Larian has a funny way of writing, where their individual scenes are detailed but the story itself isn't. I'm sure everyone has fond memories of a certain imp chatting a hole in your skull to effectively state "a dargon gon get u". And then in this game every character interaction is handled with care and talent, and their emotions and attitudes are expertly conveyed, and even little flavour quirks are depicted in lovely detail; but then the whole story is that 'Cthulhu was actually king of the whole world but then his friends pushed him into a well and now he came back with insect friends who have a strange idea of how annexation works and then your dad-insert is a man in a lead box who is probably some sort of sociopath and THEN EVERYONE WAS SKELETONS!'
It's really strange, like whoever storyboarded it all left out a couple of segments and turned to their employees going "Okay, now fill in the blanks with a little extra spice, okay?" and the expert writers wrote it down exactly as on the whiteboard and nothing else. Why was Ahru even in the game? He was in literally one room the entire game. And I'm dang certain he was a CAT last time I saw him. He was a CAT and he said he'd NEVER turn human AGAIN, and then he's sitting there with his rasta hair and claiming to be some sort of high ranking person in the divine order.
Did I need to play D1, D2, and all the other games to get this?
I know nothing of Lucian and even I could tell the way he was written was a complete arsepull to give a twist at the end, and why is Dallis a dragon? Also Braccus Rex is very cool, but he had no purpose in this game other than to be the conduit of the spoopy fish king. Also whoever though that they could just go from "Magisters are about torture and genocide" to "Magisters are the good guys, they just have some bad eggs." in the final act should get a paddling.
Man, if I cared at all about the lore I would be upset. But as it stands I can't help but just think Larian is very silly to not have a better core story to hang all the sidestories on.
