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・ドラクエＸＩ「過ぎ去りし時を求めて」(55:10⇒64:10)
I’d thought I’d done pretty well today about not just playing DQ all day (even got some novel-reading and a short walk in), but I forgot about staying up way too late last night. I continued playing for over 3 hrs before turning in. Wellp.
At 58:11, I was Lv 41 and in the middle of the third short section at the beginning of Act II. Pain…
spoilery rant
To think I actually believed when Homirin called Camus’s little sister his かわいい妹, the first time around. She’s a little piece of sh-t, and I’m mad you’re forced to save her and can’t just let her die. Why do younger siblings always get away with abuse? People always just brush it off because they’re younger than you and/or a child. Who the hell says young children can’t be conniving and malicious. Camus deserves better than that b-tch. And he deserves better than to feel obligated to her and that he has to love her and put up with the absolutely horrid way she treated him, just because she’s family and the only blood family he’s got left. Blood doesn’t mean shit.
…I kinda wanna write a fic where he finally realizes that the ways she treat(ed/s) him is in no way okay, and he never should have had to accept it as such just because they’re related, and he’s able to let her go. He has a new family now, and they actually care about him and would never treat him like that. He and the party have saved his sister’s life even when she didn’t deserve it in the slightest (she’s made her bed, she should lie in it, but alas) —let his obligation to her end here.
She’s the entire reason I’m not getting Treasures, even though I’d love to have a game with Camus as the MC.
other spoilery stuff
Why is seeing the Yggnoan soldiers making me wanna make an AU where Yggnoa was never destroyed and Camus is an Yggnoan citizen who becomes a castle guard… (I mean, I do like a good royalty x palace guard romance, but like.)
I already have a fic in my drafts where El draws a version of Rab’s kingly garb for Camus, imagining him as his king consort.
I forgot to make note of what name Erwin wanted to give the Hero. It would be hilarious if you gave him that one. (I wonder if the game has a mechanic where, if you choose that name, he suggests a different one instead? Or where it doesn’t let you choose that name in the first place…)
I hate how my initial thought when Emma interrupted Petra, when you first return to Cobblestone, is that Petra would snap at her. I know she’s not like that. She’s a kind, caring woman with healthy relationships with her family and friends. I’m so sorry my brain did you dirty like that, Petra.
Also, I played this part before, why the hell did I think Emma had died and the only way you get her back is by turning back time in Act III. I remembered Greig turned Cobblestone into the Last Bastion, but I forgot he’d also saved all the villagers when Homerus was sent to destroy the village.
lol I’m imagining, every time I use the king’s key to unlock those rooms off the aqueduct to loot them, Greig just giving me this disapproving stare. I know him not following me into the rooms is just game mechanics, but I like to imagine him doing it on principle. (He does still help you fight the ひとくい箱 in that room in the prison, though.) Man, I wish Camus were with me; I feel like he’d enjoy this.
Anyways, I’m 7 levels overleveled—Greig is lv 36 when he joins and I’m lv 43. Well, that gap should close soon enough; the vest I got from the casino was the EXP up one rather than the gold up one. (Assuming, ofc, that the bonus EXP is only for the person wearing it and not the whole party. I didn’t get to try it out today.) I think I should be more worried about the gap between me and the later party members I meet back up with. I know I probably shouldn’t fight any more than I have to, but the allure of loot and metal monsters is too strong…
I’m not sure how far into Act II I got when I was playing this in English. iirc it doesn’t have a firm order except in the beginning, which probably doesn’t help.
, and the Kanji is (fore-/after-) noon.
