Wednesday, October 22, 2014

M. Night Shyamalan would be ashamed, Koei.

Truly, whenever you do a crossover with a Nintendo franchise, you prove every time that you are the masters at crafting plot twists everyone already knows. You mean Sheik is Zelda? OMIGOSH! Only people who've played OoT or any Smash since Melee know that, and that's gotta be ten people at most! Seriously, the bigger surprise was that not even Impa was in on it this time, whereas she clearly was in OoT. The only thing more blatantly obvious than that would be to pass off a historical fact as a major twist. But that'd never happen, right? OH WAIT. (That'd be the shocking surprise of learning Oda Nobunaga and Oichi were siblings in Pokémon Conquest, for those who've never played it.)

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  1. To be fair I didn't know about Nobunaga and Oichi being brother and sister but then again they didn't really did much with that reveal IIRC so yeah kinda pointless. (seriously you'd think she'd at least get a defeat Nobunaga's army in 3 year type of Special Episode or something)

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    1. Well it's not something everyone knows, but it's still a historical fact nonetheless.

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  2. Have you beaten the Palace of Twilight yet? There's another completely obvious reveal in the cutscene at the end of that. This game's cheesiness blows my mind sometimes.

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    1. To be fair, I only figured it out because Cia has a maskless costume. Otherwise, it was more of a Bravely Default-type thing.

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    2. Oh, by the way, the reveal of the Majora's Mask moon as anything more than the least intimidating "scary" plot device other than Slenderman was ABSOLUTELY UNEXPECTED. Loved every second of it.

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    3. OK, maybe it wasn't completely obvious, but I did guess that about as soon as Lana was introduced. They're both original characters, Lana is the 'Sorceress of Light' while Cia is the 'Sorceress of Darkness', and it snapped for me right after the cutscene where Cia was said to have "had the light driven from her". What I don't understand is how they're supposed to look the same. The faces, sure, but they have entirely different hair and skin colors, and maybe it's just the clothes, but Cia seems more 'robust' to me.

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    4. har har he said "bust"

      I'll show myself the door, thank you.

      Seriously, this is the kind of clue that I'd pick up more on subsequent playthroughs, to be perfectly honest.

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    5. Maybe it's the actual message Tecmo Koei are trying to pass, revealing outfits ARE evil after all ! D:
      (Just kidding)

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