After playing it through and letting my feelings settle on the expansion.
My take away is that there's just, soo much going on, that the game kinda breezes past.
Which was something they stated in the live letters leading up to Dawntrail, that we'd be kinda all over the place to see what sticks. But... nothing really feels like it was given the time to stick. Especially in the second half. we spend soo soo little time in each of the zones from Shaaloani onwards that I feel like I never got the chance to get attached to any of them before the plot puts them through the ringer.
Meanwhile, the first half zones while charming and part of what I was sold on, a light hearted vacation adventure... feel soo separated from the plot. save for Yak T'el. and even then the throughline Yak T'el has is that it's where physically the door to living memory is
we visit all the tribes and people early on but then they are just soo uninvolved with anything that happens after.
at no point do we see how the interdimensional invaders affect the tribes we meet early on.
The transition from the succession story to the invasion story is soo abrupt and soo much I feel is lost in that.
They didn't budget their time well in the story.
and because we end the war Immediately that connective tissue can't even be restored.
the travel agency and all the stories involving the early tribes will probably just continue and be hardly affected by the fact there's a giant lightning forcefield that leads to another dimension where soul stealing robots attacked from right over yonder.
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My take away is that there's just, soo much going on, that the game kinda breezes past.
Which was something they stated in the live letters leading up to Dawntrail, that we'd be kinda all over the place to see what sticks. But... nothing really feels like it was given the time to stick. Especially in the second half. we spend soo soo little time in each of the zones from Shaaloani onwards that I feel like I never got the chance to get attached to any of them before the plot puts them through the ringer.
Meanwhile, the first half zones while charming and part of what I was sold on, a light hearted vacation adventure... feel soo separated from the plot. save for Yak T'el. and even then the throughline Yak T'el has is that it's where physically the door to living memory is
we visit all the tribes and people early on but then they are just soo uninvolved with anything that happens after.
at no point do we see how the interdimensional invaders affect the tribes we meet early on.
The transition from the succession story to the invasion story is soo abrupt and soo much I feel is lost in that.
They didn't budget their time well in the story.
and because we end the war Immediately that connective tissue can't even be restored.
the travel agency and all the stories involving the early tribes will probably just continue and be hardly affected by the fact there's a giant lightning forcefield that leads to another dimension where soul stealing robots attacked from right over yonder.
Continue reading...