天下制覇

Far more pleasant than a dick in a box.

Impressions:

Loathe as I am to say it, I really didn’t like the way they handled Octavia switching sides in this version, though from what I gathered, it’s pretty close to the PS2 version. A lot of that isn’t her fault so much as Lydia’s and surprisingly, Arawn’s. Lydia dropped about four notches on the villanous threat-o-meter^(tm) this week by spending almost five minutes ranting and raving at a bound and gagged Octavia. Combine that with her apparently being no match at all for the now defected Octavia, and it’s now hard for her to seem like much of a physical threat to the rest of the scooby gang either.

The problem I had with Arawn is that while the original way he convinced Octavia to defect (accidentally making her think he wanted to marry her… and then some light bondage lovin’) it was at least relatively in character for him all around. Here, he flipped out, lost his temper for the first time thus far and started punching walls. This from a man whose typical reaction is a sarcastic comment and rolling his eyes. I feel like he’s betrayed my kind. And this came after the rather questionable decision to leave an unknown enemy soldier roaming around in their own supply depot just after torching the enemy’s supplies. Shouldn’t the thought that the enemy might do the same thing as you just did have crossed his mind? Or at the very least, he could have tracked down the enemy soldier running around in their base instead of ignoring them to go chill with Ogam.

Also, maybe it’s just me, but I’m pretty sure that Octavia’s chest steadily increased in size during that entire Lydia ranting session. I think someone had her implants hooked up to the helium.

Preview:

Octavia fits in. Minus the bondage sex.