hey, Darius! If you think your beasts are gonna drop Mr. Hyouma Aoi, wrecker of Mecha and Mimetic Beasts, then I’ve got an upcoming news flash for you!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAZ0gspBzfw And here’s the Deceive’s signature move. Now, if one would just explain to me how you make an AI hallucinate… Enemy Phase!  I set Aoi with Iron Wall way up ahead and the enemies are very willing to play ball. One thing I noticed is that she’s quite parry-happy this mission (only two out of like 8 attacks have connected).  Attacking Ichitaka isn’t a much better idea.      Gone.  Nearby, Hyouma takes three kills from weakened enemies (and weakens another 4). Juzo learns Mercy. Player Phase! And now this is just a matter of cleaning stuff up. The three farthest monsters have somewhat midboss-y stats but they’re certainly not enough to give our folks pause – focus-fire will take them out easy. Here’s the summary:     : Demonic Beasts, Iron Beasts – they’ll all end the same when facing the Godannar’s raw power! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoK6qUksS5A  : Shouldn’t be too long before Reiji comes back, so I better bring home the goods!         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqKR7zaBGXc It’s best attack doesn’t even have a dynamic finish! Come on, the surface could do better than this!  Oh, and this Domega had the bad luck of being chosen as test dummy for Hyouma’s strongest weapon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgR2-5_SgM4 Classic.    Turns out Breast Fire doesn’t have a DK, either. That’s the last one, though!  And the radar’s clear, so Tanaka quickly asks the Dancouga to come home. Resident psychiatrist, Ru Riruri, is on hand to remind them that today’s counseling day so she’ll be waiting them all by her office. Aoi sighs that they’re always forced to dance to Tanaka and co.’s tune and Kurara’s frustrated that they’ve yet to get any answers for their questions. Why were they chosen to pilot the Dancouga and why are they always fighting for the weaker side? Wondering here’ll only be a waste of time, though, so off they go.  Nearby, a mysterious unit is measuring the Dancouga’s strength. Something seems to bother the pilot. The unit vanishes, no one even noticing its presence, and Ichitaka figures the Dancouga must be real busy to always be leaving in a hurry like that. Yamashita says we’ll be plenty busy ourselves soon and Ichitaka’s ready to handle the rhythm in order to find the professor. Goh asks Puria and Daiya to join us back at JUDA and Yamashita confirms that, indeed, they’ve been reassigned to LOTUS. Not too long ago, we’ve been told by NEX that Cpt. Lulu had given it her official sanction. If they heard from the Daiku Maryu, that means everyone in the underground is safe and that’s a weight off Daiya’s shoulders. It’ll be a bit before they can come up here themselves, mind. But, regardless, Kenji wants to head back ASAP as he’s hungry as no one’s business. Daiya’s also willing to eat just about anything we’ve to offer, as he and Puria haven’t had a good meal since getting sent up here.  Good news, then: Ishigami will treat us to a bunch of his homemade sushi and that’s perfect to Daiya, having grown in a fishing village and all. Ishigami’ll have a banquet ready for his arrival. As Daiya jumps for joy, Izuna and Shizuna flinch at the upcoming pile of the president’s sushi foisted upon us. Yui does point out that there’s someone here waiting to see Daiya, mind.  Back at JUDA, Daiya and Puria properly introduce themselves and thanks everyone for the assist. Kouji had heard the stories but is surprised to get more young fellas joining our team. Shizuru huffs an apology for being one of the few bumping the average age up but, if anything, Tetsuya is super-OK with her “adult appeal”. As for the person who was waiting for Daiya, it’s his friend Naoto. Seems like someone from NEX stopped by Daiya’s house and told of his return to the surface. Naoto really wanted to see Daiya again after how suddenly he left for the Darius World, so he insisted on coming over. As for the kid’s mom, Naoto says she’s very worried but Daiya has a promise to keep before he can go back to her. Naoto starts getting all choked up and Puria is quick to tell him to cut that crap out: “You just waltz in here like you own the place, yack our ears off and, to wrap things up, start crying up a storm? Come on, now – where’d they dig up this kid?” Daiya calms her down and apologizes to Naoto for his partner’s sharp tongue. Who is this? Puria. And she’s a girl? Can’t he tell just by looking at her?! Alright, let’s ease up a bit. As for the kid, he’s Naoto Hayami, a classmate of Daiya.  And as for the promise he mentioned, Daiya explains that, on the day he boarded the Daiku Maryu, he swore to his mom that he wouldn’t come back until, first, the Darius are beaten to kingdom come and, two, he’s found and brought his dad home. Still, Hyouma doesn’t think he should keep his mom worrying like that – why not at least send her a letter or something? He says that because, as an orphan, he didn’t have a chance to have either parents in his life, so those who do shouldn’t take them for granted. Ichitaka didn’t know about that – turns out he’s an orphan too and has no idea where he’d be if Grife hadn’t taken care of him. He almost certainly wouldn’t be here and that’s all the more reason to find him ASAP. Speaking of missing people, Alice’s just heard info that Kouichi has apparently come back to school! And how is he? Well… he’s a lot different, to say the least – violent. “A symptom of calcium deficiency?” she wonders. Then again, she’s combed through the data of the other Factors and none of them have displayed such symptoms. Yamashita seems to have an idea of what’s actually going on…  But there’s no time for that – Ishigami strolls into the room and salutes everyone. “It’s the sushi guy!” Daiya cheers. That and, you know, president of JUDA Corporation and local commander of LOTUS. Daiya’s surprised that the guy’s a bigwig and, in that case, asks if the Daiku Maryu’s said anything regarding the Darius Army guys we fought. Something bugging him? There is, yes: those beasties gave Daiya the same “feel” as the Dvorak. They never did that before. And it’s not a coincidence as, true to Proist’s promise, those Iron and Demonic Beasts were spawned by the broken up parts of the Dvorak that got sent up here. That’s really, really bad, thinks Daiya, but Goh tells him that messes like this is precisely what LOTUS was made for. Kosuke agrees, figuring that, with all our myriad organizations working together, it’s only a matter of time before we find and destroy the Dvorak bits. And, hell, if all we’ll get are monsters like the ones just now, the Anti-Darius Arma and SDF teams should be able to take them on. Anything worse shows up, we’ll walk on over and give ‘em what for, Hyouma adds! Ishigami likes it and believes nothing could possibly give us pause with everyone working together. With that in mind, it’s sushi time! Daiya doesn’t need to be told twice and Ishigami likes the gusto with which he eats – as children should be. Everyone else care to partake? “Yeaah, boy! I’m so hungry, I can’t even think straight,” Kenji cries out and starts stuffing himself. On the flip side, Izuna and Miu aren’t fans of Ishigami’s sushi and, to make things worse, he’s made a LOT to account for everyone. Do they all need to eat? Maybe not as Daiya and Kenji are ALREADY demanding more. Shizuna hopes this won’t push Ishigami into making even more of the stuff… Elsewhere…   : Hrm…? Where am I?: Hands, legs, torso… all bound. Silver lining is they at least didn’t gag me…*Beep!*  : Ah, I see you’ve awakened, Professor Grife.: And you are? The boss of those fellows who kidnapped me, I’d wager?: Now that would be telling, wouldn’t it? Maybe I am their boss, maybe I’m not…: Why don’t you stop beating around the bush, you weasel? : “Weasel”? I got that quite often, back in the day – about ten years ago, I think…: … Oh, but now is hardly the time for a trip down memory lane. Apologies if this is rather abrupt, but I’ve a small request to make of you, Professor…: What…?
