People mocking Attack on Titan? I’ve been waiting for this day!

You get so many points for using Ayu Mayu Gekijou.

This is hilarious!

This scene doesn’t play out quite the same way in the VN. Sorry : P

If you come over to AniTAY, we’ve a couple of reviews of the games (this one has recently been updated) and are generally superfans of the franchise. The short-short version though, is:

The TE anime also only covers about the first half of the actual TE story, which supposedly gets a bit better in the VN later.

It’s been stated that they’re going to use the original Openings, as they are how the fans in the West received it and enjoyed it. They’re really trying to keep the fanbase in mind through all this, which is heartening to see. Also, I consider the original OPs to be less spoiler-y anyway.

I particularly love that, after the actual trailer, it has that “Watch these videos too” screen with two options. One with shooting, and one with dancing.

Agreed regarding your idea, but Fuck Minmay.

My problem being that the Spartan IIs were different. They weren’t just soldiers who got swanky new toys, they were raised to be Spartans. In a profound way they weren’t even soldiers, as soldiers have a specific mentality the Spartan IIs didn’t. They were family, and they were indoctrinated with a specific way of…

Oops, I got the name wrong. I meant Prototype, Ghost is the name of the character. My bad.

My personal Legends favourites would be The Babysitter (Cal-141 demonstrates Spartan fighting very nicely) and Ghost. No Spartans in Ghost, but I adore the story.

I’m not missing it, I generally not addressing it as it has nothing to do with the mechanics of the video, but if you wish me to I’d offer my opinion that it runs more like a product demonstration trying to make a sale than soldiers going to work. If that’s appropriate or not I leave up to the respective viewer.

You don’t want to be able to vault an enemy, rotating the length of your 7-foot body around your head as you as fire a burst into his neck? That was always my pick. Soldiers enhanced to the degree of Spartans would be acrobatic in their approach to combat, but only when it wouldn’t get them killed. A combination of…

It’s more like they are flying/skiing down the mountain than running.

That’s salient, but personally I liked the Spartan IIs. It was interesting to see developmentally-interrupted individuals who weren’t non-functional, and the argument of if they were broken was one of the interesting aspects of Halo’s lore. I think Halo 4 went about it very ham-handedly though, and took the…

I get what you’re saying, but when I say “floaty” I don’t mean their range of motion, I mean the lack of heft they seem to have. Yes they’re that fast, yes they’re that powerful, but they still have mass and that isn’t translating across. And they’re still far too extravagant in their movements.

I’d argue that. Could a Spartan do what that intro shows? Yeah, probably. But they wouldn’t do it in that way. Those Spartans looked too... floaty. Do much like dancers, it all looked choreographed. If you compare it to, say, Monsters from Halo Wars, where the Spartans moved with solidity and weight and fought with…

I don’t know why I expected otherwise...