|OT| Girls’ Frontline 2: Exilium | 1.5th Anniversary (Jun 25th)

Finished Liushih's event. That was a lot of fun.

Picking up from Basti's mischievous event at Port Mica, Hero Squad arrived at Cliffwatch Town and bumped into Liushih and Zhisui. The writers and localisers are getting very comfortable at making references and jokes, and honestly? Keep them coming. Every time Sweeper opened her mouth, I turn into Nicolas Cage:
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What if things go wrong? We must seek the wheelchairs Voymastina and Klukai! What if Phaetusa / Sweeper doesn't have enough battery to move? Maybe turns into Corrosion Dollblade+25 and gets wielded by Hero Dushe! Oh, and don't forget that Voymastina is the best chef on Elmo.

Back to the story, I really like that there is a call back to Mokosh event. Back in Mokosh, Vasily said Commander is so idealistic that it scared him - wielding great power but have no desire towards material wealth or personal gain. This time Liushih did exactly the same - she only wants to use her wealth to help people, and this certainly is really fucking weird in the eyes of normal people living in the Yellow Zone. The writers want us to know that Liu had clearly inherited something from the Commander, like many other Griffin dolls, and I think this writing is very effective.

Meanwhile, I do have questions towards the ending. Dilu (it's the name of Liu Bei's horse, btw) managed to break through its base layer and there's a white light emitted from Liu and Dilu. I do wonder if this is simply a deus ex machina of this story. But how Zhisui made a big fuss about it (rightfully so) seems to be hinting that there's something bigger at play here. A bit weird.

Nonetheless, this is a good one, full of funny and exciting moments. This seems like a side story but the Commander once again gains something critical, a fully-functional weapon production plant in the Yellow Zone. Anyway, for now I look forward to reading Hero Squad next adventure.
 
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Finished Luishi's event. Enjoyed it. The adventures of the "hero" party never disappoint, and I like seeing how despite not making a dent into the corpos pockets all the things the commander and the dolls are doing are still causing real change in the yellow zone. It has been a common point with most returning doll side events but it's interesting to see how, by Persica's own words, "the dolls under that person command are all showing signs of evolving" and how it's starting to happen to the dolls under those dolls commands as seen with Dilu's stopping her own self destruct code. Like the Doll Community power plant, it seems obvious the yellow zone is hiding lots of "things of interest" like the perfectly functioning manufacturing plant which the commander is slowly discovering as the tomato emperor
A shame the gacha nature of this game means it's unlikely we will ever see the Nixcalibur combo attack in all its glory during gameplay
Curious to see who's the backup joining Alva soon
 
  • Comfy
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