Originally Posted by night lunatic
IMO, Daisy is very tempting.

From story perspective she tempts you with the dreams of conquest which is meh. From an RP perspective she gives you the ability to win people over (pass checks once per day) which is amazing. From a gameplay perspective she gives you some of the most overpowered abilities in the game by far which are an instant pick for most minmaxers.

So, basically the Daisy path is for megalomaniacs.

The problem I see she's so transparently evil and transparently not interested in our wellbeing that a good character wouldn't be interested in pursuing her path, because it's always framed as power to use for evil. And if the tempter character isn't there to tempt good characters, what the hell is the point then?

Originally Posted by saeran
Originally Posted by Gray Ghost
At least the guardian frames it around giving us power to solve the immediate problem in front of us.
The guardian is just empty talk at this point. The emperor tells you you need the tadpole power, but this doesn't correlate to anything in the game. Using the tadpoles doesn't solve anything, and neither does not using them. Even the narrator lines about using them now seem to refer to nothing.
Honestly, the guardian/ emperor rewrite seems so pointless to me.

At least the guardian is framing it in the context of using the power against the cultand to infiltrate it, which is directly related to our ultimate goal, even if that doesn't pan out in practice.