@@cafemm hey brother that's clearly the whole joke running throughout the video

I thought giant bird is that all the things you pointed out, but also be a undefeatable thing for Robin since it's a bird, mechanic (like Robin herself), but greater. however, with the help of Mina(she conditionally joins the final fight against the bird) and the all the iconoclasm has been done till the moment, which revealed that starworm is just a machine, which can be broken or malfunction sometimes. which made it pefrorm the final blow for the bird.

Hey, thank you! I generally have two pretty distinct audiences for the two distinct types of videos on my channel; internet strangers for the games, friends and family for the seconds -- but I love to see crossover, especially from an internet stranger choosing to watch the seconds. These videos are very important to me (and I know not necessarily to anyone else) and they're excellent for my memory, so I do plan on keeping it rolling

@@diego_villena if you're talking about the endgame spoiler part there's a visual cue that tells you when it's done in the video - if you're talking about the whole thing, I don't know what you expect someone to talk about for half an hour when the game's entire gameplay is story

Damn this is fire, thanks for sharing

@@drewlov no problem! Couldn't find any information about the "Spear of Immortality" though...

Tulia names it "The Hunting Grounds" at the beginning of the game, so I went with that.

I think we are playing as humans yes, in some of the descriptions they describe animals as human like or as tall as humans

super late reply, but im in the same boat rn, listening to the album over and over while working/chilling etc. Really special.

@@_WhiteMage it's intentional. All of it, even if a bit hamfisted on its face, it's more about the characters, as most great fiction is. Robin is the only person left at the end of the world who is positive. Hope is gone from everyone, replaced with hopes that a fantasy they've been brainwashed into believing mystically comes true, having either taken part in the destruction of their homes and society, or sat and never fought back. I'm on playthrough 2 after 5 years, and this time, I've been going around the world finding NPCs to talk to who may have moved, or finishing sidequests I never completed back in 2019. It's interesting how there is specifically no true happy ending for anyone involving words. The man who lost his wife in a Penance of Settlement 17? He was in misery on the upper floor of his neighbor's house, having lost his in the act that crushed his wife to death. Much later, as I ran from Isilugar to go from one end of the world to the other, I found him at the edge of the ocean just outside the settlement. He's still slumped over, but he's no longer praying. He'd said he would try to understand what he or his wife had done wrong, but it looks like that was never going to happen. He talks to Robin, noting how she's always running around helping people, even those she doesn't know. But then he says sometimes people can't be helped with a pat on the back, that it's not enough. He says he'll be going far away, and not to worry about him. Finally... "My wife always wanted to teach me how to swim." That's not an angsty teenager. The neighbors he stayed with... a mother and young son. Elro (Robin's brother) had a house nearby which was Penanced early in the game, killing his wife and daughter (Robin's sister-in-law and niece). More on Elro after this, but the neighbor's son was good friends with the little girl, and by the end of the game, he's sulking by the settlement entrance. He doesn't move, just crouched on the ground. He says he hates his mother (who shunned Robin and called her a bad influence, only to ask for help when the son went missing, then shouted for Robin to leave once she got her boy back). He says his friends are all gone, and that he wants to punch something. That's a child who had his innocence and aspirations taken by death and religious fervor. The barmaid was supposedly taken away by One Concern soldiers says the barkeep, but later you find out she had met a soldier and basically tried to use him to score residence in the safe city... you listen in on a conversation earlier between the soldier and Agent Black, as he asks her for a ticket to give to the beautiful barmaid, which it seems he understands to be passage off-planet when the world ends. He was thinking of her, but she was only thinking of leaving town to escape penance by herself. She's selfish and cynical, without a view of the whole picture. There are many stories like these that remain unresolved, and show how vulnerable and weak people can be when we're inconsiderate to each other

@@Virjunior01 I don't think the melodrama is intentional because nobody I've heard praising the game has justified it. "You know how insufferable every major character is when they talk? Here's why that's a good thing..." Coupled with critical plot holes and go-nowhere hooks, it feels more like he wanted it to be taken seriously but lacked the writing talent to do so (he's conceded to making things up as he goes along). It seems accidental because he doesn't come off as well-adjusted--e.g. he's said being on the border of autism makes him the "perfect writer" because he's highly creative but still able to effectively communicate. That alongside taking potshots at things like Final Fantasy and Marvel (while his own stories suffer such major issues) makes it clear he has a wildly inflated sense of the quality of his work.

@@_WhiteMage I'm not saying it's the best, but that even such a strange approach can still have impact. It reminds me of Jeff from the long gone Shack News "Weekend Update" I think, talking about the hoopla surrounding the Mass Effect 3 ending. When it was said "it didn't have a satisfying ending," he said "guess what else probably won't have a satisfying ending? Your life!" Things don't always need to be wrapped up in a neat little bow, and I think there's a lesson to be taken from that. And the way the main characters behave is a direct result of ideologies clashing to a point where everyone's in so deep, there can BE no stepping back to look at a big picture. Everything has already gone too far to be repaired, and that's where the game _starts._ So no, there will be no "happy ending." It's seen most strongly in Royal's development, and somewhat lack thereof. He was groomed by a society that existed long enough to become an all-powerful force into believing himself chosen by a higher power, just in time to watch it all crumble by that belief system itself's deeds. And even worse for him, as seen in the story he tells of the birthing pools, people like he and the agents also have extreme longevity, and will live for _centuries._ So he not only gets to see his world burn, but the ashes left behind. Lastly, I'm learning a tale that mirrors his by finding the NPC Leticia hidden all over the world... it's an old tale of a guy "chosen by god" who falls in love with a human woman, and is destined to watch her grow old and die, then continue life without her. It's about human extremes and misery we can all relate to, as long as we do the bare minimum to try. It's about losing, which we all must do, despite our best efforts.

@@Virjunior01 "It's like real life" is the kind of sophomoric justification a writer makes to act like their newbie mistakes were intentional. Like the military/religion/government (all three are the same unambiguously evil entity here) is inexplicably dumb in banning all energy sources except the one it _knows_ destroys whatever celestial body it's mined from. That's the mandatory one for some reason. This can get justified with "Real world groups also do stupidly self-destructive things sometimes," but that's just the fallback I'd use to run cover for a weakness I'd accidentally written in from a lack of planning.

@@_WhiteMage but it's what works. When something is too outlandish and inauthentic, it goes the other way into crappiness. You know the common praise that a world feels "lived-in," by prop-design or world-building? That's by adding realism to things, thinking about how how they work, how they're fueled, where that fuel comes from... And even then, a lot of that can be jettisoned if your characters are strong, believable or both... look at Chainsaw Man. Your main characters are all the type of functioning psycho or scumbag who WOULD get into Devil Hunting, and as such, you honestly shouldn't really like most of them either. The most realistic ones are the most cowardly, also. The ones who aren't whining verbally still act out in self-destructive, painfully simple ways that still belie some kind of deep melancholy, even if it seems they're free of fear or caring. I think it's not really so much praising the writing abilities of somebody with "screws loose" who may not seek to study and refine storytelling itself, but the honesty in NOT doing so and putting out honest feelings instead. When read that way, you can see a nihilism or rejection in such works, which can be refreshing not only to people who those feelings resonate with, but to people who are _tired_ of established formulas.