[ SECRET POST #5494 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5494 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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02.
[The Untamed]


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03.
[Justice League Unlimited]


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04.
[Encanto, She-Ra, Korra, Arcane]


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05.
[Barry (HBO)]


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06.
[Chorus]















Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know this game but a lot of games ARE bad at telling the story. If you need to do a dive into the lore and supplemental materials because the actual plot isn't explanatory enough to stand by itself? It's a bad game.

There's a different between spoon feeding and explaining enough to make a story work.

[(Anonymous)]

This. I've also found a lot of the 'choose your own adventure' branching-type games (which I don't dislike) suffer from that mechanic a bit because some stuff doesn't get explained because you didn't make a different/previous choice.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT. Oh yeah, those can definitely be hit or miss on how well they handle it. Obviously, they're trying to make sure every route has new and interesting things for a player but sooometimes that doesn't work so well.

[(Anonymous)]

Counterpoint: sometimes it asks you to dig into files in the game. Like a literal dictionary you're handed. And instead of reading it, or paying attention to fucking anything, they'll whine that it doesn't make sense or spend countless hours getting the wrong idea or whatever.

(I'm currently salty at people thinking, in FFXIV, that people think the Scions view the WoL as a weapon when this has been an apparent "not the case" since at least Stormblood where they regularly asked if we were okay, and I'd argue that a big part of the escape from the Bloody Banquet was because they cared about our wellbeing and that's why they were willing to sacrifice themselves for us--we shouldn't have been hurt because of politics working against the Scions specifically, when we were new to it all. This is ESPECIALLY bad with the whole Shadowbringers thing having happened. You would have to COMPLETELY IGNORE multiple IN YOUR FACE parts of expansions to get to the end of Endwalker and think a person you've met only a couple times "cares more about you than the Scions do." /Salt salt salt)

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[(Anonymous)]

Chorus is kinda mixed, I guess? You get all the character information to understand what the protagonist is doing and why, but you don’t get a lot of context on what the setting is like and what larger forces are at play in the war. I still don’t understand what a Faceless is, but I get that they’re killing people she wants to protect.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with a lot of this. I don't mind digging into the lore if it expands on what happened in the game, or if it's a side story. I don't even mind piecing things together based on clues in-game, but. you know. The clues should actually BE there. And I'm sure someone will go "the clues are there! You just suck at finding them!" And I say, okay, fine, but if I'm stopping every five minutes, digging around and talking to people, and am still coming up empty, I'm going to assume the game is the problem.