AstroStelar [he/him]

Oh hey, it’s Melody, or “transfem furry Scott the Woz” as I like to call her. She’s great.

As someone who grew up with the 3DS and only recently got interested in RPGs, I’m a little curious about it. Probably only because the main protagonist bears a striking resemblance to the protagonist of the Mega Man Star Force series that means a lot to me, haha.

Coincidentally, Star Force is also an underrated RPG series (imo) that suffered from bad timing and, as the sequel to the Battle Network series, had the curse of being simultaneously called more of the same and too different from Battle Network, and also suffering from bad timing.

Stopped watching after he started talking about “sleazy investors bringing in politics” and put headlines calling out gamer toxicity on screen when describing “an industry that hates its audience”

Mega Man Star Force 1’s story has hit me more personally than any other piece of media and in general it’s well-written despite it still being a kid’s game. But it really rushed the friendship between Geo and Pat, you’ve barely even seen Pat throughout the game so Geo becoming so wrecked by his betrayal feels forced. Pat/Rey’s betrayal is also telegraphed so blatantly that it makes Geo look like an idiot.

Pat/Rey also falls into a problematic DID trope of a “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” type personality split, with an aggressive alter ego when most people with DID aren’t dangerous like that.

Geo falling back into depression and fear of getting close with people, and cutting off everyone would be very relatable as someone who relapses into depressive thoughts, but the setup was too rushed as just mentioned and it’s also right as the alien antagonists are starting their full-on invasion of Earth. It just made me go: “Get in the fucking mech, Shinji”.