While you make some agreeable points (mostly around the tone deafness), Karlach and Tav are pulled along by hope, Karlach wants to live more than anything, more than she wants to go out a hero, more than she wants to return to Avernus, and the solution (among many) to her problem is wafted under the player's nose. I can't understate how gutwrenching it is, to be told that the solution sits right in the Foundry, with the Gondians, only to not be able to do anything with it, not even discuss it with Zanner, Dammon, nothing. By the end of the game (and when you play as her), returning to Avernus is posed as the "best" ending, Tav (or Wyll) is going to go with her, keep her safe, continue to love her unconditionally. But we get no payoff, no epilogue to show us that our choice there mattered. As it stands, I don't think any of us find it LAZY, but definitely feel like it went unfinished due to time.
"By the end of the game (and when you play as her), returning to Avernus is posed as the "best" ending, Tav (or Wyll) is going to go with her, keep her safe, continue to love her unconditionally." Wyll will do WHAT? lol
Originally Posted by Ojutai
The whole "Good person who just wants to live, but doesn't have the option to" trope they have going for her is just too much for me. Hits too close to home.
It sounds stupid, but it really is one of those things which has left that terrible knot in the pit of my stomach.
I just can't bring myself to keep playing, which is so sad, because I haven't felt this invested in a game in years.
Yes this is how I've felt as well. I can not bring myself to push forward and have simply opted to taking an extended break from the game.
Is it possible to talk to her about going to Avernus with her before the actual ending scene outside of bringing up her infernal engine? This could be an approach they take to her story to make it a little less doom and gloom, where she and Tav resolve to take the only action they seem to be able to sooner; rather than her specifically talking about being dead right up until the ending. Being able to have a conversation about it and have that reflected in her dialogue might soften the blow of the ending.
