I finally got around to playing RynQuest and my god they're really bad at lore and world-building. The entire time I was playing through it I was just thinking to myself "This shit is BORING." I usually like reading about lore but in this case it's just like... why? It goes absolutely nowhere and is just there to be there. It doesn't add to the world-building in any meaningful way, it doesn't get you to feel anything, and it doesn't tell anything unique. Why bother including an entire life story for some cow soldier and his wife that I met 5 minutes ago? Why go on this entire lore dump about this dragon elf island when we stay there for 20 minutes only to never go back again? It feels like it's just there because the quest would feel short as fuck otherwise(which it is). And don't get me started on how the whole Alyssa and Ryn confrontation was just a shitty Luke vs Darth Vader moment. Ugh.
I really don't get why they're trying to take this game seriously when it just never works.
The Ryn uncaging scene was sweet, though.