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Gaiking's plot is something of a curveball in this game: It starts around the late 30's of a 50 episode show, so if you thought Godannar was hard to catch up on then hooo boy  .Fun Fact: While SRW L is one of those portable titles where nearly everyone gets a single character portrait, the Gaiking characters are one of the few who get two portraits since a whole lot of them go super saiyan when inside the cockpit (we saw this with Proist, Daiya and Puria this chapter). Puria gets special treatment because she gets a third portrait for that handful of lines where she doesn't have any clothes and, thus, no headband!
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Haven't seen the show but I think I really like the idea of the Kaikink. A rush job of a robot trying to replace a one of a kind mech that falls to pieces every attack. It'll be a shame when it gets upgraded, which I imagine will happen eventually.
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Jun 9, 2017 23:26
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Alice mistaking the Kaikink's lovely parts as a powered down SeeD suit  . Every time they show up the originals just make me like them more.
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Yes, Daiya's Shield Defense is for Gaiking's shield. The Sword Cut is I think for Gaiking's Counter Cross, its weird cross-shaped parts on the legs that become spears. Then again, this incarnation of Gaiking does have an axe...that never appears in either K or L (said axe is even on K's boxart!), so...yeah.
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Yeah, I honestly liked Kaikink. I wish they could've fully explored it, done a whole Victory Gundam thing with firing its own parts at the enemy as attacks, though I can tell why they didn't, since it didn't last that long, iirc.
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Mikl posted:I've never watched either Godannar or Iczer-1, so all of this is new to me. And looking on the wiki, Iczer-1 is a three-episode OVA? Gotta hand it to SRW, they always find the most obscure mecha anime to put into a game. and yet we still haven't gotten rinne no lagrange
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Wouldn't MaRyu mean something more like Demon dragon or Evil Dragon? Ma being the usual go to prefix for that sort of thing. (Now i cant get the idea of Elemental Marios powerups out of my head.)
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Wouldn't MaRyu mean something more like Demon dragon or Evil Dragon? Sure but Demon Dragon sounds so weird to me... and, regardless, the important part is the first bit! I'll be writing Maryu for the rest of the game, so it doesn't matter!
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That sure was a fuckload of Gaiking characters at the start. I'm sure I'll get a handle on it all as we get further in, but this is very much the old SRW early game "WHO ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE  " phase.
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I'm still working on the idea of Kouji, Tetsuya, and Kouji Tetsuya teaming up.
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Jun 10, 2017 04:24
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L's A.I is incredibly predictable and thus very exploitable. Namely, unless it's a boss with Plot based targeting, an enemy will always target the unit with the highest HP within range.
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HitTheTargets posted:I'm still working on the idea of Kouji, Tetsuya, and Kouji Tetsuya teaming up. What was the SRW that had several characters named Gai, resulting in the LP having to differentiate between them? I think the game had Nadesico, Gao Gai Gar, and another one.
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Mikl posted:What was the SRW that had several characters named Gai, resulting in the LP having to differentiate between them? I think the game had Nadesico, Gao Gai Gar, and another one. That would be W, with Gai from GaoGaiGar sharing the roster with Gai from Nadesico and Gai from Gundam SEED: Astray.
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"Why are you so strong" is not a question to expect to be asked of a protagonist-side mech in an SRW game. Given the nature of the poo poo you usually end up fighting.
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I'm not quite sure with going for "Balking" for Daichi Maryu's mech. Considering it's already a word for stopping up. I remember the subs I saw for Gaiking going with "Vulking", which sounds pretty cool to me. But it's just a suggestion, if you wanna go on with "Balking", then I'm not stopping you. Also heck yeah SRW L. Definitely my fave DS SRW. Music is great, game balance feels just right, I love the Rushbird, just a fantastic game in general.
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Grashbar posted:I'm not quite sure with going for "Balking" for Daichi Maryu's mech. Considering it's already a word for stopping up. I was originally going with Vulking since it DOES sound cooler but, apparently, Balking is the official romanization. Might be one of those Quattro Vagina moments but... Edit: Actually, no - screw it. Quattro Vagina might've been here and there but we still write it Bajeena anyway. Vulking it is! 
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Brunom1 posted:I was originally going with Vulking since it DOES sound cooler but, apparently, Balking is the official romanization. Oh. Welp. Gotta love official romanizations that sounds silly.
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 And we are back, the HP-prioritizing AI helping Hyouma secure a more comfortable lead as our top ace. Goh and Iczer-1 aren’t too far behind, though.  Regarding Skill Parts, I saw fit to teach Daiya guard just because, Ichitaka’s been getting fed Infights since all but Maser Eye are melee attacks and an extra Support Defend to capitalize on his barrier.  Upgrades: Kaikink’ll pass his stuff to the Gaiking once we get Daiya some good parts to combine with, so he gets a boost in everything he’ll need. Hyouma, Ichitaka and Goh get extra EN, Boss gets some extra survivability and accuracy. Oh and one thing I JUST found out: be careful when upgrading the Mazinger since, according to the JP wiki, it won’t relay its upgrades to the Mazinkaiser after Yumi stops dicking around and fixes the thing. I suppose it MAKES sense, since it’s not the same mech but…  We’ve 8 slots available for the next mission, so here’s how we’re going: Ichitaka/Miu Jeeg/Kyo Kouji/Yagyuu Yamashita/Tetsuya Iczer-1/Shizuru Goh/Mira Combattler/Deceive Daiya/Boss I put Daiya and Boss together since they don’t have TOO much HP to get focus-fired over Hyouma and Goh, and Boss’ squad bonus and EN Regen will make a good fit. Despite my original thought, Iczer-1’s hand-beam attack isn’t melee like Ichitaka, so she wouldn’t benefit too much from Boss’ bonus… Now for the mission.  