I think I saw enough from the streamers yesterday to make a non-purchase decision on this. I fucking hate these characters. All of them. The look like derpy cucks, they act like moronic kids from some MTV show, and who ever wrote the dialogue must be mentally challenged. I loath the Dragon Age Inquisition elements and fetch quests without any depth.
Fucking thing sucks.
Yeah....watching more, god damn these characters seem bad. They mix elements that shouldn't be mixed. Essentially they are trying to mix the two arcs below.
1.) Naive, earnest and ambitious kids who start off overly idealistic and have people doubt them and dismiss them (IE they only got picked because Daddy.)...Then through the story have their ideals challenged, and change and make them grow less naive and more well respected. (This is a great arc, and of course fucking impossible for a social justice writer because they believe their ideals are practical and needed. =-/)
2.) Accomplished and confident, and everyone treats them like a bad ass already (IE original Mass Effect), but they have a chip on their shoulder because everyone around them are the idiots above (Earnest and idealistic, not bad people--just fucking naive). However deep down he is a good guy, he just KNOWS how things go, and the best way to help people often doesn't involve idealism and bullshit. So he goes through the story BTFO these idealistic idiots, and saving them and slowly changing hearts and minds to see how he's actually what what the idealist NEEDED, and he's a good guy, his methods though are what people need, not what they want (IE Dark Knight).
Instead what we have are these accomplished, confident (Supposedly? Everyone fucking treats them like that...) kids who sound incredibly naive and dopey, and we SEE them constantly being corrected by everyone. So despite everyone around them SAYING they are accomplished heroic "Pathfinders", we SEE everyone treat them like dopey kids that need a short leash. It's just not a good mix.
I get wanting to break away from the whole "Specter" or "Hero" Shepherd type story, and have a character that grows, rather than making those around him grow. But it seems like they half assed it, and were really fucking lazy, and what's worse, genuinely believe the worst aspects of characters are charming. I mean, maybe 20 hours in this will change and you guys will tell me the writing becomes an amazing arc with a good purpose? But right now this looks like dog shit, like some fan fiction Twilight young adult version of how to save the universe and be a totally amazing person at the same time.
