"We always called him a mama's boy, sir. And now, sorry Fritz. I wish we could've been there for you". I just love how even the audio really does make it sound like there's a wealth of emotion secured behind the steel.
@@kingoverseas9052 audio engineer's too, I was referring specifically to how tinny it feels, like there actually was a person having an emotional moment behind that helmet ^^
@@diamondwarrior2003 True! I realise it's a very common oversight now that you mention it, and it's so natural here it's easy to miss, in which case it's a job well done indeed.👍
Agreed, most of the time the english voices in the game sound so bad and they just hired just anybody with most characters. There's little if no emotion, but some of them did a fine job during certain events.
That cutscene DOES tell you the Imperials are people. They have a family to return to as much as the Gallians. It actually sets the differences aside between the two camps for this brief moment. And that was enough to make me shed a waterfall.
I think it was also meant to teach people that just because someone’s fighting for the side of the war that you’re fighting against doesn’t mean they’re a bad person or a monster. They’re a soldier, like you. They just aren’t on your side. Kinda like how not every single German soldier was a Nazi in WWII. Most of them were fighting for Germany because of patriotism and not all of them knew the Holocaust was going on. The ones who knew about the organized killings in the East only know about those killings because they were stationed there. The soldiers who were stationed in Norway, France, and Africa most likely didn’t know the German military was committing war crimes. As for the sailors? The chances of any of them knowing about the war crimes their country was committing were even lower. They didn’t even know about the extermination camps, aka “death camps”, as the existence of the camps was kept top secret. Not even most of the SS knew about the extermination camps. The concentration camps, however, were common knowledge because that was their prison system at the time. Except the majority of the population thought the people who got sent to those camps were criminals whose punishment was forced labor. They didn’t know at least some of those people were actually POWs. But the Allies also aren’t innocent, as they also committed war crimes. The difference is they were committed on a smaller scale and weren’t committed against people just because of their religion.
That's a lie as everyone in Germany knew about the camps by 1943 at the earliest. Case in point, the Germans used camp prisioners to clear out rubble following a bombing raid.
While it does do a good job in doing that I feel like it's also undermined by the fact that we first see them mindlessly killing civilians when they invaded Bruhl.
@@Ahriman13 Unfortunately, not every soldier will be honorable, there will always be soldiers that will do terrible things, as war has shown time and time again...but there will also always be soldiers that are the complete opposite.
In the HBO show "Band of Brothers", there was an old WW2 veteran who said that he always wondered what would have happened if he met his enemies under different circumstances; He might like fishing just as much as he does and they could have bonded together instead of killing each other.
@@luckymango636 they are some differences though. In the anime, there is a new character named Ramal who has a somewhat crush on Isara and also the scene where Welkin and Alicia encounter the wounded Imperial is slightly different and the wounded Imperial soldier isn't named Fritz like in the game and Welkin and Alicia never met the Imperial captain and the other three Imperial soldiers in the anime but the said Imperials only found the rifle and helmet grave of the dead Imperial soldier.
*SPOILERS:* Imagine the face of the Leader, when he discovers that the soldiers he let go are: The Leader of the Squad that gave the victory and the Valkyrie
Before one of my friends convinced me to play this game, I was really oblivious about it. I always fell into the misconception that this was gonna be one of those "poor narrative" anime games, especially me not being a huge fan of anime, not even slightly. So, I began playing this game by his request in hopes that the gameplay would make up for it. I finished this game in a week, I was obsessed about it, I couldn't stop thinking about what would happen next, the narrative was so appealing and it brought up good messages towards the viewer, these scenes were powerful enough to make me shed tears, and I myself am not really a person to begin getting emotional that easy. Those Imperial soldiers might seem emotionless given that they're the main "antagonists" of the game and always have their faces covered, but once they start talking you realize this is wrong, in war there isn't a good nor a bad side, these men answered to their call of duty and left behind everything they love so they could fight along side their brothers, friends, acquaintances or fellow country men/women. Once on the front, they're not just fighting for their homeland, they're fighting for their comrades, their "second family" or in some cases the only family they have. It is a soldier's duty to do the ut-most effort to perform their mission, not necessarily to kill the enemy, but to protect their own.
You know, if they had taken those two in or simply shot them on sight, the entire war against the Empire could've ended with Gallia's defeat. And yet one act of kindness was all it took to prevent such a catastrophe. Makes you wonder, don't it?
It will probably remain so. One of the best scenes in the franchise that solidifies how VC tries to avoid making everything black-and-white, good-and-evil. The first game also showed just how much of a bunch of conniving backstabbers the Federation are, for example.
What's the difference between a generic game and a good one? Moments like this. Good Gods I'm currently playing VC 4 on switch and it's been years since i played my first which was VC 2 on psp. The graphics on that one may have been downgraded but it went full on with the story and I have to say it's by far the most touching one for me. VC has carried over the thing that seems like you're really reading a goddamn visual novel, comic book, or manga, for that matter and VC 2 really brought the most out of it. It was splendidly done for me.
This game came out in 2008...? Wow, time flies. One of the best stories I had the pleasure of experiencing in video game format. No gimmicks, just a simple turned based strategy game with a good story. And it has kept its positive place in my memories for years. Always loved Alicia and Welkin, loved a lot of characters in this game.
