anderharrison: I JUST WATCHED VALON 4 TIMES
(3:26:02 AM) anderharrison: Also: i have figured out, finally, why valon is the greatest combo movie of all time.
(3:26:10 AM) anderharrison: I was wrong, at first, about why i thought it was so great
(3:26:27 AM) anderharrison: but i figured out what seperates it from, for example, nightmare vB
(3:26:45 AM) anderharrison: it is because, at some point, whoever was making valon decided "the life bar is not important"
(3:26:52 AM) anderharrison: and he stopped making the combos for the lifebar
(3:26:56 AM) anderharrison: and started making them for venom
(3:27:56 AM) anderharrison: other combo movies are unable the forget the lifebar
(3:28:00 AM) anderharrison: or cast away the beat meter
(3:28:11 AM) anderharrison: but valon embraces the combo itself
(3:28:20 AM) anderharrison: his most damaging combos actually pan away from the lifebar\
(3:28:31 AM) anderharrison: so we never know exactly how much damage they inflict
(3:28:36 AM) anderharrison: because that is not the point
(3:28:52 AM) anderharrison: the point is that these combos complete the game of guilty gear
(3:29:02 AM) anderharrison: in a way that maybe was never done before or since
(3:29:21 AM) anderharrison: even ogawa combod to defeat his foes
(3:29:34 AM) anderharrison: i think kusoru is there
(3:29:39 AM) anderharrison: i think he found that place
(3:29:55 AM) anderharrison: where the lifebars and the beat meter were only vessels through which combo flows
(3:30:18 AM) anderharrison: but without the humanity the combo is nothing
(3:30:26 AM) anderharrison: it is a flow
(3:30:29 AM) anderharrison: a combflow
(3:31:26 AM) anderharrison: but kusoru's combflow is a raw energy, unrefined, beautiful in its savagery
(3:31:34 AM) anderharrison: valon is a poem
(3:31:51 AM) anderharrison: they complement each other with a certain discordant beauty
please note that matt has not responded to me the entire time because it is 3:33 in the morning
