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the game is about these two losers
the game is about these two losers
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Sophie was once a weak useless priest who sucked at fighting, but when she came out, her mentor, Mother Adelaide, accepted her as a priestess and her career turned around
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so she has a sick back tattoo that gives her divine sword powers
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Anna's a witch who sets things on fire and who is just as stupidly in love with Sophie as Sophie is with her
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they're girlfriends, living as a devil hunter team in Mammon City
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ruled by both corporations and the church of Mammon, the sun god
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after a couple episodic missions, the team is called in to the church
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where Adelaide assigns them a dire task
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the Mega Devils, the three strongest devils in the city, are soon going to break free from their prisons and destroy Mammon City
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so Sophie and Anna need to go defeat them
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a quest ensues!
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each Mega Devil is guarded by a warden, all of them people the protags know
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the first is Rafflesia, a mean asshole bully priestess who hates Sophie for unclear reasons
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they fight, Rafflesia loses, and they have an exchange to the effect of
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Rafflesia: "Do you... think we could ever be friends"
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Sophie: "oh my GOD"
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Sophie: "I am literally the easiest person in the world to talk to you need to put in one molecule of effort"
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then you beat OMEGHOST, first of the Mega Devils, who's a violent bloodthirsty asshole demon
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you defeat her, and don't kill her, because sophie believes in second chances
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Mega Devil number 2 is guarded by Dawn, Anna's ex
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Dawn fights to stop the party because being the warden is the only job she's ever been able to pin down, and the economy is a nightmare
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and if the mega devil is defeated, then she'll have nowhere to go
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it gets messy, you fight Dawn, you win
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then you face ULTIMOUTH, a spider devil that's really shy and awkward
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but also really hungry, so, bye
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it fails to eat you, despite Anna being Going Through It after her fight with Dawn
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Ultimouth defeated, time to move on
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to the woods, where you meet Mirra, an old friend of Sophie's
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who has turned into a devil
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they turned their back on the church of Mammon, and want Sophie to come with them
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but the church means too much to Sophie for her to back down
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and OH SHIT I forgot an important bit earlier
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BACK TO THE EARLY GAME
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it's established that, in order to pay rent, the girlfriends do devil hunting contracts for a rich prick named Donovan
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you defeat a gold-horned devil and then report the job done
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and Donovan refuses to pay, because they didn't bring him the horns, which are what he really wanted
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no horns, no pay, bye!
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Anna is pissed off and is like "what if we just, like"
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"stole his money"
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so you fight your way up Donovan's tower, beat him up and steal his lunch money
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then the Mega Devil arc starts
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ANYWAY
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they beat Mirra and face ARBORGEDDON, the last and strongest of the Mega Devils
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who doesn't want to fight
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he wants to convince them that the church of Mammon is bleeding the city dry and that they are the true enemy
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Sophie, who's still shook from fighting Mirra, just pushes on ahead and they fight and defeat the last of the Mega Devils
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but are left with haunting implications from Arborgeddon that the church of Mammon created the devils
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so when they get back
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Adelaide congratulates them, and offers Sophie a position by her side as the Sword of Mammon
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and Anna a position within the church too, if she wants
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Anna pushes her for the truth about devils
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and eventually, she relents
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devils are former servants of Mammon
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when a priest or priestess turns their back on Mammon, their magic tattoo turns them into a devil
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the reason being that devils are necessary for the church of Mammon to maintain its power and keep order within the city
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they need an enemy to align everyone against, so they created one
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Anna, furious, forces a fight
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the girlfriends VS Mother Adelaide
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(this is the fight i had to cheat to win)
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near the end of the fight, Sophie's resolve wavers, and she decides she can't do it
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she runs away, leaving Anna to fight alone
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Anna (via the accessibility options) wins, and robs Adelaide of her power
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Sophie, caught between her loyalty to Anna and her loyalty to the church, wanting everything to go back to how it was
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always trying to find a way to make everyone happy and faced with a situation where that's impossible
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just, freezes, and does nothing
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and Anna runs away
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and the city falls to darkness
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intermission
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TWO WEEKS LATER
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Mother Adelaide has gone missing
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Donovan rules the city
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he has declared the church as evil criminals
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the city is overrun by Sams, which are....
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monsters? robots? lackeys?
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the goombas of capitalism
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imposing his will while being affably incompetent
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Anna hasn't talked to Sophie since their fight
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aside from a couple "I'm still not dead" texts
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she has a heart to heart with Dawn, they team up temporarily to fight an army of Sams
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Dawn has a different fighting style in that her magic attack is weaker but hits all enemies, which changes up the gameplay a bit, neat
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Dawn talks Anna into finding Sophie and meeting her face to face
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meanwhile, Sophie meets up with Mirra
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who is a mirror witch
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Sophie has always been so pacifying and mediating because she's so terrified of being a burden to others that she'd rather be nothing at all
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Mirra makes her face her own reflection and decide who she wants to be, for herself
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a rare solo fight, where in addition to your normal moves you can swap between the two sides of the screen to avoid attacks
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Sophie accepts herself for who she is and who she wants to be, and in doing so
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grows horns
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Sophie is now a devil
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and that's okay
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Anna and Sophie finally meet up
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Sophie apologizes for abandoning Anna
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Anna's like
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"Well"
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"What you did hurt, a lot, and it was a really shitty thing to do"
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"But I also can imagine what it must have been like to be fighting your mentor like that, and I kind of pushed you into that conflict"
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"So, I'm sorry"
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and Sophie fucking loses it
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like "I'm this close to collapsing on the ground and begging for your mercy, how can YOU apologize to ME"
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"I don't deserve your forgiveness"
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Anna: "Well, too fucking bad"
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"You can't control how I feel"
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"And I forgive you"
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they cry, and hug, and I cry
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and everyone teams up
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Dawn IMMEDIATELY starts hitting on Mirra, who is confused and distressed about it
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and you bust your way through an army of Sams for a rematch with Donovan
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which is a three part epic finale
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phase 1 is just, he doesn't even show up to it
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you're fighting him through the PA system
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as he remotely casts spells and shoots money at you
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when you break the defense system, you have a great exchange that basically comes down to
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Donovan: "You just resort to violence when you don't get your way? You call me evil, but you're just as bad!"
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Sophie and Anna: "lmao is this guy for real"
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and it's time for PHASE 2
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where you fight DONOVAN, AVATAR OF GREED
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who fights using like
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direction-changing arrows evocative of stock price graphs
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but even he loses, because he's a punk bitch
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then he reveals his trump card
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Mother Adelaide, plugged into a machine that will let him use her as a conduit to Mammon
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he has a few Sams throw themselves into the machine to feed it, who leap to their deaths yelling things like "Finally, a promotion!"
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and becomes God-King Donovan, a divine superbeing floating in space
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The true final boss
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he takes all your weapons away, and you have to fight by hitting his own spells back at him
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or, when he raises a shield towards one of you, bouncing a spell to your girlfriend and then to him to hit him from behind
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Donovan, Avatar of Greed, King of Fools, Puppet of Mammon, is destroyed
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you float back to Earth, saved from falling to your doom by Dawn and Mirra
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the fight isn't over, but it never really will be
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you get a pet cat
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together
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roll credits
Princess Emily
damn that sounds rad
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I was expecting to have a proper fight against Mammon at the end but like
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I guess the symbolism is that you can unseat evil people from positions of power but the systems remain
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so you have to keep fighting
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all the Mammon doctrin is about how those without strength perish
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Mammon is the concept of people seeking power over other people
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and that's immortal but you CAN keep punching it in the dick