Quote Originally Posted by Zaniel View Post
All the segments inside Solution 9 certainly made me dislike the Alexandrians more and more. They are all simply petulant, incompetent children in adult bodies (admittedly not their fault). It makes it impossible to take them seriously, they are too simple minded to be a credible threat and too pathetic and irresponsible to empathise with, you can't feel bad for them because of how vile(?) and dependent their society is. From a writing hook perspective I suspect most people just want to leave them and never see their society again. Which is not great from the angle of trying to build up some sort of narrative tension or interest in your world building.
I've had the same thoughts. They made these people too alien, too inhuman, for me to care about them. It's astounding when the same game has literal Dragons that act more human than the Alexandrians, and I can sympathize with their plight way more than "Oh no, death means people don't come back! We have to REMEMBER it happened too?! Awwwwwwwwwwww!!!!"

I should not be rooting for the villain to make something horrible happen to this place and its people, just because there's the CHANCE it might make it actually interesting, but here we are.