The "prisoner" killed the story (SPOILERS)

[Evil Dave]

I mean come on, everyone know that is the Preacher from the first game. I noticed this at the beginning of the game. The same eyes and when he show his arm through the hole, you see his black tunic. FAIL!

-1 Artifex Mundi. Really bad executed
And no, I didn't finished the game yet, but its really clear that is him

So, now Im at the end of the game and got all of the pieces some seconds ago. I set free the prisoner and.......tachaaaaan. Surprised? NOPE, I'm not. Its really obvious who is since the beginning. Artifex, you should put more effort in your games. The title of the game says "ENIGMATIS" *cough*. Well, not so ENIGMATIC, don't you think?

Here we go
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1163692206

[Waschbärpfötchen]

I'm really glad I played The Mists of Ravenwood before the first one.
(Also same voice actor.)

[Evil Dave]

Originally posted by Darkwarrior:

I'm really glad I played The Mists of Ravenwood before the first one.
(Also same voice actor.)

Well this post is for the people who played the first one

[SpyroGuy]

Originally posted by Darkwarrior:

I'm really glad I played The Mists of Ravenwood before the first one.
(Also same voice actor.)

Same. I just assumed by "the Detective"'s reaction and the music in the background that I was supposed to be shocked or something. xD

[kalirion]

Seriously, the Detective is such a moron. Even if she somehow failed to recognize him, his story of immortal beings who can only be killed by a ritual dagger didn't ring any bells, and she was still utterly confused by Whitmarsh's interest in the Preacher. This girl has an IQ of like 80, how has she ever managed to keep her job is beyond me. I can only imagine that the game is targetted at those with an IQ of like 80 as well, if Artifex Mundi expected this to be some sort of a "twist".

[Rainz]

Same, I noticed the prisoner was the preacher from the very beginning and was wondering why the detective didn't notice at all or have any suspicion like an inner dialogue or something that let us know that the detective might have suspect or notices that the man was who she was searching for 2 years. I just thought that maybe with her amnesia in the first game and her little interaction with the Preacher after she got back her memory was the reason but she had a photo of the preacher in her car that made me speechless.

[Ave Medusa]

Originally posted by Evil Dave:

I mean come on, everyone know that is the Preacher from the first game. I noticed this at the beginning of the game. The same eyes and when he show his arm through the hole, you see his black tunic. FAIL!

-1 Artifex Mundi. Really bad executed
And no, I didn't finished the game yet, but its really clear that is him

So, now Im at the end of the game and got all of the pieces some seconds ago. I set free the prisoner and.......tachaaaaan. Surprised? NOPE, I'm not. Its really obvious who is since the beginning. Artifex, you should put more effort in your games. The title of the game says "ENIGMATIS" *cough*. Well, not so ENIGMATIC, don't you think?

Here we go
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1163692206

I agree, and even for people who haven't played part 1: the prisoner still literally repeats the same information that you found out yourself or can otherwise deduce from the came. It's kinda like when you're really spelling it out for a kid or patronizing at least.

[Meep]

It's important to remember that she met this guy once, for less than five minutes, years ago. She has his picture from the wanted posters, but she only heard him extremely briefly whilst in the middle of a traumatic event.

And while trauma can make things stick in your head like nothing else, its not always useful things. It's just as likely that her mind associated him with the smell of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pile of corpses that he was next to for the entire duration of their convo.

And its implied she suspected him, like of several things. She definitely didn't trust the prisoner. This was an enemy of my enemy deal, full stop.

But he was also being held prisoner by a guy with a similar MO. A guy who was clearly the one in charge of the show & not allied with this man in the cell. I think that's what tripped her up, you expect cult members to work together towards a greater goal- not to hostile adversaries... at least until he mentioned the 'competition' Asmodia had them in...

That is where things fall through, the preacher could not stop expositing. He gave her everything- well, everything but the stuff he needed to do once he was the last. That part was actually kind of smart.

But telling her the cult members were homicidaly adversarial was tipping his hand. The narrative should have included her wondering about that to herself. Or possibly asking the ticket seller hippie if she knew anything about the man.

The plot point could have been better handled.

P.S. Am I the only one who thinks that Raphael should have turned out to be Hamilton? Like an "angel unawares" type thing where he's a sort of human(-sorta) incarnation of the angel?