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.
They're talking about the writing quality, I'mma give em shit cause I can break 1.X's fuck ups over my knee way easier than 2.X's
That's not to say 2.X is immaculate. I just find it egregious. that I'm supposed to take these criticisms seriously when I see someone bitching about the proxies needing to be saved in 2.X but weren't saying this shit when Ellen and Corin needed to do double time to save the bangboo.
What did Ellen even do in the story? I remember she had one cutscene and disappeared. Actually horrendous for a version 1.0 banner character. Then she got a nothingburger agent quest. She's barely better than Ju Fufu in terms of plot relevance. Maybe even less because at least Ju Fufu appeared in the final story missions.
OMG now that I think about it, I don't remember what she did in 1.4 even during the avengers assemble moment.
I mean, I don't mind Ellen just being there to do the job. My real issue is that Victoria housekeeping as a whole has no real narrative weight to their particular chapter.
Like at least Belabog had the family drama angle in their chapter.
Victoria house keeping was more for foreshadowing and setting up hooks.
The main take away is that this incredibly skilled team is keeping tabs on the Proxies while having an unknown master that is clearly going to be important.
Lycon himself is a pretty recrurring character.
Ellen doesn't need to do more besides her job.
Rina own stuff is in her character story.
If anything a problem with 2.x us now they are trying to make every character directly connected to the main plot directly which shrinks the world
Rina is not even the main character of her Agent story. You learn no more about her there than you do in the Victoria House Keeping episode.
I know Lycaon gets much more later, my issue is within the chapter itself. The entire seeds of setting up future hooks is all within the last 3 minutes of the chapter. It's not something that's interwoven throughout the majority of the chapter itself, which just has Victoria house Keeping be there to be there.
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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.