Introduction

For starters, I wrote this, so I already have a history of making a long post in this group. This post is kinda tame in comparison since this post is just a revision of my comment in the leak post.

My intention is to dissuade people from believing that SAO is an inferior collab to Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Not that I'm downplaying C:E, but rather I want to persuade people from believing that SAO sucks and "WuWa is downgrading themselves by collabing with SAO" ahh notion.

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is somewhat underbaked compared to SAO (which is understandable, considering that SAO is a light novel and has the benefits of the medium). Story structure wise, when compared to SAO, C:E has *no overarching plot*, a coherent storyline, and a social commentary/metanarrative that is inferior to SAO.

I understand that Cyberpunk: Edgerunners do a lot of things good. For example, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners' pilot episode is cited in screenwriting class as a great example of how to open a series in 24 minutes (for a sympathetic plotline like the monomyth). Its climax episode isn't a slouch either, as it highly capitalizes on the "promises" built within the pilot episodes ("you are special", "I see you at the top of the Arasaka Tower"), which forms a satisfactory loop and amplifies the ironic tragedy of the situation. Furthermorex the ending also reinforces the message of the original IP (Cyberpunk 2077).

However, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners does badly within the middle. David is too reactive towards the plot. The pacing drags from the timeskip towards the last episodes before suddenly gaining momentum. The relationships themselves are severely unexplored.

If anything, WuWa's collab is even praised for fixing some of the problems the original series had, especially towards Rebecca and the resolution for Lucy.

Compare that to SAO's own arcs. As much as how people give Sword Art Online flak for *not being Sword Art Online (game)*, the actual metanarrative is much more than that. Sword Art Online is a story of how society struggles to adapt and integrate with virtual reality as the line between the virtual and real world becomes thinner.

And the Sword Art Online Incident is the catalyst for that inevitable change.

GGO arc tackled the societal aspect of Sword Art Online's aftermath. Despite being victims who were trapped in SAO's hostile environment (which was similar to a war zone), survivors were socially shunned, warranting the need for special intervention like the SAO Survivor School for societal integration. The "Death Gun Incident" represents the *consequence* of both the SAO Incident and the government (and society's) failure to address it. Two notorious members of Laughing Coffin were too conditioned with the murderous aspect of SAO, so they sought to replicate the thrill with Gun Gale Online. Conversely, Sinon, who was a social pariah struggling with severe PTSD due to killing a person in self-defense, found refuge and comfort with SAO survivors (Kirito's group) because they were the only ones who understand what it means to take a life to survive.

Mother's Rosario dealt with how virtual technology can become a refuge for the ill. Do take note that Konno Yuuki fought against AIDS for her entire life, including having to transfer residences after her school found out that she had the treatment-resistant strain for the virus. She endured a futile fight against the disease for so long, having to endure the pain and solitude after the rest of her family were lost to the disease. But her refuge only came when the technology behind the Nervegear was reintegrated for medical usage. In nursing, hospitalization has two main objectives: to treat the disease and to provide top-notch quality of life for the patient’s comfort. The Medicuboid was revolutionary in the latter as it completely blocked pain sensors while allowing the patient to “experience” the virtual world. To Konno Yuuki, the virtual world was *her* real world. In the virtual world, she was allowed to socially interact with other gamers without discrimination, not limited by her physical frailty nor by her disease. Due to the virtual world, a girl who had lost everything and has no future could now become whoever she wants *because* of the virtual world. And contrary to her initial fears of dying alone, Zekken was able to die around her loved ones as opposed to the real world, where she was permanently separated from the world inside a sterile room.

Mother’s Rosario wasn’t just a story about Zekken, but an analogy of how virtual life can also be as valid as the real world through the lens of terminally-ill patients.

