Platinum is kinda interesting bc I have no idea what the hell they were going for with her. Like I know pastiche-ing anime tropes was kind of a thing at least in the beginning, like Ragna being the edgelord who's actually kind of a softie and Jin being the shining knight who's actually a huge homicidal douchebag, and lampooning magical girls as a genre was kind of a thing at the time, but Platinum isn't even all that subversive? Like aesthetic-wise she plays the whole thing straight, she's just a little asshole and says slurs for no reason. Is that meant to be the subversion? They couldn't even be bothered to toss in some of the edgy hyperviolent stuff that people kept slapping onto their 'subverted' magical girls? They couldn't give her a gun or something to show how 'mature' it's supposed to be? Because otherwise there's just a pretty straightforward magical girl character plopped into an otherwise ill-fitting backdrop and the more I look at her the more I wonder what she's even here for??
and dont forget the random incessant instances of her calling ragna a pedophile thats supposed to be played for humor somehow in some world bc lord knows i sure cant literally any time they encounter each other in story mode or fight . my fucking god that bit is bad and is often the biggest reason i can never recommend blazblue to anyone
and it SUCKS for plat specifically bc even outside the whole goofy botched magical girl thing there was SOOOO MUCH GOING ON?? TRINITY'S GHOST BEING IN THE MUCHOURIN. JUST IN GENERAL THE INSANITY OF THE MUCHOURIN, A STAFF MADE SPECIFICALLY FOR ONE OF THE BEST ALCHEMISTS TO EVER DO IT WHO HATED FIGHTING, FALLING INTO THE HANDS OF A FERAL LITTLE GREMLIN BABY WHO USES IT TO KICK PEOPLE'S ASSES UWUISHLY???? theres so much potential in various places for various things but it feels like they had no broad direction they wanted to go in and fell back on it being Mature and Subvertive by........ having a child call people a pedophile for telling her to stop bothering them typically? or making weird sexual comments comparing herself to adult women like that one gag reel in continuum shift with litchi iirc? dont remember how much she does That one but i do remember it happening. groundbreaking stuff there fellas. im sure the loc team didnt HELP but theyre definitely not entirely at fault considering the number of times plat does say the phrase "lolicon" out loud in jp is most certainly nonzero. ugh
plat couldve been many things but unfortunately what we ended up getting was fuckin rocky at best. woof
