天下制覇

God, my brain hurts now.

Impressions:

I think I made it around ten minutes before the cloying squeaking made my brain begin to ache. Christ, it’s like someone told them all to speak through their noses and take their voices up half an octave to be as obnoxiously cloying as possible. Most of them don’t talk so much as let out a constant nasally whine, Neptune especially who can’t speak at anything below a shout. It’s not even the normally squeaky Rie. Yes, I get that you want to do different voices for the different forms, but talking normally in the rare form and talking through your nose for the regular one just makes me want to throttle all of you.

And since the ‘fight’ just involved stills, half of them being molested and left drenched in ‘slime,’ I feel comfortable asserting that we’re not taking the high road in any way shape or form. So yes, production’s unsurprisingly unambitious despite its overtures of fighting dragons. It could have tried to paper over things by at least being hooking with the plot, but that doesn’t go anywhere either besides "Yay friends! We’re all such friends! Friends, friends, friends, friends, friends, friends, friends!" At best, it brought back already unpleasant memories of my brief flirtation with the games, but I’m not sure if lacking the break for the horrible gameplay improved things or not. Wear earplugs.