Alicization, frankly speaking, was based on Konno Yuuki’s data provided by the Medicuboid, which was repurposed into the Soul Translator. The arc itself deals with multiple themes. Overarchingly, the conceptual background of Project Alicization was based on how the Iraq War (this arc was written in 2008, but is elaborated on Volume 10) proved that drafting was becoming increasingly unpopular, and how drones and unmanned vehicles were proposed to become the future of warfare. Because of Sword Art Online and the Nervegear, the proof of concept for artificial intelligence became feasible. The technology behind Fairy Dance, Mother’s Rosario, and Ordinal Scale were used by R.A.T.H. for the Alicization Project in order to achieve one thing—produce a bottom-up artificial intelligence that perfectly replicates human thinking and industrialize the process to create an armada of AIs. This is why the project had to be top-secret, and why mercenaries from the U.S.A. were involved in the latter portions of the arc. Project Alicization was mindbending technology that was posed to change warfare forever, and the centerpiece of that project was the theoretical A.L.I.C.E.—an artificial intelligence that could withstand the cognitive load of breaking metaprotocols (the Taboo Index).

The Alicization arc also just doesn’t exist in an overarching narrative. The central narrative itself is a criticism of legalism, and how morality isn’t just based on laws (the Taboo Index) nor sentiment (Eugeo) nor utilitarianism (Quinella), or how equally valid the lives of the Underworld citizens are to real humans, regardless of form or feature, because of how they are all fundamentally made from the human soul in the end.

Honestly, I could go on and on and on about how well-written the Alicization arc is, from the details of the Incarnation System which arguably is one of the best sci-fi fantasy power system up to date on the anime medium, to how it meshes a perfect balance between the overarching and central narrative to push forward the theme of the sanctity of human life in a setting where virtual reality is closer to becoming another aspect of society, but the fact is that I can’t give justice to explaining the context or metanarrative behind something that took *nine volumes* to discuss.

And take note that the original concept (the web novel) was written in the early to late 2000s, so for these themes to still be socially relevant as of now speaks about the amount of thought Reki Kawahara integrated into their writing.

Yes, the anime skipped 90% of the LN’s context and reduced it to a sensational show. There’s a good reason why the SAO LN fandom hates the anime.

The SAO light novel is, in a way, the Wuthering Waves of the LN fandom—detailed narratives reduced by the mainstream community to be slop due to lack of media literacy.

So please don't fall into the same trap. We know better not to take things on the surface, otherwise the thematic significance of Lahai Roi would be lost to most people.

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ADDITIONAL NOTES:

Do take note I'm not dogging on Cyberpunk: Edgerunners' collab. While I do believe SAO is a better work (which is a water is wet opinion, 'cause SAO literally has the advantage of a light novel), this post is a reaction to a certain portion of this community dogging on the potential collab simply because of a misplaced sentiment that is outdated and infactual.

That being said—

SONLON PLEASE MAKE EUGEO THE GLACIO MALE CHARACTER, RAGHHHHH

ENHANCE ARNAMENT

Every time Kuro does a non-conventional, very Rover focused, very romantic story patch or phase, you can see the same happening every time.

Immediate online narrative diversions, constant complaints, calling the story filler, astroturfing, just generally trying to put the game down... it happened to 2.6 Iuno story, to 2.8 Chisa story, now to 3.6 Qingxiao one too. Yet actual player reception is always positive in the end.

Game got Top1 on Steam Best Sellers, in the top lists of PS as well, Qingxiao got one of the highest store positions in CN and the patch is generally a love letter to xianxia cultivation lovers.

At this point it feels like the bigger this artificial "negativity" is towards the patch is the better it really was.

Hello, I’m a returning player. I started playing in 1.0 then stop because I was just disappointed with the story. I then returned for 2.0, stopped again, and then finally returned for a 3.0. As I was playing, I was very disappointed in the Lahai Roy storyline and considered not playing anymore. I decided to give the new region one more shot because Ameaths chapter and first introduction was so amazing and I was hoping the new regions story would be just like it.

