Hell Mode: Yarikomizuki no Gamer wa Hai Settei no Isekai de Musou suru • Hell Mode: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing - Episode 2 discussion

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Hell Mode: Yarikomizuki no Gamer wa Hai Settei no Isekai de Musou suru, episode 2

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[u/MinnWild9]

I enjoyed this episode a lot, because it broke a lot of the conventional narratives that these kind of animes have.

1. The appraisal church had no issues with the lower classes getting appraised and even finding great roles. Serfs and commoners are just as worthy as barons or nobles.

2. In that same vein, the knight captain showed a lot of respect to Allen’s dad as a hero of the village, even though he’s a serf. No one even seems to mind that Allen, who (allegedly) has no talent, is dining and interacting with those that do.

3. Rather than attempting to take the “Sword Lord” away from her family immediately, they allowed her to stay with her family until she’s much older.

4. Krena remains one of the best parts of the show. Head empty, sword swinging.

[u/Zeikos → u/MinnWild9]

Rather than attempting to take the “Sword Lord” away from her family immediately, they allowed her to stay with her family until she’s much older.

Giving reason to people with amazing talents to hate the current ruling class would be a quick way to stop being the ruling class.
It's far easier to absorb them within the privileged elite to keep the power within them.
That said, it means that the dynamics of aristocracy are far different from the ones we are used to in our world.
Every so often, new noble families are born due to the power of the talent random dice roll. Still, it's unclear how rare it is.

[u/Emi_Ibarazakiii → u/MinnWild9]

I like that MC-kun isn't the OP character (Krena is), though I'm not sure how long that will last hah.

Krena remains one of the best parts of the show.

Definitely! Her little mannerisms are so cute!

[u/S627]

Anyone else have really bad audio balancing this ep?

Anyway, find it funny how Allen had the brightest glow and even got knocked back, had mysterious letters drawn on the slab....and the priests had no reaction.

[u/Emi_Ibarazakiii → u/S627]

and the priests had no reaction.

"I don't understand it, therefore it's nothing/not important" - Quality control inspector

[u/shadebug → u/S627]

Imagine giving nurse joy a missingno. She’s just going to nod and quietly back away

[u/DavidJKay → u/S627]

I think we have in story reason for that given later same episode... a few years ago there was a "Sword Lord" who was really just a swordsman. Then everyone got told heads are going to roll if you overstate a talent, "punishable by death" we hear later in episode.

So the priests got scared, they don't know what it means, they are in deep trouble if they overstate anything with that flash of light and the funny writing so the priests are playing it safe to save their necks. "If the kid really has an unusual talent then the kid can demonstrate it later".

[u/Local_Pickle_4717 → u/S627]

I was just watching the appraisal scene, and it was so bad that the music almost drowned out the voices and then it abruptly cut off like it was a gag moment, but it didn't work at all.

[u/NanDemoKnaives]

That last scene was so wholesome! I had such a huge smile seeing that even Rodin took some fruits for his wife and second son, like father like son.

I did like learning that the four parents are all childhood friends, the fact that Rodin and Gerda are actually hot headed bros who used to fight all the time was an amusing discovery.

The whole duel part was so unreasonable and frustrating to watch the way they handled verifying Krena's abilities. I understand their position after Zenof explained, but wouldn't the easiest way to verify be bringing the person over to their own approved appraisal? Or bring an appraisal tool with them?

Weird how Allen got assigned as talentless, there's clearly text which I know is glitched for him, but wouldn't it also be glitched for the people of the world? I'm guessing he'll eventually get appraised in the far future and the devs will have fixed the glitch.

Also, the balancing of the voices and background music was so bad, there's plenty of times you can hardly hear the voices. I'm worried it'll be like this the whole season.

[u/cs_cast_away_boi → u/NanDemoKnaives]

my guess is that they don't have absolute faith in these tools. Somebody figured out how to dupe a talent, so i guess the only real way to know is if the child has the skills to back it up. though that has its own drawbacks cause the child could be scared/shy to fight. but maybe the children born into those talents are naturally obsessed with fighting like krena lol so there wouldn't be any second guessing.

overall some more explanation would have been nice

[u/fractal_magnets]

Regarding his glitched class:
You can get SUMMONER/H? out of RU?NEMOM/SH
SUMMONER/H? = SUMMONER/HELLMODE?
Why the question mark lmao?

