Literally the only saving grace to this whole thing is that Ava eventually comes stumbling in to report that Claude is a sex offender who's no longer a doctor due to her malpractice and gloriously fails to 'wackily misunderstand' what's going on. Naturally, this 'comedically' involves other characters stumbling into the scene and somehow coming away with the belief that the main character is not being raped by a creepster, just to max out the creepometer. Then when he headed in for a 'checkup' she went straight to talking the player character into getting naked and (wo)manhandling his bits. I got a bit uncomfortable once it turned out she was a doctor, because I kind of figured this was going to turn into some 'wacky' skit with her hitting on the player character when he's her patient, and that's creepy in a fairly fundamental way, but I figured it would be more innocently horrible than anything else. I wasn't grabbed by this particularly, but it's not like it set any alarm bells ringing. When we first meet her, she comes across as just kind of a ditz with shades of Sailor Moon-esque 'boy craziness'. I'm not going to mince words: I hate bubblegum candy here. That her Ryder is badly screwed over by the game design doesn't help, either. It's one of the more amazing examples of 'what is this game even trying to do, seriously' since they do eventually get her to fit into the tsundere mold (If you gloss over that the normal expectation would be she'd being tsundere-ing at the player character), which is a bit sad because honestly I actually quite enjoy her once she's tsundere-ing at Kryska, and yet I can't help but feel like that fact is a product of the devs botching their story. Once the plot stops trying to make her a real participant in it her creepy behavior fades away, and for a bit there she basically doesn't have a personality at all, only really gaining one once she's got a girl to tsundere at, but it's pretty hard to shake this strong and consistent first impression. And not like a creepy obsessive lover psychopath who murders her rivals or something at least tangentially related to a tsundere, but just plain a cold-blooded killer with the only excuse offered being an attempt at a sympathetic backstory boiling down to 'the bad guys killed my family, so now I'm fine being a monster to literally everyone in the universe'. The player character? Yeah, no, she's a psychopath for him. Nonetheless, this trait is not even slightly in evidence within the story until the last Ryder pilot joins your team and she starts pulling tsundere stuff at them. Icari's combat/voiced dialogue makes it pretty obvious what the creators were thinking with her: Icari is a tsundere, hating and loving you in the same breath. Icari herself is yet another example of the game not knowing what it wants to be or do. It's bad enough that I'm trying to play a cool tactics game and don't really like it when the game suddenly intrudes with Sexualized Naked Girls, but Icari is unavoidable anytime I'm playing said cool tactics part of the game and seriously it looks like her breasts are just out.
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I'm not exactly a fan of the design of these things in general, but Icari's in particular has large portions in a color that's so close to her skin tone color that her form-fitting suit ends up looking more like a barely-there stripper outfit. I also hate Icari's not-a- plugsuit design. They really made her last name 'Isidolde', when 'Isolde' is a real name that doesn't look and sound like an abomination.
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