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Structurally talking, Giant Beasts of Ars episode 4 is just like final week’s episode, however the execution is way more profitable. The get together remains to be hanging out within the village, assembly new individuals, including people to the crew, and preventing monsters, however every of those components feels extra fleshed out right here than in episode 3.

At the start, I feel Romana is a extra fascinating character than Meran. You can say that is as a result of I am biased in direction of ladies who would rob me of all my worldly possessions and smirk whereas doing it – and you would be proper – however she does present a little bit of workforce friction in a playful approach (the sort most RPG adventuring events thrive off of) by getting below Jiro’s pores and skin. Her taking part in naive and sandbagging a bit earlier than cleansing up whereas playing is just not solely a enjoyable character second, it results in a genuinely humorous smash reduce too, going from “Golly gee how can we play” to her having everybody’s cash after which some.

The monster risk was additionally extra partaking this week. Whereas final week’s elephant was… properly… principally simply an elephant, this week’s river fish had a number of extra fascinating methods up its sleeve. Positive, visually it was just like the elephant beast: a giant grey regular creature with crimson eyes that goes raaargh on the get together. However the way in which it absorbed water by way of its tentacles to fireplace off the machine gun droplets and use it as suppressing fireplace on Jiro was fascinating. I actually did not have that on my bingo card, and the novelty greater than made up for the somewhat mundane nature of the design.

Now our get together is totally fashioned and of their airship, so let’s have a look at what the long run holds.

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Grant is the cohost on the Blade Licking Thieves podcast and Super Senpai Podcast.

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