Part 36: Episode 36: Arfoire’s Shadow: Giant Pirachu Attacks!

Episode 36: Arfoire’s Shadow: Giant Pirachu Attacks!

Oh, are we finally about to make some progress?
Looks like.
I’m not so sure, this doesn’t look totally relevant yet.



It looks totally different from the rest of this depressing area.
Original Compa: Welcome!
Frons: Welcome…
Dangly: Welcome…
Whoa! Who are you?
Original Compa: We are!
Frons: Receptionist girls!
Dangly: For the Coliseum!
Coliseum…receptionists?
Original Compa: Here, dead spirits from Gamindustri!
Frons: Many, many dead monster spirits!
Dangly: Gather around!
Original Compa: And you can!
Frons: Fight!
Dangly: The monsters here at this Coliseum!
Oh, that sounds interesting. IF, let’s give it a try!
Interesting? You know what we should be doing. Can we not get sidetracked for once?
Don’t be so boring. It’ll be good training. We need to get stronger for the fight ahead, right?
That’s true, but…
All right! Nepgear, let’s go!
S-Sure.

LWE Feinne on Neptunia Game Mechanics:
Okay, now we have access to the Coliseum. The best way to think about the Coliseum is that it gives us access to a whole new set of Guild missions that consist of a single fight, after which we get money, items, and move shares around. As the tutorial notes, another important aspect of the Coliseum is that there are rare items only available from killing monsters in the Coliseum. We’ll need to hang out here and farm a bit if we want to make the processor parts that look like the Four Felons, and there are some nice weapons and such we can get here too. It’s pretty cool and there are also a lot of free DLC challenges in the Coliseum. Now let’s fight Godzilla sized Pirachu.

No, we’re totally making progress, honest!



Whoa, it’s gotten really violent, like a giant dinosaur from the ocean!
Sweet! It’s shooting out laser beams, like pew-pew-pew!
Don’t just marvel at it. Can’t you read the air? This is a big deal!
Please stop, Mister Mouse!
Chu! Chuuuu! Chump!
Not even Compa’s sweet voice helps now. It’s conventional for a pretty girl to stop a berserker from destroying a town.
We can’t just waggle around here. We’ve gotta stop it by force.
Yeah, let’s clobber its brains!
Can we really stop such a huge creature?
Dear little sister, are you shaking in your thigh highs?
Th-That’s…
What’s this mumbo-jumbo, Nep Jr.? You’re not saying I’d lose to a little ol’ mouse, are ya?
N-No, but it’s hardly little. You could definitely beat it, sis. You’re a CPU after all, not just a candidate like me.
If I can do it, you can too. You’re such a good little imitator!
I mean you’re way smarter than me, you read and study and stuff, and you were always turning boys down for dates!
That makes you sound hopeless, Neptune.

I still can’t believe someone like Nepgear could possibly be related to you, Neptune.



You’re getting off-topic, as usual. I believe you were trying to boost your little sister’s morale.
Nepgear, you told me this once: If you can’t do it by yourself, you can do it with a group of friends.
Uni…
You lectured me and forced me to get dragged along with you. Don’t chicken out now.
Unless you’re saying you can’t count on us. Give us some credit, jeez.
I-I do count on you. I do!
Then act more like a CPU Candidate! We’re all here because we believe in you.
Everyone? Like, all of you?

Yeah, she’s like your freakish opposite.



It’s too embarrassing for me to say.
You are my faithful sidekick in our quest for justice.
Of course. Gust never accepts a transaction with a net loss.
I’ve been your fan ever since you put on that concert.
You did save me.
Three years ago, you looked hopeless, but you’ve grown up enough so that now even Uni respects you.
I’d rather trust you than Neptune.
Miss Nepgear, I like you.
B-But we don’t totally trust you yet!
Ooh, snappy snap! I’m getting a little jealous everyone’s patting my little sister on the head!
Setting that aside, though… Don’t let your friends down, okay?
Yes… Yes, of course!

She’s also a much better main character, sorry Neptune.



I’ll take point. Please back me up.
Chu! Chuuuu! Chump!
Stop! Cease this destruction at once!
Chu, chuchuchu!
Wh-What’s that light, chump? What’m I doing here? I thought I was in the Gamindustri Graveyard…
Whoa! Aren’t I like a bazillion times bigger than before!? Now I’m shrinking! What the hell, chumps!?
He’s completely muddled. It’s our chance!
Yes, here we go!

Yeah? Well, your faces are all dumb.

Video- “CPUs Vs Giant Pirachu”

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Boss Battle: Venomous Pirachu
The giant Pirachu is actually pretty powerful. He hits reasonably hard and causes a lot of status effects (obviously poison, but also virus and I think paralysis). He has a ridiculous amount of health and can become pretty scary at low health when he starts using his Piratickler super attack. This is really probably the worst party to fight him with, since we haven’t hit the event with the bonus attacks for CPUs yet and nobody can heal.

Nuh-uh, you’re clearly the one with a dumb face. You’re also fat.
Can we get back on topic?



We’re all good here, right, Nepgear?
Yes. I’m sorry I was being difficult.
Yeah, you were. But it’s fine so long as you don’t get depressed over the little things. It’s a pain in our asses.
You should learn to care a little less, like Nep-Nep.
Yeah, careless, like me! Wait, care a little less? Did Compa just zing me?
We can’t forget what’s begun. I mean, the revival of Arfoire, the Deity of Sin.
Yeah, even such a tiny bit of her power was that incredible.
We cannot waste our time here.
We should beat her up in her sleep.
Arfoire…the Deity of Sin. We won’t lose to you.

Wait, we’re stopping here?
Yeah, I’ve got a headache.
I should catch up on my reading.
So many achievements left to get.
Lame. Next Time on Hyperdimension Neptunia, Mark Two: A Secret Factory?