Musing about Richard's new moveset...

[fishytasty]

When I first played the demo and saw that Richard had Lightning Blaster and Ignite Prison, I probably wasn't the only one who thought the developers were just lazy and decided to toss in those ones instead of making new spells for him. However, now that the full moveset is out, I think it was actually pretty clever of them to do so. Richard has one technique from every party member - similar to how Sophie has one B tech that mimics each member's fighting style. Considering how there is pretty heavy emphasis on the similarities between Sophie and Richard (primarily considering the concept of friendship and their difficulties with really understanding what it means), it seems appropriate that they also use the same method as a tribute to their friends. It's also a bit more touching in Richard's case as well; despite having been alive for 19 years, he doesn't have very many friends due to his precarious position. Adding in bits of their fighting styles is probably supposed to represent that they're pretty important to him.

Also, it's kind of cute to imagine each of the party members having a tutoring session with Richard to teach him a technique.

Comments

[silentdrifterz.livejournal.com]

...That sounds so precious. <3

[kazzisato.livejournal.com]

Sony won't allow Namco to re-release games on the PS3 without massively overhauling the content. Copy+pasting ideas saves on development costs, production time, and fishes out as much of the profit as possible for a studio already in the red.

There I crushed your sentimental post.

[fishytasty.livejournal.com]

My feelings :(

Oh, I'm sure that they had that in mind as well, but at least they bothered to give a move from each party member for ~symbolism~ instead of just giving him a random mengerie of other spells that already exist. Plus they could have easily omitted Sophie's and Asbel's moves (considering they're melee moves and they already added chunks for his A moveset) but they smooshed them in anyways.

[fishytasty.livejournal.com]

XDD

Are you getting the game?

[silentdrifterz.livejournal.com]

I adore Richard and Hubert <3

Thinking about it, yea. But it won't be for a long while.

[fishytasty.livejournal.com]

I am sad that they redid Richard's "TOMODACHIIIII" so that he sounds less emo and more constipated. :C

Aw. Getting something else for Christmas then? XD

[silentdrifterz.livejournal.com]

Yea, a new laptop and that'll be pretty costly.

So I'm not going to be asking for anymore this Christmas XD;

[fishytasty.livejournal.com]

Haha, have fun with your new laptop, then? XD

...That reminds me that I should wrap up a gift before I forget fff