Was anyone else expecting... [Story Spoilers]

[PaperLaur]

...there to be a bigger bad than the Necrodancer himself who'd started all of this? I know maybe I should've expected him to be behind it from the beginning, but I found myself mildly disappointed that surprise, he really was trying to take over the world the whole time!!!

I feel like it would've been funnier/more interesting if he HAD to work with us. Or, potentially, was GOING to betray us, but couldn't because somebody else got in the way first. I mean, we've never really dealt with that bit from Crypt where the lute turned into a huge dragon monster, what was that about?

Had to get it off my chest somewhere. Game's fantastic, and I may just be totally off-base.

[aub]

yeah no, i thought that was lame too. it felt too obvious for it to be any fun for him to be the final boss.

[Opera_Ghost]

agreed! I very much felt the same way. for a while I thought it was gonna be like a necrodancer doppelganger, or someone disguised as him, so yeah it was a little disappointing that it was just him again. even the twist in cadence of hyrule was more fun!

[Sony Vegas Pro 13]

Same here. Guess being tangentially related to the Zelda franchise also infected this game with Hijacked By Ganon The NecroDancer syndrome lol.

[Hedgehog1024]

Only half-joking, but... It's in the name of the game, really. The twist was fight under our noses from the very start

[PaperLaur]

Hedgehog1024 původně napsal:

Only half-joking, but... It's in the name of the game, really. The twist was fight under our noses from the very start

Y'know, I literally had that same thought while half-asleep last night. I'll give them credit for that, at least.

[BeanBoi]

before i went into the game, i was assuming it would have been an entirely new villain that would either be played straight or the Necrodancer would overthrow at some point

after seeing him at the start, i then thought maybe it was either a red herring (like a shapeshifter), or it was some alternate universe shenanigans. all the burger scenes really made it seem like that

then at the finale i was praying that there would have somehow been another villain, but no its actually just him and nothing else

[Tenebrais]

It is kind of weird to have the story twist being that the Necrodancer is responsible for the rifts, in this game called Rift Of The Necrodancer where the opening titles shows the Necrodancer sending minions forth from his rifts. I did enjoy Dove's response to finding that out though.

The ending does feel a bit thrown-together overall. Or maybe rushed? There's not really any story to chapter 5 in general. The plot overall seems like it's setting something up with Heph and Nocturna's chapters being about the way that bringing people joy through art is protecting them from the rifts, and add in Cadence's design being a rock musician the story feels poised to set up to do a big concert that would save everyone - and that could lead into confronting the Necrodancer, with more lead-in than just you chasing him around for a while.

[PaperLaur]

Tenebrais původně napsal:

It is kind of weird to have the story twist being that the Necrodancer is responsible for the rifts, in this game called Rift Of The Necrodancer where the opening titles shows the Necrodancer sending minions forth from his rifts. I did enjoy Dove's response to finding that out though.

The ending does feel a bit thrown-together overall. Or maybe rushed? There's not really any story to chapter 5 in general. The plot overall seems like it's setting something up with Heph and Nocturna's chapters being about the way that bringing people joy through art is protecting them from the rifts, and add in Cadence's design being a rock musician the story feels poised to set up to do a big concert that would save everyone - and that could lead into confronting the Necrodancer, with more lead-in than just you chasing him around for a while.

Ouch, harsh. But I get your point. Maybe I'm looking at this from the wrong angle, it just seemed too obvious because it was everywhere prerelease, y'know?

But that second part also might have something to do with it, it did kind of take a hard left turn into LET'S KILL THIS GUY without a lot of segue, almost like it was rushed.