as much an answer to the question of cs2 as to 3; a machine rapidly switching between the best and worst trails game; a stupid, utopian, optimistic humanist version of mecha anime like ideon which approached post ww2 and cold-war era questions of human nature/capacity for violence wrt nuclear weapons through the idea of “the weapon fighting the war itself”...
seeks catharsis through tracing the genre's concerns back to the second industrial revolution, the outbreak of world war 1, and more fundamentally prehistory; a retelling of (among other things) the universal century narrative where instead, the weight of history is a barrier that can be fully overcome, where the symbolic power of the mecha can be fully reclaimed, and where the evil behind all the conflicts, the invention of the weapon, can be isolated and defeated, revealing the ultimate truth resting in its origin: earth and fire could just as well become a human body and beating heart, the only thing the future really needs. never again listening to anyone who complains about the lack of permanent death in these games when the resurrection at this story’s end is literally the thematic completion of the entire series lol