ETA: ITYM, "I am Sailor Vader, Champion of the Dark Side. In the name of the Emperor, I shall punish you!" Remember, he's no fan of Tarkin's "technological terror" and he MUST obey his Master (at least until the final darmatic confronation.) Though I always wondered why luke, staggering along trying to support him as he made his escape, didn't point to one of the Stormtrooper or Technician squads ruinning by and order in a firm voice, "You and you, help me with Lord Vader! You, get a Med Droid and meet us at the shuttle bay! Quickly!" It's not like they know him from any other random human, and he's visibly helping a severely injured, high-ranking officer evacuate.
That would mess up the script, of course, but that doesn't stop it from bugging me every time I see ROTJ.
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In Lego Star Wars II you can almost play as Hello Vader - you have to settle for an all-white, stormtrooper helmet, but one of the bounty hunters has a yellow-vest-white-top torso, though you have to either put up with a mismatch on the lower part using Slave Girl Leia's legs or shorten the robes to just that vest with the generic pink legs, and I don't remember there being white hands - the white cape is easy, though, IIRC you don't even have to get any specific character for it to be available in the custom character machine. Equip a red lightsaber as the weapon and you're good to go. I haven't tried in Lego Star Wars III, but it's suffered an unfortunate decline in awesome from even the first game, and no where near the high water mark set by the second - I never saw the Clone Wars TV series so that may just be a reflection of the source material. As far as I know the combined version was never released for PSP (it would have nbeen too big for a single UMD I'm sure) or PC (and if it was, I didn't have a PC that could play it at the time anyway) so I don't know if it raised the original Prequel stages (esp. the railroad-riding starfighter levels) to that standard or not. I do know that the PSP version of LSW2 has a few important flaws as compared to the console versions, most noteably that the vs. Count Dooku boss battle level included as part of the version-specific bonus content is unwinnable becasue LSW2's Yoda's Force powers are the same as everyone else's, instead of being Uber and able to overwhelm Count Dooku as you must do to finish that fight.
But! This isn't about Videogames, this is Crossovers That Should Not Be!
Submitted for your disapproval:
In whichever crappy episode of Evangelion, Asuka suddenly kisses Shinji for the lulz. Knowing how spineless and socially maladjusted he is, it's certainly his first kiss, and from her reaction it's probably hers as well. Fine, good, whatever tsundere-girl. But... butbutbut... what if Shinji's "berserker side" wasn't... quite... the same as in the usual NGE universe? What if, it instead reflected a more pronounced dual nature, one intentinally sealed away in the wake of Second Impact? What if this ill-considered action released.... DARK SCHNEIDER!?
Well, there'd be even more explosions and rearranged geography, for one thing, but I have no idea how to reconcile the cosmologies - I've only seen the BASTARD!! OVAs for one thing, while the manga goes into it in a lot more detail from what I understand. The genre clash might be fun to watch from a suitably long distance, but a shark-jumping is pretty much inevitable trying to ram these two together. Which is why it's here.
- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
That would mess up the script, of course, but that doesn't stop it from bugging me every time I see ROTJ.
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In Lego Star Wars II you can almost play as Hello Vader - you have to settle for an all-white, stormtrooper helmet, but one of the bounty hunters has a yellow-vest-white-top torso, though you have to either put up with a mismatch on the lower part using Slave Girl Leia's legs or shorten the robes to just that vest with the generic pink legs, and I don't remember there being white hands - the white cape is easy, though, IIRC you don't even have to get any specific character for it to be available in the custom character machine. Equip a red lightsaber as the weapon and you're good to go. I haven't tried in Lego Star Wars III, but it's suffered an unfortunate decline in awesome from even the first game, and no where near the high water mark set by the second - I never saw the Clone Wars TV series so that may just be a reflection of the source material. As far as I know the combined version was never released for PSP (it would have nbeen too big for a single UMD I'm sure) or PC (and if it was, I didn't have a PC that could play it at the time anyway) so I don't know if it raised the original Prequel stages (esp. the railroad-riding starfighter levels) to that standard or not. I do know that the PSP version of LSW2 has a few important flaws as compared to the console versions, most noteably that the vs. Count Dooku boss battle level included as part of the version-specific bonus content is unwinnable becasue LSW2's Yoda's Force powers are the same as everyone else's, instead of being Uber and able to overwhelm Count Dooku as you must do to finish that fight.
But! This isn't about Videogames, this is Crossovers That Should Not Be!
Submitted for your disapproval:
In whichever crappy episode of Evangelion, Asuka suddenly kisses Shinji for the lulz. Knowing how spineless and socially maladjusted he is, it's certainly his first kiss, and from her reaction it's probably hers as well. Fine, good, whatever tsundere-girl. But... butbutbut... what if Shinji's "berserker side" wasn't... quite... the same as in the usual NGE universe? What if, it instead reflected a more pronounced dual nature, one intentinally sealed away in the wake of Second Impact? What if this ill-considered action released.... DARK SCHNEIDER!?
Well, there'd be even more explosions and rearranged geography, for one thing, but I have no idea how to reconcile the cosmologies - I've only seen the BASTARD!! OVAs for one thing, while the manga goes into it in a lot more detail from what I understand. The genre clash might be fun to watch from a suitably long distance, but a shark-jumping is pretty much inevitable trying to ram these two together. Which is why it's here.
- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows