Quote Originally Posted by jameseoakes View Post
It was so clear early on in UT that the characters were not going to stay dead that it really killed those parts for me and made most of the setup for each 'death' just feel so overdone and empty

Edit: not helped by the fact the game as really fallen in to a habit of doing these fake outs a lot
Honestly I could be on board with it if the sacrifices weren't intended to have emotional impact on the player, with it being more focused on the actual arguments and reasons to press on the individual scions have, but I don't think it did that well. Urianger just hopping into the temporary suicide club with Yshtola because they couldn't figure out where else to put him is the best example of that I think, but there's a lot of pretty tropey nothing takes or just outright dumb stuff said by them in general.

Also yeah hard agree on the fake deaths, I was over that in heavensward. Yshtola getting one (or a "will she die????" moment) every expac since is just incredibly weak, uninspired writing.