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I just realized something really obvious that I've never seen brought up before:
Killy is a traditional FPS protag. That's the whole concept behind his character:
>he almost never talks
>his field of vision is filled with gauges, pop-up windows, crosshairs and stuff
>his primary means of solving problems is shooting at them
>he looks like an average dude
>he barely expresses any emotions (cause it's the 90s and facial animation in vidya sucks)
>he never runs out of stamina
>he has a health bar/regen system (body mass % restauration)
>his character boils down to completing his mission
>he levels up instead of smoothly getting better at stuff
The tagline of the manga is "adventurer Killy in the cyber-dungeon quest", but he really doesn't come off as an adventurer, he's just a player-character with almost no personality of his own. What little character arc he has consists in becoming less human and more focused on his mission. Which mostly involves walking a lot and shooting stuff.
It turns out to be way more compelling than it sounds at first.
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Damn! Thats a neat interpretation OP. I always saw the Megastructure as similar to the levels of oldschool Quake/Unreal, miles and miles of machines and alien landscapes filled with factory-grown things that want to murder you.
Also Killys gun is just a miniature BFG9000 imo
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>>15407994
You had me at Quake. What the fuck is this show? Any shamblers?
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>>15408019
Don't get excited just yet. It's only been written in manga form and the 'anime' is just clips of a production studio making test runs with the material that Nihei ultimately said no to. There's going to be a movie soon, so there's that.
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>>15408019
The world sorta maybe ended with builder machines creating the Megastructure that eventually swallows the moon and just keeps going. Killy, for one reason or another, is trying to find Net Terminal Genes that are suppose to be able to allow someone to connect to the net. It's not really explained in depth as to why he wants to do this but the 'cyber-dungeon' is filled with different evolutionary iterations of humans that are technically not human anymore as well as cyborg tribes called Silicone Life and it goes on and on. Almost everything carries an instant-kill weapon of some kind while the hero(?) Killy has one of his own. People die constantly.
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>>15408019
Go read the manga it's only 10 tomes and there isn't a lot of talk.
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>>15407927
Good for you anon. Now stop posting about garbage
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>>15407927
Actually he is a character in a first person dungeon crawler. Megastrucrure is essentially a massive dungeon with Killy being on a quest. Hence the tag line
>adventure seeker Killy on a cyber dungeon quest.
Considering how RPGs like Wizardry and Black onyx had massive influence on Japanese gaming zeitgeist, it makes more sense in this manner. FPS are not much popular in Japan IIRC.
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>>15408479
It's those eyes they just can't aim for shit or at least thats what Grandpa used to say and he killed quite a few in the Pacific
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