天下制覇

If only it meant what you think it means.

Impressions:

I totally did play catchup in the game over the last week, but when it skips 5 dungeons… well… hopefully after the holiday break I can be back on track. It is interesting to point out that at this point in the game, most of Malkuth has fallen into the soup (along with both armies). That seems… uh… important. Oh well. They did do some catchup by finally visiting a Sephiroth and showing Tear’s affliction, as well as tossed back in the skipped segment about Luke’s existence screwing up the Score. They also did a much better job with Asch’s own difficulties (despite the fact that he’s driving aroud in KITT with a bunch of clowns). At least they’re almost done crapping all over Natalia’s life. Just patricide is left in store for her. Poor girl.

Overall though, another very boring and very talky episode covering Guy’s flashback to being buried under the corpses of his sister and all his maids, and his former alliance with Van to avenge Hod and not too much else. At least they’re sort of trying to cut out some of the boring and horrible technobabble, but they’re really not doing a good enough job of it. "Van putzed with magic thingies holding up world," there, got it, let’s go fix ’em. We don’t need a lesson on fake physics with multiple diagrams to illustrate "magical particles hold up the continent." A continent which, need I remind you, is supposed to have already dropped into the poisonous sea anyway.

The primary broadcasts for Tales of the Abyss are off next week for the holidays. The Friday prime time broadcast continues blithely onward, so episode 15 will air on January 9th and continue to be a Friday show after that.

Preview:

The signing of the treaty.