Almost a decade of Paradox's writing to look at for evidence of how the writing has been so far up to this point, and the idea that there is even a sliver of a chance that it turns things around for Luka at the as yet unreleased 4th route is, well...
Even my optimism has its limits.
And even if it did somehow do that, you still have all of Paradox Part 1, 2, and most of Part 3 of Luka's character writing to still go through to get to that optimistic 4th route turn-around. Effectively, it wouldn't really change my evaluation of him at all. It's like swimming through an ocean of piss to find a bottle of clean water at the end. I still had to swim through the piss ocean.
Fair point, so that's why i'd make the claim the only way its actually fixable is complete metagaming.
They can pull a shrift if they want to, not only is the connection between 'our world' and the expanded porn game universe canon but so is the existence of higher forces which can use the power of intervention
If you didn't play shrift that's fine, that was just a (half) joke anyway, as much as a i like meta narratives (not shrift though), a switch like that would be very hard to pull off.
There are 2 possibilites in which it can go
Shitty plot twist: If we simply go by track record and expectations from people like you or me, we'll get a very shitty justification, it was mind control by amira (
), or it was because luka is literally a child born between a recreation of his father made by chaos itself, or anything you can think would make you audibly groan about the fact you played this game for so long.
The totally not gonna happen but so help us god, if you are are there: If we hold onto the possiblity that TT will hear our pleading voices, something good might actually happen.
Luka's garbage life is acknowledged (bonafide deadbeat mother, jobber dimensional travelling father, "send the minor" aunt, literal god of light itself great great great great..... great grandmother), the numerous deaths and rewinds, luka is actually given agency as a character, if only there are unicorns in this world
Even as a cynic i believe the game can be turned over and finished off on a good note without it being forced or weird if it's actually done well, a route is more than enough time for actual character development.
2 side notes, do you guys think that the fourth route will be a case where you dont choose between illias and alice and you just take both? And second, the reason i think metagame is possible is entirely cause of the new game plus feature, because you can easily use it as a justification for why there are so many shitty timelines, or even why luka acts so clueless and bonafide cruel compared to his counterpart. Basically some kind of project moon or black souls type shit.
What in the heck is even that numbers lmao. I think this is my biggest problem with this game. I wish the numbers on these stats weren't this overbloated. Would have preferred there to be a limit like 999 and nothing more, with damage calculation that I can simply do in my head without all the complexity, like in fire emblem and some other games.
It's been infalted since part 2, now we're just going all the way
Are you kidding?
65% regen and possilby more below? What ths fucking point of a support or items at that point.