The red hair prince is a prick playing hero I agree but he’s totally in line with how he acted. He’s like a cop and when he was about to kill schum he was stopped by thrash and told to stand down keep in mind as far and he knows he’d have to deal with Lotia too so he backed down which is totally in line with his character he knows what’s going on in town and thrash is basically a bandit but it’s inconvenient and difficult to him to actually to any beyond surface level good so he doesn’t bother and labels it as for the greater good for defeating the demon lord. Let’s face it even after he won’t do shit. It’s like cops covering for each other after they fight sure they’ll fight each other over something but when their group is threatened they have each others back. In the end he accomplished nothing of value and just ran off with the nun to play hero with her borderline worshiping him.
For the ending it doesn’t really break its own rules. Strength doesn’t mean power thrash got what he wanted but using his strength to get others to do what he wanted the the town itself, multiple dragonvilous under his command or however you spell it, the village that trades their people for safety and probably others paying tribute, the whore, that what thrashed used to get Lotia for himself and take everything he wants. Imos didn’t have that he just had naked strength which he used to kill thrash. It really didn’t change anything or undo the damage. His hypocrite childhood friend love interest is a whore who traded up to be basically a mob boss’s wife and is trying to kill him now because she is now a glorious single mother because of him and his sister is still a junkie whore under aces thumb, and his father and village still sold them out and thinks of him as garbage and probably would think even less of him now that he is a demon lord. It is fucked up he forgot about Aina though their should have been a ending with them or something for someone who claims to be selfish she is the only one who didn’t abandon Imos when the chips where down. But who knows what he was planning to do after he did the monster explosion thing and had to fight a god and then died right after.
Fair point to a lot of what yo usaid.
I think mymain issue is the last part of the game is all about evenge. But said revenge feels very undercut/undercooked and sitll tries to make Imos unable to really DO anything. He just never really feels like he has true agency. But htat's a whole discussion for another time.
I think what i wanted most from this game was to have Imos actually call Lotiha the childhood friend out for the BS she pulled nad how she is a massive hypocirte and backstabbing bitch who tires her damn hardest to act all pure and moral and innocent. While being vile and cruel and disloyal.
Ive seen plenty of people argue Lothia was pure hearted and got corrupted. But that's BS she herself tries to use pretty much. She wants to pretend that's what happeend when really.
She willingly jumped in bed with Thrash cause she wanted to be with him and didn't really care about Imos and was happy to let him suffe and add onto it. As long as it pleased thrash.
The most important scene in the entire game with her confronting imos over apprently having sex with the prosittute.
Just like every previous time Thrash lied about him. She was codeming him and laying into him for what he was accused of having done. And trying to side with thrash over him.
But in this case it was form a moral highground and trying to lecture him essentialy and reallyy laying into him for the accusation. of choosing pleasure somewhat over her.... At least until. Imos told her tht he SAW her havign sex with Thrash. Then she froze up and was stunned.
Why? Beacue Lothia got caught red handed being a hypocrite and trying to condem imos for the act she herself commited by betraying him beacuse she didn't know that Imos knew she had sex with thrash and was forced to watch. And the momenta tht was pointed out...Lothia didn't apologize. Instead she made excuses and tried to deflect any blame or resposnblity for what she did.
She didn't tell him she did it for him even. She didn't tell him she was sorry. Instead she tried to defend what she did but was fumbling...Until thrash handed her an excuse that was solid and she took it instantly. Any shame she had came from THAT moment.
She got caght being a hypocrite. And exposed her true nature and that she wasn't being raped at all. You don't defend your own rape after all. Certianly not with such an emotional responce...
And That is what made Imos leave. Lothia was...Disgusting there and he couldnt' stand it. Beacuse what she did was morally bankrpt...ANd not something a pre hearted girl would ever do. She knew waht she was doing. And knew it was wrong. But tried to be two faced and pretend she wasn't doing what she was.
Both her and Thrash were very surpised Imos left like that...WHich really tells you a lot about her...She really wanted Imos to just stay there and hang around so she could what...Have him around? Andwatch Thrash bang her for hr benifit while she let him suffer? And she was mad at him for NOT doing that and having self resepct?
Shows that she really didn't care about him or resepct him as a person.
While thrash was pissed cause Imos leaving vastly decreased Lothia's value. He thought she was a massive prizeand wanted to make Imos a 'cuckold' but the fact Imos just gave up on her and walked away threw him off big time and hurt his ego.
It's really no surpise after that he droppd the nice act and started to rape and be brutal to Lothia. Double so cause she was clearly trying to manipualte him by using the idea of her affection or approval to get him to be her new Imos.
Which is why the dragonsw ere lauphing at her when she claimed she loved Imos and wanted to be with him....SHe had every chance and always chose thrash.
And only now wnats to back out...Cause thrash is directing all that evil to her instead of Imos who she probibly wanted to be her lightning rod for thrash's abuse.
She's very hatable if you ask me cause while Tori the sister and Aina had to be dragged kicking nad screaming against their will into the draconids grasp.
Lotiha willingly walked into it then tried to back out when she was getting hurt and it wasn't fun anymore and refused to help either of them when it was obivous both BADLY needed it.