(July 16, 2013 at 5:47 pm)Ryantology Wrote: VIII was so disappointing to me. Pretty much every player character was really unlikeable and I just could not make myself give a shit about them or their problems.
If the game had been about Laguna, who was a cool guy, and his adventure, which was actually compelling and yet relegated to intermittent backstory status, I would have a very different opinion of it.
I agree with your first paragraph. My opinion is that the story writers were overdoing the drama and it becomes so serious that it erupts into non-serious material worth laughing at.
An illustration will do nicely:
