BobTheDuck
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- Dec 24, 2018
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Everyone's stuff is harsh to them because we're all looking out of our own skulls trying to make sense of a messy world. I guess we all find the stories that resonate to us.That might be it, but after my time in the army and being in contact with some people who dealt with some harsh stuff, a pre-teen crush who, for what we know, got abducted by aliens or just ran away, it just seems trivial and meaningless.
And BTW I finished ch. 4.5 yesterday, and I have to say, the game got some pretty fucking great visuals. If the story was about an adult in his 30s who lost his girlfriend/wife of 10 years for example, it would make much more sense to me.
Bella's trauma also isn't explained yet, neither is the teachers. I get the sense that Ocean will tie a lot of it together, as 30 chapters at the current pace needs evrything to be connected or it will spiral into an unfocused plot. There's still so much of the story yet to be told, but hopefully we won't have the alien excuse. I would feel pretty cheated by the story if Ocean pulled the abducted by aliens card too. Until we know how the the MC got hosptialised with collapsed lungs, I'm going to wait to see what the actual situation was first. In the devil's advocate position, the violent incident that hospitalised him might not even correlate to Summer's absence, it could simply be he got into serious brawling as his way of dealing with life, maybe crossed with the remnants of the gangs mentioned in the original WIAB. But my bet is the violent incident is tied in.
And agreed, the visuals are fantastic, I'm looking forward to the remade parts.