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BurmesePenguin posted...

As I said in the other topic, it doesn't matter how much more interesting Maruki is as a character than Shido or Yaldabaoth. Fact remains that the story had a proper ending and welding a random bonus episode onto the end of it doesn't make it better, even if the episode itself was actually good (it's not). The 80 - 100 or whatever hour main game has a structure that concludes and doesn't include the Royal scenario in that conclusion.

The original ending post Shido feels every bit as "Tacked on" as the bonus content from Royal does. Both needlessly increase the scope and scale of the final big bad, but it's less egregious with the Royal content because at that point the original game has already fucked up the scale of the conflict with Yalby so there's not a whole lot more they can add to the stakes in terms of absurdity.