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>>15025602
>>15026395

Glad we seem to be on the same page. Hachimyoujin especially felt like kind of a waste to me after it spent2mb hanging out in a setting that was revealed to be a complete bait and switch in the very last route. DI is also kind of like this if you get down to it but the entire story still felt relevant to me. I guess Mercurius fucking with the reader hardcore throughout the whole game paid off a lot.

And yeah, definitely, if he would have focused more on the antagonist's side I think it would have been a much better experience overall. Like Bansenjin should have been much less of a FD for the original game and more depiction of it's actual plot. Much more Cream-chan, Huang, China, etc. and less fucking around at their stupid school.

Of course I understand why Yoshiya and friends are the way they are but that doesn't excuse them just kind of being "there". There was tons of shit that could have happened with them but it just... didn't. By the time Bansenjin rolled around I was so sick of seeing them, their character arcs were already done and there are few things in this world that I want to read less about than Yoshiya's 説教。Idk, lots of things that could have been done better in retrospect but it doesn't really matter at this point.

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The Nazi stuff and occultism in DI is pretty well researched and implemented. I learned quite a bit from researching the people and things mentioned. Karl Krafft for example was a pretty cool figure that I had never heard about before, along with all the kabbalah/alchemy stuff. I'm not sure how you can claim that worldbuilding is one of the game's weaknesses, there is a shitload of thought poured into the grand setting and it remains consistent across several titles.

If you were looking for something actually set in nazi Germany or something that pulled from thath heavily then I can definitely see how you were let down but that's not really what the game was going for in the first place. It works on a functional level as a backdrop and that's all it was really going for with that imo.

I DEFINITELY feel the same about Senshinkan though, the background setting was simply not used well at all for the reasons I mentioned above.