#everyone else daydreams about a remake of v1-3 with prettier animation but

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What was that one post you made about how V4 and V5 didn't have enough side characters?

here. the general point being that interesting bit and side characters who feel like they have their own lives beyond the story are what makes a fictional world feel alive, and if you don’t have that it will often feel like nothing is happening and the narrative is just spinning wheels even when it isn’t, because it lacks verisimilitude.

if you took half the v5 scenes that take place in the house and moved them into a public location with 1-2 memorable bit characters per scene (think like, the blacksmith in 4.1 or the proprietor of the gas station yang stops at in v5), and then connected the interaction between the main cast and those bit characters to the narrative stakes (these are the people team rwby must protect, and these are people who can’t be allowed to overhear what’s going on), even if nothing else changed, i think you’d see a dramatic decline in the sentiment that the volume is slow paced. likewise v4, if the RNJR narrative hopped from town to town instead of dwelling on the journey through the wilderness.

it does come down largely to an issue of budget though, because obv increasing the complexity of a scene like that unfortunately gets very pricy in an animated story 😔