Unhappy with released spirits..

[Mag]

I've been loving this game & finally completed two of my bears and they 'released' and turned gold.

Unfortunately, I'm super sad about this... all this work to reach this point & loving these bears and now my reward is that they turn one flat color and lose their cute colored in looks and then the only things they say to me are "this spirit has transcended" and what not.

I knew there would be something indicating that they had released their spirits but why is my reward for all this hard work completely losing the character I loved and replacing them with a flat colored robot that can't talk to me or anything? I'm so bummed.

I really hope someone can tell me that I'm either missing something to get them back or that there's a mod or something to do this for me... because honestly this has completely ruined my motivation to finish out my bear quests... I don't want Octavia to disappear!

[TamanduaGirl]

I agree the golden bears aren't aesthetically pleasing but I thought it was still worth going through the story. They still say some things and have quests for you. The main scout bear says she'll keep sticking around because you need her.

[Ivandra Ceruden]

The whole point of this game is that you help bear spirits move on to the afterlife. If you can't handle them finally reaching Bearvana, then I suggest you stop playing the game. It's not about you, you're just their guide to the afterlife, so stop being so selfish.

[Mag]

Originally posted by Ivandra Ceruden:

The whole point of this game is that you help bear spirits move on to the afterlife. If you can't handle them finally reaching Bearvana, then I suggest you stop playing the game. It's not about you, you're just their guide to the afterlife, so stop being so selfish.

I hate to break it to you, but they aren't real. You don't have to be a keyboard warrior for their eternal happiness. It's okay if some people play games to enjoy aesthetic.

[TamanduaGirl]

As far as that goes I thought they'd be gone not turn into an ugly gold ghost. That seems worse than how they started. It's claimed they move on but only the scout bear has an excuse for a ghost being left behind.

Game play wise they wanted you to be able to keep getting quests to earn stuff but it could have been handled better. Like maybe they send a cute little messenger to their old spot to pass on messages and ask for things. Or they ascend and are gone but come back some days to say hi and do a quest to relive memories with you. That would have also made the DLC less awkward, once both in a location are ascended then they could trade back and forth.

Not trashing the game. I'll likely be getting CG2 when it comes out. It seems like it might be delayed to next year since they are having trouble finding artists and programmers, but that's speculation based on the little put out on twitter.