The Negative Impact of Poor Character Writing on the Quality of Dawntrail's MSQ

[WeakestZenosEnjoyer]

Krile's section genuinely made me tear up, not because of her meeting her parents but knowing that this fleeting moment is literally Krile's entire character.

She got so robbed, the characters tell her directly in real dialog "forget about your personal arc and go help Wuk Lamat"

[BigBoom550]

Krile's section genuinely made me tear up, not because of her meeting her parents but knowing that this fleeting moment is literally Krile's entire character.

She got so robbed, the characters tell her directly in real dialog "forget about your personal arc and go help Wuk Lamat"

In retrospect, the first time she got brushed off was when I started checking out of the story. If it had been 'I don't have all the details, but...' and then a hint or fragment of something, it'd have worked out. She's following up on something that happened twenty years ago. People grow, die, move, suffer injury. Items are misplaced, memories fade, details forgotten for the broad strokes. The land shifts, buildings erode.

But they just... 'No, we'll tell you later'. And she accepts it. That's what makes it really sore for me. We were advertised to that this expac focuses on her a bit more, but every time she tries to start getting her own plot rolling the narrative instantly shuts her down in favor of Wookie Lament, and she just goes 'Yes, we must pay attention to Wuk Lamat.'

By the time her parents came around, I just... didn't care. We'd hardly had any buildup with Krile because she kept getting brushed off, to the point that when it came I just couldn't care. It was like meeting Bakool's mother.

'Oh, neat, NPCs related to one we already know.'

Krile's been robbed for like three expansions now. She was a nursemaid in the background for Shadowbringers, she was a glorified phone for part of Endwalker, and now her own, personal, and specific plotline got sidelined in favor of... apparently, tacos.