At JUDA’s hangar, the resident scientists tell Ichitaka that they’ve gotten some results from Grife’s painting. Mind you, they’re still getting details but they can give Ichitaka and Alice an outline of what’s in there. That’s great news as it might give them a clue to find the professor – even the Dannar Base team hasn’t located him. As for the contents of the painting, Rachel says it includes both a blueprint for a combat-oriented AI and some upgrade plans for Alice herself. “Upgrades? Will it give her some machine guns or missile launchers and stuff?” Ichitaka wonders. Actually, things like those ARE depicted within the upgrade plans, but it looks like Grife nixed the whole project halfway through. Regardless, Maki wants to continue analyzing the painting , having only hand-picked staff dealing with anything that could yield us a clue about Grife’s whereabouts. Ichitaka and Alice are fine with that and grateful for the help. Of course, Rachel is so very interested on Grife’s research, so it’s hardly an issue to her. Alice in particular wants them to speak with her as soon as they’ve more insight into the painting’s data – she might be able to use those combat AI plans to boost her usefulness to the team if they can find a way to integrate them. If that’s what she’d like, Maki promises to let her know, but our attention is diverted to Izuna walking in: Yamashita is calling Ichitaka. It’s time for his usual drills and Alice says her temperature is good enough that she can take part in it some – no problems at all!  By Ishigami’s office, he’s just received a call from Quatre. How’s life as a middle schooler going? Still getting used to it – he’s been getting pushed around some. Ishigami sighs at them teens behaving like a pack of wild animals. Regardless, how’s Kouichi? Being an oddball – to put it nicely – as he’s been going around, acting like the biggest deal since sliced bread. Ishigami’s heard about it, how the kid’s been taking to proclaiming stuff like “I am justice incarnate! I have been REBORN!” Plus, Quatre reports that, under that banner of justice and spurned by his newly enhanced strength as a Factor, Kouichi’s taken a violent turn. Ishigami isn’t too surprised that suddenly getting a whole lot of power got him all too overexcited. At the very least Quatre reports that we should be thankful there hasn’t been a need for him to summon the Linebarrel again. As for Dr. Kizaki’s daughter, Quatre reports that she’s been staying at Kouichi’s place and Ishigami’ll be picking her up soon – he promised to, you see. Meanwhile, Quatre will continue with his work. As he signs off, Yui asks if it’s really alright for them to let Kouichi run loose. Indeed, Ishigami wants to wait for a bit longer: “let’s see what kind of changes he and the Linebarrel’ll bring to this world.”  And at Misaki Middle School, Kouichi is booored. The Katou Organization hasn’t attacked since last time, meaning all these new superpowers are being totally wasted here. Quatre walks in and greets him; Kouchi greets the transfer student back… er, what’s his name again? He still hasn’t memorized it. Kouichi apologizes but, you know, he’s busy being a CHAMPION OF JUSTICE and all that. But never mind that, did Quatre do his math homework? How about letting him take a peek? Quatre wonders if the self-styled champion should do something so unchampionly but Kouichi just tells him not to be such a stick-in-the-mud. Fine, fine, Quatre relents - that’s what makes him a legit friend! Some time later, Furuya walks in and demands Shinji follow. And he better not give him any backtalk OR ELSE. As they run off to the roof, Kouichi’s had enough: “This looks like a job for a CHAMPION OF JUSTICE!”  Once again, Furuya’s hungry and wants some curry bread. Shinji groans that class is just about to start – meaning he better hurry up and get back in time, then. Shinji argues that it’s impossible and Furuya figures he didn’t get his message about backtalk. He doesn’t get to punch the kid some, as Kouichi runs over and tells him to cut it out. Furuya promptly tells him to piss off as he’s got not time for folks who can’t even do simple errands. Or did Kouichi already forget about offering to grab him that curry bread and never coming back? Kouichi points out that a lot of stuff happened that day but Furuya doesn’t care. What he DOES care is that Shinji stop wasting time here and go buy him his food already! Making it back in time for class isn’t any less impossible now but Kouichi steps up to handle it: he’ll go and be back with the thing in 5 minutes. Cut to five minutes later and, on the dot, Kouichi’s back. How the hell? He must’ve had already bought the thing! Well, why doesn’t he take a bite and see? Indeed, it’s still warm. drat, Kouichi’s a kickass gofer! “Aw, ya know. I just had to put a little bit of ‘oomph’ into it and… wait a minute, why am I playing gofer?! The hell’s wrong with me, using my brand new superpowers for crap like this?!” Kouichi’s other shoe drops. Furuya doesn’t like his attitude – Kouichi’s thinking he’s hot stuff just because he’s gotten a bit faster eh? Not just: “I’ve gotten my hands on some superpowers just to punish pieces of crap like you!”  Furuya fumes at the cheeky gofer but Kouichi says he’s not that anymore – he’s been reborn! Things are about to come to blows when Yajima kicks open the roof’s door and tells Kouichi to cut it out. Just what’s been going on with him lately? Kouichi thanks him for trying to stick up for him still but it’s not needed anymore – he’ll handle this. Furuya tries cheapshotting Kouichi while he’s distracted but, warned by Shinji, he dodges and counters for a one-hit KO. Just in time for the school bell to ring, too, so Kouichi calls the very grateful Shinji back to class. While Yajima’s quietly bothered by his friend’s new lot in life, Quatre concedes that Kouichi IS being a champion for the weak. But still…  Class eventually ends and Kouichi couldn’t be happier – now he can go and catch up on Kivaider, his favorite show (sentai, by the looks of things). Risako isn’t about to let him run off, though, as she’s heard of his scuffle with Furuya. Well, dang, he’s actually surprised word got around. It ain’t easy being a big time champ. Risako says everyone was shocked when they heard: wimpy Kouichi went and took on his bully. That was nothing short of a miracle. Hey, now, didn’t Kouichi himself say before that he had a lot of power just waiting to awaken? There it went. Well, Risako’s finding it more weird than anything else – it’s like he’s a different person. Doesn’t Yajima think so too? Kouichi doesn’t let him answer, saying Yajima already knows what’s up: he’s been reborn. Risako doesn’t quite like feeling left out of whatever secrets they’re hiding. Speaking of being left out, Kouichi wonders what happened with Ichitaka. Yajima says he’s been gone since the day Kouichi went all CHAMPION. Didn’t he notice the absence of a classmate until now? Kouichi sniffs that it ain’t his job to keep track of who is or isn’t around – he’s way too important for that, see. Risako doesn’t like his big head but Kouichi isn’t listening, running off to see his shows. Risako wants to come with and Yajima follows, Quatre tailing behind.  