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=== | ===Even if not Imago yet, shouldn't Mai be rapidly recuperating from injuries?=== | ||
[[Quotes/Consoles#Chrysalis_Removal|This console]] states that Mai (presumably she is the one they are operating on, who else would it be?) can "[repair] skin and organ damage almost as it happens" when they attempt exploratory surgery. So why can't you just stand around in the game and regenerate health? And if Mai's Chrysalis has advanced even more in Oni 2, then it's even harder to see why the sequel wouldn't work this way. Some games these days do provide the player with regenerating health, with even less of a justification for it than Oni 2 would have. Unfortunately, this isn't the direction we want to go with Oni 2 because it encourages interrupting the flow of the game to hide from the enemy or stand in one spot. | |||
This brings to mind [http://konokoffin.bungie.org/forums/index.php?threadid=9&page=16#post_3171 an interesting suggestion] made on OCF (see third post down), which is that hypos sedate the conscious mind somewhat as part of the healing process, which allows the Daodan Chrysalis to exert more control over the host. This was intended to explain the Daodan overpower mode that kicks in when you pass 100% health, but it could also explain why Mai can regenerate like a regular Wolverine when under the knife, even though she doesn't in-game -- she was almost certainly sedated at the time of the surgery! A suggestion made by guido in the Oni 2 Storyline thread was that the Daodan and the host have a sort of psychic war going on, a fight for control. If the human part of Mai is holding back the Daodan from taking over mentally (more on this later), then it could also be responsible for limiting the powers of the Daodan over her body. | |||
===If/when she does go Imago, isn't Mai going to be too powerful to make the game challenging?=== | |||
:A. Play [[wikipedia:Zone_of_the_Enders:_The_2nd_Runner|ZOE 2]] before you ask that question. You're massively more powerful at the end than you were at the start of [[wikipedia:Zone_of_the_Enders|ZOE]], wasting dozens of enemies with each attack. But the game's still challenging. The key is just having tons of enemies or one very strong enemy. | :A. Play [[wikipedia:Zone_of_the_Enders:_The_2nd_Runner|ZOE 2]] before you ask that question. You're massively more powerful at the end than you were at the start of [[wikipedia:Zone_of_the_Enders|ZOE]], wasting dozens of enemies with each attack. But the game's still challenging. The key is just having tons of enemies or one very strong enemy. | ||
:B. She might not always be transformed or able to transform. | :B. She might not always be transformed or able to transform. | ||