Part 11.4: Do you kids like Coffeee??!?The Gundam SEED units are the only one with a zip of course! More than one even.
Ugh, not a fan of Zips at all. I do like some of the music, but all my favorites are from SEED Destiny, ironically enough.
Anyway, our heroes continue to have funny ideas about delegation of duties:
"That dry, dusty desert air, tasting of the ashes of futility..."
...Did you often go shopping for 40mm chaingun ammo and spare anti-aircraft missiles? Was your government daddy into that sort of thing?
Anyway, skipping on because we know how PC shopping trips get:
"Sarin gas, barbed wire whips, 'Eyedrop acid'...Is that even a thing? And why the DVDs of all the Saw movies?"
Apparently Cagalli has no time for makeup and tampons, but she's all over finding Doner Kebab, a Turkish and Middle Eastern dish, in Africa. Because all those places are the same, right Japan?
DO NOT BLASPHEME!
Burn the witch! For the Emperor's Yoghurt Sauce!
...Its not entirely clear, but I think this guy and Cagalli are actually coming to blows over which sauce Kira should take on his doner kebab which should not exist in this part of the world.
Too late for your apology now, sir, plot is happening:
...Wait, so you're saying he came from Hell AND he's from space? How does that work, exactly?
"Why are they SO MEAN?"
Nobody in this game listens to reason! Why is this exceptional?
Thats...nice and all, Kira, but you are not Getter Robo, your weapons are not activated by shouting.
"Their running around screaming and wetting themselves distracted the Terrorists for just long enough."
I do love how the genius Coordinator Kira has been completely clueless this entire scene and perfectly normal Cagalli has shown herself smarter, better prepared and allround more worldly than him and most of the rest of the cast too. And still the plot refuses to throw her a bone.
Andy's not one to pass up a 15-year-old girl covered in sauce, even if it is chilli.
This older man taking home a bunch of impressionable teens to his private mansion in the middle of nowhere would be a lot less creepy if he wasn't insisting on keeping his identity-concealing sunglasses on while indoors.
"No, the dress was completely innocent. Taking the blood samples and giving her the anal beads, those were part of my sick hobbies."
.....
OUR HERO, THE GENIUS COORDINATOR, EVERYONE!!
HE DID. THATS THE WORST PART.
"The Waltfeld Residence is a place of elegance, everyone wears dresses."
"But only half of us are wo-"
"
Everyone."
...I thought you said Africa had completely surrendered to ZAFT.
"Because damn, if you aren't then I've gotten out all these dresses and murdered those boy prostitutes for nothing!"
"Also, you've got brown hair. And you're 15. You know how I can tell this? Because I'm a Coordinator. And Coordinators are geniuseses."
You had plenty of answers when Natarle asked you all of this stuff, Eiji. Why can't you answer Andy? Distracted by his shirt, or the worry bulges in his pants?
This is Super Robot Wars, thats the only way to play the damned game.
Going to be? You're inside his mansion, surrounded by a platoon of his personal troops and flanked by his land battleship and squadron of robot dogs.
He is making you wear clothes his wife picked out for you. I don't think the future tense is the right one here.
"You got an A- for piloting skills but a D for being compelling and a C- for being likable. We're going to have to up the boob jiggle and add more annoying teens if we're gonna have any chance of selling those model kits, I fear."
So if we make him pilot the Skygrasper, we won't have to fight you? Awesome
(Unfortunately the game forces you to put Kira in the Strike next mission, so we can't test this theory.)
"We don't fight here. This is the war room."
"What about that room over there?"
"Thats the coffee storage. You so much as look at it too hard and I will kill you all and rape the corpses!!!"
Aww, a happy ending. Our heroes survived, and Kira was proven to be a braindead fish.
....Wait, weren't they supposed to be gathering several tons of supplies for the ship? What happened there?
Anyway, we cut to yet another
?, not to be confused with the last one:
"Just give me 5 minutes to reattach my arms, and I'm totally good for it!"
What a dedicated soldier.
Puzzle Robo time again:
We have a base, and we need to get one of our pilots onto it, through a barricade of Battas. In order to do this we have Akito and Gai, somehow. How will we solve this riddle?
Oh, and the only hugely big thing Andy dropped is this mobility booster. Which might be handy for someone who needs a dodge boost like David or Kira.
Ok. Time to decide who gets upgrades or priority for parts. A few things to note:
Energy is one thing to consider. If you've been paying attention, the Archangels been running low at times, even with the Solar Panel for recharge. This isn't a terrible thing, since Mu can always recharge it, but it is a point. Calvina can also be a bit of a gasguzzler.
People who came close to being shot down this time: Calvina, Kira, and Mu. Calvina because I keep forgetting to cast focus, Kira for the same reason and because he's not quite as good at dodging, and Mu because he keeps blocking shots meant for Kira and Murrue. All these could be handled by doctrinal changes, or we can upgrade them all and parts them, and throw caution to the wind.
Next mission has almost everyone marked down as a must-deploy, but Kira and Blade are the particular 'stars' of the show, if my memory serves me. Should we give them special attention?
Answers, whims, and other on a postcard or forum post please.