I posted this originally in the general thread, but someone suggested it'd make sense here. Anyone else feel like SE hit peak "cutscene power loss" in Bozja?
At this point, it's a trope in this game that in a cutscene the WoL loses their power. ESPECIALLY for healers, who it took until Stormblood to even be acknowledged as existing by the MSQ. But this was just absurd.
Okay, Misija does another "do anything and I'll kill my hostage" move that we've seen a million times and is not very threatening to someone that can heal/shield/raise at will, but sure. At least she's in a position to do it...
Until she kicks Mikoto across the room. Now we're doing what she says because she's threatening someone who is six feet away from her, and well outside of range of the weapon she's threatening with.... to someone who can cast RESCUE.
Then we go along with all this stuff, things happen, and it ends when someone finally shows up and just bleeping shoots her (which is super effective). Well great, why didn't we do that five minutes ago? This could have been ended before it started if my suddenly "I only know how to club things with this staff" WHM WoL remembered she can cast Rescue, pulled Mikoto over behind her, and then the Blades blasted Misija to smithereens.
I imagine it's even worse for MCH players, since it ends with her being shot... which they could have done at any time. Do WoL guns cease to function in cutscenes? It doesn't make a damn lick of sense.
I mean, I get they want to have some drama here, but "lol you have to stand there doing nothing when you could trivially solve this with the powers you had before this cutscene" is just lazy writing and it didn't land for me at all. They did it way better in the ShB MSQ, where it never felt like you were powerless because "cutscene".
This has been going on for a while and it's always frustrating, but this time it was peak absurdity. It doesn't bring me into the story, it takes me totally out of it because I'm sitting there screaming that the whole thing would be over if I wasn't suddenly playing a level 2 character with absolutely no ability to do anything.
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At this point, it's a trope in this game that in a cutscene the WoL loses their power. ESPECIALLY for healers, who it took until Stormblood to even be acknowledged as existing by the MSQ. But this was just absurd.
Okay, Misija does another "do anything and I'll kill my hostage" move that we've seen a million times and is not very threatening to someone that can heal/shield/raise at will, but sure. At least she's in a position to do it...
Until she kicks Mikoto across the room. Now we're doing what she says because she's threatening someone who is six feet away from her, and well outside of range of the weapon she's threatening with.... to someone who can cast RESCUE.
Then we go along with all this stuff, things happen, and it ends when someone finally shows up and just bleeping shoots her (which is super effective). Well great, why didn't we do that five minutes ago? This could have been ended before it started if my suddenly "I only know how to club things with this staff" WHM WoL remembered she can cast Rescue, pulled Mikoto over behind her, and then the Blades blasted Misija to smithereens.
I imagine it's even worse for MCH players, since it ends with her being shot... which they could have done at any time. Do WoL guns cease to function in cutscenes? It doesn't make a damn lick of sense.
I mean, I get they want to have some drama here, but "lol you have to stand there doing nothing when you could trivially solve this with the powers you had before this cutscene" is just lazy writing and it didn't land for me at all. They did it way better in the ShB MSQ, where it never felt like you were powerless because "cutscene".
This has been going on for a while and it's always frustrating, but this time it was peak absurdity. It doesn't bring me into the story, it takes me totally out of it because I'm sitting there screaming that the whole thing would be over if I wasn't suddenly playing a level 2 character with absolutely no ability to do anything.
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