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Didn't I just make this? Yeah, but now I'm going to do /spoilery/ impressions. The first post, anyone can read. There's nothing spoiled there that you don't find out in the first twenty minutes of gameplay. But I'm ten hours in, and speculating wildly about what the heck is going on.
Please don't spoil me further, but feel free to speculate with me!
Characters So Far:
Emil: The guy who makes Shinji look socially well-adjusted. Real!Emil is painfully apologetic, and wants nothing more than to be liked. Or at least not rabidly hated. Richter's quote, 'Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality' has stuck in Emil's head big time, and he's trying to protect Marta and be brave, when he's really not cut out for it. Also, I have a growing suspicion that the Real Emil isn't Emil at all. It's something that I only noticed once we got to his hometown of Palmacosta...nobody recognizes him. Now, he DID get a wardrobe upgrade (and how!) when he became a Knight of Ratatosk, and he's not quite slumping and hiding as much as he used to, but still. When it's only been six months, but /every adult/ has to be told that it's you and then doesn't seem to believe it...something's a bit wrong. The first time we even saw Emil was after the Ratatosk explosion, and his dying mother said that she couldn't see his face.
Knight!Emil: One of the reasons I do not trust the benevolence of Ratatosk. Yeah, the threads are pretty damned cool, emphasis on the damned, but the personality change is worrying. Emil becomes very confident and aggressive, to the point of beating the ever-loving hell out of enemies who are already down. Also, and even MORE worrying, Real!Emil has already been heard to say things like, "I wish Ratatosk would possess me all of the time so I wouldn't have to be afraid." I don't like where this heading, dear reader.
Marta: Sweet child. Possibly bringing about the apocalypse. Her goal is to awaken the God of All Monsters, Ratatosk, and his Centurions, who should be controlling monsters around the world. According to her and Tenebrae, Ratatosk's job is to guard the World Tree and through the use of monsters, ensure that mana remains evenly dispersed throughout the world. When the old World Tree bit it, Ratatosk and his Centurions went into hibernation, but now that there's a new one, the tides of mana are unregulated, and screwing everything up. So, she's going to awaken all of the Centurions, and then together, they'll all work to awaken Ratatosk himself to put things aright. I can't shake the feeling that she's got the wrong end of the stick here, somewhere, but the other guys so far seem even worse. So she's our heroine. She's also madly in love with a vision of Emil she created based on what she thought he did when she invoked Ratatosk's help for the first time...and ended up with his core stuck in her forehead and a wide half-circle of very dead soldiers. She thinks that Emil did it, but I think that's about as likely as Emil taking up a career as a life coach. So I expect disaster on that front, as well.
Tenebrae: The Centurion of Darkness. He's a very dignified immortal dog thing who fills the role of mentor and straight man for Emil and Marta. He seems nice, and sincere about Ratatosk's intentions towards the world, but there's something he's not talking about. For a very talkative fellow, he got very quiet when they discussed that Ratatosk and the current Goddess could guard the World Tree together. It fills me with dread, not least of which because I /like/ Tenebrae. Also, we're continually buffing him by pacting darkness-elemental monsters to our cause.
Richter: Tall, red-haired, anti-tact. Possibly not human. He is very anti-Ratatosk, but otherwise seems like a standup individual...and one who likes Emil quite a lot, for all his smart remarks about cringing like a dog and over-apologizing. Unfortunately, he's also trying to kill Marta to take the core from her dead body. This is just not a good thing! But, at the same time, HE refers to Ratatosk as 'The Demon Lord' and seems to be primarily worried about the guy being awakened...his shock and fury when Emil revealed that he'd become a Knight of Ratatosk was real, I'll state my life on it. I'm pretty sure he'll be a joinable character at some point.
Aqua: The Centurion of Water. Has broken pact with Ratatosk, and follows Richter around pretty much constantly. Apparently her having broken pact is the cause of the water-related natural disasters going on, according to Tenebrae, but I just don't know. She's still a giant ?? point in the sky.
The Plot So Far:
The good guy from the previous game has apparently become an amoral jewel-hunter who is stealing Centurions' cores. This is a very bad thing, because contact with the cores will drive normal human beings insane within short order...which may be behind his sudden homicidal urges. The Church of Martel has gone farther and farther over the extremist edge, in badwrong ways, despite the Chosen of Regeneration being the sweetest human being possible. Oh, and the rebel faction is /also/ trying to grab up cores in order to use something called a 'mana cannon'...I can't think of any possible way in which that can be good. And, so far, all of the rebel faction commanders are freakin' insane, except for Richter. But Alice fills her insanity quotient and Richter's too (she uses her minions as chairs, carries a riding crop, and is a genuine sadist who looks forward to torturing people with glee). So, not good all around.
