Quote Originally Posted by Silver-Strider View Post
I was supposed to feel sad during those moments? I was mostly indifferent to every moment you said honestly. I felt like the 2 girls dying was just thrown in so they could rehash Ysayle's line about no child dying alone in the snow and was kind of upset that they'd waste such a line on these 2 girls but it did at least served a narrative purpose for Alphinaud so I gave it a pass. The suicide of a overly proud and ignorant fool was of no loss really as it had no real emotional depth to it. I didn't like the dude so him offing himself was just there for shock value and little more. Considering we already knew what was going to become of Nihilistic Madman, I honestly expected something a bit more traumatizing to happen that triggered that descent but all that really happened was they threatened to shut down his dynamis experiment and he went psycho.

The only really sad moment I could think of the entire expansion was probably in Thavnair with the mother protecting her child from the blasphemy and even that paled in comparison to some moments from previous expansions.
Just because you weren't, doesn't mean they weren't supposed to be. It's very obvious it's supposed to play on your emotions and while we can argue back and forth if it was done better or worse.. those moments are in there.

I will argue that shutting down his dynamis experiment wasn't what pushed him over but it was Meteions report of hopelessness.

My whole point being that there are moments in there, well done or not, that were supposed to be sad or to evoke a fear of loss and they're pretty obvious.