Re: Your favorite stadium leaders in Manamon / Manamon 2?
Manamon 1: Seinarus
Manamon 2: Brooklyn
Why Seinarus? Because even if he's an awful, awful caricature, he's at least memorable. All of the other stadium leaders are forgettable.
Why Brooklyn? Basically the same reason. She's at least perky and interesting.
There was so, so much that could've been done with Dustin, but he died a silly, pointless death. The same goes for the second stadium leader, who's in the graveyard when we meet him. The sixth stadium leader just had her entire town blow up, and she's not interesting at all. The twins could've been neat, but they're an unapologetic riff off Liza and Tate, so much so that I can't stomach it. The electric stadium leader makes too many puns, and really badly failed attempted puns, to be anything but laughable. The first stadium leader isn't bad, and I like that she gets upgraded to the elite four, but...why did this happen? It just means we end up facing a sound type specialist twice. Also also, don't even get me started on Sonica and the earth-type replacements. Absolutely no depth. I usually fire them both after beating them.
In manamon 2, Skeeter is a joke; Aaron needs to learn how to write country twang without making his characters sound like absolute fools. Roseanne is trying to be funny, but ends up referencing Roseanne Barr in a way that I don't think serves the game well. The fourth stadium leader, the shadow dude, almost made my list, but ultimately he just strikes me as sort of insensitive, and a user of big words purely for their own sake. The undead leader is much the same, and doesn't really show a lot of personality. The dragon leader isn't awful, but she's annoying and pedantic. The flame guy, Blaze or whatever? He just rubs me the wrong way. By this point in the game, whether I do Blaze first or last of the final three, it always feels extremely rushed, and I think the game suffers for it.
I play this game more for its puzzles and grinding and whatnot than for its deep character studies. It should tell you something that my favourite manamon stadium leaders are 1. an awful stereotype and 2. a stupidly cheery person.
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