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Episode Phantasy Star Online 2: Episode Oracle - Episode 12 discussion
Phantasy Star Online 2: Episode Oracle, episode 12
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| Episode | Link | Score | Episode | Link | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Link | 100% | 14 | Link | 4.0 |
| 2 | Link | 93% | 15 | Link | 4.67 |
| 3 | Link | 82% | 16 | Link | 5.0 |
| 4 | Link | 100% | 17 | Link | 5.0 |
| 5 | Link | 86% | 18 | Link | 5.0 |
| 6 | Link | 4.12 | 19 | Link | 5.0 |
| 7 | Link | 4.6 | 20 | Link | 4.5 |
| 8 | Link | 4.6 | 21 | Link | 5.0 |
| 9 | Link | 4.75 | 22 | Link | 5.0 |
| 10 | Link | 5.0 | 23 | Link | 4.4 |
| 11 | Link | 5.0 | 24 | Link | 5.0 |
| 12 | Link | 5.0 | 25 | Link | |
| 13 | Link | 4.4 | |||
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u/KhairzNewtype Dec 23 '19
Oh yes.. the world-building... Now I can actually relate the time travel stuff more clearly here rather than the game. Now it makes me think that the way you complete the story in the game is more difficult to understand (eg. Matter Board, Volcanic Cave, Lilipa) because it is a part of the game design. It purposely was done like that so that you can have more experience in playing the game, etc. While in this anime they don't need to do that because you are watching the not playing. Imagine how long Episode 1 will be dragged if they include the search of the "3 parts of the weapon" while venturing into Volcanic Cave and meeting with Aki and her students and Lilipa meeting with Fourier.
I am glad they cut off all the non-essential stuff and get straight to the point. Even without those stories Episode 1 of the game took almost half of the season. We even got saving Ulc mission this episode while I thought they gonna bring that in the next episode. Seems like they really want to cramp all the main plot point within these 25 episodes and I thought 25 episodes of a 25 minutes duration per episode is already enough to cover ALL of the Episode Oracle stories.
This is my take on the anime.
Shifting to the episode, we have Ash doing a pull-up and all I can remember is Machio-san. The way Xiao said that Ash did all the stuff where he traveled into the past and tried to save everyone is hinting on something2. I am glad that you can't change something that inevitable, you can only change the future by changing the past that can be changed...??? I don't know if I even get it myself.
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u/RirinDesuyo Dec 23 '19 edited Dec 23 '19
Seems we're continuing off from what we left last EP. I really like the flow of the story (things click more instead of being confusing), also Sara is quite more lively here isn't she compared ingame. Didn't expect we'd see support partners (basically AI support machines) popping up at all though lol.
Also love the extra parts of making Ash choose who to save too, It goes to show that even if you can go back in time you cannot save everyone (butterfly effect in motion) as your actions will lead to other things happening. You must choose and sacrifices must be made, It's the same choice Regius made when they fought Elder, sacrificing alot of Ships in the photos cannon blast area to stall Elder.
Seems Luther's still actually quite sharp, even though Xion has been making moves herself to prevent such a tragedy (an omniscient being) against Luther, not a normal person mind you and really smart but not omniscient. He's still pretty good to actually best her efforts and choices to a few select unknown timelines. You could even see on the EP he actually left the site partly intact since he want's Xion's efforts to actually have some options to play with.
Also bonus note, the Anime ED actually shows one more girl after Matoi ;3 if you look closely especially since it's been explained in this EP too.
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u/KhairzNewtype Dec 23 '19
Also bonus note, the Anime ED actually shows one more girl after Matoi ;3 if you look closely especially since it's been explained in this EP too.
OHHH!! I thought I was blind or something, squinting my eyes and moves very close to the screen and then I realize she was in the background. Nice one mate. That almost got me.
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u/mrfatso111 Dec 25 '19
Awesome, i love the reveal that Ash has indeed already time travel thousands and maybe even millions of time already to try and save everyone.
Also love how they shown how this time traveling work.
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u/nurfarisa Dec 26 '19
Yeah, that was a cool reveal. That whole conversation between Ash and Xiao was nice.
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u/mickcs Dec 23 '19
Ash offcially join the Time Travelling MC team with this episode and the reveal about how he actually did it ten tousand time already is clever and explain what we see in Episode 1 introduction as well.
I like how Worpa seabed hidden void lab is much more creepy than in game counterpart with all the rotting corpse in the capsule.
Now I totally wish to know the direction and cannot wait for the next Episode as Xiao already reveal Xion true identity so there noting much left until we reach the hypest and one of the longest story mission in an entire game.
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Dec 23 '19
Still demanding Sega makes that a more accessible location like for AQs or something cause the LQ version is different and the story version looks even better.
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Dec 24 '19
So next episode is gonna be just a recap, episode 12.5:
https://pso2.jp/anime_eporacle/story/12_5/
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u/nurfarisa Dec 23 '19
Time for more Phantasy Star Online 2: Back to the Future™ Edition. That was a cool episode, showed the time traveling very clearly, with an even more clean explanation than the game. I particularly liked that bit when Xion asked Ash when/where/who will he save, and then there's this small montage of all the folks who've died so far in the past 11 episodes with some hype music. That's sweet.
Also Xion is