By Kouichi’s house, he tells Risako to stop following him and head over to her home. Does he need to be so unfriendly? He could invite her out to tea or something. Or, even better, she could go and bake some of her traditional cupcakes. Nope, Kouichi’s doesn’t want any. Yajima tells him to drop the attitude, especially since Risako’s just being nice. Besides, didn’t they always like her cooking? Kouichi stomps that, again, he doesn’t want any… and Emi opens the door, wondering what all this yelling’s about. Kouichi explains that he’s being hounded, though Risako’s too startled to see this new girl to care. Kouichi introduces her as a classmate and Emi politely does the same, explaining that she’s staying at Kouichi’s place. As these things tend to go, Risako gets the wrong idea: they’re living together? In that case, when Kouichi said he was “reborn”, was he talking about…?! Her dread only grows tenfold when Emi says “mother” asked her to buy some stuff for the house. “OK, OK, take a deep breath, Risako. Maybe she’s Kouichi’s relative or something…” Risako thinks to herself. She’s about to ask what Emi’s relationship with Kouichi is when an explosion erupts nearby. Quatre rushes over, telling everyone to bail: the Katou Organization’s back. How does he know who those guys are? He says he’ll explain it all later but it’s too dangerous to stay here – he grabs Kouichi and his friends to get as far away as can be. Inwardly, Quatre notes that LOTUS has been called and should be coming. He needs to keep an eye on Kouichi now.  Mission 5 – Red Impact, Blue Terror  : Come out, come out, wherever you are, Linebarrel!  : … : You seem displeased, Wufei. You do remember that the Linebarrel’s Factor, Kouichi Hayase, is in this town, right?: And I’ll carry out my mission accordingly, so spare me the reminder.: So long as we’re clear on that. We’ll lay siege to this down and force him and the Linebarrel to show themselves.: No way in hell a “champion of justice” like him would hide out while his hometown’s burned to the ground, see!: Kouichi Hayase… Now is the time for you to prove how truthful your ramblings about “justice” are.*Beep!*  : Mind you, there is a second prey you’re luring today.: Another? Which one is that? : The Dancouga. : So that the Earth may be saved…: Hm…? Commander, who are those people?: They’re not affiliated with us but our goals are the same. Once the Dancouga’s shown up, they’ll handle the rest.: Our goals are “the same”?: Hah… though I don’t think they agonize over their choices as much as you do.: Psh, more surprise guests? That’s the sorta thing you tell me about before we set out, Hisataka.: I apologize for that but, please, worry only about securing the Linebarrel.: Fine, fine. I guess it ain’t a problem if I still get to tangle with Horns!: …: What is it, Wufei? Do you find fault with our methods of bringing him out in the open?: Way I see it, there ain’t no problem with killing some idiots who can’t even imagine ways to survive! : Besides, even if they did survive, they’d just find even worse stuff waiting for ‘em up ahead. Them dying here is kinda a blessing, really. : Wufei, do you remember the talk we had when we first met?: Stop talking. Keep going and I might decide I should just kill you. : I care not about what your organization’s goals are. I simply imagined your actions were necessary to the world – that’s it. : Cmdr., give the order to carry on the offensive, please.: I guess we must, Masaki. Another volley, my friends.: Bah, I really wish you’d let us cut loose some more. OK – light ‘em up! : Aaah! : Over here, Risako! Hurry! : That’s… Wufei?! : (I didn’t think he’d come back to Misaki again. We haven’t heard from him since he infiltrated the Katou Organization… Could he have…?) : (No, he’s attacking but is trying not to hurt the civilians. He’s carrying on fighting in his own way…): Kouichi, don’t just stand there! I know you like robots but it’s too dangerous to stay here! We need to run right now!: Kouichi, are you…!: (…! He’s going to summon the Linebarrel?!) : …Emi.  : I’m here.: My town’s under attack. What kind of Champion of Justice would I be if I didn’t do something about it?: I know. But if you fight like you did before, you’ll only cause more damage.: Yeah, I hear ya!: …Then place your hand on my chest.: O-OK…: W-Whoa, Kouichi! We’ve got a little emergency here – this is not the time for that!: Risako, we need to get outta here right now!: Wait! No, lemme go! Kouichi!! : Come, Linebarrel! : I can handle this on my own. Find someplace safe to hide, alright, Emi?: OK…!: There you are, Horns!: You will not humiliate us a second time.: You’ve got some nerve to run a train on my town like that! I’m gonna end you guys in the name of JUSTICE!!: Your strength is nowhere mature enough to be called “justice”! What you wield is an illusion, no different from random violence!*Alarm!* : Hrm? What is it?! : Captain! We’ve numerous heat sources moving in on us! : Tch, those LOTUS guys decided to crash our party!: Still, it was only a matter of time before this happened. Ignoring them would just mean a future headache.: Hey, Linebarrel! Do you hear us? : We’re on the same side! Why don’t you join LOTUS and we’ll fight for justice together?: No way – I’m the only one who’s Just around here! You’re all evil and I’m taking you down!: I’m… evil?: Yo, what’s your problem, calling us evil?! So, what, you don’t want or need any friends to back you up?: Shut your trap! You even got that weird-looking Gaiking to try and trick me! But I’m not stupid enough for that to fly, ya phonies!: Where do you get off, guy?! : This ain’t working – he’s not even listening. : Kouichi, we’re not phonies! Just talk to me for a bit!: Ah, the fake Ichitaka. You must be running outta ideas if you’re going with that trick again!: drat it, just listen for one minute!: I’m guessing the only way we’re bringing that idiot in is with brute force. : Hm. This calls for some bitter medicine! : Hold on, now. Kouichi’s just a bit too hyped up with his newfound strength. : I think he’ll be more willing to listen if we get rid of the Katou units and give him a second to calm down. So your orders are to avoid attacking the Linebarrel as much as can be. : The president’s right. All things said, he honestly just wants to protect the weak.: Eh? Who’re you?: Ah, that’s Quatre – a Preventer agent keeping tabs on Kouichi, meaning he’s also part of LOTUS.: My name’s Quatre Raberba Winner – pleased to meet you all. Apologies for the belated introduction but I’ve been undercover all this time.: Yeah, yeah, pleased to meet’cha and all, but are ya 100% sure we can trust that boy, Kouichi?: I— : Got something on the radar! This signal is… the Dancouga! : The Dancouga! And I’m guessing you’re also not going to accept my justice. Well, I did warn you before… I’ll be playing for keeps today!: Hey, LOTUS. We’ll be helping you folks out.: We’ve been seeing each other a lot, huh? And we never even went out of our way to buddy up with anyone.: But, whatever. Good to be working with y’all… huh? : The hell?! Where’d that come from?!: No data on that mech – affiliation unknown! : But it kind of looks like the Dancouga…: What’re we dealing with here, Tanaka?!: Hmm… That’s not any model I’ve seen before… : And these readings show it’s got the same generator as the Dancouga? How is that possible…? : Are you serious, Seimi?! : Hey, what gives?! Why’d it start attacking us?! : Hmph…: A red Dancouga… Guess that’s another enemy for us!: Not just the Katou Organization but this thing too, huh?: Ishigami, those guys helped us before, so I wanna—: Help them back today, right? Then we’re on the same page. Off you go, ladies and gentlemen.: Sorry to drag you folks in this. And good to be working with you!: Then we’ve our orders, people: assist the Dancouga and destroy all the Katou units but don’t attack the Linebarrel!: Roger that, Goh!: Okey-dokey! Here’s hoping we’ll be getting back to JUDA with that thing in tow! Destroy everything without losing the Dancouga Nova. I’m guessing Kouichi’ll just heal up if you go for him, so I won’t. First order of business is getting some morale on the Katou guys before turning our sights on the midbosses.  ??? (???) Pilot Skills: Sword Cut Counter Prevail L2 Support Attack L1 Mech Features: Sword Stealth – activates over 130 morale, granting a 30% chance to dodge anything not packing Strike. One thing to note about ??? is that she’s got a nasty Range Down debuff on her Absolute Hurricane attack. That’s range 2-6 and, if it’ll halve anyone’s own range if it connects – seeing how most of our guys can’t hit too far away, that’ll leave you with a bunch of point-blank and 1-2 attacks, so be careful. That Stealth can catch you by surprise but she’s not too dodgy. Do try to evade her attacks whenever possible.  Everyone’s moving on ahead, our land-bound units hopping across the bridge. The Dancouga’s just in enough range to attack a few things.     And that’s an easy kill. Packing Alert, Aoi manages to dodge the survivor’s counter.  Enemy Phase!  Now this is interesting: ??? will auto-cast Mercy every turn. She won’t kill anyone but, of course, being left at near-death when near a bunch of hostiles = a dead unit. Watch it.  And, of course, she’ll always prioritize the Dancouga. : Who goes there? You a Dancouga copycat or something?: …: Don’t suppose you could at least tell us who you’re working for, eh?: …: Talk’s not getting us anywhere, I think. Then if it’s a fight you’ll want, it’s a fight you’ll get!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGaA5i38f0 ???: “None of you understand the point of this battle!” And she stopped the Dancouga’s counter by draining pretty much all its range… Worst, I might’ve overestimated the bot’s hardiness. Aoi ends the turn with little over 1500 HP but scores another 2 kills! Only other battle was the lone Arma that tried to take on Iczer-1 – he barely lived. Oh, and Kouichi’s making a beeline towards us.  Player Phase!  At least Boss can heal Aoi up to full.  Let’s start clearing stuff up.       Easy. Daiya, Jeeg and Ichitaka pick off weakened targets one by one.  Oh, and I forgot to show off Goh and Mira’s combined attack last mission, so let’s rectify that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtxTf0jYWxY Shippuu! Souren— wait, wrong blue bot.  Following that, Aoi oneshots this guy. Enemy Phase!  ??? guns for the Dancouga again but Boss and his debuff immunity are playing defense. As Aoi shaves off some 5k HP off our mystery guest, Dmitri tries sniping at Ichitaka.       Too bad for him, we’re much better at it. Plus, Miu’s barrier pretty much makes the Rushbird invincible. This tag-team also downs two Armas that figured they could test the veracity of that statement.  The AI’s set on keeping Hyouma at the top, two Armas kamikazeing against him and giving a level in Prevail.  You’re funny.       You’re lucky she can’t hit too good at range but that’s still 70%. Mind you, the next one who tries isn’t as lucky.  The hell are you up to, boy?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb-1qKwmIFM Kouichi: “You Gaiking knockoff!” Taking damage: “That’s nothing! I’m gonna regen that in just a sec!” Enemy Phase!  Let’s get this thing off our hair. : You’re looking like a legit speedster, but I now got a way to deal with that!: Come on, my beautiful boobies! I’ll grab you real good!: …?!     : Just what’re you after? You better not expect me to go easy if you’re helping the Katou Organization!: …: Giving me the silent treatment, eh? Or maybe you’re just a mute. Either way, doesn’t look like you’re backing off, so you better put up your dukes!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-tedeYJrJE Here’s ???’s strongest weapon. Observe as the game goes from 0 to OBARI AS gently caress in the span of a frame.  Bring the red Dancouga below 50% and the pilot is seemingly satisfied with this – a bit more time is needed, apparently. She runs off way too fast for us to follow and Kouji figures the pilot was just checking us out today. Ishigami’s quietly pondering this unknown Dancouga and figures he’ll need to question Tanaka about it later. Katou’s a bit miffed at how easily the red Dancouga backed down but figures it’s not his place to say anything.  Aoi, Ichitaka, Yamashita, Iczer-1, Shizuru and Goh each nab kills from the weakened mooks. They’re dropping like flies!  And I remembered I hadn’t shown off Hyouma’s Twin Lancer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeAR8_Kit5c Enemy Phase!  What’s your beef with him, Dmitri?!  Uh, oh. I didn’t mention it before but Sawatari is quite the accurate guy.       He got 24% against Iczer-1 and that was enough for the RNG. Still, she’s still got half her HP left and he got hurt plenty from the counterattack. Also, Iczer-1 kills a mook.  Ichitaka takes four (!) and I’m starting to wonder if the Katou guys have a vendetta against him after that previous run-in. Either way, it gets Mazin Power running.  Which is bad news for Kouichi, gunning straight for Kouji. He and Yagyuu make the kid regret it. Player Phase!  Away with you.     And boom. Kenji gets a boost to Prevail.  Dmitri can’t handle being the focus of all this firepower and has to evac.  Extra hit from Iczer-1 to tenderize and Sawatari’s out.       No cool kicks since Sawatari has plot armor.  He’s pissed that he needs to run off.  Wufei’ll have to wait a turn, so, meanwhile, we’ll see the dynamic finisher of Shizuna’s creepy hand thingamabob. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcUd1YXaHkM The last mook goes down by Kouji’s hand, mind. Enemy Phase!  Here he comes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QICdfDL7Bs4 That’s a violation of Super Robot etiquette, you sumbitch! Player Phase!  You’re gonna get it now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mesp0MFhicI I don’t quite see the “shot” bit, but alright. 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: The Katou Organization’s dealt with, Kouichi Hayase! Let’s talk a sec!: Yes, please come with us to JUDA!: Our group needs yours and the Linebarrel’s strength!: You just don’t quit, do ya? I told you: everyone but me is evil! So I’ll be wrecking the Katou Organization and you too!: And just how do you figure you’re a “CHAMPION OF JUSTICE” with that kinda attitude, stupid?! : Don’t! Call! Me! Stupid! You couldn’t even get the paintjob right, you phony, so shut up!: Uurgh, you huge dumbass!: Kouichi…: Mr. Ishigami, we can’t even get a word in with this guy!: Well, shoot… guess my prediction was way off base. Then we’ve no other choice, ladies and gentlemen: disable the Linebarrel and bring it in.: Heh, I figured it’d come down to this. A punch is the best way to get a point across!: I…I have to attack Kouichi?: It’s the only way. Please understand.: But…!: (Ichitaka…) : Judging by the data we’ve gathered, the Linebarrel’s regenerative abilities are a lot better than the other JUDA Machinas. Its output’s seemingly dropped since the start of the battle, but you should still be very careful!: What about us? Wasn’t our original mission to keep the thing safe?: It was but… there’s been a change in your orders just now. You’re clear to engage.: Uh-huh… then it’s alright to let LOTUS take the Linebarrel?: Eeh, we’ll make that call when we get there…: I guess that’s for the best. It’d be very ungrateful of us to start firing on LOTUS after they helped us.: I agree. Besides, this mission’s turning out kind of exciting.: Alright, let’s get to it, then!: Are you not capable of telling what’s right from what’s wrong?!: I’m justice incarnate! Anyone who won’t accept that is EVIL!!: You’re wrong. Humans hold both justice and evil within their hearts - that’s what makes them whole. And what you’re doing is coming from nothing but the evil part of your heart!     