Princess Waltz: THE THREAD

[asdu]

@zalas

@lux ex tenebris

i would rather see an anime of some kind for princess waltz

Yeah, me too. It can be something like Fate/Stay night, with less of Arata and more of the battles.

I don’t understand why this game hasn’t been turned into an anime yet. It’ll be very easy to take out the H-scenes exactly like they did with Fate/Stay Night because it doesn’t really change the whole context of the story at all. Focusing on the battles between Angela/Lun Lun and Suzushiro/Liesel would be amazing in its own right.

Probably because the parent company doesn’t have any good current connections into the anime industry and isn’t in the shape to start doing so, either.

i think too but why never announce a sequel… what a waste…

[papillon]

(This was a big post, and some of it I agree with and some I don’t, but just to address one point)

@abrexa

[size=150]And The Ugly![/size]

[spoiler]1. Chris. Idiot like Liesel above, but to a far greater magnitude. Ahoy, let’s squander magical blessing that kept peace for a thousand years to make me a boy! Which makes sense because women are weak and not fit to rule! There are not like a dozen examples to the contrary!

Why a player cannot tell him… her to simply accept her sex and to shut up about it? She is the heir, being woman doesn’t make her worse. Simply call one-time special event called Prince’s Waltz and be done with it.[/spoiler]

I don’t think ‘women are weak’ was the reasoning… most of the time. The only person who really seemed to go on about “weak little girls” was the Big Bad taunting Chris.

[spoiler]While ages are never stated for obvious reasons, Chris is clearly not very old, only a teenager who’s spent her entire life in isolation, having no power of her own. It’s been impressed upon her how absolutely vital it is that the Empire have a prince and that the magical power can only be invested in a prince and passed down from father to son. From what everyone has told her, if she’s not a boy, it’s Ruined Forever and the empire is going to fall into ruins. Rather than squandering the magical blessing, she’s trying to save it.

She doesn’t apparently have any real power as the prince (largely because she’s been locked up), making it difficult for her to step forward and say “Hey! Whole empire! Let’s try something new!” Also, the deception has been going on since long before she was too young to have any say in it, but she may feel that revealing the truth will make the whole empire hate her. So she tries to find a way to fix things. If she becomes a ‘real’ boy, then there won’t have been any lies and everything will be okay and the day is saved.

(Although I don’t know who she thinks she was supposed to marry if she-as-Iris won the waltz!)

Early in the game, I thought that perhaps the eventual plot arc would be about Chris as the hero and Arata as her sidekick, getting her to realise that boy or girl didn’t matter that much, she COULD take control and be the prince even as an acknowledged girl, and then dealing with the political fallout and magical resistance to fight to change the Waltz itself. (After all, there’s a lot of magic invested in this procedure. She can’t just say “Let’s make it a Prince Waltz!” and have that happen. The referees would object.)[/spoiler]