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recanting my statement about how hard Imago Muro is; he's not that tough to beat once you get the pattern
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*It seems odd that Mai knows where to look for Muro. True, she does write in her diary, "The tracker readings from his plane project him touching down somewhere deep in the mountains." So one can assume that she rents or 'jacks a plane and goes looking for a compound. But if she could infer this on her own, then why couldn't the TCTF? Perhaps they did, as the A variant of the fight with Muro has Griffin showing up to help. Whether he tracked Mai or simply went where he thought Muro would be found, we'll never know.<br>But why is this location suddenly able to be found by her, at the end of the game? Well, when else would she have been able to go here? The story is a fast succession of events: chasing Muro, planting the tracker, then going after Shinatama when she gets kidnapped (perhaps not long after Chapter 5), then finding herself an enemy of the TCTF and needing answers about herself... only now is she at all ready to face her brother. It could be that this location was known by the TCTF while she was still a part of it, and therefore she had access to the tracker data all along. Or perhaps it was held from her by Griffin to keep her from going after Muro right after Chapter 5. | *It seems odd that Mai knows where to look for Muro. True, she does write in her diary, "The tracker readings from his plane project him touching down somewhere deep in the mountains." So one can assume that she rents or 'jacks a plane and goes looking for a compound. But if she could infer this on her own, then why couldn't the TCTF? Perhaps they did, as the A variant of the fight with Muro has Griffin showing up to help. Whether he tracked Mai or simply went where he thought Muro would be found, we'll never know.<br>But why is this location suddenly able to be found by her, at the end of the game? Well, when else would she have been able to go here? The story is a fast succession of events: chasing Muro, planting the tracker, then going after Shinatama when she gets kidnapped (perhaps not long after Chapter 5), then finding herself an enemy of the TCTF and needing answers about herself... only now is she at all ready to face her brother. It could be that this location was known by the TCTF while she was still a part of it, and therefore she had access to the tracker data all along. Or perhaps it was held from her by Griffin to keep her from going after Muro right after Chapter 5. | ||
* | *Although Muro's choice to transform in the killed-Griffin scenario may be a statement on karma by the game designers ("Look at the monstrous results of giving in to one's anger", or something along those lines), it's difficult to explain within the story why Muro transforms in scenario A and not in scenario B. How does Griffin being dead make a difference in whether Muro can/wants to transform? If anything, one would expect he would be more likely to try to reason with her in his normal form if she killed Griffin, since she might have a better chance of joining him. His Imago state would be more logically be used against a Mai who stood totally opposed to Muro's wanton killing, and thus would be used in scenario B against Mai, Griffin, and his Black Ops team. | ||
*Also on the subject of the B variant, here is where we see what a person looks like if they have Muro's nature, since Kerr told Mai that one's nature determines the outcome of the transformation. It's not pretty. It does, however, resemble Barabas, albeit to a more extreme degree. There is also a possible tie-in, however unlikely, to the notion covered [[Oni (demon)|here]], that a person taken with rage can become an oni, or demon (monster). This is Muro's true nature.<br>For more discussion of Muro's ultimate motives, see [[Muro|his page]] and [[STURMANDERUNG|this one]]. | *Also on the subject of the B variant, here is where we see what a person looks like if they have Muro's nature, since Kerr told Mai that one's nature determines the outcome of the transformation. It's not pretty. It does, however, resemble Barabas, albeit to a more extreme degree. There is also a possible tie-in, however unlikely, to the notion covered [[Oni (demon)|here]], that a person taken with rage can become an oni, or demon (monster). This is Muro's true nature.<br>For more discussion of Muro's ultimate motives, see [[Muro|his page]] and [[STURMANDERUNG|this one]]. | ||