very tragic that you can't take PSP game screenshots on a Vita. grabbed Let Us Cling Together, though

the game has its OWN screenshot function??

they're so small. how cute

me: oh I love Vyce I hope I keep him forever

uncontrollable Vyce battle AI: rushes in and gets KO'd in the /tutorial/ battle

me:

way to out denam as morosexual in the first hour

wow, counts every body and where they're from, huh

I'M SORRY, WHAT???

I really appreciate the ability to roll back turns like save states. I might love video games, but I am bad at video games, and Vyce AI Loves To Die

[crying] he's so dumb. he's an idiot. how has he stayed alive for 18 years

this is it. this is the game so far.

I save Vyce from death how many times and THIS is how he repays me??

I'm Chaotic Alignment now, and all I had to do was disagree with massacring an entire village for War Purposes

This Sucks!

he even tried to win over my sister but not me, like what's your deal!! what's with this massive grudge, childhood friend!!!

20 battles without screwing up and turning back time is Amazing. Real gamer skill here

It's much better than Knight of Lodis at humanizing the people you kill to survive...

Gaye Rights!

Some of the dialogue...

Why Are You LIKE This?

I want off mr. vyce's wild ride

denam saying he'd still go back to being vyce's friend despite the betrayal and the cruelty and all the crimes vyce's committed

Boy..... You hurt me

Vyce genuinely goes around to his allies like "HANDS OFF. He's MINE (TO KILL)"

vyce, buried under years of unmanaged resentment and aggression:

Denam is so good at relationships!

vyce: I fight because the only thing I can control is bloodshed

denam: I fight because the only thing I can understand is tactics

catiua: I don't even want to fucking BE here, brother!!!

all right edgelord

h? Hhh? HHHHHHHHHHHHH

I'm fine? [progressively shriller] I'm fine? it's fine?? it's fine?!

vyce crying out to denam at his execution, who isn't there, and has no knowledge of it

haha. this sucks, man

I did it :) :) :)

I had no idea this sidequest would be so fucked. why. why

only $10 for constant crying, what a deal! amazing. astounding. not what I signed up for but all right!

tolerating the Hanging Gardens in exactly one way

Denam is doing well!

TENTACLE EYE EGG?

DONE... the final battle was unbelievably easy because the enemy just kept targeting my wizard, who dodged almost everything. thanks my dude...

Chaos path accomplished, Law path next... I'm excited because that list of recruitable characters is ?!?

So glad to go back in time and have to take care of suicidal AI Vyce again

U N B E L I E V A B L E

I can only understand this as

Chaos route: Leonar REALLY got into and twisted his brain before this

Law route: [Leonar voice] wait, did I forget to speak to someone

Now that's the Vyce I know :)

man yeah it makes you feel so bad for the massacre choice. good that it's a real choice and not something forced

Denam is such a SCUMBAG in this route

Getting a fresh dose of hurt still....

my reputation precedes me.

Getting level 1 classes at level 30 is so unbearably cruel.

lol balxephon this route like "you have killed SO many people, how very cool and sexy and ruler-like of you"

Curb your Enthusiasm over war crimes old man

Law is not actually very interesting, and only seems to feature very good recruitable characters and war crime shaming. which is fair, but I'd also like a story

I wasn't sure if I'd do Neutral route right away, but I miss messy Chaos Vyce and Denam too much to let it end with this one...

(my longest yeah boy ever)

oh.... her tongue is so sharp it's her ranged weapon....

Took the time to train witch sherri this route and sweet nelly

M U R D E R M A C H I N E

players that don't encourage evasive skills are just jealous of my 60 to 80% evasion rates

Finally about caught up with Ozma :muscle:

??!?

what this game does and does not prioritize in lessening repetition amazes me.

HHHHGK

It's real vycedenam suffering hours once more

[desperately trying to not have this affect my rational thoughts] anyway Law route having the same ending with some different characters being alive is weird and disappointing.

Vyce should have played a part in chapter 4, and Denam should like, feel very bad, maybe be punished for, the war crime, or something

Neutral Route Begins: oh god

I was afraid this might be the route we kill him. my fear is Growing

YES my army accepts zombies with mismatched body parts!

why is vyce. I feel

there's something compelling about how vyce or denam tries to force a death rivalry in each route but it never plays out. what an intense lack of closure for both of them in neutral/chaos.

I wrote something like this in the past, actually. deeply involved people who move to opposing sides in a conflict, set on dealing with each other... but one is killed by another person instead, and they're unable to reconnect despite that... Thrilling

chaos/neutral vyce seeking to kill denam is him trying to kill the ideal life he could never have, but he cares too much about the person behind the ideal to carry out his threats despite burning his bridges :)

though he's definitely also big mad about denam's privileged ignorance about how literally everyone around him feels.

neutral vyce going so far in refusing to repair that bridge that he drives himself into a one-man suicidal corner is so harsh. "you're picking denam over me, like everyone else" I'm sure

All routes done! And I'm. . So sad. But that incapacitation count makes me laugh at least

I really beat myself silly to raise my chaos frame high enough to recruit Cressida.

Class grinding is fair and good .......

Why is Cressida Law-aligned, exactly. Are her general thoughts on respecting the dead enough for that?

Bonus of all this Lord+Princess grinding: got two elemental Marauder Knives to drop for Vyce. He is Unstoppable.

Lord and Princess should share an EXP bar like Witch / Wizard and Rune Fencer / Valkyrie. why must it be this way.