I went into the Muv-Luv trilogy on a whim like I always do with everything I watch, read and play.

I'm one of those people who were extremely tired after a few routes in Extra while reading and it. It was not that bad per se, but classic school-life VN romance eroge aren't my thing at all, however I trusted the hype and went into Unlimited which was still kind of similar in terms of romance eroge but the settings instantly hooked me up since I love seeing realistic politics and detailed worldbuilding.

Then... I hopped onto freaking Muv-Luv Alternative, even if a lot people seem to feel it's very slow at the few first chapters, I was already loving it. It took everything that was set in the previous entry and elevated it to a majestic and powerful level as well as including an indecent level of character development especially for Takeru, even Extra was extremely well used in the process which is insane to me since as I said earlier, I was tired of Extra, and that made me like it more.

One thing that is very important about this work is how much it's human at its core, it's funny, it's sad, it's epic, it's detailed, it's everything I'm asking from a piece of fiction, emotions are very important to me and this shit made me feel EVERYTHING. MLA is a story about humanity facing a unknown threat that is eventually going to exterminate us all, it's trying to unite but we're seeing how difficult it is even though the BETAs are the enemy of ALL of us. Humans are stupid by nature, we're afraid of the unknown and that includes other continents, countries, regions and people. Basically cultural differences.

After a long and insane build-up in Alternative at seeing all of this, humanity finally united to save itself from its REAL enemy, the BETAs, there is nothing more beautiful than this, the humankind finally came to the same conclusion, and treated everyone as equal even if temporary.
It might never happen in the real world, but Kouki Yoshimune definitely wants to believe it and I also do.

MLA is extremely violent and extremely sad but it is a life-affirming story screaming at us to LIVE and aim for a better FUTURE.
Cherish the people you love, make good actions at your scale, try to understand other people whether they're culturally very afar from you or not, be passionate about what you love. In other words : LIVE.

I'm tired.

I went through four 30 – 50 hours long games especially for Azure.

For each game except FC and The 3rd, a lot of stuff triggered me as hell and I was coping about Azure fixing them but it did not happen.

Why are the games paddled with useless stuff story-wisely?

Why do the games abuse of the «someone controls somebody who are themselves manipulated by another person»?

Why do I have to go through a lot of dungeons that have NO reasons whatsoever to exist except grinding?

Why is the narrative outline so repetitive (Even though Azure made it a bit better)?

Why are all the villains just random evil RPG characters (Except for Richard)?

Why do the games always ruin everything they builded up particularly the political stuff just for the sake of throwing plotwists at you and be like «Haahahaha lol I was the villain all along had a plan to gain an immense power to do/for [Insert random stupid motivation(s)]»

The only good thing at the end are the main characters that mostly are rather well written as well as the very fun and dynamic gameplay.

I'm pausing the game for now and will come back some time for the sake of finishing it, but right now I'm angry and saddened by the wasted potential that Trails is.