Game Playthrough: Galaxy Angel - Mugen Kairou no Kagi [Natsume Route, Chapter 0/9]
Channel: Traveler
Date: 2024-02-19

In which we get a royal perspective on the beginning of a (difficult to view) alternate continuity.

 Original game presented by BROCCOLI.

~~~ Translator Notes ~~~
I'd guess that the combined Emblem Frame target for this combat section is randomized among the other heroines, but I'd rather believe that it always picks Lily's just because. I haven't looked into it, nor have I tried to see if there's alternate "endings" where either Natsume gets shot down (considering the plot, I would hope it's a scripted loss that lets the story proceed) or we manage to take down the Luxiole (would probably take a LOT of enemy luring luck/strategy to pull off).

So GAII's disc swapping system for the special routes gave trouble to standard PCSX2. For example, this one is technically on Eigou's Disc 2, but it needs to load assets from Mugen's Disc 1 to run. This was borking out the disc swapping system; while the actual swap works, reading the swapped disc fails so the extra content won't run. Special thanks to whoever made a patch to make it work (even if it was allegedly intended for Dynasty Warriors according to some forum posts). Patch link: https://github.com/fldef/pcsx2-fldef/releases/tag/v1.6.0-swapfix-1

Anyway, I've renamed some of the other playthrough videos to specify which route was picked if there's significant character-specific events on that chapter. (Any other videos for alternate routes I do will skip numbers accordingly.) The playlists will get awkward if one wants to just have the story progress normally (i.e. not needing to skip videos due to alternate character picks), but I suppose it is what it is. Given this, the chapter numbering for this one's intentional; once you manage to load the extra content for the first time, the game immediately starts off with it, and there's no title caption or anything like that. (You have to finish this chapter before the bonus content title screen even shows up, and you're not allowed to save!)