FAKE and GAY

Before I continue, I would like to preface that this is my first direct experience with the rance series. I am aware this adaptation cuts a lot of content out from the story to fit the runtime and probably not always true of how the game portrays the events of The Quest For Hikari.

To keep things brief, this was alright. it was entertaining for the shlock factor, but was not an actually compelling story. a lot of the characters were not very developed (which, again, might not have been an issue in the game due to the longer runtime). I liked Menad because of her personality Yulang because she was awesome. Hikari herself was barely a character (she didn't even have any lines!). Sill needs hugs and kisses and was very entertaining to watch. Everyone else was merely a mix of meh for me, and even the ones I did speak positively of still weren't very compelling.

The sex scenes did nothing for me; I don't think they ever really advanced the plot in any meaningful way to justify how long all of them were. I genuinely skipped the latter two scenes with sill because they were such pace-breakers.

Rance himself was a mixed bag for me. Sometimes he was funny, and I enjoyed how irreverent he could be. I found how he constantly pushed the hapless sill around to be really endearing, akin to a disney villain abusing their henchmen. At the same time, I couldn't help but get annoyed at his hypocisy: how he could rape girls and then call lia a monster when she and her cronies did the same. I spent the entire scene with him and lavender shaking my my head; I know maybe the torture Lia and Maris inflicted on these people was too much even for him - which could explain his disdain - but it was still offputting. Also how the fuck did Pulptenks mistake Rance for the bandit leader? Their voices are so different.

The pacing of the show was also iffy at times. Some of the events (such as the entire thing with the Coliseum) felt rushed.

I probably have more thoughts, but if they come to me, I'll leave them in the comments.

trust me on this

So I posted the other day about how one of the contest semi-finalists for Dual Override is an alleged rapist. It sounds like we won’t get know the 6 finalists until March (no date given) but Capcom will be messaging the finalists on February 13th. It’s assumed Capcom will pick one of the 6 finalists to be the actual robot master and the others may receive cameos or at least have the creator’s name in the credits. I ask everyone to remain vigilant and not forget about this by the time March rolls around. We need that guy to not win. Now that voting is over, we need to focus on making Capcom aware of the issue, and asking for accountability. The artist in question has also worked on official comic covers for the series, so it’s also favoritism for him to be in the contest, which is a bad look. Also don’t let Reddit incels intimidate you. If any serious harassment starts from this loser’s fans, please let me know.

Now here’s my suggestion to everyone. I did not find an email for Capcom, however, they do have a customer service website where you can submit enquiries. https://www.capcom-support.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. You will select your region, enter your email, and select Dual Override as the product and put your platform of choice, doesn’t matter. Now for the subject line put something like “Urgent! Please investigate the Andrew Dickman allegations!” For the body of the post, I am going to link a Google doc that I made myself expressing my grievances. You are free to save a copy of the document to your own drive and edit it as you see fit. I don’t care about getting credit for my Google doc, the cause is more important than credit here. I am not doing this for attention; I am doing it because I am concerned and want accountability and success for the future of the series I love.

Now, one last thing, I did happen to find these mailing addresses and phone numbers for Capcom’s U.S. offices. I won’t be calling myself (terrible social anxiety) but if anyone wants to give those numbers a try, or mail a physical letter, please be my guest. The more ways we can contact them, the better. I also suggest writing things in social media comments on posts regarding the contest (Twitter/insta) simply asking them to look into it and listen to fan feedback.

Also as a side note, whether you choose to use the feedback form, social media, or phone calls PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL AND DO NOT HARASS THE MINIMUM WAGE WORKERS WHO HAVE TO SORT THROUGH REQUESTS! I know Capcom is a faceless corporation, but the people doing the on the ground work are not. It is valid to be angry at the company, but remember that a real human will be reading your comments, and the people monitoring the forums will probably not be executives, they’ll be low-level employees. Hopefully if they see enough complaints, they will pass it on to the execs, but PLEASE BE CIVIL is all I am asking. Also if any of Dickman’s fans try to argue with you, ignore and block. Rape apologists won’t listen to reason.