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Re: The Gamer

Posted: Sat 11 Dec, 2021, 12:31 am
by InspectorCaracal
Bee wrote:
Sat 11 Dec, 2021, 12:21 am
InspectorCaracal wrote:
Sat 11 Dec, 2021, 12:06 am
Bee wrote:
Sun 05 Dec, 2021, 1:21 am
It's not worth it.
Between the lack of character development, Jihan's miraculous powers making everything fucking boring and then not only "attracting the attention" of Baal buy also being able to summon devils thanks to Lolikiano... And Soenil's demotion from side character to background character and finally to
EQUIPMENT
Oh yeah, Soenil turns out to be the actual sword and Jihan its destined wielder
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man this keeps haunting me because it's like y'all this is two of my favorite tropes in one thing and yet it somehow managed to fuck it up
Which tropes
having supernatural video game abilities and
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swords that are people
but it sounds like it's increasingly ignoring the video game part in favor of just being OP and also while i appreciate the latter is foreshadowed and thus planned it still feels like a horrible misuse of the characters involved
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you don't give people-swords to already OP wielders you give them to people who have no special powers or who need to awaken their own special powers or whose powers are by forming a BOND OF PARTNERSHIP with the SWORD, you don't "reward" someone for being special by TURNING THEM INTO A SWORD who is then ITSELF a reward for the ALREADY OVER-POWERED PROTAGONIST that's just all wrong!!!!