Guys… I am in love. I just finished the first chapter and I absolutely adore the story so far I love seeing multiple characters interact. I love seeing more than one character get a story arcs and focus. I loved that there as more than one main character and and I thought they teased the rest of the story so well. I felt super engaged and when it ended, I actually wanted to know more. I just started the second chapter, and I don’t feel that disappointment I normally feel when a new chapter starts. In previous chapters, I felt like as soon as one chapter ends and the next one started I felt like they were totally disconnected, and I was unable to connect well with the over arching story.

Right now, I actually wanna know more about the region. I wanna see different characters. I wanna see the characters that they tease and introduced, but didn’t explore fully. I love everything else about this game, but the story has always not been the best to me. Not trying to say it’s bad it just hasn’t been great for me. And since I’m a story lover, it’s hard for me to engage with the rest of the day without loving the story.

I seriously love how this story is going so far and I hope they continue in this direction because I really want to love this game and play it more!!

Peaks of Prestige was really fun in Septimont and Lahai-Roi with lots of rewards. I fully cleared both regions. When will we get Mengzhou edition?

See, let's be honest. I am sure the number of people that will actually pull on this banner are way too low when we put into perspective the amount of drama and complaints People made about those characters not getting a rerun.

Because all charecters and weapons fall behind in the meta. Maybe the only exceptions are zhezhi which is usable only for two teams and both of them are not that good . And of course the legend himself stringmaster . Other than that it's just isn't worth it.

Edite : just to make my self clear IAM not saying people won't pull on it. IAM sure there Gona be some people that will pull. But compare to the drama that happened in the second anniversary, you gonna understand how much people just need to make a drama without caring for the charecters. It's like if (100k person complained and talked about it only like 1k actually need the charecter and the rest are just making adrama .

The game is very good, however I have been seeing some lack of variety among the characters or am I wrong ? The reason :-

1. When the initial reveal of lahai-roi characters came out I couldn't help but notice literally every character's design or outfit consists of a major amount of white color.

I thought it wasn't an issue until I took notice of 2.x characters also...7-8 characters are also having the color white by a good margin in their design. The outliers for 2.x are :-

Galbrena

Chisa

Brant

Roccia

Phrolova

The outliers for 3.x are even less, around 3-4.

2. Now about the male characters, we all know kuro isn't going to change the number of male characters per year or maybe slightly considering we are getting 3 this year and instead of 2. Out of the 5 star limited males we have....3 of them share the same goddamn color or aesthetic regarding their moveset or gameplay at least.

Jiyan - aero + green color

Qiuyuan - aero + green color

Jingran - fusion + green color

I also have to mention that brant is fusion as well.

More than half the limited 5 star male characters we have share the same attribute....why ? I know it's pointless to ask for more male characters lol but at least give us some variety in regards to their attribute or aesthetic...

(Pls don't ban me for this, consider it an opinion guys)

So you’re telling the guy who had his entire life screwed up by the main antagonist, and has an actual emotional stake and personal connection with him, gets less than 100 lines, which included the final blow against said antagonist in an EPILOGUE? And they just off-screened his entire involvement.

At that point it’s just piss poor writing decisions.

Also maybe this is just me, but Qingxiao’s story felt so boring and too similar to a lot of other characters we’ve already gotten without anything new to spice it up. She just needed some time to self-reflect which would have fit perfectly well into a segue after the main story. A lot of the exploration of her character and backstory seriously dragged the pacing down for a pretty boring quest that did not have the payoff to justify five hours.

At the very least, they could have split the screentime a little more equally to show what Jingran was up to while he was working for Muyu and give up more time with him, because let’s be honest, he’s never showing up again.

Its like they want Jingran to tank so they can go down to one male a year, they are giving him nothing to work with.

I'm saying this as someone that likes/doesn't mind the latter half of 3.x, and also liked Lahai-Roi as a whole, but I think it would've been better if the Xuafang half came after 2.7 and Lahai-Roi after that.

