Tales of the Abyss #11 — Dist Freakin’ Everywhere

December 6th, 2008

 

That’s a disquieting thought.

Impressions:

Well, I was wondering how they were going to stretch out Keterberg to last 20 minutes, and the answer was to cram Dist into every available oriface and stretch out the cutscenes. I did sort of like seeing the flashbacks into Jade’s past instead of just hearing about it, but from the game, I had gotten the impression that Jade was quite a bit older when he fell in love with Nebilim and became obsessed with the seventh fonon. I think that makes his story a bit more powerful than just some little puppy love with a Fullmetal Alchemist ending. Otherwise, not a ton of changes, just a languorous pace. They switched things up to Jade telling Luke about Nebilim instead of Nephry and threw in I think every single little aside from the game about Dist that random townspeople or skits reveal, but that’s about it.

Honestly though, a very uneventful episode that was about 50% flashback and 95% talking heads. Sure, I was expecting it to be pretty lame, but that doesn’t mean that I need to forgive it. At least Nephry is easy on the eyes. Those backgrounds on the other hand… What happened Sunrise? Forget how to animate moving backgrounds? Either that, or the party was competing in a race to be the slowest walkers ever while simultaneously whining about how cold it is.

Preview:

Theor, Guy’s Curseslot, St Binah, and Peony… oh my!

Posted in Tales of the Abyss | 4 Comments »

4 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Katsumi-chan says:

    Boring episode XD

  • SageSoren says:

    The hide-and-seek part is next. Wow. :’DDDD

  • Regret says:

    wow great episode ^__^

  • annoyed fan of a rose says:

    (Run for the hills if you must. It’s a needless rant.)

    Jade was not, not, NOT. “In love” with Nebelim. *rolls eyes* (Alight, more like *fumes and stops self from flailing*)

    And it mentions that Jade was nine when she died anyway.

    Wait, wait. You’d have to have seen how young he was if you actually completed the Nebelim side quest in the game and saw the flashback with him and Saphir. O_o

    *snorts* So how little did you actually see before deciding that Jade MUST have been “in love” romantically with the first thing in a skirt that he had a real connection to?

    /I hate het seekers who jump to conclusions rant

    Do you KNOW how much it takes before a potential Yaoi or Yuri (Well, less for Yuri. -_- Funny how gaming guys never feel like negative yelling directed at THOSE rarities.) pair is accepted as more then fandom nonsense or even as logical? Out right confirmation is the least confirmation I’VE ever seen. It takes alot to make a pairing “canon”. Even if it has the utterly abused privilege of being hetero. Personally I won’t let that be forgotten so easily.

    (Then again, I feel pretty good. I mean every single other place I’ve gone in the fandom besides just you seemed not to have snubbed JadexSaphir hints. Far from it, thankfully. Even if some were sort of “Eww, get it away” about it. o_O Go majority of abyss fandom. ^^)