2011-10-29, 13:34 | Link #1382 |
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Lol! About the Horses, dude down here in Portland during the summer you see horses quite frequently. We have cars, pedicabs, bicycles, buses, MAX, and other mode of transportation. It's modern day why the hell do we have horses? Just because. So maybe in Ancient Belka when they don't want to use high tech mode of transportation, they just go and uses horses. I don't see an issue here about horses.
@ Craxuan Hell it's not even Earth and they even have humans. And wars and royalty and other human things. I think people are being a bit nitpicky on the horses. Poor horses getting picked on all the time.
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2011-10-31, 02:18 | Link #1388 |
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I think Belkan aristocracy lived in a similar style to Code Geass aristocracy. They also had mecha and other crazy tech, yet regularly used horses and carriages just because they are stylish.
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One of the drawback of Vivid's art style. It's hard to discern the fight details. I can't even figure whether Heidid and Vivio actually fly there or just run really fast.
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-primitive -impractical to fight with, compared to, say, just fight with their signature magical martial arts, which never mentioned fighting while riding horse (why should they? They could fly) -difficult to defend compared to magically-hardened APC's, vip gunships, or just freakin's battleships, mode of transportation. Mind you, the last two points are especially important, since Kings are prime assassination targets, and this was an age of war. Instead of using those aforementioned rides, which would make sense since they a)have the technology and b)have been shown to use one (the battleship), both Kings Olivia and Klaus use the one thing that would raise questions....without any explanation whatsoever. But more importantly, the horse is just the most blatant example of one worrying sign: that the artist seem to missed the message that Old Belka was medieval-ish and made it full medieval. Lets take a look at the Wolkenritters. They use the term Knight and use weapons like sword and hammer to indicate a medieval flavor, but they are decidedly also technologically advanced due to their devices, including their cartridge system and Shamal's sensors. They're also magically advanced, with their use of offensive spells that could annihilate platoons in one swipe. Then look at Vivid. Stone castles. Tents. Soldiers, numbers of them, fighting in close packs, nevermind that considering the firepower magic could unleash moving in tight formations is suicide. Even if they use melee weapons, the soldiers should have been spread to mitigate the effects of area attacks and rapid-fire, avoiding the reenactment of the final battle of The Last Samurai. No indication the weapons used are devices (their medieval shape not helping), nor any signs of advanced equipments. In short: Old Belka as shown in previous series' was an advanced civilization but with medieval aesthetics and flavors. Old Belka, what little it appeared, as shown in Vivid? Actually medieval. It's as if aside from the Cradle, the Old Belkans never actually went beyond pre-gunpowder era. Quote:
It would be better if there's a supplementary manga that devoted more to the Old Belkan details, but Olivia and Klaus are het and would have little appeal to the yuri fanbase, as well as being adults thus little appeal to the loli fanbase
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2011-11-01, 11:30 | Link #1390 |
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To accentuate Tiresias's point, I'd look at the world of Sora no Kiseki or Trails in the Sky. Which definitely does have a ye olden mainland flavor, but is definitely anything but primitive. Of course, that doesn't mean that people throw away the blades and sticks and take up guns in mass, it means that there's a greater amount of variety because of skilled individuals who chose what's suited to them instead of being thrown into one catch all category.
(of course, then Zero and Ao come into play with their "OMFG WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SPACE AGE GEORGE JETSON INSANITY", but that's another post) To put it like this? I'm not saying that there should've been footsoldiers in tactical gear running around with reflex sighted assault rifles or smart grenade launchers or portable Redeemers with satellite guidance, but come on, don't just have them all armed with the exact same armor and the exact same sword. Have a few squads armed with jezzails or something. And now having wasted two minutes of my time, I return to reading about Yurikawa. |
2011-11-01, 11:40 | Link #1391 |
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The RPG Fading Suns is a good example of Space Empire + Dark Ages done well. The Empire is so vast that it is not surprising to have polearm-armed peasants drafted together with mercs fit better in Aliens hired by the universe's megacorporation. Also Space Vikings and Space Arabs. Can't go wrong with them.
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2011-11-04, 19:16 | Link #1396 |
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Actually I think she was trying to be kind by not blowing Corona out of the water right away. Instead she tried to fight Corona equally and win in a more subtle way but in the end Corona have gotten strong enough that there's no need for holding back anymore and Einhart can go outright. At least that's what I think.
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2011-11-04, 20:10 | Link #1398 | |
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