[Spoiler] Story inconsistency

[Fenral]

Well, I felt like bringing up "the bubble" mainly for it's implications about an indeterminate "when." What Ferne said about Simpsons time still technically holds true (still year 0), but we now have a much better understanding of what Yoshida meant at PAX East when he talked about the storyline being split into "seasons."

2.0's content is from season 1, and thus all takes place before the season finale "Before the Dawn." There are even some stray hints towards stories (mainly Coil) happening before you do them. No spoilers, of course, just enough to make you wonder if and when you do lack context.

Players getting around to leveling CUL afterwards will get multiple hints about it's place in overall MS chronology, the most obvious happening when we don't even consider poisoning Lolorito at level 30. And at level 50?
(Fringe season 2 spoilers):

Nanamo's just pulling a Charlie Francis.

For everyone else, time will tell. Some really good stories still manage to get away with only one or two game changing deaths near the beginning and never feel the need to kill anyone else off, because death has served its purpose. If nothing else, this will make Merlwyb's action scenes that much more gripping, simply by knowing that she could die, even if she never actually does.

[Anonymoose]

Well, I felt like bringing up "the bubble" mainly for it's implications about an indeterminate "when."

In that case, I, too, would say that ship has definitely sailed. I thought it was implying that Pac-Man Timespace had been broken by Zombie Nanamo, lol. Good comparison with Fringe's Unearthed incident, though. From now on we just have to say, "This episode was supposed to have aired earlier." when we see something out of place.

If nothing else, this will make Merlwyb's action scenes that much more gripping, simply by knowing that she could die, even if she never actually does.

A very big part of the reason I hope they don't reverse Nanamo it is the new sense of worry that we can feel for anyone in the story. When we first started tossing around ideas for how they might handle it, I was still worried this was going to turn out like the X-Files, where even after they've shown someone dying - rotting - getting found, put into a casket, given a funeral, and buried - and staying dead for a while - they still come back, because nobody important ever dies, lol.

Nanamo staying dead even makes me feel a little better about Moenbryda. I was really excited when her character showed up - a roegadyn female on Team Scion with a new personality and new interactions with the ones we know - and then just after I feel like I've gotten a feel for who she is, she gets a death that says I should feel something when I really just think a good character was wasted, and too soon at that. Now, seeing that meaningful characters aren't immortal and SE doesn't have to resort to the Moenbryda tactic for feelz, I feel like the incident was more like character development for the Scions - that we were an observer to their suffering.