He really just proposed to a coworker he probably only knew for a month. 😂

@@MrGreen-fi5sg Neera is on a higher rank than he is.

Merga: i am sorry sargent but now is time tô i let you here to die in peace Askal: WHAT!?

same

I'm sure another installment could probably fix that.

I agree, Neera put that derelict in place.

Neera: Aaaaaaaaah, Shaddup!

Wow that was excellent shot.

🧊 Shut up! 🧊

I know I laughed.

He did it to himself, he made his choice...

...or maybe it's because she's an adult and the others are underage.....

​@@MrGreen-fi5sg besides Lilac who is 18, yeah the others are underage

I think neera is the only one how askal trust

You do know you can't decide who he likes, even though he took the biggest L of all time.

Maybe, but she could kill anyway? She's a soldier that protects her nation, but she would reach so far?

@@TheSonicDBZ Kill traitors before you kill your enemies.

The previous game had Brevon kill multiple people on-screen as well as off. Dail's dad was one of his on-screen kills. It still got an E10 rating. Neera just didn't want to be that cold blooded with a former comrade.

If Lilac reaches 0HP in the Brevon fight in Phase 2, Brevon straight up kills her with the knife.

Neera would kill Askal for a Klondike bar.

She used her 1% of her power here.

good

Nah he deserved that L

He tries to kill Magister and flirts with Neera. He deserves it. Dumb move to try get with her if he refuses to understand how she feels.

​@@merimkastrat5846well he was trying to manipulate her...

Exactly

​@@ShaneDouglas713he will get there

@@redhattoons9357 We'll see...

​@@ShaneDouglas713A mountain you tumble from is still a mountain you can climb.

Kinda gives me Toriel/Asgore vibes, there’s a chance, but it’s kinda slim and it’s left open-ended

The other 3 believes in doing whats right, Neera believes in whatever it takes to protect her home. Loyal to the end.

​@@merimkastrat5846 Syill pretty shitty not gonna lie.

I dont think it’ll happen either way. Neera is too loyal for a relationship and unless Askal does the same, maybe. I doubt it’ll happen in this game, but it would have developed better. But because he betrayed the Magister, makes it harder for her to feel that way. So now they still talk, but it’ll probably take alot more time if he ever wanna win her over.

@@merimkastrat5846 Understandable

​​@@merimkastrat5846Slow and steady wins the race in these situations anyway.

@@bio-weaponn5576 Yeah its possible, but Askal made himself a longer road in order to achieve because of his decision.

@@merimkastrat5846 Well Askal doesn't particularly strike me as the kind of guy to get withered from a long road if you know what I mean.

There's more - The Bakunawa is a Sea Serpent or Dragon in Philippine Mythology that eats the moon (hence the phases), Parusa (the island) means "punishment" in Filipino, and the inhabitants greet the player by saying "Kumusta!" which is also Filipino for "Hello!", and Cory's ship the Sigwada is Filipino for "Storm". There are also other smaller details like the bartender in Parusa offering "Weng Weng", which is an alcoholic drink named after a Filipino Actor.

@@customink1576 There are more actually...: - Milla said "Lumpia",which is Tagalog of Shanghai wrappings - "Bulkan" is a definition of volcano in Tagalog - One of the NPCs is named "Tiyuhin" which means uncle in Tagalog

Dafuq NO WAY that was intentional.

"had Askal never betrayed the heroes and sided with Askal in the first place" What?

@@firestar4407 Well, it's only revealed later into the game that he willingly sided with Merga right off the bat. He does change his tune later, however.

And also, shouldn't he supposed to NOT believe Merga's statements that Earth dragons are bad? He's literally an Earth dragon himself,why tf should he believe everything Merga says and side with her,if this is the same bastard that can decimate an army?

We see him for like all of five minutes in total, there's not that much to be so deep about.

@@The_Burrito I didn’t say it was a deep analysis or display of toxic masculinity, I said that he has a lot of the traits of it, he managed to show em’ all in those 5 minutes which is sadly impressive.

Wow! That's quite an impressive analysis.

@@The_Burrito You know as well-written and choreographed these cutscenes are, I'm surprised you have the audacity to say something like that. There's a LOT to pick up on this game's narrative.