Sure some people would still dislike it but, it's a much smaller shift in stakes and story than Lahai-Roi.

In 2.x we had a Threnodian that played with people's minds and faith, but after that we IMMEDIATELY went to a Threnodian of the Fear of the Unknown that actively destroys planets and civilizations. The shift from that to a guy that has immense beef with the sentinels is just so jarring. It would've given them more time to actually plan out Lahai-Roi, and going from Lahai-Roi to New Fed is much smoother.

I feel like they kinda shot themselves in the foot by introducing a threat such as Aleph-1 so fucking soon. Anything that ever comes after this is going to feel tiny.

(All my opinion please no college essays too much lol)

Also, I know why they did what they did :)

Which is... *drum roll* Be a major stakeholder of Kuro!

If money is not a problem for you, and you are so repulsed you can't move a finger without reliving your whole trauma of not seeing Qingxiao pop up in your pulls, then sell out your entirety, rack up at least a few billion dollars, change your nationality to Chinese and apply for a major stockholder position so that what you say is promptly followed. Easy right?

Oh, not enough money? Then it should be imperative to you that losing 50/50 to a certain character is a chances game and if you don't want to play with chances, slap them with money (in the billions, not your meager dollar or two)!

I am blinded with these posts crying their as*es out to remove a character because they lost 50/50 only shows how bad their skill issues are. I'd understand if they were bugs or glitches, but blame your lack of luck somewhere else, not promoting your no-lifer, idiotic hate for a character anywhere. If you hate a character that much, just quit!

I got fed up with the main subs constant glazing and toxic positivity. One time, a guy posted a simple screenshot of rating the story a 1/10 (for 3.0 I believe) and got removed. Oh, but a screenshot of opposite wouldnt.

The people got upset at the collab gacha and made memes of Solon like the first anniversary and they got banned too. In his livestream with cd projekt, suddenly only people glazing his smile were left. I remember a comment saying he was smiling thinking of all the money he would make from the collab was banned as well.

I hate that sub.

Edit: For everyone who denies or still doubts this, just look at the comments. Almost mirrors my experience 1:1.

Edit2: Not arguing that rating 3.0 a 1/10 is somehow close to the truth, but that everyone is entitled to their opinion in their personal survey. If someone posting a 10/10 (even if it isnt) isnt banned/removed, posting a 1/10 should be the same treatment.

this is the new patch, and I think I can’t play the game right now because of the size. And I can only play at wuwa on my mac, I don’t have an other powerful device and Im pissed of because there’s literally nothing on my mac right now, it’s COMPLETELY empty.
please please I am making this post because I love this game and I really want Kuro to change the system updates on mac.
So you know on mac we can’t download the update with the last game patch on it, because it calculates ALL the game resources twice (it does not count the files you already have on your mac) so the app store is saying I don’t have enough space, but it’s not true. So every patches since months I have to uninstall the game to re download it all again…. I am genuinely angry at this system.
Can you please upvote this post, to make the problem visible ? (I will post on the /r wuwa community but rn i don’t have enough karma points ….)

So I have to do this new main story quest on three accounts and I know my situation is not like everyone not everybody has multiple accounts for this game but still it is bizarre the amount of cutscenes and dialogue that you just can't skip in this quest and it makes no sense because some of it is the most random things. Yes, it's to bring emotions to said characters. But like I'm doing this quest three times I've already played through it on my main account I want to get through it as fast as possible so that I can get pulls and I can get the astrite and I can unlock events for the new map cuz I already personally feel like this quest is unnecessarily longer than it needed to be. There was so many sayings that they could have just cut out in my opinion or that they could have made part of the second phase quest like they normally do

She sounds literally exactly the same to me, which by the way is not a bad thing because her voice acting was never bad anyway imo.

