天下制覇

…Still not going to be revealed…

Impressions:

Wow. Seriously? I guess maybe they’re just eschewing the final dungeon altogether, or maybe dumping it off for the DVDs. Not that I mind really since "Oh, I’m the real real culprit, a bored god. Let us kung-fu fight," doesn’t really work particularly well as the climax of the story either here or in the game. Hopefully that means they’ll pull all the Power of Friends Social Links stuff into the battle against Shadow Cabbage Eye then. That’s a much better way to end the story. The horrible Nanako death/revival probably didn’t help matters in general though. I’m not sure why the game even went for such a horrible attempt at machinated melodrama in the first place. The art wasn’t doing them any favors there either. Chie didn’t look like she was crying, she looked like she was afflicted with the mumps.

Anyway, as usual, I liked the changes they made to the game events, especially the scene where Yuu almost tosses Namatame through the TV in his grief/anger. It did get a little jumbled because they fell back into copy/pasting from the anime immediately after that which followed poorly. Namatame’s flashbacks were also handled fairly well and were a good way to replace him just telling them about it. Japan using flashbacks competently? Let’s throw a goddamned parade. The music also helped sell his mental state there. Most of the episode was still spent on autopilot though, and moving particularly slowly at that during a time when it should be at least beginning to drive towards the big reveal and ending.

Preview:

Cabbage… at least I hope.