The og MYCT kid

ARE you the same when you die and revive? where does new matter come from? how is your "psyche" preserved? it relies so much on the data used to grow the SDU specifically that eva and nozomi literally cannot use it, which we know are all fake memories and settings. there is a nonzero chance it's not the person's memories coming from the dead body into the new, but a reupload of existing "memory data" updated ro account for the events of the hundred days

i could go on about this but i wont. the revivomatic is horror

If you're also in the process of playing, tell people your thoughts! As someone who's 100/100 the game, it's so fun to hear people's reactions.

Over all don't be afraid, just because they know each other doesn't mean they don't want to know you. I love meeting new people with different or similar thoughts to me. Don't be afraid to add something to the conversation, even if it's just to agree (in fact that's the best place to start if you're nervous a conversation is already going, people love when you back up their thoughts).

Route starts off early with a petty squabble within the Special Defense Unit dividing the team. Takumi can elect to resolve this conflict via a sports competition... let's say baseball*

* This route should include several jokes referencing Tribe Nine (the founding project of Tookyo Games, AKA Hundred Line's production company which Kodaka and Uchikoshi made together), where all conflicts between tribes are solved through "extreme baseball."

This sets up what eventually becomes the team's great idea to end the war peacefully: Challenging the enemy commanders to a hemoanima-based sports tournament.

We're leaning fully into genre parody here: V'ehxness hits a ball so hard it goes back in time to become the meteor that ends the dinosaurs*. Shouma's lack of presence means no one notices him stealing bases*. Etc etc

Like all sports narratives, a gaggle of side characters packs the stands to give expert commentary. Kamyuhn watches with her intelligent smart girl eyes and exclaims, "That move—! She adjusted her center of gravity at the last second, allowing her to blah blah blah!"

Btw Sirei is the SDU 's coach. Nigou is the ball boy. Dahl'xia is referee.

Kako and Ima are the ultimate battery, Kako shooting balls from her gun and Ima catching the pitches in his giant wings. They call signs using secret twin hand signs/twin telepathy (which never shows up again outside this route).

Addamaque gets a penalty for aggressive behavior and gets benched. Zen'ta fills the entire outfield with her clones. Takemaru might also get benched (though his strong sense of good sportsmanship might save him from pushing too far).

Turamtammi insists on being a cheerleader, dancing for stands full of little invader guys. This shifts the atmosphere so strongly that the SDU starts losing morale, so Gaku also runs out to be a cheerleader. He may or may not end up in a matching cheerleader uniform, bc the game has cursed him with Comedic Relief Role.

Takumi uses his sword as a bat. Obviously. There's a really cool cutscene of him hitting a home run. (But also he gets the yips* midway through the game and, crushed that he can't fulfill his duty and win this game, must be reminded that baseball is a team sport and he must believe in his friends.)

With Takumi benched, they need a pinch hitter in their final inning. Could it be... Eito, freed? Shion? (Maybe the choice decides who wins the game?)

After winning, humanity must be allowed to live on the planet, and the fighting must cease. But V'ehxness refuses to accept her loss... One match isn't enough! Let's make a tournament—with several teams, human and Futuran, to see who is more worthy of the planet! Only the STRONGEST will make it to nationals!

As confetti rains down and trumpets blare songs of triumph, Darumi comments on how cringe the group huddle is and pretends to gag. She hates this route so much. Too much power of friendship, youth, and teamwork.

I need to talk about this scene!

When I played the slasher route this scene was so special to me. I don't even really particularly ship Hiruko and Takumi that much (although I do like that ship, it's fun) but it's just...the tenderness, the comfort and the kindness in that gesture.

In a route so full of pain and turmoil, seeing Takumi receive such a touching gesture felt like getting wrapped in a blanket.

But then you get the painful truth in the S.F route

That Hiruko purposely allowed Takumi to kill their friends without doing anything to stop it, all so they could have that moment together. It's cruel, it's selfish, he and the player should hate her for it and yet...

And then SF came along and Hiruko feels the same thing. In this moment, her feelings resonate with the player. She wanted to see it again just as I did, so how could I blame her for allowing things to happen just the same?

It's also so meaningful when you think about that this, and I'd say maybe BoC, are truly the only moments she gets this sort of tenderness from Takumi. It's Takumi's fears, and anxieties that lead him to reach out to her. She shows him understanding that no one else can BECAUSE she knows, but that knowledge makes her complicit, if not the reason for their friend's deaths. To her this is a precious rare moment of vulnerability, and... it's hard to fault her even with how horrible it is.