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Now that this got bumped, more on the story by fabio 01/23/2013, 12:42am PST
fabio wrote:

the whole "chase the assassin" plot condensed into a single chapter with the MILFguard invasion for acts 2 and 3.


They either should have stripped down the assassin plot to a single chapter OR fleshed out more details so you'd care. You're kept completely in the dark about everything until literally the very end and even then it fails to resonate because they never bother to properly flesh out the backgrounds of The Lodge, the mages, and the nations. Instead they waste time telling me over and over that I should care about finding some Yennifer woman you've never met and never will. Too much information that feels like they expected you to read a bunch of comic books for.

Speaking of waste: chapter 1...why? It sticks you in a backwater dealing with a local tinpot thug and the elf racism, neither of which has anything to do with the overall story (unlike the first game). At least chapter 2 got you wondering if it was worth political instability to off an asshole ruler while chapter 3 showed you the fallout caused by it all.

Here's how it should have gone:

Chapter 1: Chase, find, deal with assassin. Discover plot.
Chapter 2: Dealing with the northern kingdoms falling apart over the deaths.
Chapter 3: Pulling it together for the Milfguard invasion.

They were trying to set up conflict with a theme of past versus present loyalty with the assassins/kings and Yennifer/Triss but it was too undercooked to go anywhere. At the same time they spent way too much time on it. How did that happen?
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I was ultimately disappointed by this by fabio 11/27/2012, 11:52am PST NEW
    How many hours before I see a naked woman in this, mate? NT by Doctor Epyx 01/22/2013, 11:20pm PST NEW
        2 minutes NT by fabio 01/23/2013, 12:14am PST NEW
    Now that this got bumped, more on the story by fabio 01/23/2013, 12:42am PST NEW
        I've been meaning to do a 2nd playthrough of the elf plot branch by fabio 01/23/2013, 1:02am PST NEW
        I'm in the third chapter and I just stopped playing it. by Worm 01/23/2013, 11:30am PST NEW
            Re: I'm in the third chapter and I just stopped playing it. by Quentin Geralt 01/23/2013, 5:46pm PST NEW
 
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