So...... some honest thoughts about the latest update.
Please bear in mind that following is just to provide some constructive criticism, and is by no means meant to offend or bash
CaramelCowboy and this game in any way.
I played the update and I guess it was....... just okay?
I quite liked
Amaris's scenes towards the end (update does a really good job of
hyping him up as the villain and his motives), and scenes of
Ivar & Vera, and Ivar, Vera as well as King Alaric which discusses things to come were good also.
To add, I am looking forward to the history between
MC's mom as Swordbearer and the previous leader of the vampires which does sound interesting, and I do kinda like
Luneira as a character.
Having said that, the best girl Nevaeha is missing for most of the update.
Okay, jokes (partially joking, since I actually see Nevaeha as the best girl lol) aside though, bigger issue I found with this update is that I think it went too overboard with the humor.
Until now, it was always MC, Aren, Lyra trio.
Aren was always typically the one who handled a lot of jokes/funny scenes, and more often than not, acted like a doofus, with MC and Lyra playing off that humor as being a bit more serious/reasonable ones of the trio compared to Aren.
However, in this update Aren isn't in it a lot, and a lot of scenes are our MC by himself interacting with other characters (like
Ava, Leliana, Astrid).
With this, the update has MC spouting jokes at almost every turn acting cocky, and behaving like a doofus many times? Making him be like an Aren clone in terms of personality?
And it's not even the matter of MC being competent.
MC can and should make mistakes at this point (like his
training with Astrid), it's only natural given he's a newbie in the Knights guild, but even so dialing the jokester/doofus factor up to 11 just felt......weird, and out of character, especially compared to how I remember he acted like in the story till now.
Felt like the game was somehow compensating for Aren's large absence of acting like an idiot by force-injecting tons of unnecessary humor into the MC which I really thought wasn't needed.
Actually it would have been better off without them, given I feel they make his characterization and tone of the game inconsistent.
So yeah.
Hope I was able to make my point across.
As said in advance, just providing some constructive feedback on the update.
I still like the game a lot and will continue to follow it to see how this journey goes.