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hmmm i forgot about that part. that COULD mean that they know NK’s power is keeping them alive, but at the same time it seems like they don’t know? because they didnt know why NK keeps carrying on the cycle. maybe they don’t know that NK’s power comes from peoples fear of him? Or they dont realize that NK cares about them and is doing all this to keep them alive?

Could be. Echidna may very well give both Kanaya and Karkat a second chance to rectify their previous actions. Kanaya, the same “impossible” task as before, which she may accept this time. Karkat, the opportunity to set right his previous mistake of rushing the frog breeding which resulted in the kids’ cancerous universe. (Which wasn’t entirely his fault, but he certainly blames himself for it.)

Maybe Kanaya and Karkat will sendificate the Genesis Frog to Jade in the past. (That still needs to be resolved.) Maybe they’ll breed a second Genesis Frog, so there will be one that becomes the Cherubs’ universe and another that becomes a universe for a new instance of Paradox Space. 

I think you’re right that the ‘persona’ switching has gotten more and more ridiculous, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just the team having fun with the higher memory capacity/3D gimmick. :’D It’s almost been a natural progression in the games, though. The villain reveals and breakdowns are some of the most memorable parts of each game, so it makes sense that they’d want each iteration to be more memorable than the last.

I still think the “final boss” of AAI2 has the most fucking ridiculous reveal and breakdown, though. Not even Marlon can beat that imo.

But anyway, a lot of things in these games have problems with being boiled down to their gimmicks. Even characters like Oldbag and Lotta were nowhere NEAR as bad in their first appearances as they would grow to be later, and you can argue that the Judge himself gets more and more outlandish (and dare I say, idiotic) with each game.

I really do think Juniper’s crush is never gonna amount to anything more than a crush tbh. This series doesn’t like romantic entanglements that aren’t in the past, for one. For two, you’re right that Apollo never reacts to it. And for three, I think she was meant to be a character who FINALLY treats Apollo positively, rather than the weird backhanded compliments he’s used to getting; that it manifested in the writing as a crush is kind of an unfortunate consequence imo.

As for Aura’s “in the same boat”, it’s likely she was more referring to having lost someone precious to both of them (”at the hands of the little Princess” or whatever she was likely insinuating), but I definitely honestly think Aura’s romantic feelings are otherwise canon. The Japanese is just as insinuating as the English in that regard, which is quite interesting.

Juniper’s character is kinda weird as hell, isn’t it :”D

I think it’s possible to make an argument for something like circumstances? Like, Academy is the first time Juniper’s seen Athena in years iirc, and the first time she’s met Apollo at all.  It’d make sense that she was maybe a bit more...stand-off-ish, I suppose? Or that she was keeping secrets during Academy’s run.  But that’s about the only explanation I can give for the difference.

NOPE DEF NOT DEAD, the spoiler blog just grew less and less pertinent as more time passed after the American/international release(s), but I decided to come here to talk DD stuff since a mutual friend on my personal is just going through the game for the first time, and I didn’t wanna deal with readmores o3o

Turnabout Reclaimed is a hell of a case. I’m kinda lazily playing through DD again atm on iOS (it looks SOOOO nice I’m so impressed), but I decided to do both DLC additions first so I could go through the main story last. Reclaimed feels....kinda really long, at some points? Almost to the point of dragged on. I will readily admit my biases have a lot to do with that, though, since the Agency is represented...kinda unevenly. I really appreciated some of the details, like Phoenix giving Apollo a case-related job to do in the background, but what I would have appreciated MORE was if they has split up the junior attorneys so that we were with one during one Investigation Phase, and with the other during the remaining Investigation Phase. I ESPECIALLY feel this because the only significant Nick-Apollo interaction we have is either towards the very end of the game during that brief moment it’s only those two at the defense, or during the quiz dlc which wasn’t localized how dare you.

still morbidly upset about the quiz dlc not being localized and i got to play it

Uh. *ahem*

I DON’t EVEN WANT TO WATCH A YOUTUBE PLAYTHROUGH ON FULL SCREEN MUCH LESS HALF VOLUME FOR AUDIO

WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT ON A FULL SCREEN too spooky man

nO NOT ALLOWED BENE!!!