How do you feel about the departure of a well-played character?
Truthfully, all the other losses were so crushing that it doesn't register. I still don't feel I got to know 2B well, and the loss of Yorha hit me hard.
- Are you bored of hacking yet? (don't be)
Nope. I'm terrible at fighting, but hacking is fun, and I'm getting decent at it by now.
- Have you tried releasing your limiters as A2? (same buttons as self-destruct)
Uh...which buttons are those again? If that's the same as B mode, I tried it on pod's suggestion and instantly died.
Picked A2 first, on the basis that I wanted to know more about her and the assumption that since I was bad at fighting, I'd save the hacking for presumably higher level enemies.
Passive aggressive pods was funny. Whoever programmed the 'repeat state intentions every thirty seconds' policy knew their combat units. Sniff.
Checked in to Resistance camp to see if Anemone had anything to say, given she seemed to know A2, but she wasn't there. A2 didn't want to go to Pascal's village either, so I gave in and hit the desert, where three oddly pacifistic machines were minding their own business. Like, even when I was attacking them, they only struck back every minute or so, occasionally still catching me off guard and killing me, it must be said.
Then Hegel burst out to avenge the fallen. A2 suggested B Mode, but I'm far too ineffective to make sacrificing defence for power a viable strategy. Pod then suggested ranged weapons, taking pity on me. Every time I attempted any strategy beyond 'run in circles blindly firing' I got stomped, so I stuck to that, despite my super cowardly style being very out of character for A2.
Hard as it was, this is now my favourite bossfight. Hegel is the scariest thing in the machine army, surpassing even scorpion thingy.
Humiliating Death Count post Hegel:12 Even my foolproof 'run in circles in as cowardly a fashion as possible' strategy tended to fail me when I got caught on walls or ran into mini Hegels.
Then switched to 9S, waking up in the Resistance camp, the the two new mystery medics. Even the Resistance is decimated now. Also, got mail from the Council of humanity, who is sending them with YorHa gone?
I went on a mission to find someone's friends, and predictably they were all dead. Even the questgiver wasn't expecting them alive, by now they know everyone 9S is sent after will be dead, we don't rescue people, we just find bodies. Stumbled across 2B's flight unit and her last message, just to twist the knife, then investigated the mystery tower and got directed to the forest.
So went there, climbed a tower and killed everything that moved. The Forest Kingdom wants revenge, although I dunno how they got into this brand new tower. Something seems to be controlling them? Got forest access key, killed the reactor core.
Back to A2.
