天下制覇

Shoot me now.

Impressions:

Well, at least this was only marginally less tedious than the same section in the game, not that I would dare to compliment the slogfest this episode, especially after they apparently blew the budget last week. I’m glad that we got to change things up and obscure everything with fog gravitas this week instead of T3’s normal darkness. I can’t even remember if they’ve even brought up the magical elf-killing fog before this episode. That should tell you just about how much of a deus ex machina abuse it really is. I do find it funny that the only real change to Arawn when he switches to angel mode is that his clothes turn white and he glows. The game shares that cornball nonsense too though, so I can’t be too harsh here. You’d think that with 12 of these god-angels roaming around though, Arthur would at least try to make sure he has the right one before attempting to murder it.

So, yeah, to the shock and surprise of approximately nobody, Arawn’s one of the angels and that makes Arthur maaaaaaaaaad. Robble robble robble. That’s seriously all that happened this episode. There’s some more foreshadowing about Arawn’s past with Primula some mysterious girl totally unrelated to Riannon, but it’s just her crying at him for leaving her. Yes yes, foreshadowing about what’s about to happen to Riannon too. Frankly, I’m just glad they finally got this reveal out of the way, even if I had expected it to come some four or five episodes earlier. Hopefully they’ll also bring back whoever was responsible for last week’s episode for the upcoming fights too. It’s kind of painful to go from good ogre fights to five minutes of slogging through foggy zombies.

Preview:

Gaius invades, Arthur feels sorry for himself and kills some orcs.