I said Larian would not have bothered creating that scene at all if we could simply remove the tadpole in Act 1.
I see no logic behind this ...
Sory.
Scene serves its purpose ... no matter if what is discussed in it is there just to set mood, or to offer actual questline.
They spent a lot of work on that part of the game, and you can’t even accept Raphael’s offer yet.
You cant accept it when he talks to you ...
Im talking about END of Act 1 ... thats like 8 levels, several weeks in game time, or maybe whole days in real time, later.
In fact, we dont even know if we will be able to accept his offer any time ...
And just to be completely honest, we dont even know if we will be able to REFUSE his offer either.
That plot point is far from resolved and won’t be resolved so quickly and easily.
Plot? Most certainly not! (
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But tadpole? Sure, it can be done.
(It either just sounds that in my head, bcs im really bad in reading english, or i can start rap. xD)
I mean, its nothing uncommon in stories ...
You set a goal, and when your characters reach it, they find out that it was meerely a mid-step rather than actual end.
Frodo also thought that bringing The One Ring to Elves will be finish ... and only there he find out it needs to go to its source ...
And by quick and easy I’m not referring to the time and effort your character spends in universe. Im referring to the time and effort you as a player are spending playing the game. Act 1 is too quick and too easy to resolve this issue.
Thats same story ...
How long does it take to you to finish Early Acess, if you dont speedrun?
To me its like ... 2-3 days ... when i play around 6-8h ...
And we know (Sven told us like (half-?)year ago in PFH) that this isnt even half of Act 1!
A selfish character, after removing the tadpole, would simply leave and let others deal with whatever else is going on.
Thats a very odd character concept ...
Being concerned by having a worm in his head, bcs s/he is affraid of their life ... and yet dont care about universe that is about to end, wich (quite logicaly) would include his demise. O_o
I mean, sure ... nothing stops you from playing a mad character who have no logic at all ...
But is it suitable argument? :-/ Dont feel like one to me.
By the end of act 1 we aren’t going to know what the full threat is yet
And you know this ... how exactly?
Hint: You dont.
Bcs if you would test play by Larian and know some story from later parts of the game (wich is the only way to know right now) ... you wouldnt be allowed to speak about it ...
The tadpole and it’s existential threat is the narrative device that demands the character stay involved in the story and continue to investigate their way through the plot regardless of their moral intuitions.
Yes ... and as this threat gets removed, it will be replaced by another one.
That is how storytelling works.
You know, like "you shouldnt be here, bcs Nasghouls are coming after the ring" was replaced by "evil master is going to destroy whole world".
