Alma: "It can't control itself!" Nata: "Literally me frfr" Hunter [looking at Alma]: "You know what we must do." (spoilers obviously)

[Mister Magician]

*Alma nods.*

*Hunter loads up a wyvernheart canister and shoots nata in the face."

Hunter: Finally, it's over.

*Roll credits.*

What an utterly insipid game.

I get what it's doing, I understand what it's saying, it's neither subtle or complicated. What I don't understand if this is just "reddit gone wild" in regards to completely not-self-aware "storytelling" and end up with a lot of friendly fire, or if the developers are taking the mickey out of the global state religion here.

I mean the "you will own nothing and like it / luxury space communism" commune you meet near end that is openly called "slavery" by the "hippie kid who hates his parents" trope you have forced onto your ragtag band hr-quotas.

I will refer to a common sentiment I have had about this game the whole way through, it feels like the devs are leaving subliminal messages around as a cry for help due to poor working conditions.

[AskmeaboutJesus]

😂

[chima]

Is Nata a monster? Is that why he behaves so strangely? Honestly pretty awesome if we get to kill him.

[Mister Magician]

Originally posted by chima:

Is Nata a monster? Is that why he behaves so strangely? Honestly pretty awesome if we get to kill him.

I'm joking.

The entire scene before you finally go to face akveld you have nata saying that tradition is "chaining" people just like akveld is tasked with being the guardian of the people. Then nata pulls out this gem that he is "just like akveld," and how much he identifies with the monster.

nata's favorite thing about akveld is that he overcame his programming to be a helper because, and I quote, "he just wanted to live!" (akveld murders everything it sees indiscriminately and is tearing the region apart because it's mind-controlled by a synthetic elder dragon). then nata cheers on that akveld "even learned how to eat" (synthetic monsters don't need to eat, so akveld is just doing it to commit suicide).

Not 10 seconds later, you see a crazed, clearly suffering akveld force-feeding himself the corpses of monsters even though he doesn't even have a stomach to digest food. the akveld is "enjoying" his "freedom" so much he clearly wants to die.

This has to be a parody.