​@@Mikeystar45"Reading between the lines." That's all you have to say. XD

Neera: I would *never* marry a MONSTER! Askal: Then we are breaking up RIGHT NOW! Aaa: Ooh, drama!

Askal dont trust Lilac Carol and Milla she trust only in neera

Man that's the second L he takes in one video

I think he actually was.

@bio-weaponn5576 oh

Yah but only for 1 girl not for other girls (lile brock or sanji)

This game takes place three years after the events of the first game.

@@bio-weaponn5576 Oh did they knew eachother longer then that? My bad.

He did face discrimination and hazing because of his mixed blood and he did turn against the Magister for maintaining a regime built on a hidden genocide. If nothing else, he wasn't simply a power hungry turncoat. Just a someone easy to manipulate.

He does a have a redeeming quality about him, his heart is in the right place. Why else would he betray the magister. He did it because he wanted to help an extinct species/race and to expose a well hidden dark side of Shang Tu’s history. He has a lot of faults but one good thing about him is that at the end of the day, he means well and tries his best.

@@andreimircea2254 I’m sorry. Do you think he didn’t know what Bakunawa does?

@@k.w.pillsbury4070 Fair point, But to me it seems that Merga didn’t tell him what Bakunawa truly does until late into the plot. I think the moment he was in it he realised that it will be used to destroy the moon. Because of that, he fought out heroes in desperation of making some sense of it all (or to distract himself from the cruel realisation) and once defeated he just couldn’t take the fact that Merga fooled him till the bitter end and he gives up. EDIT: Next Paragraph

Wtf do you mean, did you not pay attention on why he's doing this in the first place???

Great a gen alpha kid...

@@redhattoons9357 I'm not. The r word was used way before gen alpha. The difference is that they use it wrong because they don't know what it means.

I have the same idea to.

*collapses*

Actually, yes. That is the same VA of Vegeta.

Whilst I get the raging nationalist part, aren't earth dragons beneficiaries of racism? They show up, colonise the planet and enslave some of the local races, genocide half their own species, then paint themselves as noble protectors and forebears. They do so by painting the enormous power source they made to hold Merga in place as a sacred artefact that supposedly enriches the planet so nobody will touch it and let Merga out. Meanwhile, they were busy installing themselves as rulers. Hell, Askal himself starts the game in a position of authority in the military. Correct me if I am wrong, please, but Askal doesn't particularly seem like he's the victim in his own society. If anything he's rebelling against the very corrupt system that gives him privilege - albeit doing so by naively believing what is essentially a mad cult leader.

You're not entirely right. It should be remembered that Merga (with the assistance of Askal) forcefully invaded and ransacked the city Neera lived in. That's what she's pissed about, not simply the truth of what the earth dragons did. Nationalism is "My country and culture is superior to all others," but that's not implied in anything Neera says. What _is_ pretty strongly implied is "I don't want my city attacked," which isn't nationalist at all on the face of it. I do think it's a little underdeveloped, though, which is more relevant than you'd expect. Neera's thing is that her trust in her friends is being challenged; Askal by contrast doesn't trust his friends at all, or else he wouldn't have gone behind their back. However, Askal's distrust is immediately understandable since he's clearly had to deal with other's distrusting him due to racism. In this scene, Neera is _much_ more angry at Askal than the others, since she clearly felt the most betrayed _and_ his proposal just makes that seem more insulting. Then, closer to the end, it's implied she at least understands why he did what he did, which further implies that she was completely out of line when she nearly killed him. But that's about as thin as implication gets; those two dots are never connected in the narrative, so the scene accidentally gives the impression that Neera's anger isn't just personal, but also assumes that it's shared by the player (which it really isn't). Plus, I don't mind Askal getting "treated like a fool" since I think that's just to soften his tough guy attitude a bit, which gives him a little more depth. But I'll put my hands in the air and admit that I'm very defensive of this game, so you can think what you will.

4rd

Ah yes, the victim of racism who is trusting a blatantly evil genocidal nutcase who openly despises his species, lied to and manipulated Neera, and then acted like he was entitled to her ass to the point of popping a ring in the middle of the very same genocidal nutcase's ship. Neera's flawed, and it is a nice ass, but dude needed this thing called "tact."

There's reading too much into something and then there's THAT.

Don't take it personally my guy