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[scarletmorning]

So, I'm back home again. Since Wednesday, really, but time zones, man. They're harsh.

Also, I want to write more again. And I saw one Asthar prompt on fic_promptly , begging me to fill it ...

Soon. 8D



(Gotta find it again first, oop.)

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[oneill]

Oh my, whatever could this be?

. . . SOON™

[oneill]

ALSO I will work on those Odin Sphere prompts. Hearthstone and Echo Bazaar have been eating all my gaming time of late.

[scarletmorning]

Yay~

Why is Odin Sphere so beautiful, TELL ME. The art is so gorgeous. Anatomy is, uhm, creative, but the background is so pretty.

[oneill]

I don't KNOW. I've been looking through the official art going "ooooooh" (POOR HINDEL ;_;). Mega-boobs aside, I actually like Kamitani's stylized anatomy, like how the proportions of Odin's arms and legs are so exaggeratedly off. Gwendolyn and Griselda are pretti. And I'm weirdly fond of this. AND ALL OF IT, BASICALLY.

[scarletmorning]

THE DRAGONS MAKE SO SAD ;A; Poor Belial, being forced to be a slave to an asshole. It's damn beautiful, though, when he eats the wizard. And Hindel <3

I generally like the designs of the dwarves, valkyries and berserkers. And Pookas. The fairies are all veeeery odd apart from Mercedes (she's so CUTE). Also the end bosses. Not exactly beautiful, but soooo cool.

I need to get a new Mercedes icon, seriously. SO ADORABLE. Great story, also.

[oneill]

ngl, the dragons are what keep me from completing a replay of Odin Sphere. I keep firing it up, all excited to play again, and then I remember the dragons, and I CAN'T I JUST CAN'T MURDER THEM ALL AGAIN PLSSSSSS I CANNOT

I like the fairies' stained-glass wings.

Poookaaaaaaas. By all rights, they're exactly the type of character I ought to hate, but somehow they are adorable and charming instead.

Yes, the end bosses are amaze. Almost enough to overcome the soul-sucking depression of the ending.

. . . ALMOST.

Yeah, I have zero Odin Sphere icons. I must needs rectify this grave error.

[scarletmorning]

True, the wings are pretty and their palace as well. But those male soldiers? No, no.

Probably because their backstory. If they were like the moogles in FF I probably wouldn't like them as well. But they're still regular people who were cursed.

The ending ;A; I still remember how I got the bad ending first. I let Oswald (unknowingly) fight again Onyx and THEN HE TURNED INTO ONE OF THOSE WANDERING SOULS. Calling for Gwendolyn before he forgot who he and she was. I had to stop after that. I couldn't finish that savegame. The good ending is only slightly better, though. Still so sad ;A;

I did find a few on icon comms on lj, but I only took those I liked. They were not many, but very pretty ones.

[oneill]

Ooookay, I definitely agree about the male soldiers. Those guys look like derpy humans in rented armor and desperate need of a haircut. Shoulda just stuck to Unicorn Knights.

I think you've nailed it. The backstory goes a long way. Also the ears. The floppy, floppy ears. And the FOOD.

ogod, my compulsive completionism forced me to play EVERY SINGLE BAD ENDING ONE AFTER THE OTHER. The, er, Good Ending did nothing to heal my wounds. NOTHING.

[scarletmorning]

The food is as beautifully drawn as the rest. (But the voices of the server pookas' are so GRATING. Worst voices in the game)

;A; Mercedes made me swallow hard. (I actually forgot how exactly Cornelius went out. Did he die "off-screen"?) But Mercedes' is also my second favourite story.

[oneill]

Hmm, I don't remember hating the servers' voices, but it has been a while. Which language track did you use?

Darn you, Mercedes, makin' me feel things. (泣) I'd actually forgotten what happened to Cornelius as well, but apparently he gets eaten by his monster grandpa. I guess that one didn't hit as hard as the others.

[scarletmorning]

English. They're really high ~perky~

And Velvette was blown up with the cauldron, wasn't she? Argh, it's too long ago. Even though I started a new playthrough just before my vacation. I need to continue that...

[oneill]

Ah. That is obnoxious.

Velvette dies killing monster!Ingway. She holds his dead body for the last few moments and thinks to herself that they'll be going to see their mother again. :(((

[scarletmorning]

Oh, yeah. Ingway is a character that I just don't know if I like him or not. Sometimes he's really unlikeable, but his backstory is also deliciously tragic. And when he was Frogway, I did like him more. Maybe he could be more of his "normal" self as a frog. (Basically, I like him during Mercedes' story and dislike him during Velvette's)

<3 Yotsuba

[oneill]

That's my take on Ingway as well. FROGWAY 4EVER

I need to reread Yotsuba sometime soon. I could use an infusion of joy and wonder.

[scarletmorning]

And they're at a petting zoo once and there are guinea pigs 8D Piggies~~~