#and lost his shit when zelda confirmed that shes fucking dead actually

[drragonn]

         me when i ‘forget’ to take my meds

[magaprima]

Episode 6 liveblog

The way Ambrose is always like PLEASE Sabrina just listen to me.

Omg Lilith is crying on her own holding onto the swaddling and pretending Adam is still alive. And I am fucking crying so hard for her, my beautiful queen. And Hilda being like ‘ooh Adam has been so quiet’ and Lilith saying ‘he’s an Angel’ and it having a double meaning because her poor baby is gone.

VINEGAR TOM!!!!

When mambo marie is saying every returned is an eldritch terror and Zelda is just not letting go of the dog

Old friend???? Mambo marie??? Old friend???

What has harvey found...? Well this guitar feels a bit infernal. Did Harvey just open hell’s gates with a guitar riff? And it was possibly his dad’s??

Don’t say over my dead body to demons

Ah the classic dragged back in trope. Haha

Mambo is playing a game to solve this problem? That sounds extremely risky

EDWARD. And he doesn’t even know he’s dead. So poor Sabrina can’t even say she’s his daughter. And oh Zelda is in denial

OH MY GOD LILITH IS LOSING HERSELF IN HER GRIEF AND BEGGING HER SON’S FORGIVENESS. OH ITS SO AGONISINGLY PAINFUL SHES LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF A FUCKING VICTORIAN TRAGEDY AND I NEED TO HUG HER AND GET HER SON BACK.

And then dr cee calling his mum the other love of his life is a bit of a wee red flag for me

Satanic panic are erm....dated.

Why was lucifer looking like himself in the past? When he was goat boy for millennia? I presume this is a glamour. Also harvey playing his own dad haha

Wait did dr Cee’s mum kill all of his girlfriends or is that just the eldritch talking?

So not sure how well this game is going with Mambo and Lazarus. Basically saying what the Nazarene did was a torment

Sabrina trying to rush out all her life to father and convince him that she’s his daughter. Wait is what he’s saying the truth? Or is this just the eldritch terror? How much is truth and how much is lie?

Oh my god Dorcas remembering that she died. This hurts more than expected

‘At least I’m still alive you walking cadaver’ is the best retort ever from Hilda to mrs cosgrove

WHY THE FUCK IS DR CEE HESITATING AGAINST SIDING WITH HILDA WHEN HIS ‘MOTHER’ IS TRYING TO FUCKING KILL HILDA?? I’m getting more bloody red flags from him now. But at least he wants her dead again haha

Oh poor Lilith constantly hearing the cries. And going to caliban to help her die because she’s so desperate to be done with this life and the grief is that consuming that she just wants to be gone. I wouldn’t say she’s suicidal, as that essentially simplifies it; this is someone who knows there’s a life beyond and has lived for thousands of years and is now done with it. And wants to end the immortality she was cursed with by lucifer. Which is different. And you understand it entirely. And it’s FUCKING HEARTBREAKING especially for someone who said that self preservation was the most important thing and that she always survives. Lilith is suffering so much

‘I was their manager’ lucifer was the manager of satanic panic pfft haha. And is still a fan of their music apparently. And Sabrina calling out his bullshit like ‘nah you can’t pull them back can you?’

And Sabrina being rejected by two fathers. Don’t worry Sabrina, mother figures are much better

Oh god Lilith is literally being driven insane by the cries of her dead baby.

LILITH PRAYING TO HECATE FOR STRENGTH. AND CALLING ZELDA ‘SISTER ZELDA’ and saying it’s for atonement breaks my heart. But the way she immediately perks up when she thinks Lazarus could resurrect her child. It’s all about Baby Adam now and my heart breaks even more

They’re summoning the dead/murdered homecoming queen?

OMG THEYRE DOING THE TIME WARP!!!!! I’m dying hahahaha I thought i would hate this band thing but this has won me over haha

And Sabrina coming in with another band entry. Interesting. GET READY TO LOSE YOUR SHIT haha. Ooh another good song choice

Lilith coming to marie and Lazarus and actually saying excuse me in genuine politeness and asking for Lazarus to bring him back. And the pain and tears in her voice and expression when she asks and when he says no. AND THEN SHE FUCKING STABS HIM IN THE BACK!!!! FUCK YES!!!

‘I didn’t do it for you’ is such a heartbreaking reply. And then marie saying ‘You will receive not the boon you sought but a boon’ and kissing her own the forehead. MY HEART CANT TAKE THE EMOTIONS OF PART 4 I CANT TAKE IIIITTTTTTTTTTT

I even teared up at the homecoming queen getting some of her retribution.

Sabrina in the battle of the bands is cheering me up though

WHY DOES MARIE HAVE TO GO BACK WITH THE DEAD??? WAIT SHES NOT MAMBO MARIE? WAIT SHES A FUCKING SPIRIT??????? SHES FROM THE UNDERWORLD?????? WHAAAT??????!!!!!!!!!!!

ZELDA’S HEART IS NOW ALSO BROKEN???????? Too many emotions!!!

And Dorcas ‘I don’t wanna be dead’ TOO MANY EMOTIONS

Omg she gave Agatha back her sanity?? How??? That was Dorcas’ parting gift? Forgiving her freed her from the madness?

