Awesome Art: The entire game is a continual ode to animation.Though, it was also a tall order like the Zanzo example above, with its intention to activate immediately and not allow Chai even a second to retaliate. Though Chai (and the achievement/ingame mission) insist it was an epic battle, the postgame ends with the SPECTRA AI being interrupted mid-threat by a SCR-UB getting tangled in its wiring and pulling its power outlet off.But at least Zanzo's giant mech is finished by Kale and fought in the game's penultimate encounter, and shows it would be too much for the heroes to handle the first time. This is actually invoked In-Universe by the main cast, when they trick him into throwing his entire department budget's worth of weapons and traps at Chai so he literally couldn't afford said battle, though some players may have wished to actually fight him. By the time Chai finally reaches Zanzo, his boss fight is avoided altogether.Korsica, who had obviously abstained from any cybernetics despite all the other department leads bearing them, is only briefly taken aback to see that she's had them installed while she was unconscious. And Peppermint and Macaron both have prosthetic limbs that go completely uncommented on (aside from Peppermint's being created by Roxanne Vandelay, her mother.). Chai is outright excited to get his arm replaced with a robot arm at the start (it's never stated what exactly is wrong with his arm other than that it's in a light sling). The (presumably permanent) process of getting flesh and bone replaced with robot prosthetics doesn't seem to be very concerning to anyone in the story. ![]() For that matter, Roxanne, Kale and Peppermint's mother, doesn't even bring it up the next time she shows up. Kale may have been a major antagonistic force who showed no real love for any of his family, but Peppermint doesn't seem to react all that strongly to her brother seemingly exploding into nothing upon his defeat.Pat about to go fight Mimosa: "Yeah, let's go kill someone!!" ![]() In spite of the game's Saturday Morning Cartoon look, it seemingly averts Never Say "Die", with almost all of the bosses Chai fights explode into nothing upon defeat, implying they just died in front of him, yet this never really seems to be brought into question by anyone or is just taken in stride.The ending, in which Chai finally starts learning to play guitar, can also be viewed either way: He can finally start practicing now that he has a working arm again, or his Character Development has inspired him to give it a try. That interpretation also plays a bit better with his Slacker tendencies. However, Chai's response to Peppermint asking about his guitar skills is one of nervousness and attempting to dodge the question, which in a world where getting a working prosthetic arm is a mundane procedure feels somewhat inconsistent with him having a legitimate physical barrier with not being able to play guitar. Later, he takes Kale's insult that he is "nothing without his arm" very personally. ![]()
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