#its just basically me incomprehensibly ranting youve been warned

[nobuverse]

Final thoughts on Olympus as a story segment in case anyone is interesting in such silly things as my opinions and tears on the story

Spoilers: I have minor issues but... It Good.

Gonna start off by saying I really had my reservations going in. A lot of it comes from the past experience of being told by a lot of people I knew years back that the original camelot singularity was amazing - and it turning out to be one of my least favorite singularities in the whole game ( tldr on that is that it was just too damn depressing without much room to breathe )

The Atlantis lostbelt? I liked it quite a bit throughout most of it; as I felt it hit that balance of light-heartedness and serious tones I was really missing from a lot of the other lostbelts. But I was also not a big fan of some of the final decisions they made ( such as Bartholomew's really abrupt disapearance and Charlotte's loss of memories ) that felt like they were just added in for extra artificial sadness

Olympus on the other hand? Was. Freaking. Awesome.

I think this lostbelt has single-handedly restored my passion for the game again. It's hard to put into words how wonderful the pacing was, honestly. Not only did it prevent itself from ever becoming so depressing that I wanted to shut off the game and stop playing, the constant excitement of fighting against impossible odds was so compelling I wanted to keep going, no matter what tragedy I faced along the way. ( Well, okay - I did have to take a small break at Musashi's sacrifice. That got to me. )

It also retroactively fixed a ton of issues I had with previous lostbelts ( such as giving Ophelia an amazing moment of putting the pieces of the puzzle together, making Holmes actually smart again with his arguments.... ).

And man. I just. Woodime. What an amazing character. I can hardly believe I used to hate him for being what I considered to be a Gary Sue of sorts. What a wonderful way to resolve an arc of someone we'd all believed to be so perfect up to this point.

I would love to talk specifics but I would be here analyzing it for literal hours

The only downside of this lostbelt to me was the beginning. Did not enjoy how they just brushed off your dealings with other lostbelts like 'oh but you've never dealt with an ACTUAL God tho'

Like i know the intention was to empathize how strong the gods in this world are but fuck you Anjura was totally a god??? That man could reset the entire planet ??? Excuse you ???

Its such a minor detail but it felt so mean-sprinted at the time

BUT

All that said.

Fantastic writing. Good Lostbelt. Brain goo. Heart broken. I'm gonna lay down and cry now