I apparently hit a button and so it tried to post itself to Aishuu's comm ARRGH SORRY ;O;
which is to say:
oh GOD the scene where they try to bring Alice back made me sob like a little girl. And THEN there's a place in his head where forever it's the moment before crushing spoilers happen and she's there waiting for him. ;______________;
The part in the graveyard where he hears her voice broke my heart too. He's just so frantic to get to her. His VA did a really good job, too; sometimes he's a little uneven but when he has the need to he can really pull out the stops.
Also I didn't notice that Nicolai was really that much into Karin enough that he wanted to be whining her name pleadingly as he died, but what the hell. I liked the part where he was shut up in the crystal, he looked pretty and wasn't doing anything stupid. FOR THE WIN. Also, Kato, that's just stupid. Stop it.
Karin: As if my body language has not been making this screamingly clear for the last six months, I really kind of would like to do you.
Yuri: ....bwah?
Karin: You are the dumbest person I have met in my life.
Yuri: it's just that you remind me of my mother.
Um. Why does Yuri have magically induced Alzheimer's? o_o;;; I mean. I know WHY, I just wonder if I'm the only one going o______________o;; over it.
Got Lucia's ultimate weapon. Got Joachim's second best weapon (God, I love his family -- and how do you BREAK a demon sword, Joachim?). Got Karin's best armor. Started the Neam Ruins sidequest ("A TRUE gentleman would risk his life for a lady O HO HO HO." "....you're just going after Russia, AREN'T YOU, baby cousin?" "....curses, foiled again."), now with added proof of the fact that Joachim and Anastasia are my troo OTP in this game! "Don't look at me! I don't wanna go!" "YOU BIG PANSY!"
edit: Meimi -- apparently the chick who plays Chloe on SV? Her grandmother lives at where I work.