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koskela-knights · 5 months ago

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At this point, with the Night Springs DLC having come out and how i've felt about Jesse's chapter and Coffee World and the overall (under) usage of named NPCs from the AW2 canon, I keep thinking....

I feel the Cult of the Tree lost all its narrative purpose and emotional impact due to FBC involvement. The Cult and the Koskelas might have well been some random unnamed NPC Cult Leaders or heck, they might as well have been replaced by a sentient lamp and their relevance and impact and the outcome would've been the same. It could've been some other random murder case that would've attracted Saga and Casey's attention to BF for how little pay-off we got for the Cult arc. The final 'wrap-up' if you will, is totally missable and optional. At this point, nobody even cares anymore that the Cult were actual the good guys all along.

Even Remedy seems to have forgotten about the whole Cult arc and the Koskelas as characters and I feel the fandom even mirrors that in some waysthere

#not saying people have to write fanfic and fanart non stop for these characters #but ofc as a koskela fan it's obvious with how little content or care there is for them and the whole cult story #there are no discussions no meta little fanfic little fanart some screenshots just no thoughts on them or the cult in general #that to me at least makes it feel the Cult arc left on impression on the general audience #maybe im wrong and there are some closed off communities but here in the public i dont see stuff #jaakko was literally just there to die and give scratch his jacket lmao #even my obvious koskela fan stance aside #what was the Cult besides them being a plot device for making saga come to BF and that's it #the whole mystery about the cult gets resolved by an OPTIONAL CONVO WIHT ILMO FFS #remedy created this interesting cult and their leaders only to throw them away as soon as FBC rolls up #and then erases them from coffee world too lmao #i might make another more in depth post about it but i think the RCU and FBC thing was detrimental to the Cult arc #feels like aw2 is just a stepping stone to control 2 and other RCu titles in the future #my ramblings #my posts #alan wake 2 #koskela brothers #cult of the tree #jaakko koskela #ilmo koskela #my meta

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