#gameoverse analysis

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Looking at gameoverse do you get the feeling there is gonna be an episode where the characters end up emotionally confronting fold? His main role is to pretend to be their friend and with atleast flappers he ended that in a rather cruel way.

Oh I 100% think that Fold is gonna get his shit rocked before the end of the show. It's just too well set up.

Between the pilot more or less being one long 'this is how Syntax destroys games when they can't harm anyone' and that shot of Flappers looking SUPER pissed at the end, I think Flappers is gonna be gunning VERY hard to take some anger out on Mr. and Mrs. Paper.

I think Kit would probably help hold Flappers back- not for Syntax safety, but because she wouldn't want Flappers getting injured- but once she realizes that Fold did the exact same thing to HER world? That's going out the window. Kaboodle also will be happy to curbstomp imo.

I think it's also very interesting that Warrick mentions Malice getting "revenge" on Kit. I can't help but wonder if Malice blames Kit for the world getting blown up, on top of stopping whatever her plan was in the og world. Bad enough getting arrested imagine if two seconds later your house blew up. I'd assume the cops were to blame too!

If so, I can't help but wonder if MAYBE she might change her tune a little if she discovers Fold was feeding Kit and Kaboodle the info to do all of that. Not to heroism, or anything, but to the idea of a one-time team up.

Imagine Kit, Kaboodle, Malice, Mayhem, AND Flappers all getting the urge to fold Fold at once. That cheat sheet is HISTORY.

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This is probably just my shipping heart, but imagine Malice wanting to "recover" Kit. Like she sees Kit as a last, living memento from their home world. She does not want to kill Kit, she wants to recruit her.

I'm sure I must sound like a broken record, but I'm just. SO curious as to what Malice and Mayhem's evil plot was??? It adds spice to the backstory, sure, but also Malice's intentions overall. What is 'revenge' for an evil robot catgirl?

From what I know of Megaman games, the robot bosses are all made by Dr. Wiley because he wants world domination. Backstory irrelevant, it's mostly about fighting unique and challenging gun duels with other robits. The thing is- world domination doesn't seem to be uber difficult to achieve in Kit's universe.

Kit's village is certainly technologically advanced- though I wonder how much of it actually is to the level of mecha suits and how much of that is Scratch being some sort of inventor prodigy in the game, because it's certainly ahead of time but not uber futuristic, especially since it appears to be made mostly of scrap. It also seems to be EXTREMELY isolated-

This shot appears to be from a different angle than the one of the planet blowing up, which makes sense contextually as this is a distance shot to show how BIG the blast is. There's a hunk of ruins in an establishing shot, but no signs of other homes or of ways to travel to them. So it seems like Kit's home is the ONLY major sprawling hub for at least a good chunk of distance.

Moreover, if Malice and Mayhem wanted the village, why would they be sitting at some random evildoer base far away? Why would the village show no signs of warfare? You'd think there'd be signs of previous bosses trying to take over in the game, but there's nothing like that.

These questions feel pertinent to me because they color the dynamic between Malice and Kit as it was before and as it is now.

And there HAS to be some sort of dynamic between the two of them. Malice is literally a Kit clone! She's built to outwardly mimic Kit!! So whoever built her- if she didn't do it to herself, which it does seems like body horror is a big motif of her dynamic so I'm not ruling it out- had Kit in mind.

Was Malice's ultimate goal to defeat Kit? To kill her? To keep her as a trophy? It feels telling to me that, in a game that presumably centers around cannon builds, Malice has zero blasters, rays, etc. Mayhem fires one off from his mouth after they fuse, but Malice has expanding arms and a tail balancer. Presumably so she can grab Kit and pull her too close to use her shields. Imagine the weird vibes of having an evil clone whose entire strategy is to hold you close so her buff friend can pile drive you.

On top of which, her catchphrase- the ONLY thing she's ever said thus far, possibly including to Kit in the entire game- is 'here, kitty, kitty'. A call of 'come to me' in a way humans typically use to capture strays. Mayhem tries to kill her but Malice just swats at her.

TLDR: I have high hopes this is gonna be either A.) really fucked up, B.) really gay, or C.) (and my personal favorite) BOTH.

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I have this sneaking suspicion that Miss Information can't interact with most objects.

It's one thing when it's the fight at the end, right- Miss Information seems to be a tutorial character, she probably isn't built for actual fighting- or, if she is able to, she's probably designed to be really ass at it- but then there's the guns at the beginning with Fold. She's clearly trying to get in Fold's way, she stomps on him twice and tells him his aim sucks, but makes zero movement towards the second gun on the rack. And I could get if she just wasn't into fighting- her role clearly is more support based, and it's not like every video game is fps hell- but it seems odd that she wants Warrick to praise and pay attention to her achievements and then she doesn't even try to get a shot in.

There's also how everyone is able to find an aquatic ride (or become one) but she has to walk without Fold, like I assume she could get ahold of a seahorse like Kit and Gobbles but she simply doesn't. This one's more of a gag, I know, but still worth pointing out.