Saturday, 11 May 2013

Devil Survivor 2; Re-addicted

As you may or may not remember, I am quite a fan of Devil Survivor 2 (DS 2), an NDS game made by Atlus. I think it was around this time last year that I spent the entire school holidays playing over the game 3 times, to achieve 3 different endings. Except I don't think I achieved 3 different endings, because I was going for the perfect ending the 1st and 3rd time, and I fucked up on the 3rd time even with a strategy guide, because I couldn't resist building character relationship with a character that I wasn't supposed to build with, and then I ended up fucking my entire perfect ending over.

But look how cute he is...

I suppose that doesn't make much sense to you, so to recap: as the protagonist I'm an 18 year old Japanese 3rd year high schooler. Then one day as I was just chilling around and doing my own thing, the world around me started to literally break down. Then this mysterious application appeared on my phone, which allowed me to summon demons, but at the same time a fuckload of demons also ran loose every where. As the main character my demons are naturally overpowered, so I decide to go "fuck it, I may just be a 3rd year high school kid, but I'm gonna take my OP demons and investigate the origin of demons and why the world is breaking down. Then I'm going to battle supernatural powers and save the fucking world". Depending on my choices in the game it ends differently.

OP protagonist who 1v1's all the bosses

So to my great excitement the anime for DS 2 was released earlier this year, and I've been following it ever since. The anime, being vastly different from the in game storyline, was vastly dissatisfying at times, except they gave my favourite character, Hotsuin Yamato, A LOT of screen time. Sure he's a major character in the game, and compared to his pansy rival, you do get to see him a lot more- but in the anime, watching his interactions with the protagonist, I'm just like, "cut it out, you guys. Freeze the whole scene and just fucking kiss. I see where this is going."

Now we all know where this is going, so why don't we get it over and done with

In all seriousness though, DS 2 is a great anime. I'm really looking forward to how it's going to end, given that Yamato is now a major character and one of the late-game bosses has actually exposed himself super-early. When I chose to watch the anime, I was dreading a story which was exactly the same as what I got in game, because I didn't even like the "perfect ending" I never reached. If I wrote the story though, I'd probably just ship the protagonist with Yamato and then it's like, screw every other character.

Anyway, I'm re-addicted to DS 2, and I've got the biggest anime crush on Yamato.

He's sexy even when he looks like a serial killer

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