2: Company you’re always loyal to?: Game Freak cause they haven’t fucked up once in like 20 years. Literally the worst you’ll ever hear about a Pokemon game is “It was fun but there were better games 

4: Worst game you’ve ever played?: Psshh…I don’t think there’s ever been a game I’ve played that hasn’t been at least me saying “Well that was okay and it wasted some time” but…Halo 5 cause it lowkey ruined my life, but even then there’s a lot of things in it I liked…if they were in a game that didn’t make me numb inside.

9: A game you turn your volume off every time you play it?: Not everytime but I play both Pokemon and Fire Emblem with out volume a lot especially if I’m griding Pokemon or units. Its better to have music thats varied on instead of hearing the Wild Pokemon Theme for the 1000000000 time

12: Shortest time you’ve beaten a game in?: I did a run of Halo CE in half a day once, but anyone can do that. I’d say…I think I beat Mass Effect 2 in like 36 hours with like barely any sleep cause I loved it so much lol

So far I’m kind of split on it, a couple of people have asked my impressions so far and now that I’m a decent ways into the series my impression hasn’t really changed yet. Usually I’d wait until half way before giving detailed impressions but I feel like doing one now for some reason, I’m about a third of the way through. The story’s pretty basic, pretty much your classic good guys vs. evil alien empire super robot story, with the twist that it’s taking place on the enemy’s homeworld rather than on Earth for the most part. That’s a neat idea that I don’t feel they leverage as well as they could, at least not yet. I’m hoping Darius as a setting becomes more interesting as the story progresses.

Character-wise, I feel like the good guys are quite good, if not amazing. Daiya is actually quite boring as a main character, for someone who’s basically been given this all-important role all of a sudden it kind of feels like he succeeds almost a little too easily. He kind of reminds me of prince Jojo from Galient, where you’ve got this very young character, younger than normal even, and he basically immediately starts duking it out with and beating the enemy’s elite. It’s a little more palatable here because there’s less pressure to be realistic, given that it’s a super robot series and not a Takahashi anime, but still. I do think that any weaknesses in characterisation on the protagonist’s side is balanced out by the Darius side, the enemy leaders are all pretty much your classic flamboyant weirdos from old series like Combattler, Great Mazinger, Jeeg, Voltes etc. Plus the little rivalry they have going between themselves is pretty good, you’ve got the flamboyant one, the hot-blooded one, the level-headed one, and they’re all trying to one-up each other. Noza is definitely my favourite, and he’s been entertaining the last few episodes I watched.

I feel like probably the biggest rift in the quality level of the series is its presentation. Gaiking itself was historically quite an unusual design, the skull it has for the torso used to give it some kind of odd proportions, and that’s fixed here without compromising the machine’s identity. I really love the array of attacks and abilities it has, and they’re all animated well for the most pat. I’m not quite as enthusiastic about the visuals for everything else though, I feel like the Daiku-Maryu is an antiquated design that could have done with some kind of revamp. The designs of the enemy warbeasts and mecha also feel kind of corny and tacky in the old 70s super robot sense, but not always in a good way. The series OP is really memorable, and the rest of the music is not. Most frustratingly, sometimes the animation is really high quality and then other times it’s dogshit. You sometimes notice this contradiction in the space of a single episode.

I haven’t thought about Saskia in 4000 years, oh no.

Saskia is problematic because:

- Was supposed to be ADHD, doesn’t actually act like she’s ADHD, because I can’t write my own disorder for some reason.

- Friendzoned Willow for who knows how long, because she was too busy lusting over some boy who died in Vietnam.

Beserk-

-Guts was born from a corpse

-It never updates cause the mangaka is always on vacation

-Game of Thrones wishes it was this edgy and grimdark.

FSS:

- Sopp’s hair makes me cry from how magnificent it is

-If you asked Sopp if they were a boy or girl, the answer would probably be “yes”

-Amaterasu is involved despite it being in space

The short answer is no, because of issues getting scans. The long answer is this:From what I’ve been able to find out, the original (D&D system) Lodoss replays were only published in Comptiq magazine. When the franchise began to take off, there was a concern with copyrights, so they switched to their own system and did a redo replay for the earlier parts - basically a whole second campaign following the same overarching plot, and with different players, based on the Record of Lodoss War Companion system, and that is what was published as books. To my knowledge the original D&D replays were never officially reprinted.So far I have been able to get my hands on scans of the first book (the redo replay), but the only Comptiq scans I’ve seen are a few of the illustrations.However, there are two things I *have* been able to find:

this website has what looks to be a partial transcript with a certain degree of paraphrasing of the Comptiq replays (the site in general is a treasure trove of info related to the Forcelia setting - Lodoss, Sword World, Rune Soldier)

some folks on NicoNico have been making a video series (really, more like a slideshow) out of the original Comptiq replays. This looks to be a more complete version than the other site, but translating text from videos is far from ideal