no clue if anyone really going to care about the comment, but I'll say this. Even though I was a pussy and played with a cheater to keep me topped up on health, money, and items, I greatly enjoyed the game. There definitely a lot of things that had gone into it over the years, and I'm glad to have kept up with it enough to have seen the end of it.
I haven't read/listened to The Count of Monte Cristo, but I believe that Apocalypse XL is extremely comparable to that, as in written over many years, very complex story wise, and is absolutely certain to leave its impact on....well anyone who take the time and effort to fully go through it. It's certainly have left its impact on me, especially given how it had formed some of my adventure fantasies. Like the time where instead of entering the multiverse, they instead head off into a tower that appeared out of nowhere, one of them basically made it to the top, get the tower master to reverse time kinda, which soon lead to a persona game kinda of thing where a new group of people went off to prevent a repeat of what happened.
Obviously, this included a self insert OC who if I'm remembering correctly, blew up a city because his mutation was an angel arm for some reason, cut off said arm, managed to survive both to determination and sheer luck, and knew the meta plot of both the game and the tower that they ended up fleeing into. He is even a main character in the persona, acting as one of the main characters phantom thieving it up to prevent the end.
This was thought up several years ago when at best, I think the road trip was just getting started. Either way, it's how my brain sometimes work where it just imagine things. Currently just repeating the same plot points of a cult of a lamb story that I for some god damn reason can not put to actually writing, and a guy who is basically an immortal(infinite clones) who was created by Unique Precursors to basically watch over a pet project that is humanity. Also getting into wacky space adventurer with a friend.
The latest scene I thought about was them both facing death. Like actual literal death for both of them. The mortal friend obviously asked the immortal clone friend what death like, and he said that he doesn't know. That he had scanned through everything the Precursors had left behind, and while they were able to describe everything leading up to death, they skip to the part where they come back. A race so powerful that they could shape the universe however they wanted, and could infinitely cheat death, can not describe what death is. That the only record he had is that Death is something that no body who experienced it can say. They can not say what Death is like, they can not record it for others to read about later, they can't even remember what Death is like. Only when they're dead, would they know if they experienced it before or something like that.
Anyhow, so yeah if you couldn't tell, I grew up with an active imagination that constantly stole the parts of media that I like/consume and constructed a whole lot of different stories that I have certainly forgotten about over the years. I think the first was an avatar sort of deal, and the other was based on a cyoa that was really interest.
Anyway, sorry to completely ramble and derail the whole thing, just going to say great game. Absolutely curious about who/what Someone truly is, who/what is Something, and glad to see evil Keith stopped from invading the multiverse, even if it hampered communications efforts with everyone. But I'm glad to know Amber and Rachel was able to find each other again all because of one tag.
Edit: I can only blame myself for being up super late and letting the emotions goes over me that I spill a lot of things about myself, and mixed up Janet with Rachel. That is my fault, and can only promise not to mix the two up in the future