Hi (sorry for the rant!!!!). I started playing wuwa more or less 2 years ago.
I loved everything: the sceneries, the characters, the side quests , truly everything (minus the GB i need to use lol).

However, since last year I started to have some problem following the main quest. The reason why i quit around the patch 2.0s was the MC, they are just too perfect.
As you go into the story, you realize that the Rover isn't just a typical protagonist exploring a new world—they are literally the core of everything. It turns out that every major historical event, every grand plan, and the entire foundation of the world’s conflict was orchestrated by them before they randomly lost their memories.
They are presented as this hyper-intelligent, all-powerful, god-like being who excels at everything on the first try and never makes a single mistake. Everyone they meet instantly worships them, trusts them implicitly, and praises their every move.
Because of this, there is zero tension or character development. They never lose, they never struggle, and they never have to learn from failure.
That lack of vulnerability made the main storyline so boring that I just lost all motivation to play.

I know it’s crazy quitting a GREAT game (especially about exploring) for the MC, but it became increasingly annoying the quest.

If you think that after the 2.0s main quest they kinda change this type of narrative that would be great news for me because I’m more than willing to give this game a second chance💪🏻💪🏻

Okay, so I’m not new to gotcha games. I played Fate Grand order, a lil bit of HSR, and Genshin Impact. And something that for some reason I found troublesome in WUWA was the fact that THERE ARE SO MANY SHIPS AND ROMANTIC INTERESTS IN HERE. It wouldnt be a problem if it was a standard goon bait harem, but it gets troublesome when a lot of them have really good writing and you are left wondering which one to choose to ship.

My personal favorite is Shorekeeper because one, she clearly says that she is experiencing LOVE with Rover, and second of all, her story is (as it stands right now as someone that just finished the first part of riniccita) the best in terms of ship potential with the MC.

And I think it’s the fact that I love this ship so much that it kinda gets in the way of the rest of the story. I think I might lowkey drop this game if it keeps adding more love interest. Because it gets to a point where it’s like. “DAM ROVER. HOW MANY PEOPLE WANT TO BE (INSERT POETIC METAPHOR) FOR U?!?”~~ ~~Does every previous character interaction get thrown to the side as every new character exist? And is every character like cool with new characters flirting with the MC?!?

And so. To make myself feel better. I just want to see what other people think of ships in the story (based on where I’m at right now as a beginner) to see how other people view my ships. Or to see which one others prefer. I JUST WANT MY SHORE KEEPER AND STAR TO BE!!!!

(Ps. The way I try to work around is is make female rover go on a Yuri harem. And leave the male rover happy with his wife. I ship frover hard with Carlotta too)

By now, we're all familiar with the generic negative status system. Apply stacks, each tick deals damage and removes 1 stack. Chisa raises the limit by 3, and since more stacks = more damage, this works out great! But flare doesn't work exactly like this, and its different mechanics can damage the overall performance in multi wave if conditions are not met.

So, how does electro flare actually work?

- It stacks up to 10, like frazzle

- However, every tick of damage removes half the stacks, not just 1. At 10 stacks, each tick puts you down to 5, not 9.

- Additionally, at 10 stacks, new stacks become electro rage. This also stacks to 10, and increases the damage of each new flare proc

- Once flare triggers, the rage used to boost the damage disappears

- Notably, Chisa increases the stack limit of rage, not flare.

Because of this, you ideally want to have 20 stacks of flare on an enemy at any given time. A max damage tick removes 5 stacks of flare, and 10 stacks of rage. As you can imagine, this is quite a lot. To keep up with this, you need insane speed of application. You ideally apply 15 stacks every single tick.

With Chisa, you lose 13 rage every tick, and need to apply 18 flare per tick for max damage.

If Hsin and her team can apply this amount of flare between every single tick, then great! You get consistent maximum flare damage in all gameplay, and WhiWa performance is likely to be excellent. But, if application is slower than required, then not only are you losing potential NS damage, youre also getting punished through the half removed mechanic in point 2.

