#i think they could've taken it even a bit slowers but it was sweet how joke tried to make zo less anxious

[ctl-yuejie]

[sunshades]

Sweet you finished GD! How many is that now? My question I wanted to ask about what I felt the game could've done better was villains. I feel the game is weirdly hit or miss w/ antagonists. Like, the house leaders make great antagonists, & once you learn about Rhea she's great because she's super likeable & sympathetic, while still being a tyrant. So to me it's really disappointing how cartoonishly evil TWSITD are when they actually have a good reason to be sympathetic if the game chose to???

2 routes down! i started eagles too but.. i might take it a bit slower! under the cut we go!

BASICALLY. SAME AS YOU NONNIE. i know everyone looooooves to talk about being gray and all but it kinda felt like they didnt know where to take this game? especially with edelgard. you get an entire villain in lions. sure dimitri blames her for stuff she couldnt have done, but she’s still guilty of A Lot Of Shit.

then in deer (and church too, since i hear theyre p much the same route) the text explicitly makes her out to be sympathetic, from claude saying he shares her ideals (does she even talk about her ideals in deer? the only time she and claude interact is in gronder if you have them fight) to that so very climatic cutscene (”i wanted to walk with you”? why? in this route she doesnt even TALK with byleth) to the equally climatic reveal of the slithers, which for some reason is read as “oh so this was why she was doing this” which… idk it may be cuz im tired but i dont get it. how does starting a war that puts the continent on its knees help u with fighting these snakes?

together w this is her view of religion that changes depending on the day? i know her route ends with her doing literally what she condemned rhea for, but then there’s all those little cute girl moments i know she gets (fgydhd doodling byleth on her war plans GIRL..) like… what kind of character where they aiming for exactly. manipulative ice queen or a girl forced to grow up too fast, who just wants a normal life? they dont… really go together.

in the meantime while u still do fight her in deer, the big bad end up being THE PURPLE PEOPLE………….. BUT ONLY IN THE FINAL TWO CHAPTERS? and it’s solved so fast because even after all this build up, the bad guys are… actually 100% evil people who killed god after she helped them get everything they needed? there’s like nothing gray about them at all beside their skin, they’re evil and that’s it. i really like rhea and the whole backstory she got w them, but i would’ve taken an actually 100% villain edelgard over this i think yghjefdk

ABOUT THE OTHER LEADERS… the route order problem is real. stay tuned for when i reach the timeskip in BE-E but its gonna take something big to make me consider dimitri as the villain when we’re gonna be the ones invading his country after collaborating w the ppl who killed his parents and slaughtered his lover’s people. i can’t exactly speak for claude (shady but still a homeboy in lions) or rhea (i only know of the routes where she’s important thru spoilers and commentary) as villains, but like dimitri, i’m gonna have a hard time not feeling like the bad guy by fighting her dhfuijkdlgf

hype nonetheless and THIS IS A GOOD GAME but villains in particular could use… more consistency? or something. i prolly just rambled but yeehaw!