Firstly, the positives: the instanced fight was fun, and the concept of someone denied freedom becoming an extremist is not a bad idea. You can make a really gripping, tragic story with that.
So what in the seven hells happened? The writing ranged from nonsensical to insulting, more than once flashing back to things that were explained in detail less than five minutes beforehand. I'd say that it's like the writing is for five year olds, only that it also feels like it was written BY five year olds! Every character ranges from indistinguishably bland (I dare anyone to pick them apart without the names in the text boxes) to seemingly brain-damaged. This expansion just keeps managing to make me skip cutscenes in a game where I hadn't skipped a single one before, even on alts.
Where did the wires get crossed? How does "Lighthearted" mean "absolutely devoid of charm, intelligence or quality"? I get that the concept was to make them comedic villains, but do you know who pulled that off? Hildibrand! I laughed out loud so many times at the utter insanity of the Hildibrand questlines, and that's not even limiting it to the animations!
In fact, for as much as the team apparently complains about having no ideas for Hildibrand, the short quest we've gotten so far has been some of the least bad writing in the entire expansion, sharing that dubious honour with the Arcadion quests. Why are those the only decent writing in this entire traincrash, Yoshi P? Is NO ONE doing quality control at all anymore? Does ANYONE even do a final check in any of this?
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here!
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So what in the seven hells happened? The writing ranged from nonsensical to insulting, more than once flashing back to things that were explained in detail less than five minutes beforehand. I'd say that it's like the writing is for five year olds, only that it also feels like it was written BY five year olds! Every character ranges from indistinguishably bland (I dare anyone to pick them apart without the names in the text boxes) to seemingly brain-damaged. This expansion just keeps managing to make me skip cutscenes in a game where I hadn't skipped a single one before, even on alts.
Where did the wires get crossed? How does "Lighthearted" mean "absolutely devoid of charm, intelligence or quality"? I get that the concept was to make them comedic villains, but do you know who pulled that off? Hildibrand! I laughed out loud so many times at the utter insanity of the Hildibrand questlines, and that's not even limiting it to the animations!
In fact, for as much as the team apparently complains about having no ideas for Hildibrand, the short quest we've gotten so far has been some of the least bad writing in the entire expansion, sharing that dubious honour with the Arcadion quests. Why are those the only decent writing in this entire traincrash, Yoshi P? Is NO ONE doing quality control at all anymore? Does ANYONE even do a final check in any of this?
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here!
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