Please don't spoil me further, but feel free to speculate with me!
Characters So Far:
Emil: The guy who makes Shinji look socially well-adjusted. Real!Emil is painfully apologetic, and wants nothing more than to be liked. Or at least not rabidly hated. Richter's quote, 'Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality' has stuck in Emil's head big time, and he's trying to protect Marta and be brave, when he's really not cut out for it. Also, I have a growing suspicion that the Real Emil isn't Emil at all. It's something that I only noticed once we got to his hometown of Palmacosta...nobody recognizes him. Now, he DID get a wardrobe upgrade (and how!) when he became a Knight of Ratatosk, and he's not quite slumping and hiding as much as he used to, but still. When it's only been six months, but /every adult/ has to be told that it's you and then doesn't seem to believe it...something's a bit wrong. The first time we even saw Emil was after the Ratatosk explosion, and his dying mother said that she couldn't see his face.
Knight!Emil: One of the reasons I do not trust the benevolence of Ratatosk. Yeah, the threads are pretty damned cool, emphasis on the damned, but the personality change is worrying. Emil becomes very confident and aggressive, to the point of beating the ever-loving hell out of enemies who are already down. Also, and even MORE worrying, Real!Emil has already been heard to say things like, "I wish Ratatosk would possess me all of the time so I wouldn't have to be afraid." I don't like where this heading, dear reader.
Marta: Sweet child. Possibly bringing about the apocalypse. Her goal is to awaken the God of All Monsters, Ratatosk, and his Centurions, who should be controlling monsters around the world. According to her and Tenebrae, Ratatosk's job is to guard the World Tree and through the use of monsters, ensure that mana remains evenly dispersed throughout the world. When the old World Tree bit it, Ratatosk and his Centurions went into hibernation, but now that there's a new one, the tides of mana are unregulated, and screwing everything up. So, she's going to awaken all of the Centurions, and then together, they'll all work to awaken Ratatosk himself to put things aright. I can't shake the feeling that she's got the wrong end of the stick here, somewhere, but the other guys so far seem even worse. So she's our heroine. She's also madly in love with a vision of Emil she created based on what she thought he did when she invoked Ratatosk's help for the first time...and ended up with his core stuck in her forehead and a wide half-circle of very dead soldiers. She thinks that Emil did it, but I think that's about as likely as Emil taking up a career as a life coach. So I expect disaster on that front, as well.
Tenebrae: The Centurion of Darkness. He's a very dignified immortal dog thing who fills the role of mentor and straight man for Emil and Marta. He seems nice, and sincere about Ratatosk's intentions towards the world, but there's something he's not talking about. For a very talkative fellow, he got very quiet when they discussed that Ratatosk and the current Goddess could guard the World Tree together. It fills me with dread, not least of which because I /like/ Tenebrae. Also, we're continually buffing him by pacting darkness-elemental monsters to our cause.
Richter: Tall, red-haired, anti-tact. Possibly not human. He is very anti-Ratatosk, but otherwise seems like a standup individual...and one who likes Emil quite a lot, for all his smart remarks about cringing like a dog and over-apologizing. Unfortunately, he's also trying to kill Marta to take the core from her dead body. This is just not a good thing! But, at the same time, HE refers to Ratatosk as 'The Demon Lord' and seems to be primarily worried about the guy being awakened...his shock and fury when Emil revealed that he'd become a Knight of Ratatosk was real, I'll state my life on it. I'm pretty sure he'll be a joinable character at some point.
Aqua: The Centurion of Water. Has broken pact with Ratatosk, and follows Richter around pretty much constantly. Apparently her having broken pact is the cause of the water-related natural disasters going on, according to Tenebrae, but I just don't know. She's still a giant ?? point in the sky.
The Plot So Far:
The good guy from the previous game has apparently become an amoral jewel-hunter who is stealing Centurions' cores. This is a very bad thing, because contact with the cores will drive normal human beings insane within short order...which may be behind his sudden homicidal urges. The Church of Martel has gone farther and farther over the extremist edge, in badwrong ways, despite the Chosen of Regeneration being the sweetest human being possible. Oh, and the rebel faction is /also/ trying to grab up cores in order to use something called a 'mana cannon'...I can't think of any possible way in which that can be good. And, so far, all of the rebel faction commanders are freakin' insane, except for Richter. But Alice fills her insanity quotient and Richter's too (she uses her minions as chairs, carries a riding crop, and is a genuine sadist who looks forward to torturing people with glee). So, not good all around.
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