Iczer-1: “That’s enough out of you! Stop now!” : You ready, Izuna? Go and give this big dumdum a real scary nightmare! Once he’s out, we’ll drag ‘im off the Linebarrel!: Ready whenever, Shizuna. I’ll harden my soul if that’s what it’ll take to secure the Machina!    Izuna: “Please stop fighting this instant, Kouichi!” : Why would the Linebarrel ever choose a stupid guy like him as its Factor…?: Who’s stupid?! I’m a Champion of Justice!: That’s not a title you can give yourself! The fact you don’t get that fact is why I say you’re stupid!     Yamashita: “I’m not about to get beat by an amateur Factor!” : Go back to how you used to be, Kouichi! We’re friends, aren’t we?!: Quiet! You’re impersonating Ichitaka and I’m done listening! Get away from me!-- : Please, Kouichi, let’s talk! We shouldn’t be fighting each other!: Piss off! If you don’t wanna fight, then don’t! I’m the Champion of Justice and I fly solo!: I see… then you leave me no choice! This might get a bit rough but I’ll be bringing you in!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz2C_d9H7Cc Miu: “Stop! The way you’re fighting, you’ll destroy everything around you!” Kouichi: “You’re also here to jack my Linebarrel, I know you are!” Ichitaka: “Kouichi, what the hell are you doing?!” : Ganging up on me, eh… Too bad for you, justice doesn’t die!! : This isn’t good, sis!: drat it, regenning like that’s cheating!: Come on and try your luck again, evil bots! : What are we supposed to do now…?*Beep!*  : …You’re going too easy on him.: Aah?! That voice is—! : Reiji! : The hesitation in your attacks is as clear as day.: But the Linebarrel’s pilot is Ichitaka’s friend and…: That doesn’t matter. Right now the Linebarrel’s no different from a terrorist wreaking havoc through town… Meaning you show no mercy!: Wh-What are you—: If you can’t bring yourself to fight, then just sit there.*Reiji moves after Kouichi.* : Did have your fun, Factor of the Linebarrel?: Whaat?!: Because your game of make-believe ends here. I’ll be bringing the Linebarrel to JUDA!: B-Bite me! Who’re you?! : Reiji Moritsugu, Head of JUDA’s Special Forces. : That guy’s who Yamashita was talking about…?!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnQtJG3m1OE : Gwaargh! drat it!: You should realize the difference between us now. Surrender the Linebarrel.: This power’s mine! I’m not letting anyone take it! Never!  : (He’s already recovering the damage received. He’s better than I thought…): I… I am a CHAMPION OF JUSTICE! And I’ll never be beaten!: …*Slash, slash, slash, slash!*  : H-Hey, don’t you guys think that’s a bit too much? : Yeah… he’s not even trying to hold back.: The Linebarrel might be able to regenerate from that, but the Factor won’t last for long…: That guy… he’s like a demon…: Stop! STOP! He’s gonna die!: Y-Yajima?!: This isn’t Kouichi's fault! It was just an accident that got him to find that thing!: Shut up! You… what the hell do you know about me? : !!: You don’t understand how I felt, being so weak and useless…! Have you any idea how miserable I was, having to watch as someone else protected the girl I liked? Hell, how I, myself, needed to be protected by that person even?! Do you have any idea what that’s like?!: Then… Then, this is because of me…?: But, now, I’ve been reborn! I’m strong now! I’m a Champion of Justice! Why are you all against me?! : Why won’t you accept me?! I’m the one who’ll protect this town! : I’m the strongest one here! Say it! SAY IT! Haaaaaah!!: I’m strong! I’M THE STRONGEST!: …You still want to fight? In that case…!*Target!* : Stop!!*Power dooooown.* : The Linebarrel’s turned off? Why…?!: Please, stop, Kouichi!: E-Emi…?: …: Why did you stop me?! I was just about to win!: Kouichi, is flaunting your power all you want to do? Didn’t you say we were going to defend—: Shut up…!: Huh…?: You shut your mouth! Just sit there and let me protect you, drat it!: Kouichi…!: Ah…!: You’re… despicable!: Looks like he can’t get the Linebarrel to move by himself.: Kch…: That’s the end of that, Kouichi! Ain’t no reason for you not to throw in the towel, nice and easy!: Fine. You just want the robot, right? Then take it! I don’t care anymore!: Yeesh, he’s still giving us attitude?!: Well, I’m gone!Off he goes.* : Urk, he ran! : His speed is surely on par with the other Factors…: Kouichi…: Hrm, this would’ve been so much simpler if he didn’t run… I was about to ask him to join the team.: What, that huge dumdum? No, thanks! Look at what he did to the town with that tantrum! : Hm. His isn’t the best personality, that’s for sure.: Mr. Ishigami, I’ll go after him.: Hold on a sec – I’ve another job for you first. Dr. Kizaki’s daughter is around here, right?: Yes, she’s with me, actually.: Then bring her over to JUDA, please. She’s quite the VIP, you see.: That’s no problem but… couldn’t it wait until I found Kouichi?: Oh, you don’t need to worry about him. I’m sure he’ll be coming to school tomorrow like nothing ever happened.: How do you figure…?: Because I’d wager that’s one of the places he feels more at ease after getting his new powers. : If you say so…: Well, that ended in a hurry.: Easy come, easy go, right? And more important than that…: Yeah, the red Dancouga. Tanaka was acting like he didn’t know anything about it but...: But today we’re going to make him spill the beans.: Right. I, for one, am sick of being kept in the dark. : See you guys around, LOTUS. I had fun today! : Oh! There goes the Dancouga…: Didn’t you say you wanted to shake their hands, Ichitaka?: Kouichi… you…: Ichitaka…: Hey, hey, can you go and bring the Linebarrel over, like, lickety-split? I’m just bursting with anticipation!: Well, you heard the lady. Transport it here ASAP, alright?: Roger that. Back to base, troops.: (Whew, Reiji’s finally back… that’s a load off my shoulders. And, drat, that attack he did there was so strong. He really is amazing…)Seeing how ??? runs off at half HP, I couldn’t get all convos with her:  : I’ve absolutely no data on this one. Exercise caution, Hyouma!: And it’s quite the speedy fella, too! We’ll be in hot water if we don’t watch it!: Yeah, I’m on it!--- : Who are you? Why are you after the Dancouga?!: …: If you’re not talking, then I’ll deal with you as I would the Katou units!-- : Please, stop! Our team’s fighting in Earth’s defense!: Hah… So am I.: Fine, then. If you won’t back down, then I’ll stand my ground! Back to JUDA, Ishigami properly introduces Reiji – Factor of the Vardant. As he, Kenji and Kouji glare at each other, Ishigami sighs at the heavy mood. Could we maybe lighten up? That’s difficult as while Hyouma and Daiya admit that it was our bad for not stopping the Linebarrel, Reiji certainly didn’t need to take things as far as he did. Goh and Mira tell them to let it go, though, as SOMEONE needed to have done that – despite how heartless it seems. Ishigami points out that while Reiji was busy with special assignment and couldn’t meet up with us sooner, he’ll be leading our team starting immediately. Meaning we’ll need to do as he says. “On my way back, I took the time to review your combat records; and while your individual fighting abilities are spectacular, your coordination is sorely lacking. With that in mind, tomorrow we’ll start training to develop that coordination – I want you all to be able respond perfectly and promptly to your allies’ actions,” he pronounces. Hyouma figures the Combattler team has got that covered, what with them needing to sync-up their brain waves to combine. Unfortunately, no, Reiji says cooperating to work the same bot and coordinating with different units are two wholly different things – failure to realize that will get them an early grave. Juzo doesn’t appreciate his attitude but Kyo suggests he let it go. Reiji orders everyone to gather here at 0800 but before he wraps this up, he calls Ichitaka. You see, he’s read his records as well and is concerned about the kid’s lack of experience. Now, if that ends up getting Ichitaka killed, that’s his problem, but Reiji’s got consider that it might hamper the team’s actions. So, he’ll be especially tough on his training (Ichitaka stutters a confirmation).  