My prescience is unbounded. A day or two after I promoted Charlotta and Yingxia to my fictional character hall of fame, a new short story event was released in Heaven Burns Red featuring them as the main characters, where they soared to newfound heights. This might have been the best event story the game has featured.
In this event we learn more about Charlotta's tragic backstory. I had thought before she just had bum luck, but there's an actual and plausible reason for why she's the sole survivor of every battle with the Cancer, despite not being particularly stronger than her squadmates. This makes her character a lot more relatable, because it's a lot more believable. But her past intersects with her present, because she's confronted with the same Cancer that killed her friends in the past, but working together with her new friends, this time the duel ends differently. My emotion as I went to avenge all the indignities this Cancer had done to my precious Russian loli was off the charts.
I've said it before and I'll say it again -- this is the best game ever made. I've never seen so many tearjerking, heartfelt, absolutely momentous and memorable moments produced by any other game. They are rattling these incredible products off on a biweekly basis. It's absurd. A writer could be proud of producing one such story in their entire lives, but Jun Maeda can make a new one every two weeks.
Heaven also added some more bonus features -- lots of free loot for logging in or completing flashback battles, and a new game mode called the Astrarium where you can get quartz and other goodies for defeating challenging bosses while only being allowed to fight with different squads in each phase of the fight. I haven't had much time to fight at the Astrarium because of March Madness, but starting Monday I'm gonna be grinding there for quite a while.
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