Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

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Originally Posted by HighlanderClone

Not gonna spoil anything but my god. It's actually difficult to do the MSQ with such an obnoxious character.

Maybe I'll change my mind at the end... maybe... but it doesn't seem that way anymore...

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Yeah, awful character. You'll get a lot of simps on here trying to defend it, but the mass majority already know whats up, and there's no covering up.

INC Stormblood 2.0, except this character is somehow more annoying than Lyse with the discount VA they hired for the part.

Awful.

Rule #1 for character writing in games and movies (where you don't have the detail available in books): If you are going to have a character who is an idiot then they need to be charming/sympathetic or the audience will just find them annoying. So Wuk Lamat is clearly an idiot but is she charming? That's a personal taste issue but I would be willing to bet that a significant number of players do not find her charming or sympathetic so to them she isn't working as a character right now.

Don't get me wrong this is VERY early days so they have time to build her character and course correct but if she continues being both an idiot and having no charm then she's dead weight as a character.

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Originally Posted by Zaniel

Rule #1 for character writing in games and movies (where you don't have the detail available in books): If you are going to have a character who is an idiot then they need to be charming/sympathetic or the audience will just find them annoying. So Wuk Lamat is clearly an idiot but is she charming? That's a personal taste issue but I would be willing to bet that a significant number of players do not find her charming or sympathetic so to them she isn't working as a character right now.

Don't get me wrong this is VERY early days so they have time to build her character and course correct but if she continues being both an idiot and having no charm then she's dead weight as a character.

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AKA the writing room ret conning the absolute hell out of the character.

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Originally Posted by yaba_gabagool

Yeah, awful character. You'll get a lot of simps on here trying to defend it, but the mass majority already know whats up, and there's no covering up.

INC Stormblood 2.0, except this character is somehow more annoying than Lyse with the discount VA they hired for the part.

Awful.

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I don't think it's a VA issue personally. I think the writing of her character is just horribad. There is only so much a VA could do.

I like her, she's fun and sweet.
The plot hasn't gotten so dire for her plucky personality to really spoil anything imo.

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Originally Posted by HighlanderClone

Not gonna spoil anything but my god. It's actually difficult to do the MSQ with such an obnoxious character.

Maybe I'll change my mind at the end... maybe... but it doesn't seem that way anymore...

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But she's so fun and quirky! Truly a worthy leader xD

So far, the arether current quests seem to have better writing than MSQ...

I don't mind her as a character but the super wacky hijinks she gets up to remind me of Hildibrand quests. I hate Hildibrand quests. I feel like my character can't in good conscience want her on the throne. I'd much rather throw my support behind her nerdy catboy brother.

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Originally Posted by PercibelTheren

I don't mind her as a character but the super wacky hijinks she gets up to remind me of Hildibrand quests. I hate Hildibrand quests. I feel like my character can't in good conscience want her on the throne. I'd much rather throw my support behind her nerdy catboy brother.

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Feels like we're just playing a game in the style of Naruto on Cartoon Network.

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Originally Posted by Valence

But I mean, it's like Lyse right?.

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Lyse was a victim of the writing. Both the ultimate pointlessness of the "not-Yda" reveal in the first place, but also just the nature of the SB story. So much of the SB MSQ was about losing and having to play catch up, that all of Lyse's losses are front and center while her victories are mostly off screen. We were told that she's a good leader but we rarely saw any on screen evidence of it, which lead to people to thinking she's worthless.