Right, enough derailing!
Anyways, when last we left off, we had just been taken to the post-mission screen. This will prove to be a very important part of the game, as not only does it let us check up on the units we have, it also allows us to upgrade them.
We can upgrade the pilot stats...
...The mecha stats...
...And the weapon stats. We're also able to buy new Spirit commands (to those not in the know, think of them basically as spells used to gain all kinds of benefits during battle) and Pilot Skills. Unfortunately, it seems like I don't have enough points to pay for any upgrades right now, so this shall have to wait until later. So I suppose we should probably get back to the plot now.
We join Gai as he hangs out with the
other main character of GaoGaiGar, Mamoru Amami. If you haven't seen the series, you may be thinking that he's one of those tagalong kids that add nothing to the plot and are generally just an annoyance, which is pretty far from the truth. Mamoru is not only integral to the plot, but he's actually a pretty interesting character. Not only that, but I find his brotherly relationship with our cyborg hero to be rather endearing.
Suddenly, Mamoru is confronted by his enigmatic classmate, Ikumi Kaidou, who enigmatically tells him some cryptic info before enigmatically disappearing in an enigmatic fashion. He's rather enigmatic, you see.
The info may or may not have had something to do with the evil space clown who has appeared next to GGG HQ. Meet Pagliaccio, one of the 31 Primevals, the main antagonists of the second half of GaoGaiGar (I shall assume that the Zonders and their master, Pasdar the Zonderian were defeated in Alpha 2). She will probably be showing up quite a bit in the future, although don't hold me to that.
Soon after her appearance, three giant floating cylinders make their way across the city until they're hovering directly above GGG HQ. Mikoto, Gai's girlfriend and the person responsible for sending out the Gao machines, activating the Final Fusion and Goldion Hammer programs and sending out special equipment like the Dividing Driver, seems somewhat concerned by this.
As is Koutaro Taiga, the man in charge of GGG, a being composed predominately not of carbon like must humans, but of ham. It shouldn't be all that surprising that he was voiced by Dan Green in the GaoGaiGar dub. Shame they only did half the series, as that was probably one of the best dubs I've ever seen. Um... But anyways, moving on...
Well, um... That's not good. The three cylinders combine their powers to blast GGG HQ with a massive beam of energy, utterly annihilating it in one hit.
"Damn it, we'd just finished paying that off! Frigging aliens have no decency... I'll show you! Victory goes to those... WI-"
"Too early, Gai."
"B-b-but Mikoto, I wanna say it
nooooooow! Ugh..."
Gai wastes no time getting revenge on the cylinders, which go down pretty quickly...
