#colphne

[rennebright]

コルフェン by fieryonion [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

[okutadecyl]

トレース元 : https://youtu.be/Soy4jGPHr3g?si=--uF5D6xudIFNWNY

[commander-frostii]

[officialyasen]

Training Uniform Combat Gear for Groza, Nemesis, Krolik, and Colphne (These four skins are free from completing a series of starter missions)

[vanquishedvaliant]

Desperate for more story chapters not so I can learn what happens but so Colphne can finally say fuck and show us what her fucking damage is

Very much did not expect her to the highlight of the story alongside the Mayling Protection Squad but she has truly stolen the show

[kayoshibe]

I FORGOT I SET THIS AS MY HOMESCREEN

[ryo-maybe]

I had sworn off mobage forever but I missed the gun girlies enough to give gf2 a spin and pretend NC was just a sauceless fluke, and hot damn I bounced off it hard. The Commander is a genuinely interesting pov character rather than the usual self insert, which makes it all the more sadder that the rest of the main crew was seemingly written by someone who studied at the Love Live Sunshine Writing Academy because these are some of the most one note girls I've ever seen pivot entirely around obnoxious quirks. The tsundere bunny is less of a tsundere and just straight up annoying, her pal speaks entirely in what feels like machine translated poetry for a gimmick that grows old within 5 minutes, Colphne has a good concept (character who puts on a chipper façade to hide a deep-seated trauma) handled with all the skill of a drunken juggler, Groza is the 56585th iteration of Your Devoted Gacha Assistant, and man, the moment Not!Rosmontis came out of the box and started setting herself up as the adoptable weapon of mass destruction I completely tuned out. The rollable guns are animated and act like they're trying to get cast in the trailer for a live 2d Azur Lane skin. This shit's Dire

[legofrans]

Colphne is fucking annoying. . . . .

[pocketbelt]

Girls' Frontline 2: Chapter 8 (PC)

In one of my prior posts about one of the major story events in GFL1, I stated that the story was crippled by the writers refusing to let enemy faction Paradeus take any sort of L, no matter how minor or temporary or insignificant. It's good to have it straight confirmed that even with the total destruction of their main lair and the previous story event in GFL1 having its members complain about lack of resources and logistics, apparently they still just successfully fake losing and walk away to try again.

On the one hand, given its massive glow-up and all, Girls' Frontline 2 does have to consider that some of its audience (probably a significant amount, if not the majority if it really blows up in future) are brand new to the setting, story and don't know what happened in GFL1. So you do have to do a bit of re-introduction and re-establishment of things, but even then, I feel like the amount of time given over to talking about Paradeus units, the time given to depicting their fake religious rituals used to get experiment victims from the downtrodden, etc is simply too much. It becomes repetitive, it belabours its point and it drags on and on, returning to the worst excesses of wordiness from GFL1. You could cut much of it down and lose nothing.

The other core part of this chapter, the resolution to Colphne's pursuit of one of the men who killed her beloved friends, is really well done. Her voice actress puts out a fantastic performance, Colphne's wider range of sprite expressions and animations are used really well, and it brings this stage of her arc and story to a lovely, lovely close with great character work all round. The character work for everyone is top notch, honestly, the Commander's on point in a way they haven't been for a while, Krolik-Nemesis-Vepley as comic relief are great for levity and Vepley rounds out the squad dynamics greatly. It reminds me of some of GFL's peaks, and I wish they would stick more to this and less of paragraphs upon paragraphs of flowery lines about a biotech cult's ramshackle Christianity-ripoff.

They also released the new major story event today but it took me hours to get through Chapter 8 so I'm just leaving it for tomorrow; it's functionally Chapter 8.5, I'm told, so it'll be interesting to see what comes of it given Chapter 8 ends on a cliffhanger.

EDIT: The chapter was so long I forgot some specific gripes so I'm just sticking them under the cut:

An extended sequence in the middle of the chapter is nothing but pure fucking idiocy. The Commander has a pseudo/new Nyto type unit captured and brings it right into the central control chamber of the mobile base to interrogate her there. We, the Commander, have known of even base Nytos having supreme electronic warfare abilities surpassing all but especially specced T-Dolls from pretty much when we first began fighting them all the way back in Continuum Turbulence in GFL1, so of course, this just isn't considered at all and the obvious happens.

It's a shitty way of having a dramatic sequence because it's dependent on the Commander, a character scarred by Paradeus and champing at the bit to tear them apart when he learns they're around in the last chapter, apparently also forgetting even the basic aspects of their units.

Also GFL2 finally brings up the concept of Dolls being able to just talk silently over direct-messaging each other wirelessly, known as messaging "on Level II", a thing used extensively in GFL1 by Dolls to co-ordinate and communicate non-verbally so as not to give battle plans away (making it shocking when enemies, like Nytos, can intercept these). It's like the CODEC in Metal Gear Solid, but no-one has used it or mentioned it at all in GFL2 despite the multiple stealth sequences, particularly in Chapter 7 where Krolik and Vepley are unable to stop being jackasses while trying to spy on Paradeus grunts.

They finally acknowledge it here and just wave off its usage by making Krolik and Vepley not even be aware of it as a function, and be unused to it so they keep stopping while trying to focus on it. Ordinarily I'd let that go but as it wasn't mentioned at all in the prior chapter, and there was more time between these back on CN, it feels like a hasty chuck-in to address some criticisms, and it just doesn't work at all because of it. You invented fancy names for this tech and its encryption and all, the Zeneer Protocol and shit, it's a significant recurring concept in GFL1, you could make more of it than that!

If they don't start adapting its use going forward and just ignore it from here that'll just solidify this bit as hasty spackling over holes pointed out by criticisms.

[miyanagateru]

how could you possibly think colphne and mayling are annoying!?!?!?!?!?!? theyre so cute!?!?!?!?!?

[cerastes]

How many times do they need to dedicate 60% of half of all cutscenes to this exact same interaction

“*chuuni shit*” “No, YOU are cringe!” literally did we need this same interaction over 20 times by my count now? I cannot stand these two cunts, I hate it when they talk, is someone in the dev team possessed of an endless hunger for this exact shit with no variation over and over? This is somehow worse than Rosmontis Having The Same Cutscene 4 Times. I never thought I’d say that but here we are. It was mildly funny the first time, it is literally all they are, zero other characterization.

The whole bit in the city was like 6 distinct cutscenes of Krolik making the wrong choice and Colphne trolling her with no variation. This is horribly amateurish. Places are also all named shit like W-0105-2679 like ok I am not attached to a damn thing here. That one cutscene with the garrison dude dying offscreen was unintentionally hilarious because they say “the boojum attacked w-4764678876776 and the guy in charge died” and then Commander gets sad and I’m like ??? for a bit before I kinda put together it was that one dude from that one cutscene at that one place with an indistinct number as a name and I sincerely couldn’t stop laughing like come the fuck on, this sucks

I officially cannot give a shit about GFL2 cutscenes holy shit, half way through ch.6 and I have now entered Skip Cutscene Mode.

[commander-frostii]

You are my favorite doll in the game.

[officialyasen]

[commander-frostii]

[commander-frostii]

Wow, you pissed off Groza so bad she actually admitted to being mad. You are fucked, buddy

[commander-frostii]

I'm so happy we all have a clear understanding of who the Commander is. Good work everybody.