Synodic Scribe's "The Steady Change in Writing..." Video

[Valence]

I preferred it when the WoL wasn’t such a focal point. I think of it like a book because, in a book, you—the reader—aren’t the main character. In fact, you’re not a character at all. That’s one of the reasons ARR through SB felt so much like a novel—except instead of reading it, we were playing it. I had never experienced anything as immersive as that in all my years of media consumption. Great times.

I do not mind this necessarily, but the main problem I had was that the only side that had actual development tended to be the side of the villains, where the scions especially weren't much better off than the WoL for the simple reason that 1) they're walking tropes and line in animes everything they do is informed by their primary trope and 2) the character never or rarely actually focuses on anything more personal than "laser focus on the main story threat of the moment". The world building has been stellar and that's what turned me into a huge loremonger back in the day when I started playing, but the narration and writing? The language mastery is great, but the writing is dry and feels detached from portraying actual human beings instead of poster heroes.