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Originally Posted by Keroko

You'd be surprised at how many people assume Irish = Norse.

Is there some connections I'm not aware of?

Some initial (disjointed) thoughts on the game:

I just completed the Nanoha story mode. That was fun.

Spoiler:

The hardest fights were Vita (maybe because it was my first fight?), Yami no Sho-san (or whatever Nanoha was calling her) and Material-S (obviously)

Signum and Shamal were depressingly easy to bind

I was mostly able to follow the story (it helps that they everyone had relatively simple motivation) but I couldn’t figure out what Material S was talking about, or what she wanted ... maybe that’s just a side effect of being Nanoha, who was it who was trying to translate something Nanoha related and felt driven to say "Talk like a normal nine year old!"?

It was probably just me not understanding.

When Nanoha was talking about how Reinforce had such a kind master and so on (I think she told the Rein she was fighting that this was all a bad dream that she should wake up from ;_; ) it made me feel even worse for the original Nano-verse Reinforce.

Next! Fate mode!

…listening to Fate on Fate themed headphones. (I couldn't afford the Lyrical Box, but I bought the Fate accessory set)

Spoiler:

I like how Fate instantly knew that it wasn't Nanoha (Nanoha was confusedfor longer). She was like

Nanoha? No. Ok so I’ll beat you up. (…slightly paraphrased made up)

I couldn't help notice that Fate's mode was a lot shorter on talking... perhaps that's to be expected.

It was also pretty heartbreaking. The characters seemed more self aware than they did in Nanoha mode – Signum in particular seemed to know that she wasn’t the real Signum. Hayate recognised Fate but she didn't seem to know that she was a copy... I'm not sure what’s going on in this game really.

Also:

Hitori ja nai.

Starting Hayate Route:

…wait… Hisatsu hon? Hisatsu hon? Did she ever call it that in the anime? Grumble Hisatsu hon

Spoiler:

Hayate is very good at defending against attacks, her non-charged square fires so rapidly that she can shot down most projectiles.

Whoo Signum! Go Signum super cool!

Hayate: Zenryoku Zenkai

Hayate seemed surprised that she won… I’m a little surprised too, I didn’t think I’d manage that.

...Were they talking about making Rein Zwei? And what to name her? Cuuute!

Reinforce: Well excuse me for being simple *pout* …is what she should have said.

Due to the long delay in posting this I’ve gotten up to

Vita Route.

Spoiler:

She doesn’t like Reinforce… but I’m not sure why.

Mein Gott! Vita is a beast! I was just thinking that this game was totally unbalanced in favour of ranged combat and then this happens.

Oh, Zafira.

おめーの「ドン」 は、ガチすきるっつうの.

…
耳?して
あのわ……
(にょにょ…)



Vita has no time of any of her shenanigans.

(Also うるせうエ…ッ ;_; )

So Vita learns a lesson about... not being a bitch to Rein? I dunno…
Wait, Reinforce's the last boss? Ok I'm a little lost.

But now they can be one big happy family.

And finally:
それは秘密
絶対秘密 etc

d’awwwww

I’m enjoying this game but Im still no good at shielding yet and I haven’t unlocked anything yet for some reason. I’ll have a look at the requirements.

Also there don't seem to be many attacks...