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coles-scythe · 1 year ago

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Not asleep yet, I was playing DQXI earlier to work on getting all the extra outfits and now my brain is filled with thoughts of Erik. Also how dirty they did him (and everyone but the Luminary) in Act 3.

EDIT: I realized I went on a very long rant in the tags. Spoilers for the game and it's post-game content in the tags.

#i have a love/hate thing with this game #acts 1 and 2 are phenominal and i love them so so so much #act 3 however makes me so dissapointed #i generally dislike when stories use a timeline reset trope to fix all the bad stuff that happened #and i particularly HATE how the writers and devs executed that trope to make act 3 happen #the idea of reseting back to act 1 isnt inherently a bad thing #but the fact that the party eventually just gets all of their power from before the reset shortly after act 3 starts is terrible #in act 2 the player explores just how deeply each party member is affected by their respective traumas #the player stands by the party and helps them through it and make things as right as they can be #not perfect but realizing that things will never be perfect is part of the journey #with e.rik in particular he has to cope with fact he coulsnt save his sister fast enough before she was tainted by evil and greed #the player helps free his sister but he still has to live with the knowledge he couldnt be there for her when she needed him most #its painfully emotional and hits all the right notes for me #act 3 erases all of that and prevents that trauma from ever happening by giving him and his sister a storybook ending #she's saved by main protagonist privilege and now the player is best bros with e.rik for life #i have no words for just how much i hate this #its so bad that ive never actually beaten the game largely bc of it #that and my will to 100% as much of the game without going into new game+ has been sapped dry until recently #the ONLY good thing to come out of act 3 is that the l.uminary is the only person to remember everything from act 2 #and now he has to live with the knowledge he is an anomaly and has 0 other people who expierenced the same trauma as him #despite those people who experienced it alongside him are still in his party #v.eronica DIED in act 2 and now shes alive again in act 3 that HAS to be terrifying to the l.uminary bc shes like a dead girl walking to hi #im getting so off topic #this is supposed to be abt e.rik #uhhhh e.rik is best boy and im somehow gonna retcon all of act 3 in my au bc its stinky bad #🗡 Catch Me If You Can

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