- Joined
- Apr 9, 2019
I still can’t believe how that last bit ended up. All the debates over whether or not they’re two different characters, because of how obvious it seemed, and according to the game, the answer is… “Both? Neither? Ask again in the DLC.”Reminds me of M. Bison from Street Fighter. He was supposed to be dead in the 2nd game thanks to Akuma but both 4 and 5 were like "he's not REALLY dead, his Psycho Spirit is in a NEW body that's better than his old one", basically lifting the excuse from Alpha 3 even though that game was a prequel and 3rd Strike never mentions M. Bison at all. I'm sure Capcom will add him back in 6 unless they pull another 3rd Strike and make it all new characters. Geese from Fatal Fury had a similar issue too until SNK came to their senses.
Again, I honestly think the story was all Steel Wool's doing. IMDB is the only site that has Scott as a writer and director, when every other site just lists him as a publisher. I watched the credits on youtube and it's just wall-to-wall of animators, engineers, lighting, QA testers, and other development stuff. Only one StoryBoard credit, but it was only for the art and not the actual story itself. The cold hard fact is that Scott killed off Afton for good, UCN was supposed to be purple guy in purgatory after Pizza Simulator burned him to death. Going "but his soul lives FOREVER!!!" just reeks of desperation and lack of any creativity or thought.
The general consensus I've been getting online is that people actually like Vanessa, and in some cases feel bad for her that the kid protagonist is making her job harder by being inside after hours. Steel Wool COULD have developed her more into a memorable antagonist alongside Vanny and just have their own version of "Purple Guy". There's just so much missed potential.
It’s genuinely bizarre, bad writing, where two separate endings contradict each other and neither is the true ending so the only possible solution is waiting for further info.