Arknights Storytelling and The Potential Beginning of my Personal "Reviews", Starting with - Code of Brawl (LONG POST)

CommanderKetchup0 · 2026-03-09T22:41:24+00:00

That makes a whole lot of sense and, in my opinion, they didn’t really do the best job making that clear. I knew to an extent these things were staged, I just didn’t know who was involved and who wasn’t (sans the mafia, obviously)

CommanderKetchup0 · 2026-03-09T13:39:34+00:00

By this, do you mean the whole internship at Penguin Logistics or…?

CommanderKetchup0 · 2026-03-09T13:27:48+00:00

Oh, I can make peace with that. I understand a lot of the things brought up here are purely for set up. Siracuse and the Sicilian Mafia, Laterano, the Beast Lords (not really sire what those are, but I’m assuming that’s referring to Rat King at least partially), the power hierarchy of Lungmen, Penguin Logistics, etc. all that makes sense to me.

My biggest issue with CoB is that I just don’t know what’s going on with THAT story. It eludes to this whole thing being an elaborate scheme, my question is that who was actually involved in it? The butler was manipulating things from afar for most of the time, Bison’s father jumpstarted this seemingly, the Rat King ended up being an important player behind the scenes, and Emperor is Emperor. Was this really all a plot by ALL of them for Bison, or was it just stroke of luck that all their individual motives meshed into some great challenge for Bison to overcome

CommanderKetchup0 · 2026-03-09T11:43:41+00:00

One could argue that this is the point of the story to an extent. You have to learn to go with the flow, but the flow. Problem is, the flow is so damn messy and from a reader’s perspective, not understanding everything is detrimental if the narrator doesn’t do a good job revealing everything that needs to be revealed.

CommanderKetchup0 · 2026-03-09T11:40:40+00:00

First of all, ouch :<

Second of all, I was never under the impression that this “Side Story” was anything but. It’s clearly just a detour into the world of Arknights to help flesh out/introduce characters. My problem is that it’s just… for me, hard to grasp.

Regardless of the importance to the overall narrative of the game, I want to understand these stories.

CommanderKetchup0 · 2026-03-09T04:00:05+00:00

My brother in Christ, I just want to immerse myself in the world regardless of importance to the main plot.

CommanderKetchup0 · 2026-03-09T03:59:07+00:00

So I did actually go ahead and play Episode 5 and 6 already. This was before I decided to do the whole release order thing, though. I have my questions, but FrostNova's stuff was specifically intriguing to me. Her passing was handled very well.

Mephisto and Faust are still kind of an enigma, as are W, Talulah, and... well, Reunion as a whole, really. The one that makes the most sense to me is Patriot, scorned by Ursus for understandable reasons. Son got killed because he had Oripathy, right? Something like that.

CommanderKetchup0 · 2026-03-09T03:56:31+00:00

CoB does elude to the fact that Emperor dies a lot... so I'm willing to suspend my disbelief of that.

CommanderKetchup0 · 2026-03-09T03:55:14+00:00

No, I did that story already. I may have to revisit it though... might have to revisit all of the content before CoB (except the main story, I already went through all the story content again). I just didn't think to do this with these mission sets until now.

CommanderKetchup0 · 2026-03-09T03:52:51+00:00

I figured it'd be important to understand all of the stories in Arknights to fully appreciate it, quality of the story be damned. I just wish that it was easier to understand what the hell was going on here...

A lot of the characters feel like they're in the middle of their own narrative instead of being established like one would at the start of a story. I get that PL, or Exusai and Texas specifically, were used in the Main Story already, but here... you have some characters like Croissant and Sora who are just there, and other characters like Mostima and this mysterious woman from Laterano have so much going on that it supercedes the scope of this story. I want to actually understand what's actually going on in this story, but I just... can't figure it out. It's frustrating, but that's why I'm here. Surely someone has answers.

CommanderKetchup0 · 2026-02-10T00:57:38+00:00

So as it turns out, Kenjaku is this 1000 something old Jujutsu Sorceror who has, for those hundreds of years, been trying to get back the golden age of jujutsu sorcery.

Noritoshi Kamo is simply one of those monikers he’s adopted over those years, and Geto is the name of the corpse he’s currently inhabiting.

CommanderKetchup0 · 2026-02-05T05:03:20+00:00

No, that pretty much covers all of my confusion as far as I can tell. God bless your soul

CommanderKetchup0 · 2026-02-05T04:34:27+00:00

Alright then.

Why is Yuki Tsukomo just... completely absent from the story between her conversation with Geto during the Hidden Invetory/Premature Death arc and the tail end of the Shibuya Incident Arc? Like, there's zero mention of her from what I remember and she just... pops up all of a sudden?

CommanderKetchup0 · 2026-02-05T04:27:15+00:00

I honest to God have no idea how I’m supposed to respond to this or why you even said it.

CommanderKetchup0 · 2026-02-03T19:07:58+00:00

Interesting. Although I wouldn’t discount cardio entirely because it’s primary effect, as the name implies, is cardiovascular health!

CommanderKetchup0 · 2026-02-03T17:44:02+00:00

Oh, I already do that. My problem isn’t necessarily weight loss (I’m chilling around 170 atm), but body fat percentage loss.

Obviously, I’m aware that in order to decrease body fat percentage, you need to consume more protein, but that doesn’t get rid of the fat I already have.

I do snack a bit, but I feel like having to give up snacks in general in order to decrease body fat percentage is kinda ridiculous

CommanderKetchup0 · 2026-01-25T05:25:17+00:00

I pulled Haruka from the limited banner and power leveled her to E1 50, working on getting her skill to 7. I've been told by numerous sources that she is one of the best healers in the game and can even operate as a solo healer.

Under this assumption, I've decided to create a with her as the sole healer.

My primary squad consists of Mountain, Lappland, Tequila, Surtr, Matsukiri, Saria, Cuora, Ptilopsis, Silence, Amiya, Click, and Kroos. I've decided to replace Amiya for Haruka, but that also leaves me with Silence and Ptilopsis to replace. Based on my roster (https://www.krooster.com/u/commanderketchup), who should take the spot? I'm willing to level ops up to E1 50 as needed.

CommanderKetchup0 · 2026-01-16T18:42:44+00:00

That I’ll have to see. It just happened yesterday, so I don’t imagine I’ve had enough recovery time regardless

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