Quote Originally Posted by Rulakir View Post
One of my complaints about EW is the amount of gaslighting with Hermes and Venat. I'm watching them both act in morally questionable to reprehensible ways, but the narrative is insisting they're good people we should like. A lot of the writing was extremely heavy handed this time and dialog options for the player to express anything negative were suspiciously lacking. It's been awhile since I've consumed media where I felt I was being told what to think and feel rather than the story itself bringing me to that conclusion.
I really felt the undying love and devotion to Hydaelyn and Venat was especially heavy this expansion. I may be misremembering but I thought in ShB there was some question to whether or not Hydaelyn really is the benevolent goddess we believe or if we are just tempered by her to believe so, which if there was is immediately swept aside by constant reassurances that she is in fact just the most giving gracious and selfless entity ever known. I really felt let down by the story telling here when they went with the obvious Hydaelyn is the ultimate good vs the ultimate evil (Meteion in this case as our 11th hour evil).