Wow, this was BAD. I liked the Monmart family storyline before this, but yikes. Dumb, awful execution, and once again, the entire storyline being driven by delusions with no basis in reality give it zero emotional weight whatsoever. #VoltDaybreak2 - ThreadSky

voltshine.bsky.social • 6 days ago

Wow, this was BAD.

I liked the Monmart family storyline before this, but yikes. Dumb, awful execution, and once again, the entire storyline being driven by delusions with no basis in reality give it zero emotional weight whatsoever.

#VoltDaybreak2

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vacantvagabond.bsky.social•6 days ago

God I can’t stand this

redflashroy.bsky.social•6 days ago

Praying for your sanity with this act, it’s a long one

therealjarkes.bsky.social•6 days ago

The next parts handle it much better at least. Which is again why I suspect those parts were written first.

fieszn.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is the worst one by far because they were 🤏🏼 close to making something interesting and tying it in with the arc and got scared at the last second and removed any potential intrigue because it would make Maxim have a flaw, terrible stuff

voltshine.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yeah, I know what you mean. Yumé trusting Maxim more than Van was also fairly interesting until it was explained away by corrosion 10 seconds later.

fieszn.bsky.social•6 days ago

Could've actually had it prey on his real racist beliefs under the surface and had some real nuance with a character that you're trying to make go from unlikable to redeemed so the "issue" they're trying to touch on with the country is more than comically evil fools but no, too much work

fieszn.bsky.social•6 days ago

There would be a real conversation to be had about those sorts of tendencies to exist even in someone trying to do better, and how someone "close" to the family could have a legitimate flaw with this despite being someone trying to improve, someone so close even Yume trusts him as a kid, but no ig

fieszn.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's so frustrating because clearly racism is bad, but treating it how they have is so lazy. Last arc clearly those wanting nobility to stay above peons were wrong, we can also say that with our modern beliefs already in place, but the characters and issues had nuance and weren't just Mr. Evil

rexbot2.bsky.social•6 days ago

This game becomes a lot more bearable when you stop taking the plot seriously. I think it's the only reason I was able to push out act iii as quickly as I did

voltshine.bsky.social•6 days ago

I usually try to avoid doing that, but I can't really argue this time. It's just too silly.

At least everyone agrees Horizon is really good, because that makes it way easier for me to write this game off.

rexbot2.bsky.social•6 days ago

Maybe if this game was like $30 DLC I'd go easier on it, but honestly yeah, I'm really looking forward to Horizon, there's a lot that looks good about it, and I think it's going to be a step in the right direction in both plot and gameplay

kurtjuna.bsky.social•6 days ago

Kind of sad to see that one has to ignore the plot to enjoy Trails, considering it was one of the strongest part of some of the games.🙃

rexbot2.bsky.social•6 days ago

That's what happens when you implement time manipulation poorly, Unironically Radiant Historia ran into this same issue imo. You have to be able to make stakes in a plot and stakes are just really hard to implement in time manip plots. If the game pulled a Re:zero it'd work, but DB 2 had other ideas

kurtjuna.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yeah poor execution.

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