Huh, out of all the P4GA episodes, which I 've enjoyed-to-tolerated all of, this is the one that really peeved me off.
On contrary to what Corvo said, I felt they spent too god damn long on the exposition of the Hollow Forest and the little pre-confrontation with Marie. I was hoping that, after all the slice of life stuff, which I was definitely fine with, they'd actually devote a whole entire episode to, you know, the dungeon instead of devoting every minute to explaining why they're there.
"Hey Marie come back."
"No. I got my memories back
."
"Oh. Well come back anyway."
"No."
*Narukami the Master Wordsmith walks in.* "Come back stupid."
"No. You're stupid!"
"No. You are!"
Then she runs away.
That whole exchange in it's entirety took up like 3 minutes which is admittedly short compared to the 10 minutes they spent expositing without actually explaining anything important.
Then we finally get to "Fight time" and what do we get? Like maybe 2 minutes of them either getting beat up or beating up Shadows in such a dissonant way that I honestly couldn't actually tell what was going on.
"Go away!"
"No stupid come back."
"Then something bad's gonna happen"
...And then you know what happens? Something bad happens. To a point where I actually enjoyed the bad thing happening to the crew of characters I like a lot in some kind of twisted catharsis from how aggravating this episode is. I feel like I literally wasted those 24 minutes on something tthat really didn't matter in any way whatsoever.
I do gotta say one thing though, that bugged on another note; What has Yu been doing all this year?! I mean, you'd think he'd be able to max Marie's link pretty quick with how much time he spends with her, then half of Adachi's link is freakin' automated. So why in Izanagi's name would he never of
I
Sorry for the long post guys. Just needed to vent some of that rage off.
EDIT:......And it's a page-topper too. My first page topper is me venting about a lame anime episode in a thread about the games the lame anime was based off of. Grrreeeaaattt...>_>;
On contrary to what Corvo said, I felt they spent too god damn long on the exposition of the Hollow Forest and the little pre-confrontation with Marie. I was hoping that, after all the slice of life stuff, which I was definitely fine with, they'd actually devote a whole entire episode to, you know, the dungeon instead of devoting every minute to explaining why they're there.
Oh, this place isn't connected to the TV World? Okay, guess that's good to explain for those who haven't played the game I guess. Oh? There's places there that look like the parts of Inaba you took Marie too? Well yeah, you should all know this by now considering you did this like 8 times already? Oh, if this place disappears and we don't rescue Marie she'll disappear forever? Well...yeah. She just explained that. No reason to waste time repeating it. By the time Marie finally appeared on screen I was yelling "Yes! Kick her ass!" And what was the response I got? No not "fight time" it's "Talk each other into circles like a bunch of twelve years olds time" I could basically sum it up in a strand of maybe 7 lines.
"Hey Marie come back."
"No. I got my memories back
and it turns out I'm a spy for the fog monsters
"Oh. Well come back anyway."
"No."
*Narukami the Master Wordsmith walks in.* "Come back stupid."
"No. You're stupid!"
"No. You are!"
Then she runs away.
That whole exchange in it's entirety took up like 3 minutes which is admittedly short compared to the 10 minutes they spent expositing without actually explaining anything important.
Then we finally get to "Fight time" and what do we get? Like maybe 2 minutes of them either getting beat up or beating up Shadows in such a dissonant way that I honestly couldn't actually tell what was going on.
After getting their asses ultimately beat, they somehow, for some reason, were able to just run up to Marie's lair with no explanation whatsoever, and then what we get? More
"Go away!"
"No stupid come back."
"Then something bad's gonna happen"
...And then you know what happens? Something bad happens. To a point where I actually enjoyed the bad thing happening to the crew of characters I like a lot in some kind of twisted catharsis from how aggravating this episode is. I feel like I literally wasted those 24 minutes on something tthat really didn't matter in any way whatsoever.
I do gotta say one thing though, that bugged on another note; What has Yu been doing all this year?! I mean, you'd think he'd be able to max Marie's link pretty quick with how much time he spends with her, then half of Adachi's link is freakin' automated. So why in Izanagi's name would he never of
maxed even one of his party member's S.Links? I mean, come on, they're his closest group of friends who've done all this shit with him yet they don't even have their 2nd-tier Personas?! I can get Arena but this was just sad.
I
hope that that was actually on purpose and that game over was basically saying "YYYYeah you should probably try maxing other social links bud."
Sorry for the long post guys. Just needed to vent some of that rage off.
EDIT:......And it's a page-topper too. My first page topper is me venting about a lame anime episode in a thread about the games the lame anime was based off of. Grrreeeaaattt...>_>;
