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TopicPost Each Time You Beat a Game: 2021 Edition
PrivateBiscuit1
07/27/21 2:32:51 AM
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NBIceman posted...
I would assume Royal? Because that was my feeling as well. I went so far as to look up a guide for the part where you have to leave him behind on the exploding base assuming I was missing something, because it made absolutely no narrative sense to me why THAT would be the solution of all things and the end of his story.

Glad I wasn't the only one let down there!
Yuuuuup. For arguably the best character in the game, we don't see a satisfying end to him. It's a bleak, terrible, depressing one. Royal tried, and failed, and tried, and failed, and tried again, and then he finally comes to the conclusion that maybe he's not the prodigy he thinks he should be, and is so sure of the entire game. He KNOWS he's a failure, and he actually can't deny it any longer.

But the direction the game goes is for him to absolutely fail, and you need to leave him behind as the only use for him now is as a glorified paper weight so you can go on. How is the conclusion for him to come to realize he's not great after all, then let him die saying he's a worthless failure? That's not good writing, it's just SAD.

And I get the game is supposed to be all about Iconoclasts, fake bullshit people worship, fake yadda yadda. But Royal finally broke past that and saw it. And he was promptly punished further for it with an unsatisfying death. Just so, so, so sad in all of the worst ways. Have him at least go "I know I'm a worthless failure... but let me do this one thing for you. Let me succeed at something." And just sacrifice himself in a blaze of glory. That has a lot more emotional impact than dance around him and dump him on the ground and run. It was always clear he was nothing special. It doesn't cheapen your story by having the guy who is not special do ONE thing right.

Very, very frustrating storytelling.

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