r/Shadowfight3 • u/Future_Army5957 • 9h ago
Discussion Hot Take | The Story isn't all that good Spoiler
I see alot of people praising the story mode but now that I finished it, its really just a 5/10 imo. Idk if its just not for me but sf2 story was simply amazing... until titan, then it became a bit "eehhh" but I'd still rank it 8.5/10. For sf3 it starts off good, infact its good all the way until chapter 7 and a bit more then dives down once we get to the planes. The planes have some serious story telling potential but Nekki doesnt write it well at all.
June's plane should have actually showed us what it would feel like as a prince of a kingdom but it just feels like we're a random soldier instead who just happens to be related to the emperor, Marcus plane should have had better story telling of a generals struggles (maybe even have someone die along the way), I cant complain much about Itu's plane since it was the only one that seemed like it was written well, cant find anything that needs improvement.
The biggest turn off was really how the story was just told majority in sentences between characters that will go like "Oh hey lets discuss this topic BUT WAIT! Theres someone hiding in the shadows, beat them and then we can keep talking!" then boom, some actual story at the end of the chapter.
The characters, where do I start. I dont feel close with any of them, hell, they can't even give us a name or nickname until kitsune came, why does this character ive just met show much more care and connection to me than my own friends that I'm trying to restore?? Mnemos says we go by many names... MF THOSE NAMES ARE "our friend" and "this guy", THAT ISNT MANY NAMES!!! You just gave us basic human acknowledgement and we were and STILL are a puppet to these "friends" of ours, they even care more about each other than proxy, June is always going on and on about Marcus, Marcus goes on about the legion and Itu goes on about June, like holy shit even ironclad is more of a friend than the main cast but noooo lets not give ironclad his own character bio and instead give it to gizmo who becomes irrelevant after chapter 3.
The epilogue is good, cinema even but the struggle to get there minuses some points (was stuck on bolo for 4 months). But yea, a good beginning gave it 2+, an uninteresting midway story gave it -2, a good closing off chapter gave it +3, bad progression system gave it -1, bad character bonding gave it -2 | Overall giving it 5/10
The void story already doesnt seem any better with these fuckass characters like Indigo and the NP girl so I have no hope there since STILL AS AN ANCIENT WE ARE A PUPPET WITHOUT RECOGNITION FOR SAVING EVERYTHING!!!! But Nekki writes the adventures so good bro, I'm so confused on why the adventures have 10x better story telling than the main stories, I've finished all of them and none of them have even bored me once, is it a different crew writing the adventures???
thanks for coming to the yap.
