#sorry for the negativity but well i really love the duology and most importantly most people do lol

[beevean]

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Oh boy :P

Well, I mentioned many times that I dislike reducing Ryuu to an uke babyboy, when my man is ferocious and an enemy of the state. This is especially bad when he's shipped with Asougi and Barok. My friends, those two would crumble like sandcastles compared to Ryuu. Ryuu is the seme of the love triangle :P

I don't like Iris. I really don't. But not because she's annoying or a bad character, so I struggle to explain why. My issue is that her status as an improbably genius is taken too seriously, and it's too straightforward. Yes I know that this is the franchise where minors can become lawyers, but that usually comes with a consequence! Franziska is probably the best deconstruction of the teen genius trope of the series, and back then it wasn't even a trope! I wish Iris suffered more consequences of being the "adult" of the house. (also minor but her theme is like a cheesegrater on the ears, I have to mute the game when it plays :( )

While GAA2 is a fantastic game, I wish it kept GAA1's direction when it comes to treating the political themes. It's weird how the first game puts a lot of emphasis on the abuse of power of the British Empire and its systemic xenophobia, only for the second game to reduce the whole conflict to a classic AA villain. Related to this: I still believe Barok's racism and his arc of overcoming it makes sense, but instead of simply saying "japanese killed brother, now i am racist", his story should have been "I never met a Japanese person before and the first one I ever met killed my brother, everyone around me has told me since childhood that Japanese people are untrustworthy and cruel and I couldn't help getting convinced of this during my 5-year isolation". See, it doesn't sound so simplistic anymore, and it would have kept the idea that Barok grew up with toxic ideals as a British nobleman, incarnating both the worst and the best traits of the empire.

and uhhhhhh benbaro deserves more love. they cute. there

klimtex also deserves more love because i'm a sucker for their master/dog dynamic lol. i don't even know if the ship has an official name, couldn't find a thing on pixiv :<