FMA: Memories...

[urufudo]

I started watching Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood today. Actually, I started watching it when it started airing in April but never really got past the third or fourth episode. ^^; But anyway, I just finished watching the episode with the village of Lior and its corruption at the hands of "High Priest" Cornello and his religion of Leto. Whenever I

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[commanderteddog]

Thinking back on it, it MIGHT have something to do with how Joyride designed the game. There were four factions, I think: Elrics, Military, Homunculus and Independents. Cornello got tossed in as the Independent character for the first set, but that role was tossed to Scar later on.

That makes Lust as the Homunculus lead bizarre too, since she eventually went rogue in the first anime series, although she was fully on the baddie side at that point.

Come to think of it, I still see Cornello packs in the wild in Toronto.

[urufudo]

I'm not sure how Joyride thought they could get away with having such a massive faction like the Military compare to the Elric brothers and their very few non-military allies. Having those four factions kind of makes it a bit lop-sided, maybe that's why the game never really garnered enough attention for the game to last much longer than just two years.

Scar appeared early on in the original series, did he not? I was thinking that even if he didn't make much of an appearance, he still had more of a presence than Cornello, of all people. *facepalms* Oh well. XD At least it gave us a lot of good laughs, even 4 years later. XD

[commanderteddog]

The whole game was lopsided - I intentionally tried to build a deck that wasn't alchemy based and you kicked my ass with an alchemy-based one every time. o.O

I looked up the episode list - Scar appears in episode seven and only exchanges glances at Ed and nukes the Nina-Alexander fusion. The later was presented as a mercy killing, so that's not much of a presence. I'd say that Tucker and Barry have the most "EVIL" presence in the first nine episodes.

Looking back on the first anime reminds me how INSANE parts of it were. Maybe it's because of the era the show was made in, but the filler episodes were surreal, like the episode with Majihal. That was SO bizarre. Alchemist zombies!

....wait that actually happened in the manga...

[commanderteddog]

Which randomly reminds me - if you're ever in Toronto, we need to secure a copy of the FMA movie and make you watch it. :D

It seriously has Roy fighting in a hot air balloon.

[ecatalina]

Ha, I tried watching FMA: Brotherhood when it first came out too. But after 2-3 episodes of basically repeats of Season 1 episodes, I stopped wasting my time on it. When do they stop do that? I'll pick up the series from there.

[urufudo]

I'm not sure exactly when it stops being a repeat from the original anime series but I do know that it's been moving really fast. I saw a preview for episode 34 and they're already in Briggs. o_O

I looked at some summaries quickly and it seems as if things start to get different at episode 14. Episodes 12-13 are with Izumi and seem to be the flashback to the Elric bros training with her and Episode 14 has to do with Roy going to see Bradley. But episode 15 has Ling in it. XD I can't pin-point when things get really different but it'd seem like that's about when. I'd say pick it up from 14 or 15 and go from there. :X

I like the series as a whole enough to watch through the beginning episodes again because it's been a while since I've read through that part. XD I'm just excited to see the series not all fucked up and retarded like the original one after episode 26... -_-