As for Yamashita, Reiji thanks him for covering as interim leader for the Special Forces. It was far from a perfect performance but he’s satisfied with seeing that the guy’s grown as a Factor. Ichitaka sees that the rumors of Reiji’s strict nature weren’t exaggerating but Yamashita is so very happy with his “praise”. Ichitaka really doesn’t get why he’s so giddy about that but whatever. Reiji’ll be setting up tomorrow’s training session around Yamashita’s Hind and the kid promises to give it 110%. With that, Reiji leaves to write his report and Kenji sighs with relief – he thought he was going to pass out there. Saotome calls him a wimp, saying that in the regular army, you gotta learn to sit still while managing to relax. That said, Izuna does admit that LOTUS is quite livelier from regular squads –JUDA’s own share of liveliness notwithstanding, of course. Kyo understands what he means: we are a rather unique team, in that while many of us are seasoned fighters, quite a few are still civilians. Maybe what Reiji is trying to do is get us in a more military fighting shape? Yamashita nods, saying Reiji is always thinking what’s best for us – oh, how he admires him. “So, Yamashita says ‘far from perfect performance’ are words of praise… I’ll need to revise some of my data,” Alice ponders but Ichitaka says that’s just the guy’s own unique case. Mind you, Yamashita says it wasn’t that bit that got him oh-so-happy but the part where Reiji acknowledged his growth as a Factor. Miu explains that Yamashita’s always worked so hard to make Reiji happy and Ishigami swears that while he has a very sharp tongue, he is quite kind. And Alice figures she’s also slated for his especially tough training as he was also looking at her when he said it. Ichitaka remembers that we still can’t let Alice push herself too hard, lest she overload again, so it’ll fall on him to pick up the slack.  Tetsuya’s sure he heard the Reiji Moritsugu name before and soon remembers: the guy’s a bit of a legend, beating a whole group of delinquents by himself a few years back. Folks would keep punching and he wouldn’t go down, earning him the title of “Immortal Miracle Man”. Sounds like a real tough guy, thinks Kouji, but Tetsuya also heard rumors that Reiji disappeared for some time after he killed a man. Lies and slander, says Yamashita, and Tetsuya apologizes – rumors spread like wildfire, you know (Ishigami’s suspiciously silent). Regardless, if those stories are true, Goh says we can at least surmise that the guy’s very strong. Not someone Boss would like to get into a brawl with, so he better not grumble around him. No problem, says Mucha, worst comes to worst, they can ask Iczer-1 to be their bodyguard! “Now there’s an idea! And it’ll let me spend some quality time with Iczer-1, too… Whoohohohoo,” Boss grins. Iczer-1 isn’t listening, pondering the burden she spotted behind Reiji’s eyes. Boss also notices her beautiful, albeit distant gaze… ooh, he’s getting dizzy! Iczer-1 ponders what burden Reiji could be carrying – but an incomplete being like her could never make sense of it. If only she were human… “Yo, are those distant eyes looking this way? Ooh, did she finally fall for my handsome charms?!” Boss dreams. “She hasn’t – chill,” Kouji shoots him down.  Daiya likes the idea of being a legend and wishes he could have people tell stories about him. Naoto points out that there ARE stories about Daiya. What, of him being a huge liar? Well, yes, but that changed when the Darius actually showed up at the surface again. Now he’s kinda like a prophet! Eeh, that ain’t too great. Yui calls over right then, telling Ishigami that Quatre’s just delivered Emi. He’s off to see her, wishing everyone good luck in tomorrow’s training. Our people remember Ishigami saying Emi was a VIP, daughter of some doctor, which begs the question to Chizuru: what was she doing hanging around that town, with no security?  By Ishigami’s office, he greets Emi and apologizes for not picking her up sooner but with LOTUS getting started, he’s been really busy. But how is doing, having just arrived from a different world and all? She’s fine, apologizing for the trouble she caused to the people of this world, even. Ishigami says she’s done nothing to apologize for – Kouichi’s the one who ran amuck with the Linebarrel. Quatre also apologizes for not being able to talk Kouichi down but, again, no need. Ishigami figures people are likely to act unexpectedly when they get pissed. More important than that are Emi’s memories, which were reportedly missing. She’s managed to recover most of them, except for the moment before she came to this world – something clearly happened, but she can’t place it. Ishigami tells her to rest and it’ll come to her in time. Moreover, Dr. Kizaki went through a lot of trouble to get her over her and he swears to her that JUDA will make good use of the Linebarrel. But what about Kouichi? Ishigami’s sure Quatre’ll manage to convince him to join us. Indeed, Quatre’s sure he can be reasoned with. Mind, Ishigami wants Quatre to continue to vet the kid – if he ever deems him to be unfit for the job, then JUDA’ll have to find a new Factor. Emi’s worried, as assigning a new Factor means the current one will die: there’s always only one Factor per Machina. Ishigami would rather that not happen, of course – Kouichi just needs to realize the essence behind the strength he got. And despite the stuff he did, Quatre doesn’t think he deserves to die. He’ll get him on board.  Back at the Dancouga’s base, Seimi welcomes them all back. Normally the girls would go and soak at the hot springs to relax but that’ll have to wait – Tanaka has some explaining to do. And while Aoi and Kurara are both raring to play “bad cop”, Johnny isn’t really the type. At the command center, they’re greeted by O-G, the bot, who says Tanaka left right before they arrived. Guess he knew what was about to happen.  Tanaka’s off elsewhere, reporting the red Dancouga’s appearance to one F.S. From what he’s gathered, the thing’s equipped with some optical camo and is pretty dang good in aerial combat… but only has a lone pilot, meaning it wasn’t designed to carry out the Dancouga’s original purpose. F.S. seems to know about the thing, and dubs it the R-Daigun. All actors have taken to the stage now. Brunom1 fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Dec 20, 2017 |
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Well, with our "Leader" here, we need to find a good place for him to sit. Oh, I know, how about this lovely bench. Don't worry Reiji, there's plenty of room for your attitude as well.