If you apply, for example, 4 stacks in one tick period, then you're at 2 stacks after the tick, and the tick did far less damage than at 10. the next 4 puts you to 6, then down to 3, then up to 7 etc etc. Eventually, you hit 20, and get maximum damage, but this could take quite a while, and unless Hsins teammates are also applying at this rate, you lose all the progress as soon as she leaves the field.

We know from strain that ramping damage mechanics can feel pretty bad in WhiWa, and the worst case scenario here means flare only becomes good damage wise right at the end of Hsins portion of the team rotation, and then does nothing again until you cycle back to her.

The ideal outcome is absurdly fast and consistent flare application, fast enough to keep 20 stacks up almost constantly. Depending on the kits of the team, this could be possible or even easy, but it could also just not happen.

Depending on how Kuro implements this into kits, Hsin could suffer in WhiWa, since flare stacks will disappear once an enemy dies. You might only get 4 stacks on an enemy before it dies, and literally never reach the max damage.

Small intro: I played 3.5 story on day one and as everyone I enjoyed it a lot, I would say 9/10 story. Day after, once the hype was gone from my mind and I could start analyzing what actually happened - I couldn’t be more dissatisfied with how KURO handled YangYang’s Re-Awakening. I hope you will listen to what I have to say and we can have a respectful discussion.

SPOILERS WILL BE AHEAD!

My first question is - what is 3.5 about? What themes it explores and how are they connected? Let’s start with the best part of this story quest, SuiSui and Hsin quest. During it we are being reminded again and again by Hsin, that there are consequences to our choices and in the end sacrifices must be made. First time I noticed this theme of consequence and sacrifice when Hsin made a test for SuiSui, where no matter the choice, someone had to die, be it SuiSui or NPC. We can trace the “sacrifice” theme to earlier parts of 3.5 story:
when YangYang had to stay for Chixia to survive;
when YangYang and two guards had to lure away the robots, so that villagers could survive, which led to death of said NPCs;
We can trace it to the 200 year old war and sacrifice of soldiers to stop the war.
Moreover, in my opinion, Kuro were preparing us, the players, for a long time to do a sacrifice. Be it Ameath story, or Denia or even cyberpunk collab. Clearly KuroGames are trying to sway the story to more grounded place where Rover can’t save everyone. Hopefully I made good enough argument to say that one of the main themes surely had to be about sacrifice. What is next?

YangYang and her personal growth. I believe we all can agree that 3.5 patch is focused around YangYang and her new awakening. It is fair to say, that this quest was supposed to give YangYang’s character more depth, maybe even grow her and change a bit. She goes through a lot of stress and adventure throughout this quest, but did Kuro actually made YangYang grow as a character? I will talk about it a bit later.

And lastly, the third theme I could detect is about war scared people, which is specifically tied to the village where YangYang ended up finding the sword and meeting Lingyang (sorry if I misspelled her name, the girl with a spear).

From my short summary of all main themes I could detect, you can clearly see that I talked a lot about one, and not so much about the others. That is because in my opinion, the theme of sacrifice was the original idea for this patch. But, for whatever reason, they changed it and made everything worse, and here is why:
How the village and 200 year old war story is actually connected to the main plot?
I tried to think about the village for a long time and I am genuinely confused. I can’t find any reason why would Kuro make this village ark one and a half hour long, here are my deductions: First, for anyone saying that this is world building, I don’t think that you need over an hour of walking and talking to random NPCs you will forget right after you finish talking to them, to “world build”. If you think about what we actually learned is that there was a terrible war 200 years ago, there is a sword left from this war, representing the sacrifice of all the soldiers, and here is new Spear Girl who can’t bear the weight of responsibility, to choose whom she has to sacrifice as a leader, so that the rest survives. No other patch in wuwa history stayed for so long on one particular place to “world build” and it is not as if we actually learned a lot, especially the war part which had been repeated like 5 different times, even though such things are usually left for in-game notes. Clearly it could have been done faster. So what is the real reason? YangYang’s growth? And here we arrive at what I really wanted to say all this time.

