#and that her hatred of the church is nonsensical when held up under scrutiny

[themoomoorn]

Koei and Company Dev Team: "Here's a continent with somewhat well-established lore, including an atrocity involving the desecration of the rights of living things (dragons) and necromantic-style magic stemmed from a darwinistic tech dystopia mixing their technology with the aforementioned desecrated remains of said living things. There are survivors of this desecration. One made a religion to preserve the memory of her mother/the same being that birthed all of these dragons, to mixed results. A cowardly Empire with a narcissistic Emperor willingly collaborates with the tech dystopia to make her Empire a superpower, as she eats up their propaganda about dragons in addition to genuinely believing that the other two countries surrounding the Empire have no right to exist. Her half-human military school teacher can be her ally, and she displays manipulative behavior to get said teacher on her side. Because that teacher's nonhuman half is tied to dragons, her behavior around them turns disparaging, even as she showers them with excessive affection that feels fake.

The same set of devs, having written themselves into a corner and are now panicking because they earnestly think Cao Cao is awesome and they are also enamored with their petite Emperor blorbo because women are "pure" or something:

Fr tho can you imagine if something like the Scouring in the Elibe games or the Serenes Massacre in the Tellius games were handled the way that the Nabatean genocide was handled in 3H??? The plots of the former games can’t function without those major events and yet people let 3H get off scott free with this major establishing event that created major plot critical items/powers and led to the backstory of the game’s main character (and is the reason why everyone’s favorite Arvis knockoff does what she does) getting effectively tossed to the wayside in all but one route.

And I get it, multiple perspectives and all that. One thing that matters in one instance to one character isn’t gonna matter in other cases.

But y’know what games also had multiple perspectives?

Sacred Stones. And Radiant Dawn. And Blazing Blade. And Echoes. And Fates. 

Which, don’t get me wrong, each of those plots have issues of their own, but none so grievous as “let’s make the inciting incident for why the plot starts like it does something that can be missed and ignored”, I’ll tell you that much.