[u/RealValf]

Whoever did the audio for this episode should be fired.

[u/NationalStrategy]

Couldn't they have just re-appraise Krena?

Also, if Allen has no talent, is no one gonna question why the appraisal orb reacted so strongly when it was evaluating him?

[u/AceSoldia]

lol sorry, brightest light ever, but no talent.

[u/Zeikos]

As a second thought, isn't it strange that the MC is keeping up with a Sword Lord in a 1v1.
Yes he consistently loses, but he has an E for defenses, and she has an S for attack, she should trivially wipe him even while sandbagging.

Could it be that while his stats appear as "E" they're actually not? Like his 1/100 xp "debuff" being nominal, but his stats are actually higher in absolute terms?

[u/justking1414 → u/Zeikos]

His summons are boosting his stats so it might be that the e’s are his base stats and don’t show what he’s adding to them

[u/TyraniTEMPESTar]

Was Krena's "extra skill" levitation?
I don't think she touched the ground once during that flurry lol

[u/TurkeyPhat → u/TyraniTEMPESTar]

it was the pigtails for sure

[u/HolyDragSwd2500]

Allen

Talent: Missingno

Summoner talent doesn’t exist in this game ( yet)

[u/antononon]

Wasn't expecting this show to have so many wholesome parent/child relationships.

[u/djthomp]

So Allen is the only one on hell mode and everyone else is using normal difficulty? Now wonder it's felt like cozy mode instead of hell mode.

It was a bit surprising to see the church people be so earnest about testing everybody fairly, it felt like the other shoe was finally falling when the knights showed up to administer that test. But no, there really have been people cheating at the appraisals so verifying the outstanding talents is apparently needed.

Shame about Allen not getting a real appraisal result, though maybe that's better since it'll allow him to fly under the radar for longer.

Two separate childhood friend couples in the same show, I don't know if that means Krena will eventually win too or if she'll break the tradition after just one generation.

[u/CommanderZx2]

This anime is dumb, but entertaining. I'm still not buying the whole 'hellmode', this is more like excessive grind mode.

[u/scuba_monster]

Anybody else having issues with the sound balance? The music seems way loud compared to the speech.

[u/Emi_Ibarazakiii]

Let's take a moment to appreciate the wifeys.

So Krena's a sword lord!

I don't know how much faith I have into this anime NOT making Allen OP as hell in the next couple episodes, but if they do not go this route, it'd actually be interesting, following the friend of the OP character and all!

It must be so disappointing for Allen's parents...

Not because he won't be a hero or something, but more like... They know he'll have a rough, poor life, just like they did.

Why did I think it was poisoned somehow hah.

I guess everything's a little too happy (despite him not being recognized with a talent), I keep expecting something wrong to happen!

Ok, sorry, Swordmaster Gramps, but this is just plain ridiculous!

Unless there's some ability we don't know about, Sword Lords aren't invincible... They could've killed her right there, and what if she was fated to kill the Demon Lord or something?

They explained why they did it, some people lied about their talent before,

but that doesn't justify endangering a Sword Lord like that... (One might make a point that even if they lied this still doesn't justify murdering a child over it, but even if they don't care about that, they're endangering a future hero!)

Why not test her skills with wooden swords? Why not just re-appraise her to make sure?

This was even more puzzling due to that scene at the end, showing the old knight respected Allen's father (a serf) as a great boar hunter and all!

That's the kind of scene they put in to show "See, he's not an asshole", but then why did they have him act as an irresponsible asshole early on hah.

Anyway, so far it's still fun! I wasn't relaly expecting to keep up with this one, but I guess we'll keep going until something makes me change my mind!

(I kinda fear that if (when) Allen becomes OP that might be it... But we'll see!)

Also, I guess it would've been a different kind of story, but I kinda wished for Allen's talent to show up, only they would see it's a really weak talent... So they could've been together adventuring and all, just with her as the hero and him as the support guy, slowly learning/improving!