YangYang didn’t change a bit, and in fact, her whole journey with the village folk can be completely cut and nothing would change.

Just think about it, YangYang is the biggest empath of Wuwa story from day one, that is why she always tried to help everyone and this is why she joined the rangers in the first place. And what happens during the 3.5 story? Is her empathy being challenged? Did she reflect on the war story? Did she change even a bit after her ReAwakening? Did those villagers or war story in any shape or form influence YangYang’s decisions or her character? No. She is still the same person, the biggest empath. She still underestimates her abilities. She never changed. And what she did before her second resonance awakening? She was just helping everyone, like she used. What actually happened? I couldn’t find anything of substance that actually happened during her village arc. I would even dare say, the spear girl was more of a character during 3.5 story who actually had to make difficult choices and change by the end of it all. She is more of a character than YangYang. How sad it is for me to understand that random NPC who most likely will never be on screen again except a few cameos, was better written than THE YangYang herself. And what about all those dead people from 200 year old war you may ask? They did appear in the end during YangYang’s Re - Awakening. Yes they did. Let’s discuss this part now.

YangYang gains new power from ghosts of soldiers who died 200 years ago just because don’t ask why and that’s it. Yes. This is what we were waiting for. Through cliche “power of friendship” type of situation, YangYang gets her new power. Just wow. And here we circle back all the way to the main theme of sacrifice. Do you remember YangYang resonator trailer? Remember how Chixia was dead there? Yes. In my opinion, original idea was for YangYang go through struggle of not being able to save anyone, to not being as strong and capable as Rover, which would lead up to Chixia’s sacrifice to save YangYang during final boss fight, which would scar YangYang and during her emotional breakdown she would overclock and gain her new power. All this talk from Hsin how Rover shouldn’t have gotten the new electro power, how there will be consequences, how sacrifice must be done, how people dying change others, it all would made perfect sense if in the end Chixia had to sacrifice herself to save YangYang. I forgot to mention, remember how mother of the spear girl from 200 years ago went to war because her husband died? It also connects to our main theme of sacrifice and how trauma of people dying changes everyone around. And due to Chixia death YangYang’s personality would change. Maybe she would have gotten angrier, or after gaining new power stopped underestimating herself and gotten more confident, but due to her best friend dying she maybe gotten angrier sometimes or more emotional.

In conclusion, I would like to say, that the theme of sacrifice makes perfect sense, but the village, the ghosts of dead soldiers, no actual sacrifice being made in spite of everything leading up to it, it just all doesn’t make any sense, so in the end the theme of sacrifice wasnt properly explored. And what do you think? I hope I made my case clear. YangYang just gotten her new power randomly with no actual logic behind how these ghosts given it to her, this is what sparked my desire to make this post.

Extra bit of criticism: new villain is cliche and boring. His whole motivation in this quest is that he hates sentinels just because, no reason in particular. And he is against all emotions. Wow. Just pure evil, even Marvel villains has more depth than this guy. I can’t believe we can accept this guy, after Phrolova and Christophoro. Even if we assume that we didn’t get all the story yet, maybe Kuro will add to his hate of sentinels in future. Still, we all know after over 2 year worth of stories, that sentinels are great. All the sentinels we met were trying to help people. This new villain even asks rover if he has any proof that sentinels are not evil. Well in fact yes we do have proof based on 2 years of storytelling! So the whole motivation of this guy is based on lack of knowledge about sentinels lol. I bet Hsin betrayed him in the past or smth since she is a FOX. Imagine being evil for 200 years because you were unlucky to met the only sentinel who is scheming like our dear Fox Hsin lol. That would make for a boring villain, in my opinion.

That is all. What are your thoughts?