Okay I am fed up of crying over Part 4. So much fucking emotion

ADAM SAID MAMA from beyond the grave he said MAMA and it comes from the doll that Adam 2.0 gave her and which Lilith has fucking kept with her. What did the chain coming off mean though? For Lilith to break the chains that bind? Or something else? Either way it’s inspired Lilith not to die but to take her revenge and take everything back. But if someone has figured out the chain thing, please tell me.

But my god Adam saying Mama and Lilith’s fucking reaction to it. Aaaaaaaaaah. I mean we know Marie was the spirit of the underworld so when she kissed Lilith’s head and said she’d have a boon, I feel hearing ‘mama’ is it, it confirms that Adam might not be in this world, but he is in the next. His soul lives which means all hope is not lost and I think that’s why Lilith doesn’t throw the blade in the fire and rethinks her entire plan and attitude. Vengeful Mother is here. But if that Mama really was Marie’s gift......ow but also beautiful.

ZELDA GOT TO KEEP VINEGAR TOM!!!! ‘MARIE’ gave it as a gift?????

too many emotions!!!!!! Too. Many. Emotions!

[hyliandeku]

At Last

All three of you who were keeping up with my updates regarding my progress in Xenoblade Chronicles X are probably very concerned where I have been the past several days.

Well, I did it. Tuesday night is when I finally beat the story of Xenoblade Chronicles X, and oh boy, I have a lot to talk about, because holy hell, it was amazing. Story spoilers below.

I had been very slightly spoiled about Lao being the traitor as early as Chapter 6, because I use the wiki to figure out where the heart-to-hearts were, and the Bioware-fanboy read “Lao’s Heart-to-Hearts will no longer be available after Chapter 9″ as “Hey, nerd! This dude’s gonna bite the dust so damn hard in Chapter 9, so watch it!”

Then he didn’t die, really, which I thought was odd, but I accidentally learned he would climax in Chapter 11 (thank you, Internet), so I accepted it.

See, my prediction was, the Ganglion had already found the Lifehold, and Lao, turning traitor to keep humanity alive just a little bit longer, had already transitioned to his human body, and when you fight him in Chapter 11, he would actually die permanently.

Boy was I wrong. Dead fucking wrong.

Because I get there, in this very final-boss-looking chamber, and I see no pods whatsoever. They were probably somewhere apart from the power switch. Understandable. Then Luxaar smashes his way into the Core.

It took me four attempts to beat his Skell from Hell, all four of my Skells smashed to bits on the floor. In the heat of the moment, as adds are swarming the party (who is now forced to fight on foot because my pride refuses to restart the entire mission), Angela Bedford and I figure out a hyper-advanced combat technique at the last possible moment: Infinite Overdrive. Trash Talk generated so much TP thanks to all the adds, and when I discovered I could spend 3,000 TP to refresh the timer, and Mindstorm/Shield Wall extended the overall timer length, well, we became invincible. Angela, Elma, Lin, and Irina became immovable goddesses of chaos. I wasn’t even doing that much damage myself, mostly spamming Trash Talk, Supershield, Shield Wall and Mindstorm (and an occasional Wild Down because Topple is so important).

It was one of the most glorious moments in my gaming career.

Then came the killer: there were no bodies in the Lifehold. Lao’s seemingly delusional comment in Cauldros rang true: our real bodies died on Earth. The genetic code of 20 million people was stored in this Core with the information needed to reconstruct organic bodies after the fact.

My brain hadn’t imploded quite that hard in six years, since Zelda had revealed she was the goddess Hylia reborn in Skyward Sword. I lost my mind.

Then Luxxar comes back (big surprise), and starts ranting about shit, talking about how humanity should not have been the failsafe or something.

But that didn’t last long.

Because Lao the badass promptly spears him through the chest.

“Principles? You deal with a traitor, you really shouldn't be surprised...when you get stabbed in the BACK!“

“Oh, I remember all right. My family'd still be here if you hadn't brought your damned war to our doorstep! Because of you, there's only 20 million of us left... That leaves 9.98 billion reasons for me to want you dead. You who took my wife and daughter away from me...Luxaar!“

I have never cheered so hard. I never, in my life, would have guessed Lao would end up the tragic hero of this story. Flawless execution. Oh my God, I shuddered at his dialogue. Fan-fucking-tasic. I can’t stop ranting about how awesome that was.

Adn then there was the final fight with the Lao-abomination thingie. I still don’t quite understand how the fuck that happened, but dat music, though.

“Let's find the key we've lost

As all the people cry in vain

Just try to live your life

The endless sky where I can fly

Tell me what you're thinking

Tell me your way

The end is always here

What a locked up world

There's a voice that saves your heart and my soul

And the sun goes down with all my faults

So where's your feeling

And where is your life?

All the clouds hang dark

No one is ever seen”

Don’t mind me, I’ve been listening to this song on loop for two days straight.

As the credits finally began to roll, I came to an important conclusion. This is the greatest game I have ever played in my entire life. Sorry Dragon Age, Mass Effect. Sorry, Skyward Sword. This game was unlike anything I have ever played. And I loved every second of it.

But I’m not done. 105 hours, 55% survey completion. Nowhere close.

BTW: The post-credit scene is so obviously sequel-bait it actually wounded me. While I am miffed Xenoblade decided to drop such a bomb in my lap and then do nothing with it, I’m willing to let it slide for now, as long as Monolith Soft can confirm Xenoblade Chronicles X2 is in the works somewhere. If not, I’ll actually be a bit mad.

BTW2: It’s a damn good thing I beat the story, because Pokemon USUM came out this morning and I need to switch fandoms quickly.