Endfield's Character Writing is Garbage (so far)

Target time to end this hey get it she says it's time to end this because it's O Knight's end field I'm going to Ark Knights end myself hi everyone d32 steel here and Ark Knights Enfield it's good like like really good and it's not just genin impact again nothing wrong with genin by the way I'm not a hater anything not yet anyway we'll uh we'll get to that AR Knight's endfield is an upcoming supposedly gotcha game from the people who brought you arkite start field Enfield has you exploring the world of tals 2 which is either a mesmerizing experience with Lush Landscapes and purple chewing gum or it's pain incarnate because of these stupid collect all the things as they run away from you in a game that makes you want to jump off a cliff the game has you fighting a wide variety of enemies ranging from a guy yeah he's a just a guy to literally Magneton except in instead of evolving it with a Thunderstone you instead gave it a bong and told it to use fat rip which is coincidentally exactly what Griff line was doing when they created The Base building system or AIC a full-on technical optimizable experience that really makes you wonder why isn't Enfield being marketed as o knightes seiz the means of production I was very impressed with the scope of enfield's technical test and the game is good it looks beautiful it's satisfying it's Unique and different yeah I'm looking forward to the full release but there is one thing that stood out to me as the worst thing about Enfield by a long long shot which is unfortunately the characters in The Tech test we had access to nine characters the administrator Pera Chen wolfgard FAL Ember zi avena and Angelina all of whom are personality-wise at least a void a void of anything resembling Intrigue novelty or innovation now let me preface all of this by saying that yes I am being very cynical here and maybe I am reading into this a bit too heavily but it is no exaggeration to say that there are zero endfield characters that made me feel any kind of strong emotion other than disappointment and I've seen what hyperg did to vivana so let's start with probably the most egregious offender wolfgard contrary to what I just said wolfgard does in fact have a personality the problem is that is the equivalent of soaking used tissues in toilet water and then waterboarding yourself with it wolfgun says everything in a completely flat tone and shows no emotion whatsoever he's that dude with the big sword and he used to be a bad guy but now he's one of us and he has very useful Insider information importantly however about halfway through the story he just [ __ ] off never to be seen again but the greatest thing about all of this is that in the very next area you meet up with FAL who is also paper adjacent FAL also acts like having a personality is just as bad as Contracting an STD from a gas station restroom he contributes nothing to the story's progression and then you finish the zone and he's like these people have early onet oripathy I must treat them immediately and then you leave a friend of mine saw FAL for the first time and then promptly sent me this image which was somehow funnier to me than the entire arits Community the other two story characters Pera and Chen both have identifiable personalities and are actually likable to an extent but this is not to say that wolfgard and F are unlikable the issue is that there is nothing there for you to like or dislike in the first place it's as if the Enfield writers had a competition to write the character with the least memorable traits possible they aren't mysterious or abrasive there's nothing noteworthy or new in their backstory and worst of all it's not even at least funny the only reason I remember wolfgat and FAL so poignantly is that there is so little that is memorable about them it's kind of impressive I'm amazed at the complete lack of depth lack of originality lack of intrigue these characters have and I've read a sizable portion of friend to girlfriend it confuses me that Enfield is trying to tie this world into the greatest story of AR Knight yet none of AR Knight's fantastic writing found its way into Enfield now this is not to say that Arc Knight's writing is always good it has its ups and downs but while many Ark Knight's characters just feel like normal people who inevitably have their own stories to tell Enfield characters don't even feel like they belong to toos 2o it almost feels like I'm watching yet another shitty isekai with a stupid gimmick five star Casta zahi for example is a softly spoken and caring technologist who has spent some time solo traveling in the frontier she's incredibly intelligent and knowledgeable but of course she also exhibits a complete lack of Common Sense and social skills how does it even make sense that a character like zahi could travel for an entire year by herself in the dangerous and Wild Frontier and have no common sense I roll my eyes whenever I think about zi which is a shame because I really like her voice acting and also how her dress has jiggle physics when you spin her but it feels like they're trying way too hard to make zi into that oops you need to take care of me administrator and as payment I won't [ __ ] up your tax returns he but before my eyes regress back into my spinal cord let's move on to Five Star Defender Ember the type of character to he Chens let's [ __ ] go and reply with go where ember's whole big dummy who only knows how to fight person it just comes of as lame and a bit regressive kind of like it's trying too hard to swing wildly away from the cutesy Cheery anime ooo Wu now I don't mean to say that there's anything wrong with strong female characters that's just not the case I just find it really stupid that whoever wrote this was like hm this story isn't Croy enough we need something that makes her kind of cute oh I know her favorite way of telling the time is how long it takes for her to destroy a bunch of of sentient rocks five star guard ay wenner is a seasoned messenger who has braved the Perils of the frontier like no other however her reputation as a reliable companion and her 100% delivery rate doesn't get to her head as she is more than willing to help complete strangers in times of need a friendly and jovial fleeting CIS to most heavy Winer is nonetheless a Dependable asset to endfield Industries you know I kind of wonder where I've heard this before and while we're on the topic of Angelina and Angelina's implementation in Enfield struck me as a little bit odd because I feel like the only reason i' take a liking to Angelina in Enfield is because I already like Angelina in Ark Knights there is really nothing in her file that gives me any idea of who Angelina is and honestly if I didn't play Ark Knights there is really no reason at all from a textual standpoint to care about Angelina and finally the administrator who does the thing where people ask her questions and she's like I don't speak to a [ __ ] pan [ __ ] now I get that the MC is a self-insert character and she's intentionally mysterious but honestly instead of just I would rather they let her go full and spin a ster because even that would command more of my respect than 5 Seconds of literally nothing also the administrator is arguably the main character of The Story So why is her greatest contribution to the story's progression the fact that she can open doors seriously when when it comes to the endmin I don't even know why I exist is there a problem I have to solve is TS 2 having a malfunctioning door Uprising are there cute horse girls in my area that I can text for a quick ride none of this is explained save for this throwaway line that the administrator is only awoken in times of great crisis the only crisis that was presented to me throughout the entire story was a midlife crisis because I have no idea what the [ __ ] I'm doing here the characters of Enfield don't feel like the frontier Trailblazers of hos 2 instead they feel like bad AR Knights fanfiction and even then bad AR Knights fanfiction has original ideas it has things you never knew you needed and most of all there is love and care brought into it experiencing these characters really just makes me wonder is this the best of what Enfield has to offer is this the Pinnacle has Enfield peaked already because if so I hope they don't add any horses because it's just going to make me depressed now I really don't want to be just another hater but I'm really looking forward to infield I'm excited and I want to love this game like I do AR Knights but as a lore enjoyer I have to question if it's even worth reading the story when it comes out if it's even worth diving deeply into these characters because the showing that they had here was some of the most uninspired unoriginal and honestly safe writing that I've read in a long time not written to wow the reader or generate any controversy it's just middle of the road nothingness whose most memorable trait is is how unmemorable it is I'm really glad that the rest of Enfield blew me away the game is great and has a lot of potential and I want to reiterate that while I've been very negative in this video infield was really fun and I am still looking forward to it but if there was one thing I change it's that Angelina has the [ __ ] hide the pain Harold smile and I want to AR Knight's end [Music] myself what is he doing he's beginning to believe

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Published: Thu Jan 25 2024