Ristar 17: The Cold War

== Overview ==
Ristar 17 was made to sell toys. And sell toys they did! It started the second Red Scare!
== GENERAL DESCRIPTION ==
* Set during the cold war russia
* Starring granpappy ristar as pappy ristar early in the timeline
* this takes place in the 80s?
== STORY ==
* Shinji is the first character that you meet and he is crying listening to new wave on a record player set up in the famous russian watchpoint “контрольная точка”
* An exact transcription of any scene involving Shinji is impossible to document, due to the original script having bullet holes obscuring every line that he says, and from general bad mic and mixing quality. It is unclear whether Shinji's lines were shot before or after the recording, though many believe he adlibbed the majority of it.
* cutscene begins, shinji tells pappy ristar that his father is a bastard and shouldve just shot him instead of converting him to gore catholicism
* this was unprompted by either parties. pappy ristar still gives his sympathies, him knowing the grief of a soldier.
* pappy ristar then asks if shinji would like to be shot by his hands, the long heartache to be ended by a stranger, rather than by the cause of all his pain. shinji refuses, his blubbering making it impossible to understand what he was saying and a dark screen displaying making it impossible to guess through context clues.
* Asuka then enters
* Asuka says wednesday thursday only, everytime she speaks it is taken as an insult, nukes almost launched because of this
* in a call directly from JFK, it is vaguely hinted that Jfk and steve jobs are lovers, and foreshadowed that steve jobs is the one who shoots him because he cant have him due to both America’s stance on homosexuals, and because he is married. 
* steve jobs is aged up
* Jfk has a crush on asuka
* Polyamory is created here
* Ristars dad is antagonistic to pappy ristar
* Pappy ristar was born in russia and is on russias side aka gay side and sobreity 
* Ristars dad is on the side of homophobia and america and alcohol
== GAMEPLAY ==
* Gameplay involves sending messages to the happy bunny the russian guy who is the russian guys
* Missions are carried out through a series of rhythm games, in order to pay tribute to it’s origins, occasionally broken up by turnbased strategy segments. Cutscenes resemble a visual novel-esque style, though very little of this style is integrated into gameplay. 
* Rhythm games are extremely Guitar Hero-esque, creating a frequent difficulty in switching between the official Pappy ‘Star’s Guntar controller and the keyboard.
== CONTROVERSY ==
* directors if the game had only watched limited amounts of evangelion through amvs, lots of the characters were botched 
* shinji’s voice actor, megumi ogata, was ridiculed strongly for the amount of takes that had been butchered through too emotional and loud dialogue. the marketing team had to do a press release in order to clear the air, stating that the microphone had been sabotaged by pappy ristar’s voice actor. strangely, pappy ristar’s voice actor had been in russia for the time period that ogata was supposed to be in the booth in ojiya, japan, creating the reputation of capcom’s advertising department as a shady, lying, and a fan of small dog breeds.
== TRIVIA ==
* Many plot lines for Ristar 17 Evangelian were inspired by one of the most beloved amvs of it's time, "Asuka's Grand Day Out", an animash of Asuka Langley Soryu interacting with and ultimately rejecting Wallace from the Wallace and Gromit series, set to the tune of There Will be Rain by Million Eyes. Die hard fans of the Evangelian series praised the anonymous creator for their "tear jerking" story and "mind boggling" effects, while Wallace and Gromit fans felt that, while her rejection was harsh, she should not have been left to die on the moon with the skiing robot. 
* Pappy Ristar's Russian operative outfit had become a fan favorite item amongst young girls, due to its coarse faux leather and untapped energy hidden in between the pages of the gore catholicism bible, famously kept in Pappy Ristar's back left pocket.
* Capcom had fought for the rights to include Wallace in the final version, Wallace Gromit, the creator of Wallace and Gromit, insisted that Gromit must be included too, stating that, "As much as I'd like to have Wallace without the Gromit, Gromit is an extremely important facet of Wallace. They are Yin and Yang, Ristar and Dark Ristar, eternal lovers bound by the call of duty.” Because of such difficulties, the model for Wallace was altered slightly in order to be replaced by 35th American president, John F. Kennedy. 
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