Is the game becoming too metaphysical for its own good?

I think you misinterpreted Urianger's line in the trailer. He said:

"What sayeth Master Matoya? "You can embrace your fate, or defy it. But you cannot deny it.""

He refers to Matoya's teachings of the past - he didn't refer to Y'Shtola.

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Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim

I think you misinterpreted Urianger's line in the trailer. He said:

"What sayeth Master Matoya? "You can embrace your fate, or defy it. But you cannot deny it.""

He refers to Matoya's teachings of the past - he didn't refer to Y'Shtola.

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That makes more sense, honestly. Perhaps the trailer is too disjointed for me.

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Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim

I think you misinterpreted Urianger's line in the trailer. He said:

"What sayeth Master Matoya? "You can embrace your fate, or defy it. But you cannot deny it.""

He refers to Matoya's teachings of the past - he didn't refer to Y'Shtola.

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In the Japanese trailer its a lot more clear and... yeah Urianger totally calls her Matoya.

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Originally Posted by Lersayil

In the Japanese trailer its a lot more clear and... yeah Urianger totally calls her Matoya.

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See? That is what a lot of people are going with, and I don't know what to believe!

In french :

Urianger : "What do you say, Master Matoya ? We can accept our fate or defy it, but we can not escape it."
Y'shtola/Matoya : "Escape it ? I have no intention to flee my problems. Until the return of our friends, I will continue to hold on."

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Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim

I think you misinterpreted Urianger's line in the trailer. He said:

"What sayeth Master Matoya? "You can embrace your fate, or defy it. But you cannot deny it.""

He refers to Matoya's teachings of the past - he didn't refer to Y'Shtola.

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It's "what sayest thou, master matoya?"

He's referring to matoya in the second person.

IMO SB writing was very meh. IMO HW was very very good detail storywise and built up alot of meaningful storylines. While SB seems rushed and at the same time empty.

I'm looking forward to SHB simply because for some reason the expansions with tank and healer jobs are done much better.

In terms of Master Matoya line, I believe it may be in reference to a title. As we all know Yshtola is on a time clock as she is slowly dying due to the events that happened back at the end of 2.55, I think Matoya sacrifices herself to restore Yshtola's eye sight thus restoring her whole, thus Urianger speaks in reference to her as if she dead in a what would Master Matoya say.

also the trailer isnt suposed to be 1:1 to the shb story, its supposed to get the feeling across to preserve the actual story, unlike the movie highlight style trailers they previously did

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Originally Posted by Astarotha

also the trailer isnt suposed to be 1:1 to the shb story, its supposed to get the feeling across to preserve the actual story, unlike the movie highlight style trailers they previously did

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I don't know what that feeling is. it has a lot of things that while sounding very interesting, It also has others I'm not at all on board with.

I personally love this kinda of story and character development.