The Impact of Loss Quest is stupid.

[Red]

Making me choose who lives and dies isn't deep, complex, or smart story telling. It just makes me wish I could choose to punch the developer in the nads because neither choice is satisfying. At most you just feel wrong for either. Its arbitrary and only done to make someone feel bad. The game already is fine taking choices away from you considering it railroads you into becoming an outlaw. So why give us a choice at all for anything?

[stmpunk]

Originally posted by Red:

Making me choose who lives and dies isn't deep, complex, or smart story telling. It just makes me wish I could choose to punch the developer in the nads because neither choice is satisfying. At most you just feel wrong for either. Its arbitrary and only done to make someone feel bad. The game already is fine taking choices away from you considering it railroads you into becoming an outlaw. So why give us a choice at all for anything?

this game's writing's crap generally speaking, what makes it compelling's the setting and forwarding of the bushido culture, but such culture wasn't as displayed in-game until 1600s and it lasted until the 1800s - the game's story's set in 1274

In sum, these minor factors alone make the game's narrative utterly stupid, senseless. This side-quest's simply another display of their misplaced shoehorning of pseudo-morals, and it's only purpose's to make that walking mummy "tHe EaGlE" narrative stronger (the whole pseudo-preying on fears). Only thing is that we as players, depending on IF we truly understand bushido, while also measuring overall personal moral compass, makes it annoying, not "emotional" nor "interesting".
I, personally (weighting morals and the fact I was raised under a light-weight version of Bushido since I was 4yo) find the character of Jin to be excessively weak, borderline pathetic. I don't like the character, I can partially relate to him, but his "morals" are borderline modern "woke", which's one of the most imbecile moral "codes" in human history.

The character itself resorting to stealth being "anti-samurai" doesn't make sense on every single level of the narrative and setting (bushido doesn't forbid military strategy, that would be imbecile), though him deliberately and freely wanting to use poison asking his old nanny to make it out of his own arse just proves the point. Frightful, weak, and somewhat insane, he does it for no effing reason what-so-ever other than untold character feelings & thoughts, which can only be interpreted into a single isolated trait: Fear / weakness.

So yeah, I punched through this game expecting some sort of stupid quest to come along, oddly enough it was only in the DLC itself. Now, commenting on the DLC, well, the eagle's nothing but annoying, old mummy asking to be dismembered by horse-carts....

[Sistermatic™]

Originally posted by stmpunk:

this game's writing's crap generally speaking, what makes it compelling's the setting and forwarding of the bushido culture, but such culture wasn't as displayed in-game until 1600s and it lasted until the 1800s - the game's story's set in 1274

The 'Samurai' code and honor began during the Kamakura period around 11th century and is perfectly suited to - and correct - for this title.

The emergence of 'bushido' has been debated by historians since time immemorial and is mostly attributed to the fact the west only saw 'bushido' when they visited Japan for the first time in the 16th century.

In fact, as far as I have been able to find, 'bushido' is not mentioned anywhere in GoT so assuming it is historically inaccurate is an incorrect assumption from the get-go (notwithstanding that bushi was definitely used before the 16th century).

[Karax]

bruh, just enjoy the game, look at the scenery, have some cool sword fights and play your flute -=--=--=--=--=---=, the writing might not be the best of the best, so what