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gah

StP is a really brief VN that you can read in an evening, and then spend the next week rereading it to see all the other shit it does and ruminate on everything it's talking about

it's a very deeply meditative experience for me, and i love revisiting it to just think abt it's discussions on choices

Man, that's like a normal DMC game, too.

No disrespect to Clive, they really did just pick the wrong category to score him on.

Maybe I'm forgetting something from XVI, but does Clive ever fight anyone for over 24 hours straight?

I keep going back to Urizen round 1 and wondering if Clive's ever fought that long without rest.

The animation was great, at least. I just wish they'd went with a more solid argument for Clive. Dude can definitely take it, and it's very close, they just chose the worst possible argument to make.

how Clive would be on the other side of things.

Like, I don't know man, one of them gets really hurt when they get stabbed + the ending of XVI is kind of intentionally ambiguous. I don't buy it. Tell me he can punch Dante's concept out of existence or some shit, I'll accept that.

Yeah.

I'm actually not that mad he won, moreso their reasoning. They essentially said they were almost completely equal (I can agree with this), except for one specific trait: endurance.

They spent the entire breakdown talking abt how Dante could hypothetically run out of energy, never mentioning-

dante vs clive

i want you to take a wild guess.