The Removal of Protagonist.

[DrRosi.B]

The abrupt transition from Gustave to Verso as the main character is jarring for me. It breaks the emotional flow of the story. It's not earned. It feels forced. It did not even give space for players to mourn and grieve for Gustave, and right now I am being forced to trust someone new.

I am Gustave, I play Gustave, As a player, I see through his struggles, his dreams, his fight. Without Gustave, there is no Expedition 33. Gustave was the anchor.

SandFall clearly didn't respect the connection Player has for Gustave. The sudden depart of Gustave it's not just losing a character, it was losing the foundation that made everything feel meaningful.

This is a deep betrayal of the story's own strength, because they have built something beautiful, and then shattered it without giving player a choice.

[NissanDriver24]

I feel you but I think it was narratively brilliant. Now I was triggered that I lost the character I had spent 8 hours building but oh well I guess.

[shadowsfm]

Spoilers

[Cureless]

Reported.

[Sogreth]

Originally posted by Zero:

report and block

It's not an airport, bro. You don't need too announce these things. Unless you're just begging for attention.

[Gunslinger 🚬]

I totally agree with you bro, I liked this character, his story, I hoped that he and Lune would be together and Maelle would be like a daughter to them. Something like an interpretation like in the witcher with Geralt Yen and Ciri. But alas...

[PowerElite]

I didn't mind Verso joining the party after Gustav's death, but Maelle should've been the next MC.

[Grim]

Just finished act 1 and uninstalled the game.

Had to go googling to make sure I didnt have a stroke and hallucinate the whole thing...

[mercurialblonde]

I liked it. Gustave went out like a champ. And it makes you really hate Renoir. It was gutsy.

[stilloveu]

After gustave death, game dosent even remember him he was the mc. The group just mensions him on his funeral and thats it. After chapter 1 game is totally going in a different way. Vesto becomes the mc and he doesnt even die at the end like wtf.

[P.Diddy's Baby Oil]

game of thrones exists bro. plot armor for main characters is a thing of the past. as my pops always told me when i'd get shot or stabbed "suck it up buttercup".

[DrRosi.B]

Sorry for not putting Spoiler Tag as this is my first time post discussion.

[Picuu]

Ugh... I read the beginning of the post... ♥♥♥♥. Dude. SPOILERS MAN FFS

[Aphelear]

Why is this post still up? It's obviously a huge spoiler

[Darq]

OP is an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[BingusDingus]

Huge spoiler, but also not wrong.
That sequence caused two narrative flops, killing Gustave for dramatic effect way too soon into the story for it to really drum up any actual narrative tension, and replacing him with the cliché experienced badass character who knows pretty much everything the other characters could want or need to know.
It also fails in other ways in that it doesn't really address the issue until later, it's such an abrupt sequence of events that you'd think there'd be more elucidation, but it just happens and the game moves on as if the protagonist didn't just die, made worse by the replacement character being remarkably less interesting than Gustave.
Then there's the other other issue, such as there being tons of costumes for a character you loose in like the first third of the game, it's just such a waste.