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Like.... while most internet sources agree with that, those sources are also old and not updated (and also all written by older people, so automatically its biased and scewed to 1 specific perspective. only ONE source i found out of dozens even acknowledged the other meaning at all, despite both being very widely used in equal measure, all varying depending on context of course. And thats the crux of this - context).

Sure it might have meant just 'of course' for a long time, but language evolves - as it always does, and a lot of stuff in english has double or triple meanings that are very different from eachother (english is a weird language), and being on the internet for more then 5 seconds proves that most of the world population (both young AND old) use it to mean 'of fucking course' 90% of the time. And have been for the past 2 decades at minimum, regardless of what the more 'pleasant' and "correct" definition of it is listed to be in "official" sources (if you count the slop site of wikihow to be official or reliable in any regard, at least).

Do new quests in Wuwa feel like it’s just walking, exposition, and then cinematics. To clarify, I am not questioning the story, I am critiquing the gameplay.

Remember chapter 1 - we had the Court of Savantae and the time mechanism that we had to solve? Or those floor-is-lava like side missions? Or the banyan tree with the poison that needed to be neutralized? Those were soo much fun. I was actively doing something during the quests. And there were mini bosses or fights as well.

Now the fights are just, you’ll beat sigilum even if your health goes to zero (the game heals you). I’m your average player, sometimes I miss the dodge and get hit. I noticed the game makes it easy for you pass these quests. This is taking away the fun (atleast for me).

When I think about it, this reflects in the overworld exploration as well. Earlier, we had these in-world mini games to find and solve (which we still have) but it’s spoon fed to us? Travel here, boom solve the puzzle. Boom here’s the Soliskin. Boom, here’s the track challenge. Five mins you’re done. Exploring complete in a short span.

Like let me find some notes lying around with some info about the lore. Let me work for it. And not just give me all info after completing 100% of the area. Even finding the chests now is just a jump. 😭

I remember being sooo excited about the banyan tree, the whining aix area, even reinasita had that Fagaceae Peninsula area with that tacet discord that we had to fight after nullifying its buffs (it was a nice change of pace) or that town where there are tacet discords roaming during the night but normal people during the day. (On a side note do these things even have a significance to the story anymore? Like who is that lifer dude at Fagaceae Peninsula? How is it significant to Raguna? Or was it just an exploration thing for the sake of it?)

Or as someone else on YouTube pointed out walking and just discovering that the broken down car is actually a tacet discord in Hualong. That was crazy!! The whole idea that anything could be a tacet discord. Those signal ones, those were a nuisance when I had to do that one mission on blackshores. Or even just climbing atop a building in Guixu to find a note that give me some interesting information. That made it soooo satisfying. Atleast that’s what I think overworld exploration should be.

I don’t like comparing but remember those missions in Genshin where you could explore that Draginspine and find those red crystals which would upgrade the tree, which would in turn give us some rewards. Wasn’t that fun?! I think Wuwa had that at one point - pioneer association which gave us cool utility upgrades. It made the whole experience more tangible.

I don’t hate the bike, ok. But like it just took away from this experience. It just made things too easy to access? And the flight could really have been avoided. I searched sooo many roya settlements and most of them had nothing - they were just scenery with sporadic information (about the lore, the areas culture, Easter egg). And it’s easily missed if not paying attention- which again why would I be paying attention because everything is either being spoon fed OR just some unnecessary exposition - like some project is due and the student is just rambling on about it (Multiple times).

If I had to honestly explain, why even make an overworld at all if it’s going to be not be an integral part of your gameplay. And like spoon feeding is not it.

I am not saying that there is no effort put into the design. But I can say without doubt that it’s really beautiful, and a crazy load of effort must have gone into it from conception to execution. But there are games which don’t focus on exploration but other aspects. Do that and save me space on my device.

I think Kuro games has regularly released patches, great new events and fun and innovative mini leisure games, loads of new characters, areas etc releasing almost every patch. Man, they spoil us. And it takes effort obviously. But like sometimes it’s better to give 100% to 5 things rather than 50% to 10.

I know it sounds like I’m just cribbing/ being harsh. but think about it, I can only talk to so many NPCs before it gets boring because it leads nowhere. The game is not even rewarding me for talking to people (I know there used to be those stars we got if you spoke to some npcs - does that still happen?). It’s not that I am not trying to explore - I found that St. Nikolas guy in the Roya Frostlands and it was such a happy Easter egg? I even made a post about it!! Or that one student and a Roya person discussing science and spirituality (that was a cool conversation).

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I finally drew something related to tadc. I've been hyperfixated on it for the past two months, but I've been too busy to do anything

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