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Dec. 24th, 2021 10:42 amAt least in the human campaign, I feel like Eastern Exorcist isn’t enough of a unified narrative to justify all the horrible shit it shows you.
Story-wise, you start by fighting the Mandrill and seeing him kill your friends. Then you go to two villages that have nothing to do with the Mandrill. Then you go back and fight the Mandrill again. Other than giving you an opportunity to meet the fox spirit again, the two villages are essentially filler.
Ideas-wise, the Mandrill is the filler. You go to two villages that doomed themselves because they decided to do horrible shit to their own citizens, and you see in detail how every decision made things worse. Then you fight the Mandrill, whose reason for mass murder is just “unlimited POWAH!“ Then you finish off with the traitor, whose motives I still don’t understand. There was potentially some way to connect the traitor to all the other humans who turned out to be worse than the spirits, and make an overarching point in some fashion, but he’s done and dusted too quick for any examination.
You could say I’m being too harsh on the story development in a beat-em-up. But Double Dragon never showed me eye-gouging. I think you have to earn that in some fashion.
Story-wise, you start by fighting the Mandrill and seeing him kill your friends. Then you go to two villages that have nothing to do with the Mandrill. Then you go back and fight the Mandrill again. Other than giving you an opportunity to meet the fox spirit again, the two villages are essentially filler.
Ideas-wise, the Mandrill is the filler. You go to two villages that doomed themselves because they decided to do horrible shit to their own citizens, and you see in detail how every decision made things worse. Then you fight the Mandrill, whose reason for mass murder is just “unlimited POWAH!“ Then you finish off with the traitor, whose motives I still don’t understand. There was potentially some way to connect the traitor to all the other humans who turned out to be worse than the spirits, and make an overarching point in some fashion, but he’s done and dusted too quick for any examination.
You could say I’m being too harsh on the story development in a beat-em-up. But Double Dragon never showed me eye-gouging. I think you have to earn that in some fashion.
