[Skyfall]

I fairly enjoyed this episode ... up until the last third of it - what did they do to the fight

The developments felt somewhat rushed, and Gura's fight with Misuzu and Ira's chase of Kakeru and Yuka (He didn't manage to catch up on them ...ya right) felt quite anticlimactic. It is possible i am biased due to my game knowledge here, but the fights don't even compare - this one did Gura no justice and made him look like a weakling instead.

Spoiler for Comparison (rant? :heh:) compared to the game fight:

The fight went completely different in the game. First change would be Gura's state of mind, as he was pretty much a raging berserker at that point in the original. His strength was on a completely different scale as well - i can't believe how watered down the anime version of him was. It wasn't really Misuzu VS Gura - it was Misuzu, Kukuri and Yukiko VS Gura, and it was brutal, and far from an easy fight. The big differences in the anime is that Kukuri has yet to make an "official entrance" (While in the game she already played a big part in the battle that finally brought Gura down) and Yukiko only makes an appearance at the very end to deliver a sneak attack against Gura, while in the original she was in the thick of it and didn't exactly come out unscarred, and the fight made it a point to establish what her ability is and the extent of it. Actually delivering a serious injury to Gura is also something she wasn't capable of doing.

All in all it took tremendous combined effort and teamwork from the three to finally bring the monster down, as he proved to be thick as nails, absurdly physically powerful (rock shards where flying about all the time when he was swinging his huge mace) and easily as quick as any of them despite his bulky build. The fight was long and brutal, nothing like the watered down version we got here. Color me disappointed.

So ... yeah. Ah well - i just hope they do the other knights more justice than Gura got, though Ira's chase after Kakeru and Yuka and his gorilla stomping on the car roof didn't leave me exactly hopeful It will be interesting to see where they are going with keeping Kukuri's appearances wrapped in mystery and what that would lead to in the end.