taevachi's journal

I finally finished Vampyr today. I already did the final boss yesterday, so today I only had the epilogue left, and I have to say I'm severely disappointed. I loved the game right until the end, but now I'm left feeling rather snubbed. I got the sad ending, one of the two (of a total of four) that aren't considered to be good. I can live with not getting a good one, since I did kill a few people (though to be fair, I was very restrained), but they way it came to be just made no sense.

That's the main problem with the game. While the premise is amazing, the execution of the story is just bad. Character development for important NPCs doesn't happen, which is why their actions are often baffling when they happen. The worst offender was the character of Elisabeth and her romance with the main character. It happened out of nowhere. All of a sudden those two start using endearments for each other and the MC talks incessantly about how much he loves her. Which could have been a nice romance, but there was no build-up for it. And so I just couldn't take it seriously.

Even worse, in the ending I got, Elisabeth accuses Jonathan of having betrayed her. She then immediately kills herself, resulting in said sad ending. However, I have no idea what she's even talking about. How did Jonathan betray her? I looked it up online, and people think she's talking about turning a certain NPC into a vampire, however, I didn't do that! So what is she on about? Seems like I'm not the only one who had that issue though, a lot of people were complaining that it made no sense whatsoever.

I can't say I'm particularly sad about Elisabeth's death, like I said I found the romance to be badly developed (read: no at all), but that kind of randomness right at the end left a bitter taste in my mouth. Jonathan ended up "lost and without purpose" due to her death, but I can always pretend that he'd get over her death soon. I'd much rather have him dead than be all lovey-dovey with her and move to America with her (WHY?!).

Anyway, I loved around 80% of the game, I just wish the ending had made more sense and the characters had been written in a more believable and consistent way. Now that I'm done with the game I'm tempted by Clair Obscur, but I think I'll wait until I finished the new Genshin patch that comes out on the 18th.

Speaking of Genshin, after the disappointing livestream in which they announced that Dahlia wasn't going to run with Emilie but Skirk and Shenhe, both characters I don't want, I drowned out my sorry by pulling for Chiori's C1. It was a bad idea, but I have no regrets. I love her so much, and her C1 is actually really good. She's one of the characters I decided to focus on building really well, the others being Kinich and Lyney.

I also wrote my first piece of het fic in I don't know how many years. I think Lyney/Chiori could be really cute together. :3

I'm still thinking about Hux though. Hux pining for his LI (which is, ofc, my OC because I just can't look at any other Hux ships anymore), and his LI pining right back. Aaaaaaah! <3 I do also want to write more Chiori though. It's tough. Why do we need jobs again? I just want to read and write and sip tea all day long.

This week is going to be horrible. Today is a public holiday (Whit Monday, thank god for Catholic holidays), but I'll be really busy the rest of the week and, worst of all, will have to attend a formal evening event on Thursday. I'm so not looking forward to that. Can't we just skip ahead one week, please?