Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
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The biggest disappointment of this patch is that nobody of note died - the fake deaths are getting very tiresome and any story that only ever kills off sympathetic antagonists, who a significant amount of players play to see, becomes increasingly one note.
Really, though...

I still kind of wonder where you're coming from, sticking around with a game like this because you want to watch your allies die. No, you're not even close to being the only one who does, and it's not an uncommon mentality for consumers of fiction, but it's completely alien to me.

Do you fantasize about being the lone hero who carries on when everyone else is dead? Do you want a bunch of people to die but are blindly assured that your favorite is safe? Do you prefer characters dead because it gives you a better sense of who they were in their entirety? Do you not like not knowing what happens once the story is done?

Bolding this so it sticks: I'm sorry if any of this sounds hostile. This is purely for my personal research. I'm just trying to understand.

It feels like it wasn't so long ago that people like me were getting chastised for being sick of losing allies every other patch. Yeah, we don't lose so much any more, but we've lost so many people getting here. But forget Louisoix, Monbryda, Minfilia, Haurchefant, Ysayle. We lost freaking Papalymo, for crying out loud. You started in Gridiania in 1.0? Congrats, they're both dead.

Not every series has to be Devilman. Hell, Game of Thrones went all-in on its anyone-can-die motto and was rejected by the internet itself for it, so be careful what you wish for.