Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
This is just a lack of understanding of what SE was trying to do. You were going to a land of despair and they wanted you to feel despair. The problem is you were feeling happy and confident. In order to change that, they had to kill the scions. Once you had made progress through the area, in order to make you feel hope and like there was a light at the end of the tunnel, they had to introduce the possibility they would come back.
GREAT "idea" of SE. Do you even realize the consequence? Like the obvious one? Cat girl has already fake died in ShB. Zenos somehow isn't interested in killing any of our friends when we are away. No he HELPS us because after an entire expansion he realizes that he wants to fight us. After always wanting to fight us... but back to the scions. Them fake-dieing so much means any tension about their safety is gone. We could see them getting toasted, have a full on funeral and i would sigh and ask: "Ok game, how long until they're back?"