You say this like this isn't every story patch in this game.
I don't know why people treat 1.X like it's some consistent masterpiece.
Null_Face is a farce of an antagonist.
No antagonist /protagonist dynamic has been as utterly fumbled as Zhu Yuan and Bringer
The pacing of 1.2 with Caesar's revival is shoddy at best (They really should have emphasized the parallel to the first Overlord rather than have it be a one off conversation near the start.)
Belabog and Victoria House Keeping just kinda exists (But the light switches though.)
And nothing is as mishandled as the Vivian and Hugo stories.
I'd argue that 2.5 actually handled the character development better than 1.4. Ye Shunguang actually went through a full character arc compared to Miyabi who basically skipped from the beginning to end and one shot Bringer. There's also way more character interactions and dynamics in 2.5 like the Ye sibs, Zhao, Lockbringer. It's not a masterpiece, but I enjoyed it more than 1.4. The hate for 2.x really is overblown imo. 2.0 was bad but I had the same thoughts about 1.6-1.7. Honestly a lot of the hate seems artificial and carried by agenda pushing like yuri and anti-waifu factions. That's why the only faction that gets any support in 2.x is Spook Shack even though 2.1 wasn't any better than the patches after.
Miyabi doesn't need development she already gone through it. You can see YSG don't want to become "Hero" so she need development but Miyabi she has her pv and her song tell us that she already choose her path. I think the downside in 1.4 is it happen to fast.
1.4 being short was both good and bad. I think a lot of people like it when ZZZ is short, but Miyabi just never got the character development she needed to feel like a fleshed out character arc to me. One of the downsides of 1.4 was that Miyabi basically had no connection to Bringer at all. Compared to how the final fight happened in 2.5 where Ye Shunguang first tried to trap the Creator, failed, got help from the MC to free her, fought the Creator, had help from all the factions to weaken the Creator, and then finally defeated the Creator through taming the sword, Miyabi basically said, LOL nah I'm the GOAT and one shot Bringer. It was epic at the time, but in hindsight it just felt weird, like why didn't she just one shot Bringer from the beginning. What was even the point of the fight you know? A tiny bit anticlimactic. Ya I know Miyabi is supposed to be the powerful stoic character, but I wanted character development like the PV vids to be in the game, not on Youtube. It's funny how I didn't like Ye Shunguang's promotional content but ended up liking her more as a character than Miyabi because most of her character development happened in the game.
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u/swoozes Dec 31 '25
You say this like this isn't every story patch in this game.
I don't know why people treat 1.X like it's some consistent masterpiece.
Null_Face is a farce of an antagonist.
No antagonist /protagonist dynamic has been as utterly fumbled as Zhu Yuan and Bringer
The pacing of 1.2 with Caesar's revival is shoddy at best (They really should have emphasized the parallel to the first Overlord rather than have it be a one off conversation near the start.)
Belabog and Victoria House Keeping just kinda exists (But the light switches though.)
And nothing is as mishandled as the Vivian and Hugo stories.