天下制覇

It’ll help. Trust me.

Impressions:

For a moment, I was almost hopeful. It began with Alcor attempting to tentacle rape Yamato. That’s a fertile ground just waiting to be fertilized with all kinds of horrible comments. Alas, apparently that wasn’t important enough for us to watch, because the time was instead spent trying to crowbar in some eleventh hour character to the only other still living character old enough to cross the road without supervision just so that when she used her flesh to ‘stop’ dozens of tentacles from stabbing him, we’d supposedly feel something. Ignoring, as usual, that flesh makes a very poor stopping material to something that’s been gouging out iron and stone, and that she was standing about four feet away from him, so all she stopped were the attacks that would have hit… four feet away. I wish Japan would just give up that particularly awful trope already.

Yada yada, his download completes, instantly one shots Alcor, but since we’re a grand opera, if people don’t instantly die, they hang around for-goddamned-ever, never shutting up, until both can explode in a tentacle love cocoon, which Yamato emerged from relatively unscathed anyway, so I don’t even know what that was for. I think the VAs this week might have been paid every time they said "Yamato," because good fucking god. If you were playing a DS2 drinking game and had to drink every time they said it, you’d probably be enjoying this a lot more than I did. Or be dead from alcohol poisoning. You can hasten the process by drinking every time there’s a goddamned flashback too.

I did appreciate though, as two of the three stooges were being eaten by plot device, he looked over at his pet tiger and shared a look of pure love, and right then, they knew that everything was going to turn out just fine.