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queen-scribbles · 3 years

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After finishing dailies, since the internet or whatever was still cooperating, I ran Animira through a bit more of the story(she’s up to KotET ch 5 now) and I gotta say, while on my first time through I really liked how cool they made Torian and Vette, I have very mixed feelings about it now. :|

On the one hand, it’s cool they get more content. On the other, BioWare’s just making sure everyone thinks they’re cool before making you pick which one gets to survive a few chapters later. Now, this is at least better than DA:I, when you had to pick between Hawke and Alistair/Stroud/Loghain bc at least they made sure everyone was emotionally invested in the characters involved, whether or not you’ve played a Hunter/Warrior. BUT it really feels like they only want you invested so it hurts more when one of them dies no matter what you do, which seems kinda :| to me. I like it when games make me care about the characters. It’s great. But this case, to me, feels like they’re just trying to cause more Emotional Pain. Stop trying to recreate Virmire BW, it’s not going to happen.

#queen rambles #idk i'm just rambling #it's getting late and i'm tired and this just BUGS ME #emotionally manipulative feels too strong for it but it's something like that #look how cool they are #OOPS now you have to decide which one dies doesn't that SUCK? D:#look vimire only working in me1 bc it was 2 squadmates you'd had since the beginning and most likely cared about #aside from the odd ''ashely's racist/kaidan's whiny so i vaped them lol'' person #(for most of my sheps who made it all the way through the game it's a choice between their li and bff so YEAH real hard)#neither of the attempts to recreate it in other franchises have hit as hard--for me at least--bc shepard AND the player have (potentially)#a good relationship with kaidan and ashley #while the inquisitor has next to no relationship with hawke and whichever warden #and the outlander's milage may vary when it comes to vette and torian so those choices don't hit the same #and since they released kotet all at once they KNEW what they were doing #so it really feels like hyping them up just to make it hurt more #i'll stop rambling now tho and go watch some stargate and go to bed xD #(and obviously how much any of those scenarios hurts is a ymmv deal depending on your opinion of the characters so it hurts more for some #and less for others but yeah this bugs me every time i play kotet now)

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