Rejection: Won

 

Mariko doesn't really have anything new to say, so it's time to find out how to advance on my own. I travel to the Keep Off Area first, by virtue of it being where I headed to first. Rather embarassingly, I find out that the ammo box near the tank is in fact, unlimited. I wonder if this is true of all boxes? Alas, this journey proves to be fruitless, there's nothing new in this area. Next bet, the war college.

There's nothing new here. There's nothing new elsewhere. I'm basically just spinning my wheels hoping I get lucky right now. I'm getting experience, but I don't know if I really need it. Okay, before I go through the entire game again, I double check that there's no walkthrough, there isn't. But someone twelve years ago also blogged about this and made maps. There's a hidden door next to the computer I met the minister on.

Ah, damn it, how did I miss that? Well, this has to be it. What wonders lie inside?

Robots. They fall easily to the MG 34, which is surprising. I've come all this way to just slaughter the new enemies? Surely I can't be overleveled? No, they're just armored, the machine guns take care of them, the FAMAS and Minigun don't. The green guys do block my shots with their shield, but otherwise they die in one machine gun burst. They don't drop anything, at least at first, which is worrying.

There's a third guy, he does more damage, but despite looking impressive he's the same as the others. Its the green guys that are the most trouble, since they don't die in one burst. While at first the level here is a literal hallway, it eventually turns into a level. Which turns into worrying about ammo and health supplies. The former is quickly remedied, I find out that one green guy drops both the M60 and the MG 34. He's not even the only one that does it. That's ammo, but now I need to worry about health. Well, eventually. I got 57 ampules, but you never know. It takes one stroke of bad luck to wipe that out.

After a long, long hallway, I find my way to here. The Secretary of Defense. I'm getting the distinct feeling that this is the endgame. It's built like the war college or the submarine, long hallways with various rooms.

We've got a new group of soldiers. They're tough and I hope that some of them drop ampules. Some definitely drop ammo, at least. Ampules are somewhat rare, but unfortunately it's a long trip to grind them out against regular soldiers again. The really annoying enemies are the red robots, they never drop anything. The other soldier guys, they do drop something.

After a levelup to 21, I decide to advance further. The room going further in is not that far from the entrance. Same principle as before, except the room to advance is just before the edge of the hallway. I think I changed my mind, the red robots don't drop anything, but they also usually die easily. The other blue guys are hard to hit and don't drop anything. The worst possible combination.

There's a marked door in the aforementioned room, leading to the guy in charge, Colonel Osaki. He's very happy to meet K-Ko. K-Ko refers to him as the one who replaced her father. Oh, I get it now, he probably killed Colonel Kirihara. Now she's going to kill him in revenge. This guy is really trying to be sinister, not even acknowleding that and instead apologizing for not introducing himself. (This is where he mentions his name) He's the planner of the Tokyo Resurrection Project. Which surprises K-Ko. She goes after him for all the murder and medical experimentation he's been conducting on the survivors.

Osaki goes on about how the meteor has given them the opportunity to change the world. Japan has been a symbol of corruption. The masses pretending to flourish even though they're sick. Government, corporations, government officals, mass media, all relying on each other, like Babylon. Then, one night in Tokyo, demolished. This is the will of heaven! This time, with the meteor, it does not begin again. Kusomoanfitamin will bring the meteor to the world. When it comes to the Earth, everything else will be in the past.

K-Ko interjects about how insane he is again, before he continues. Kusoanfitamin increases the strength of living things, but outside genes are taken and give power of their own. The development in mammals causes unexpected side effects. All become a new, stronger lifeform. This fate cannot be avoided. This causes K-Ko to say he's lying, that she doesn't believe him. He merely states that since the meteor, the early form of these changes have been happening, and soon these will spread to the world. They'll be able to control these new lifeforms. He will become the supreme ruler of the world.

He then asks K-Ko to join him. They can rule together. K-Ko refuses, considering it a joke, as she expected from someone with a face like that. She tells him he's gone mad, lists all of his crimes, and then talks about how much she's going to enjoy his pain as she sends him to hell. He merely finds that regrettable, .then goes into how she can't stop him. And then they basically start screaming that they'll kill each other

That's the end of the dialog. It's a lot, but I had 22 screenshots of it!  Time to fight. He's easier than the guys it took to get here by virtue of not having armor. He's fast, but the weird design of this place prevents that from being an advantage. So I can mostly just blast away at him, while taking a few hits. This is too easy, I think as I shoot him. Way too easy. But before long he dies...and then he starts talking. He's basically just talking about how he's going to going to change and become more powerful.

Surprise, surprise, he's turned into a demon.

And now we fight again. In space, somehow. He moves around, you can just turn. You'd think that would be a problem, but it's actually nice. The game won't make me chase after him too much. This means he's always on-screen, meaning I can always shoot him. He's also nicer than other enemies, in that he isn't attacking me except when he gets up close. That doesn't mean this is easy, because he either requires you to hit limbs, or he has so much health that it doesn't register on my targeting crosshair.

I lose the first time around, well, quit actually. I could have knifed him to death, but that would have taken too long and I needed to start dinner. And I should be taking a video of the end of this, since there isn't one online. I also need more ammo, even if I get that by just rushing to the end. I need to figure out my exact plan of attack. Finally, there's still a little space, which I'm mostly just hoping contains ammo and not another locked door.

It has another Minigun, in 7.62mm. Which at first I assumed was just some variant the game made up to give me before the final boss, but checking, it's the actual Minigun, the 5.56mm one is a variant the game technically made up, because very few actually exist. Huh. It has better armor penetration than the weaker Minigun, but doesn't do as well as the LMGs. I just need to get full ammo and then I can fight Osaki again.

The first time I take a video of the boss, I run out of ammo and ampules. I probably burned through too much ammo and didn't try to hit as precisely as I should have. That said, I check the other guy again. Just knife him to death, nothing special. Considering this guy's regenerating, better advice would be appreciated. Guess I'll just switch between shooting at him when he's far away then knifing him up close.

My third attempt finally worked. I think that by using the Minigun against Osaki's first form, I lost a bit of ammo, when I should have used the LMGs. I kept getting tricked by his attack where he goes over you, and I don't think that you can avoid the massive damage he deals there. I also figured out here, which probably saved me from having a fourth attempt, that you get more out of ampules using them individually.

With Osaki dead, we get a shot of the ruins of where we presumably were, then back to camp talking to Mariko. K-Ko informs her that everything is going to be all right now, she can walk around now. They can explore together.

Then there's a black screen text crawl. "In the two years since the meteor fell, further people have safely returned alive. After this, the fear of Kusomoanifitamin is in the past, many moves to the Kansai region, and the government measures this movement. Now the blockade is lifted and nobody goes in."

And that's Rejection. Or possibly Denno Senshi: Rejection, in-game it favors one side, but the cover art I caught a glimpse of and the title favor the other. It was fun and definitely a worthwhile experience. One final thing I learned from that blog is that this is based off a movie and maybe a manga. Maybe, there's a name mentioned as being original work on one site, but I can't find anything connected to the name. I couldn't find anything on a manga just yet, I'll see the movie before the summary. The game is very clearly based off the movie, since both characters are named Keiko Kirihara, there are zombies and a power suit. Mobygames doesn't mention this, probably because game doesn't mention anyone who worked on the movie and the movie is called Battle Girl: Tokyo Crisis Wars, which is such a better name I wonder why they chose what we got. (Even discounting that there's a Macintosh game of the same name which I *might* be able to play one day) It's so bizarre.

This Session: 3 hours 30 minutes

Total Time: 29 hours 30 minutes