Subprogram
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- Jul 24, 2023
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Reading this reply, makes has sealed the deal, I'm going to give this game agoThe name of the game is 'Hero party must fall', and yet we get these weird opinions about how the game is evil. That's the whole point. The starting point of the game is how you are vengeful towards the world, thus you start to steal everything the hero has, because his party must fail. Mars doesn't start as a compassionate or sentimental character, and neither does the player, but Mars starts to have a different outlook on his goal as he realises he is a puppet in a bigger game. Conversely, you the player should also start to feel emotions such as regret or shame at some point, because the things you do are considered truly evil and debauched in the real world.
Again, that's the whole point, as this is a safe place to explore those feelings. If you change Mars' actions, you effectively remove his will to change the status quo that the Goddesses have imposed upon the world. Remove Mars' actions, and you get a hateful Cecille hellbent on destroying the world. You get heartbroken and hateful Sera. You get a hateful and loveless Elena. Mars has compassion, and that compassion is what moves him to change what he has caused, even if the way he goes about it is also fucked up. He is a product of his upbringing, but he tries nonetheless to fight against Godesses and change the tides. If he instead removed the seal from Erin, the Godess would kill them all, wipe the slate clean and start again with another group. I think you missed that part.
Now, this is also explained in the game but I think you also missed it, but yes, the whole game is a playground for Godesses, and everything about Erin, from his upbringing to his party from his mother to his dead father, from his physique to him meeting Mars is the will of the Godess. The only thing that Erin truly has for his own is his character, the choices he makes and his conscience. Everything else is a giant shit test to see if he could do it despite the overwhelming odds. Each hero has been made weaker and weaker to see whether he could pass the test and prevail, and Erin is the weakest, or rather he is the first one who will fail the test. Of course he doesn't have a mentor, because maybe the previous hero had one and that mentor made all the difference.
It seems to me like you are getting frustrated as the story isn't going the way you want it to go because you are identifying yourself with Erin or are empathetic towards him. If we look from Erin's perspective, then yes, this game truly sucks. Everybody fails him. But Erin is also a stuck up, impatient, arrogant snotty little brat that thinks he deserves to be liked and worshipped because he is the hero. He doesn't believe he has to earn his place, and he believes he is better than others. His treatment of Sera and his desire to be acknowledged by Cecille are dead giveaways. Beyond that, the way he treats people who he believes have no power over him are also pretty telling of his character. The start of the game makes it quite clear that Erin never tries to befriend Mars and constantly belittles and mocks him. He wants to be handed everything as quickly as possible, and thinks he will kill the demon king easily. He doesn't use his intelligence to deduce the larger problem at hand, and instead chooses quick satisfactions and releases in lieu of patience. I would argue that the only person that truly fails him is Cecille, but that is also by design as Cecille is an evil witch/ bitch. But that's the whole point! There are few games where you can play from the evil perspective and make your schemes come true.
Anyway, if we return at the start of the game, you are given an enemy (Erin) who seems strong enough to be your rival, but weak enough to be overcome. We are given a reason strong enough for us, the player, to remove him, but we are also aware that we must tread carefully. We know what we are doing is evil, but we do it nonetheless for revenge. This isn't hero party must prevail.
Some minor plot teasers and I'm hooked.
Thanks SexDrake.