(Spoilers) Would this be a better game with Safi as the main character? (Spoilers)

[jasonjkay]

Just finished the game, and apart from the choices being meaningless and the bad ending I did enjoy it for the most part but I saw the potential for a much more interesting game.
Safi's powers seems like a missed opportunity. Playing true colours and using Alex's powers to read people and objects was pretty interesting and I feel having Safi's powers in this game would have been a lot more interesting than shifting between two timelines. Just imagine all the puzzles where you have to choose the right person to shift into to get another character to open up. Need to get into a secure place, find someone with access and shift into them. Shift into the wrong person and people react negatively towards you.
I love Max, but I really don't think this game did her justice and a new character would have been way better.

[Q_Vong]

I agree to a certain extent. I still think that a continuation of Max' story could've been great (this just wasn't it). But yeah, a new character with shapeshifting powers would be very interesting. Not sure if they would've changed Safi's personality (which is frankly just sh**) though.

[peter4i4ik]

this would be better if Max had only her rewind power, and other may have other characters, also more experience gameplaywise.

[jasonjkay]

I agree that if they had nailed Max's story then this game could have been amazing, especially with Max's original rewind powers but with the game the way it is, I feel like they could have done a much better job with a new character with powers like I described. Safi's powers when revealed seemed so much cooler than just switching to another timeline. I feel its really the relationship Max has with Chloe as she gets to know her again that really made the first game so special. That is clearly missing in this game.

[drummer]

I just want to kill Safi tbh
Who the ♥♥♥♥ shoots their mother over a book publishing?

[peter4i4ik]

Originally posted by drunkASMR:

I just want to kill Safi tbh
Who the ♥♥♥♥ shoots their mother over a book publishing?

Well Safi is indeed to emotional... and with her powers... lol :D

[john doe]

Originally posted by drunkASMR:

I just want to kill Safi tbh
Who the ♥♥♥♥ shoots their mother over a book publishing?

her mother sucks.

[jasonjkay]

Yep the characters of Safi and her mother are both very unlikable at the end, that's why I wasn't saying I wanted her as the main, just her powers on a new character. I've seen a few posts comparing the ending to the Justice league or Avengers, but with Safi's personality I can see her trying to corrupt anyone with powers to take over the world. All that god talk just obliterated any sympathy I had for her.

[Marshall of the Templars]

Originally posted by jasonjkay:

Yep the characters of Safi and her mother are both very unlikable at the end, that's why I wasn't saying I wanted her as the main, just her powers on a new character. I've seen a few posts comparing the ending to the Justice league or Avengers, but with Safi's personality I can see her trying to corrupt anyone with powers to take over the world. All that god talk just obliterated any sympathy I had for her.

Perhaps Deck Nine is going the Magneto route with Safi? We will see.

But I agree with your original post that it would be interesting to have a future LiS game playing as a shapeshifter.

[Cat]

The original story was about having unexplained superpowers in a normal world, we never cared if the bad guy has powers of his own. The most important thing is Max's journey and how she learned not to use them again.

now they're giving everyone supers and we could have a bunch weird guys shooting lasers off their ears or turning into a bulletproof fart.

[rmsgrey]

Safi as she is wouldn't be a good main character - she's got a bit too much of the villain in her.

A game about a shapeshifting player character could be interesting, but would take a lot of extra work to do properly - any character you can interact with would need to react appropriately to whichever character you were currently appearing to be, so if the player has control over who they appear to be, that's a lot of voice lines for even a brief interaction. And trying to track consequences of, say, Fred thinking he talked to Velma would multiply things out even more...

Or, of course, they could make it with very limited player agency in who and when you shapeshift into. I don't know about you, but I'd find it disappointing to control a shapeshifter who can appear to be anyone, but only when the story says so, and only the individual characters the story says.