The importance of a rival

[Avoidy]

The writers put themselves in a box with WoL's insane power scaling. In EW he had planets thrown at him and casually tanked that shit. Then in DT they were tasked with writing a lower stakes story but outside of the spaghetti western part we still got a lot of violent conflicts where our character's inaction bordered on malicious at times. Through it all, the pertinent question of "why can't I just break this clearly evil dude's neck?" was in the back of my mind. I'm sure the village that was burned to the ground by Bakool's actions is real happy that I just let him live long enough to do that so Wuk could have the opportunity to fight him later. Like, come on man. This is dumb as hell. It's like the writers know WoL is a walking nuke, but a walking nuke snapping its fingers and solving every problem isn't very interesting, so now they have to come up with stupid reasons for us to be there but also not act. It sucks.

Going forward, they'll probably do some kind of power reset. Either we'll isekai to another shard where everyone's about as strong as we are, or we'll isekai and get "reset" somehow. Or the writers will just keep doing what they're doing now and give us low-stakes adventures where we could easily save the day but we choose instead to just stand there and watch people die. The only interesting thing that could come out of WoL's dawntrail apathy would be if WoL had a Doctor Manhattan moment and simply became numb to the lesser problems of day to day life, culminating in a dark WoL arc where we create chaos to sate our own boredom and finally agree with Zenos. But these writers are terrified of risks. Tension? Surprises? What are those? You'll get your dungeon every two levels. Eight people have arrived; it's time to fight a boss.

[sindriiisgaming]

I'm all for a power reset. Take the wols blessing of light away pr have some aether based crisis. But power resetting is a fantastic way of downscaling op mains. Kingdom hearts resorts sora in most games bar khiii where he has the power he needs. Being in unreality they'll likley power sink him in kh4 too. And if we were de-godified. It would actually give room for enemies and rivals to grow. Cause rn we just slap everything