Yes, despite cut content, despite the missing epilogues, despite not being able to save Karlach, the nonsense with how the Emperor reacts towards the end of the game is so nonsensical that it's easily the worst part of the game.
I love love love this game. My favorite of all time as of right now, but when the Emperor joined the Netherbrain out of nowhere, the writing fell completely apart. At first I thought, I was missing something, but no, it's just bad, and despite there being many people online definding this scene and trying to give "reasons" why the Emperor had no choice. But the truth is, it's just really really REALLY bad writing.
And it doesn't get better:
Orpheus then claims that his honor guard could have freed him and he could have destroyed the Brain if it weren't for us ... Ehm .... no?! The honor guard was imprisoned together with Orpheus over 1.000 years ago by Vlaakith I. (NOT the current Lich-Queen Vlaakith) and obviously the honor guard has not managed to free Orpheus all that time. And why should they have been able to? They did NOT have the Orphic hammer!
And then it gets even better: Orpheus just decides to turn into a mindlayer?! As far as I know, he was not infected with a tadpole. So how the hell does he become a Mindflayer?
This whole scene ruins the narrative of the game. If nothting else, THIS needs to be fixed in the form of a rewrite in a future patch / definitive edition.
Last edited by SiriusVI; 28/08/23 06:12 PM.
