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Still a little strange sometimes

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SereneDragon
@SereneDragon

Some spoilers ahead for the end of Engage

I actually like the Opening song and cutscene of Engage, it's very Tales series-y. But after now having finished the game, I cannot forgive that moment in it when it shows mom and Alear together and for a brief moment Alear gets red hair and a shit-eating evil grin. It kinda gives the game away on Alear being a Fell dragon but whatever, you get a glimpse of priorly evil Alear and I was actually a little interested in how Mum un-evilled us.

Then you play the game and it explains that Alear was never evil, he was an emotionless but also somehow sad boy abused by a shitty dad.

So why the fuck does past Alear have this nasty ass expression in the opening???

The game has a terrible habit of almost having plot points that could lead to some moral complexity and at every single turn it runs away from them. Alear was a fell dragon but he wasn't evil, we pwomise. Honour the fucking promise of your opening cutscene, game!!!


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in reply to @SereneDragon's post:

I really like the intro too and while I honestly don't have too many complaints towards engage as a story, I agree this is one of them. Past Alear being "bad" is basically only suggested to happen offscreen, if that. But for some reason they're shown in the intro. It's certainly A Choice. Having fake spoilers in intros and trailers is something I think more games are doing lately, so maybe it's something like that?