So, about 404 Game Re:Set (2)
//Part 2 of 3//
I realise after exploring a few menus that the button that leads you to all the games playable modes is still active, but only to show you the main story it seems. And My cursor was hovering over a single stage icon for chapter 10. So I watched it through and basically... MC wakes up to find that everything is different. Their world is no longer being controlled by SEGA. And Ribbon is gone. 404 Game Re:Set is gone too.
And to me it was... bizarrely heart wrenching.
I never really liked sitting through stories where someone sacrifices themselves to save people only to basically disappear from existence. They make me all teary-eyed and miserable.
Suppose the game couldn't just leave me on that note though, as the game reset itself (...Ha.) to the title screen. Only... Ribbon was completely gone. Or at least... A glitch silhouette of her remained. I swear, she was there when I opened the game up earlier, but now... I go back into 'memories' and... Any mention of Ribbon in-game is glitched. There's just a glitchy silhouette now. Even 'Ribbon Run' won't display her name right. Even in in-game cutscenes she's absent and glitched. Dialogue was still intact, but she's gone.
This hurt.
I know people are going to say that it's just a game. And I know that it's tear-jerker bait or guilt-trippy. But I really couldn't help but cry...
Draglia Lost finished it's story with EoS on it's shoulders. Some games don't even get to do that... But, ouch...
After this I close the game and go to charge my phone since it's low battery. And when I come back my phone had turned itself off. And in a panic I go to check to see if the games cache is still around, since sometimes my phone will delete the cache of things when it turns off in this way. The cache is gone. Still a hefty 5.9GB from the game itself... but the cache is gone. I check to see if this affected anything in the game and... I can't open 'memories' anymore.
What a shame.
Ah...
This really hurt. I guess it's not just because of the "erased from existence thing". Guess I got attached to the game and the music and its premise and maybe even the characters a little.
I know it's not the greatest game ever made. I know some people will complain about it being sub-par, or boring, or too confusing, or too difficult. And yeah, the summon rates weren't the best and gems were hard to come by.
But I think I had fun even so. Or at least, it was nice to come in when I could, level up my characters and clear story stages and so on. I did like fighting the bosses, even if some of them were recycled (R.A.I.S. bosses seem to be similar to the story mode bosses). I like that chapter 9 let you fight against event bosses like Elevator Action, The Legend of Kage and Pac-Man one last time (I never had the chance to fight Pac-Man the first time so this was awesome to me). It would have been cool if they let us, at least, fight those bosses... But I understand.
I recognized a strange number of games that were in this game. The House of the Dead, Fantasy Zone, Xevious, Elevator Action, Pengo, Darius to name a few. People were saying that they should have used more recognizable franchises but... Street Fighter and Pac-Man were in the game. Puyo Puyo was in the game and I've been a fan of Puyo Puyo for years, so that was pretty cool. Even though all she talked about was E-Sports... Every cast member technically had a hyperfixation of some sort though so it's not unusual. With more time, maybe we could have gotten Resident Evil, or Tekken, Mega Man, Silent Hill, Mortal Kombat, maybe? But now... We may not be able to get an anime girl called 'Sonic the Hedgehog' but, oh well.
The whole Andoe and Cathode dynamic was interesting too. I could go into depth about some of my favorites (Fantasy Zone's was pretty interesting and not just a case of 'X is good and I love it' vs. 'Y sucks and humans bad') but this is long enough already.
//Concluded in part 3//