Okay. I've finished 0.1 (at least according to the walkthrough). So far, I'm liking the story. I mean, I was gonna like it regardless seeing as I enjoyed Once in a Lifetime. I like the characters a lot. The comic relief is pretty fun. I know that the main character doesn't think much of Micaela at the moment, but I think it would be funny if they become friends. Or rather, what I would hope to see is that Chang says that he has the main character's back. Then, unbeknownst (or beknownst) to the character, Chang and Micaela join Eternum and Micaela comes into a scene where the MC and one or more of his harem are trapped/captured by a group of baddies and "of the Boreal Valley"s them. It would be so funny to watch. Since working out in real life directly gives you "gains" in Eternum.
It's been awhile since I've played through OiaL but Chang reminds me of Stabby Mike (is that his name? I forget). He's the comic relief that can appear in any group, but he's got the MC's back through thick and thin. Jerry (the level 39 1 player) seems like he'll be a running gag character, but not on the same level as Stabby Mike. Stabby Mike had your back. He was a true bro.
Oh yeah, I knew this game was taking place in the same universe as OiaL because I remember one of the first game's MC's lovers was talking about how Eternum was a new up-and-coming game that was going to be released soon. This leads me to believe that some black magic may have been used in the making of this game. But...hmm...well, it could be that there is no magic in this game; since Once in a Lifetime was focused on magic in the world, this game could be about how high the level of technology is in this world. As cool as it would be to see the original cast in this game, I think that at most they should only have a background cameo. That is, unless there actually is something magic related and thus the first game's MC shows up at the very end to recruit Eternum's MC into the Avengers Caribdis Initiative. I mean, I'm pretty sure there is already some time travel involved in this story. Maybe one of the evil demon guys has some time related function.
Let's see...Speculation Time. Okay, so, at the beginning of the game, MC hasn't played Eternum yet. He is interested, but never saved up the money to be able to play it. As far as the entire world is concerned (and rich-boy Bartol) he's a nobody. Nobody in Eternum should know who he is. Then, he gets a mysterious call on a payphone telling him some cryptic message about needing to be the one to find Calypso and using it to open the doors to Acheron. When you first play through the game, it means gobbledygook. In fact, the only reason I knew what it said was because I made a save for that part and was able to go back and reread the text. Based on the pre-understanding context, I knew it had something to do with Eternum, but I didn't know what. But now that I went back and relistened to the music reread the phone call text, I realize that it is very important in the grand scheme of things.
Calypso is one of the 3 super weapons in the game. As was hinted, you'll need one of the three if you're to have any hope of retaining/obtaining more than one Doom Stone. Acheron is the final goal of many people. The right of being able to open Acheron lies solely with the person who collects all 10 Doom Fists Stones.
If the voice wants MC to open the doors to Acheron that means that either the voice has some extremely advanced prediction software that can be used to determine what every person's chances are of obtaining the Stones and what they would do if they opened the Doors. Or they saw what happened in the future where the MC lost the stones to someone else, that other person then went on to open the doors and...do something bad, I don't know.
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(if that's your kink I don't judge but just the tought of it would almost make me regret not having a scene with Gertrude instead)
