@@Nxbulowhen did that happen? Did It happen when like she was drunk and like Jolene pulled up or was it in the last episode cuz I didn't watch the last one
If I remember correctly, that was like- his last chess game ever or something. (Still doesn’t put it on the same level as losing family or getting attacked by a dolphin, but I digress) and so at the end, he lets the kid win because he sees a younger version of himself in him. I personally like Alpharads interpretation better though.
"So what happened to you guys?" "I lost my entire home and income due to a natural disaster." "I suffer PTSD from nearly drowning, forcing me to quit my favorite thing in the world." "My family died, and now I can't look my fiancé in the eyes because I know I'll feel the same pain when it happens to him eventually." "I lost a game of chess." "..." "..." "..." "Well, it was the championship."
@@mattb6039 "I learned to overcome my trauma!" "I've learned there's hope in the world with new growth!" "I learned kids are f***king dumb and it's easy as hell to beat them at chess!"
Best story. Watches Queens Gambit, puts "grandmaster chess player" in tinder bio, loses at chess, becomes depressed, then feels better after beating kids at chess.
“He just puts the king in the middle” I see he took chess lessons from Code Geass “You start with the king?” “If the king doesn’t lead from the front how can you expect his subordinates to follow”
there’s no context in Balan Wonderworld, just these cutscenes, dance sequences, and the levels themselves, which lack dialogue entirely. The only way to understand any of it is to read the book, which did not come with the game
It's think it's pretty obvious that he purposefully loses to the child at the end, given his demeanor in that signature anime awkward head scratch, but it's still SOOOO much more fun to believe he went down the "bullying kids" route instead because he lost once.
I belive the ending is supposed to be about the kid reminding him of himself when he was younger and restarts his love for chess, but I do like the interpretation that he was just bullying the kids.
@@groudon6295 it was not just a movie it was genuine a guy who was considered the grandmaster of chess lost to the deep blue computer and went insane over the loss
tbf there was a lot of manipulation and psychological warfare going on from IBM (who were also bad to the programmers and engineers, who only wanted a fair fight. They even dissembled Deep Blue itself!) it’s like disregarding that Ted Kaczynski was part of the MK Ultra experiments and saying that he only snapped because he heard a bird imitating a car alarm
Well if I recall correctly, he lost his final game before retirement which is why it affected him so badly and now he's teaching kids how to play chess in the park and he was subtly giving them hints on how to beat him so he was losing on purpose to the kids. But it's more hilarious to imagine the canon is alpharad's head canon in my opinion.
I think he actually lost, because of him looking at kid and I think understood how he felt. So he learned how to lose and not let it ruin him. Even if that’s the case it is sad he lost to this child/ love interest 😂
Idk if they don't relize this, but that guy is intentionally losing the game so the kid can have fun. Hes not a bully hes a professional who realized wining isnt everything.
Of course they don't realize it. The game has no dialogue in the cutscenes and they aren't well done. You have to literally buy a book to understand wtf is going on in this game
Well... for one, asking Alpharad to pay attention to a game's story is often too much for him. And either way... you have to agree that compared to some of the other characters, this guy's struggles seemed a bit underwhelming? Some of the others literally had to cope with death or the loss of their entire livelyhood, while this guy got angry because his ego came crumbling down from losing once. Sure, he got a good closure, but it still feels like a mood whiplash when compared to the rest of the game. He probably shouldn't have needed Balan's magic or whatever happens in this game to get back up from that.
@@LonesomeDevil yeah. I honestly think if this game had been set up like small struggles first, then big struggles at the end it would've been better. Like yeah this guy is having troubles cause he lost at chess, but there's also a guy who just can't tell a girl that he likes her and a girl with artist block. Think they would be better as the first few chapters, in a way explaining why they are easier, while harder chapters are bigger struggles the character is dealing with
@@LonesomeDevil First off This game's story is shit. This cutscene is the only time you get to see these characters backstory and it shows up eight before you fight the boss. Not at the start of the world, secodns before you're thrown into boss.
Also you completely miss the fact that he didn't let the kid win. He was the final one to move a piece and that clearly wasn't his King Piece so he didn't get checkmated and in fact won.
