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Ship
-Kain starts on an airship, and soldiers are in “…” mode again.
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Mist
-Perspective shift back to Ceodore and the Hooded Man (“HM”).
-They stop by the grave of Rydia’s mother in Mist, and HM is grateful to her.
-WHYWHYWHYWHOAREYOU
-Is he Kain’s son maybe from when Kain was brainwashed? I shipped Kain and Barbariccia, but there are all kinds of consent issues there now that I think about it. Maybe that’s canon? (Probably not.)
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Mist Cliff
-Rock climbing. Cool! Up and over to get to the Kaipo side. I really like this map style.
PSP really is graphically beautiful at times.
-Ceodore FELL! He’s one tough mother though. Was totally okay.
-Monsters are fine, but not much to write about.
-Red Wings sighted from the base of the mountain, heading to Damcyan and led by Kain (as we see in a brief perspective shift).
-Nice little badass moment for Ceodore when he objects to HM saying that the Red Wings are headed to Damcyan. Ceodore basically says that no, they’re not the Red Wings. Red Wings are awesome and elite, while those guys are mindless drones. If Ceodore survives this whole ordeal, I think he’ll make a phenomenal founding father to rebuild the Red Wings.
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Mount Ordeals
-Flashback, to the mirror match where we get to control Kain in combat.
-I tried going the pacifist route like the previous mirror match Dark Knight Cecil, but this is way different.
Not quite how it happened with Cecil.
I got my ass-kicked, and the mirror version looked super happy and elated to be out of the mirror. So does that mean that the person doing all this shit is Mirror!Kain? If so, where is Real!Kain?
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Kaipo
-Perspective shift to HM and Ceodore, and they walk into Kaipo.
-Quick note: If one of them gets Desert Fever, I’m going to throw my keyboard against the wall.
-We see Tellah’s grave, and it affects HM. He definitely knows Tellah.
-They find an inn and rest. Night time in Kaipo now.
-History Repetition #418: In the base game, Rydia and Cecil stopped at this inn. At night, Baron soldiers attacked to kill Rydia, and Cecil stopped them.
This time around, Baron’s soldiers charge into that same inn to kill Ceodore, and HM helps save him.
-Oh, and this time they are “Zombie Infantry.” Maybe that’s the next natural step for the Stepford guards.
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Waterway. Again. The Fucking Waterway. Seriously.
-Yeah. Again. FDJKLSFDJKLSFNDJKLSFDNS
-At least the mobs here are new, in a reskinned kind of way. (Fell Turtle, Sahagin Knight, etc.)
-Save point, and rest. Despite Ceodore complaining that he can keep going, HM convinces him to conserve his strength.
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Damcyan
-Kain wants the soldiers to stay on the ship. Can he talk Edward into giving up the crystal peacefully? I kind of doubt it.
-They meet.
-AND FADE TO BLACK. Back to Ceodore and HM. GRRRRR. I have to imagine Kain convinced Edward that Kain’s plan versus EMG was good. But if this is Mirror!Kain, maybe not? SO CONFUSED.
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Waterway
Will I have to fight an Octomammoth skin at the end?
-Got Icebrand from a Monster-in-a-Box, and it really cuts through a lot of these mobs which are weak to ice. E.g. toads, turtles, gators.
-Wish they had moved the chests around, or done at least something to make this places feel significantly different.
-Ceodore and HM have an older brother/younger brother feel to them. Ceodore usually tries to push faster, farther, and HM tries to get him to slow down.
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Next time: We continue the dual paths of “Kain” in Damcyan and HM/Ceodore pushing through the waterway to get there.
What’s YOUR favorite evil twin song? Mine here, with They Might Be Giants' "My Evil Twin” a close second:
