Not a good first impression, not a bad one either. The strange disjointed dialogue is more of a slight stumble, but most of my judgment is aimed at the developers and not necessarily Major P-3. ![]() When trying to make people latch on to your characters there’s no cutting corners.Ītomic Heart’s protagonist doesn’t start off on the wrong foot per say. You’re some kind of a robot if you didn’t try to save Homer. Some kind of wit, some kind of humanity–more than just saving her own cat. I love street urchin characters, but they need something besides their circumstances to latch on to. She’s an abandoned homeless street urchin running from the law, running from thugs, and running her mouth without anything else of note. She is sass and unfortunate circumstances. Who does this? Who-who precisely? Who is Frey? Frey ain’t a character yet. The money we are basing our hopes and dreams on is going up in smoke for reasons beyond my understanding. The same money that puts us at odds with other criminals. The very money that we keep getting arrested for. Her apartment is on fire and she overrides my most sensible decision to grab the sack of money at her feet before grabbing the cat. She has a gun pointed to her head and her weapons of choice are sass and pocket sand. She shows nary a modicum of self-preservation and really no rhyme or reason for anything. That’s bureaucracy at work and the moral complications of being a leader. Fellow criminals can’t trust Frey because she makes off with the money, so they have to hunt her down or Big Boss takes it out on them. That’s a lot of empathy coming out of the judge. The judge can’t trust Frey to be a law-abiding citizen but lets her off because the judge also had a hard upbringing. For the intro, she is surrounded by NPCs with more personality than herself. My issue is Frey feels too untrustworthy and lacks any kind of defining character traits. I’ve been microdosing on quips and pop culture references for decades, so I am immune to this aspect of Frey. ![]() The internet’s diagnosis is that Frey from Forspoken is too quippy to love. It doesn’t even have to be a good impression. Whether you’re attending a court hearing for your third count of felony theft, trying to sweet talk a group of thugs, or being the protagonist in a video game, the first impression is always crucial. What is it about these two that makes them so insufferable, and if they are so insufferable how do these big games end up with such fundamentally unlikable mascots? ![]() If those two have taught me anything at the beginning of 2023, it’s that there’s more to it than just starting a character off with negative savoir-faire. But then you have characters like Frey from Forspoken. You got your Ezios from Assassin’s Creed and your Geralts from The Witcher. It takes a special mind to make smug, patronizing, too-cool-for-you characters endearing.
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