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EP. REVIEW: Overlord IV

I doubt Blue Rose will survive as a party after what happened, but maybe I'm wrong. Lakyus wasn't just betrayed, but she was mind-controlled by her own party. I can't imagine that there would be any trust left after that.

It wasn't a matter of trust, it was a matter of saving their leader and friend. You probably right about the future of the Blue Rose, but I think they would rather have their leader alive. Even if she hates them later because of it.

Lakyus is one of the very very few humans who can cast Resurrection successfully. She can't do it if she's dead herself though. This may be part of the reason the others in Blue Rose decided to do what they did, protecting their "Get Out Of Death Free" card.

I don't see the Blue Rose members as being that self-serving.

And if the party breaks up because of this, then Lakyus won't be doing any resurrection spells anyway.

The final climax and subsequent fallout—i.e., the Climb versus Ainz fight and Renner seducing Climb to the dark side afterwards—lack much of the weight and impact such scenes should have. This is mainly because, in both scenes, we are purely outside observers. For the former, we aren't able to hear either Climb or Ainz's thoughts as they battle it out. Knowing what Climb thinks about Ainz's musings of life and death, or why Ainz even decides to face the boy in single combat, would have added so much to the scene. But this lack of insight into Climb's inner monologue is even more detrimental to the impact of the latter scene.

To be frank the kingdom had its downfall coming for a long time even before ainz showed up, it was a failed state and slane and empire both wanted it gone. I mean after all this time to have idiots like philip still attack a grain shipment from a powerful nation what else did u expect?

From the way Climb has been portrayed so far, I don't think that the lack of an inner dialog is a problem. I think his motivation to fight Ainz was pretty clear.

He previously saw Ainz kill his hero/role model Gazoff Stronoff (after Ainz had already killed tens of thousands of the Kingdom's soldiers in the 3rd Season Ep. 12). The Sorcerer Kingdom has destroyed the country. Climb also says in the current scene that he thought that Ainz just used mind control to force Renner to kill her father the King.

Climb has a sword that he believes could actually kill Ainz (Climb was there when Ainz told Stronoff before their duel that the sword was actually powerful enough to kill him). There is also a quick flashback where Stronoff explains that the ring he gave Climb, would allow him to exceed human limits.

As straightforward as Climb has been portrayed, I doubt he spent even a second musing over Ainz's claim that only in death is everyone equal. Any internal dialog would probably be limited to something like: "The Sorcerer King is truly evil, I have to kill him, and with this sword and ring, I think I might be able to do it."

As far as Ainz's internal dialog, since he was just playing the role assigned to him by Renner's plan (to have Climb killed and resurrected so he would become even more dependent and indebted to her), knowing what he was actually thinking would have given that away. He was intentionally playing the villain role, which he said he was going to do at the end of the previous episode. Albedo (last episode) and Renner (this episode) both expressed their surprise that Ainz was willing to do that.

Natives of the New World like the Slane Theocracy and Platinum Dragon Lord base their knowledge of World Items from the times of the Thirteen Heroes and the Eight Greed Kings who, if they were transported to the New World from an earlier period in the game might brought fewer World Items with them because there was more back-and-forth wins and losses happening then.

While I'd agree that this was a softer ending, I still enjoyed it. I certainly wasn't expecting a musical number, but it was a fun surprise lol.
The design suits her, though it looks a bit like a halloween costume.

I was wondering about this the other day. Do we know if players only appear in the New World in the same order they, presumably, leave the game? So now that the game is shut down, unless any other players came with him, he's the last to arrive? Or can others from an earlier time be sent in to the New World's future?