Ok, so I finally finished playing through the main plot of XS2 last night, (haven't started the postgame stuff) and my first though was, "that's it?"
My Summary:
It seems like, from a story perspective, almost nothing happened in this entire freakin' episode. Basically, Albedo got the Y-Data and unlocked the way to Old Miltia. Then some Ormus organization tried to get the Zohar before the Federation or the Foundation could get it. They succeed and use it to activate some super weapon called Omega Prime. However, before the Cardinal can use it to rule the galaxy, the group known as Testament (presumably the true driving force behind everything) appears and stops him. At the end, Albedo fuses with U-DO so that Jr. can finally kill him. Then, the Ark of Abel appears and sucks up the original Zohar.
At the end, besides a whole bunch of flash backs, all that really *happened* is that Albedo died and became White Cloak, and the Ark of Abel took the Zohar. It seems like there are three "sides" to the conflict now. There is Testament/U-TIC, Dr. Yuriev, and our heroes (who incidentally don't seem to have much of a goal at this point since they don't even know who they are fighting, or what they are trying to achieve.)
My Questions:
1) What is the point of Ormus? They are introduced as some sort of great shadow organization, yet they are almost immediately defeated. It seems like their only purpose is to activate Proto Omega (whose real importance is probably that it allows Albedo to fuse with U-DO).
2) What is the point of the Albedo/U-DO thing from the plot point of view? I can understand that Albedo personally wants to connect with U-DO so that he can finally die. But in the grand scheme of things, the U-DO expansion is halted, and the Ark of Abel ends up taking the Zohar. It seems like everything returns to square one, except that instead of being inaccessable on Old Miltia, the Zohar is just unaccessable in a giant Gnosis instead.
If that was the whole point of this, why didn't Testament just go in there themselves as soon as Albedo opened the way to Old Miltia and free the Zohar themselves. That way, there's no dealing with Ormus, no dealing with Albedo or U-DO, and the whole damn thing would've ended much faster. The only result I can see from all this extra work is that Albedo finally dies so that he can be ressurected as the White Cloak (which is ironic, considering how much effort he went through to die in the first place). But Willheim made it clear that this was not the primary goal, but just because he felt it was "unfortunate" that Albedo had been assigned to the minor role of the "key holder" (presumably to Old Miltia).
3) What the hell is Dr. Yuriev up to? Presumably, this will be explained next episode. But it seems like when he was first introduced, they made it a big deal that he was not part of U-TIC (that scene where he killed all the U-TIC members at the base, and Pellegri looks shocked to see him alive), yet for the rest of the episode, he doesn't do anything. Apparently, he doesn't seem to care too much that Testament is achieving their goals. Which brings up the question, why the hell did he kill all those U-TIC people in the first place?
Well, those are just the thoughts that I had after finishing it. At the very least, it was a interesting, if flawed gaming experience. Now all I have to do is finish the post-game stuff, and I can move on to DMC3.
My Summary:
It seems like, from a story perspective, almost nothing happened in this entire freakin' episode. Basically, Albedo got the Y-Data and unlocked the way to Old Miltia. Then some Ormus organization tried to get the Zohar before the Federation or the Foundation could get it. They succeed and use it to activate some super weapon called Omega Prime. However, before the Cardinal can use it to rule the galaxy, the group known as Testament (presumably the true driving force behind everything) appears and stops him. At the end, Albedo fuses with U-DO so that Jr. can finally kill him. Then, the Ark of Abel appears and sucks up the original Zohar.
At the end, besides a whole bunch of flash backs, all that really *happened* is that Albedo died and became White Cloak, and the Ark of Abel took the Zohar. It seems like there are three "sides" to the conflict now. There is Testament/U-TIC, Dr. Yuriev, and our heroes (who incidentally don't seem to have much of a goal at this point since they don't even know who they are fighting, or what they are trying to achieve.)
My Questions:
1) What is the point of Ormus? They are introduced as some sort of great shadow organization, yet they are almost immediately defeated. It seems like their only purpose is to activate Proto Omega (whose real importance is probably that it allows Albedo to fuse with U-DO).
2) What is the point of the Albedo/U-DO thing from the plot point of view? I can understand that Albedo personally wants to connect with U-DO so that he can finally die. But in the grand scheme of things, the U-DO expansion is halted, and the Ark of Abel ends up taking the Zohar. It seems like everything returns to square one, except that instead of being inaccessable on Old Miltia, the Zohar is just unaccessable in a giant Gnosis instead.
If that was the whole point of this, why didn't Testament just go in there themselves as soon as Albedo opened the way to Old Miltia and free the Zohar themselves. That way, there's no dealing with Ormus, no dealing with Albedo or U-DO, and the whole damn thing would've ended much faster. The only result I can see from all this extra work is that Albedo finally dies so that he can be ressurected as the White Cloak (which is ironic, considering how much effort he went through to die in the first place). But Willheim made it clear that this was not the primary goal, but just because he felt it was "unfortunate" that Albedo had been assigned to the minor role of the "key holder" (presumably to Old Miltia).
3) What the hell is Dr. Yuriev up to? Presumably, this will be explained next episode. But it seems like when he was first introduced, they made it a big deal that he was not part of U-TIC (that scene where he killed all the U-TIC members at the base, and Pellegri looks shocked to see him alive), yet for the rest of the episode, he doesn't do anything. Apparently, he doesn't seem to care too much that Testament is achieving their goals. Which brings up the question, why the hell did he kill all those U-TIC people in the first place?
Well, those are just the thoughts that I had after finishing it. At the very least, it was a interesting, if flawed gaming experience. Now all I have to do is finish the post-game stuff, and I can move on to DMC3.
ing kidding me?