You know like when you're watching a horror movie, and the clueless heroine goes downstairs alone despite all the funny happenings? "NO! Don't open that door!", that kind of thing, yeah?

So I'm in the middle of Alisa's story in Front Mission 3, right, and the team had already just reunited the sisters after the Ravnui embassy debacle. Back in Shanghai, at night Emma gets this email from Lukav and decides for some reason that it's a good idea to go along with him.

For chrissake, why?! What the hell could that maniac have over her? The original MIDAS is destroyed, the team already got away with both sisters, who supposedly are the only ones to have the know-how, and the movers behind the conspiracy - presumeably the (now very dead) Chairman and Bal - are out of the picture. Okay, there's still the Lukav-Japan connection as shown in Emma's scenario but how does that involve Emma here? Lukav doesn't have any leverage I can see that's been explained - and back when I was doing Emma's story things play out quite differently (basically, she was with Kazuki i.e. the team all the time).

It's driving me nuts. I've taken 2,607 screenshots, and that's only the key scenes in the story alone. Nothing explains her apparent sudden change of heart. Damn, I've got to take a break, I've been playing this non-stop these past few evenings. But I'm too distracted to play anything else... I gotta find out what happens! Argh.

Too bad in the battle cutscenes you only see the characters in their wanzer jumpsuits. From the slight glimpses in the character portraits they look like they're wearing some interesting stuff. Emma's supposed to be wearing some kind of USN jacket? I'd like something like that.