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Inferno-sama posted:Well, with our "Leader" here, we need to find a good place for him to sit. Oh, I know, how about this lovely bench. Don't worry Reiji, there's plenty of room for your attitude as well. Heh, you'll be disappointed since Reiji and the Vardant are actually one of those "not top tier but can lead nicely" units. Plus, he follows the Iczer-1 school of upgrading 40% before joining, so we'll be using him! And I wouldn't quite frown at his attitude (yet)... he's just the usual very stern, no-nonsense pro archetype. But, as I wrote before, this is my first time going through the game and I've no knowledge of Linebarrels, so we'll see how this goes.
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If nothing else, he delivered a much needed beatdown to Kouichi. I'd give him a pass long enough to prove himself one way or another.
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Jun 15, 2017 19:51
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Inferno-sama posted:Well, with our "Leader" here, we need to find a good place for him to sit. Oh, I know, how about this lovely bench. Don't worry Reiji, there's plenty of room for your attitude as well.
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Jun 15, 2017 20:40
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I always liked SRW (and mecha anime) but this time I must say there is a noticeable lack of likable characters.
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Yeah Psychotic Kira Yamato is a very apt discription. 
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Okay, maybe Reiji can redeem himself. But honestly, not off to a great start. Even if he comes in at 40% upgrade, I probably wouldn't use him unless he gets redeemed, solely because of his attitude (but obviously not up to me, so unless you do a vote, don't worry about it). It's basically why I bench Katz and Destiny-era Kira. Though to be fair to him, I agree with his decision to go at Kouichi. My problem is that he gets introduced as the leader, with our guys getting no say in the matter, and then goes about saying our guys suck and that we have to do what he says, demanding respect as the leader, but not earning it, with Yamashita being two steps away from kissing the ground he walks on. That is my issue with him. But yeah, if he does get redeemed, I'll accept it.
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Inferno-sama posted:Okay, maybe Reiji can redeem himself. But honestly, not off to a great start. Even if he comes in at 40% upgrade, I probably wouldn't use him unless he gets redeemed, solely because of his attitude (but obviously not up to me, so unless you do a vote, don't worry about it). It's basically why I bench Katz and Destiny-era Kira. Though to be fair to him, I agree with his decision to go at Kouichi. My problem is that he gets introduced as the leader, with our guys getting no say in the matter, and then goes about saying our guys suck and that we have to do what he says, demanding respect as the leader, but not earning it, with Yamashita being two steps away from kissing the ground he walks on. That is my issue with him. But yeah, if he does get redeemed, I'll accept it. To be quite fair, he says that every individual pilot is an exceptional one, but they have no coordination in working as an army, that's how they suck. He's the kind of guy who likely finds it very awkward to compliment someone and to lighten up off the rear end in a top hat button, hence why his compliment to Yamashita is basically "Yeah you didn't perform perfectly but you've really grown." He's clearly praising his subordinate for having grown, but he lacks the proper tact to phrase "But you have room for improvement" as anything but "It wasn't perfect."
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This Reiji guy has a very similar first impression to Clouseau in SRW W, where he rolls in, saves the day, knocks certain characters down a few pegs and orders them to shape up. Like Clouseau I fully expect him to lighten up in some way, be revealed to be nicer than he seems, and otherwise get dragged down to the rest of the cast's level by wacky antics, though I could be totally off base as I know literally nothing about Linebarrel. Of course, the big difference is that Clouseau was only meant to be the new leader of Uruz Squad, not the entirety of Warter, and Reiji is introduced as the leader of the entirety of LOTUS. It's kind of weird idea based on my limited knowledge of SRW, but I don't remember another situation where the entire squad gets a hardass leader forced upon them. By and large the characters in these games are allowed to do what they want.
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Onmi posted:To be quite fair, he says that every individual pilot is an exceptional one, but they have no coordination in working as an army, that's how they suck. He's the kind of guy who likely finds it very awkward to compliment someone and to lighten up off the rear end in a top hat button, hence why his compliment to Yamashita is basically "Yeah you didn't perform perfectly but you've really grown." He's clearly praising his subordinate for having grown, but he lacks the proper tact to phrase "But you have room for improvement" as anything but "It wasn't perfect." Yeah, okay, I can see that. Maybe it's just not liking him getting made leader and already pushing his weight around. Maybe he's just not good talking to people. But I'll wait to see how things go before feeling if I was wrong about him or not.
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Guy Fawkes posted:I always liked SRW (and mecha anime) but this time I must say there is a noticeable lack of likable characters. The only ones i'd say are unlikeable are parts of the Linebarrel and Jeeg casts. Most of the other characters seem pretty cool. I don't really see too much wrong with Reiji so far either. Like, hardass military instructor man is always kind of a lame archetype for a character to start with especially in a series with a fairly light tone which srw usually is, but it's not an uncommon type of character and he doesn't seem uniquely bad or anything,
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I have no opinion on Reiji yet, but wow I hope we bench Kouichi because he's a special kind of awful. I don't care if he's piloting the main mech, it's not worth it to have a complete prick like that on the team. Also the Vardant is dumb and I sort of like it a lot. I mean it has swords inside it's wings, that's too ridiculous, I have to see more of it.
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GodofDiscord posted:I have no opinion on Reiji yet, but wow I hope we bench Kouichi because he's a special kind of awful. I don't care if he's piloting the main mech, it's not worth it to have a complete prick like that on the team. Ahahahahaha, benching Kouichi is not a choice with this game.
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I mean, yeah it's impossible to do it every stage, like with Renton in Z2, but you can bench him on the stages that don't have him as a required unit right?
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I've only read a little of Linebarrel, but as I understand it, Kouichi is basically on the power trip to end all power trips. Average meek high-schooler suddenly gets super powers AND a giant robot? drat straight it's all gonna go right to his head and ego. It'll be interesting to see how Karma bitchslaps him down a peg or two.
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Rabidredneck posted:I've only read a little of Linebarrel, but as I understand it, Kouichi is basically on the power trip to end all power trips. Average meek high-schooler suddenly gets super powers AND a giant robot? drat straight it's all gonna go right to his head and ego. It'll be interesting to see how Karma bitchslaps him down a peg or two. It already kinda has, as Reiji just effortlessly kinda wasted him. But yeah that's basically it. Someone who's been abused his whole life and felt powerless and weak gets super powers, a giant robot, a waifu and even an evil organization to fight.
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Rabidredneck posted:I've only read a little of Linebarrel, but as I understand it, Kouichi is basically on the power trip to end all power trips. Average meek high-schooler suddenly gets super powers AND a giant robot? drat straight it's all gonna go right to his head and ego. It'll be interesting to see how Karma bitchslaps him down a peg or two. And then the anime jettisons about 50% of those harsh lessons in order to go off and do its own thing.
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tl;dr read the Kurogane no Linebarrels manga, it's actually good unlike the anime
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AradoBalanga posted:And then the anime jettisons about 50% of those harsh lessons in order to go off and do its own thing. At least with other Super Robot heroes around, I reckon SRW'll give him some new lessons to learn. That said, I'm now a bit disappointed there's no Yuusha series here to help with that. Brunom1 fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Jun 16, 2017 |
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I just hope he doesn't touch Shinji. They'd cause an antimatter explosion.
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