From the start of Erenville finding out the truth about Cahciua, I had a bad feeling about it, and that bad feeling just got worse the longer the final zone went on. Nobody was comforting him or even checking up on him, nobody seemed to care at all and I didn't even get the dialogue choices to care. If anything, sometimes the characters would say something so outrageously rude that I had to get up from my chair and just walk around in my apartment to process what I just witnessed. An example:
After you come back down from the capybara ride (which honestly felt like a very private and emotional moment that Erenville and Cahciua should've just shared by themselves without the WoL because they haven't been able to connect 1-1 AT ALL for years), if you talk with the rest of the cast before continuing, here's what they have to say:
I actually laughed when I saw that, I was so utterly flabbergasted. What do you mean it looked like we were having fun? The person who's supposed to be your childhood friend (which hasn't felt that way at all btw) is going through probably the worst times of his entire life right now. Not even once have you comforted him, checked up on him, or seemingly cared whatsoever about anything else but your weird obsession with Sphene who we met only a few hours ago. And now you say this? What part of your childhood friend's mental anguish when confronted with the reality that he must (essentially) kill his own mother looks fun?G'raha: "We'll be there for Erenville."
Me: Thank you G'raha, finally someone expresses any sympathy for this man. Better late than never.
Krile: "It will be hard, but let us send Cahciua off with a smile."
Me: Okay, perfectly reasonable thing for Krile to say.
Wuk Lamat: "We saw you from below. It looked like you were having fun."
How am I supposed to believe that she is a kind, sympathetic and wonderful person who wants to protect everyone and make sure everyone's happy, when she contradicts that supposed character so often?
Everyone acts as if Koana is the socially inept one, but he's the only person who goes to Gulool Ja Ja's side as he's dying on the floor. Meanwhile Wuk Lamat just stands there not doing anything when she sees her father dying, even though in other scenes she's seen screamcrying and begging for an already dead civilian to drink medicine, or repeatedly begging to help the Heritage Found hunter, or repeatedly begging to help Sphene. It feels almost deliberate, how she goes out of her way to ignore the people closest to her in favour of prioritizing literally everyone else.
Sorry, I got a bit off-track. I just still get mad as I'm typing this. It's all just so weird. I genuinely just hated the last zone aside from the part with Krile's parents and Erenville clapping back at Cahciua..


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