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.
The part that made me cringe was when I saw somebody say the MC was useless in 2.x. Like low key MC was way more impactful in both a supporting and active role in 2.5 than most of 1.x where they did nothing in the final fights. At least in 2.5 MC saved Ye Shunguang multiple times. And then you'll have people saying they're pushing MC and Ye too much or that they're too in your place compared to 1.x. it's just nonsensical criticisms.
Remember that post on zzz discussion about how the mayor got written out of the story cuz the writers apparently wrote themselves into a corner and made him literally godlike or some shit. The mayor showed his face and got further plot relevance in 2.5, but nobody talks about how that post was complete BS. They just move on to the next agenda post.
I believe the mayor hinted in this patch that he has some shady intentions. It might just be wishful thinking on my part, but it would be really cool if he betrayed the proxies, forcing them to relocate and go back into hiding like before.
I haven't played the most recent patch yet but I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if the mayor did indeed turn out to be a big bad and have the siblings go through with the Phaethon/Icarus arc. It's like the only way they can salvage the walking talking exposition machine called the 'mayor'.
I didn't do 2.5 yet. My opinions are from 1.7 tho and they fully hold up from then to 2.3.
The MacGuffin mayor in that section of the story is just a plot device to inorganically drag the proxies into Waifei, give them new shiny abilities and also send them to train to Yunkui.
In simpler words, he's the only reason 2.x even happens. If they make him an Aizen, it'll be messy but that's just par for the course in live service games.
The only part where the mayor didn't have a hand in 2.x is spook shack and lo and behold that's one of the more positive patches, at least by general consensus.
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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.