Skylar Macknight

The woods

And who is this kid

The crux of the problem is that I just don’t care about the soul riders. I’m sorry. I’m tired of being a fifth wheel for them and I do not care about them. They are not even slightly interesting enough to warrant the player character not being the protagonist of their own game, and the writers are putting way too much reliance on my investment in these characters’ story to carry the game. Basically nothing has happened in this story that feels like the pc actually needed to be there to effect the outcome, because there are already 2-4 superpowered protagonists running around who already have a complete jock-nerd-prep-punk dynamic and magic skill set without you. No matter how you envision your character’s personality or abilities (and it literally is all headcanon because the protagonist, I cannot emphasize enough, doesn’t do anything) you will still be rendered superfluous by at least one of them.

In my personal, not at all humble opinion, they should have just never added those four characters (just say it’s five or ten years after the events of the singleplayer games and they’re all in college and have lives elsewhere and it’s time for the next generation of soul riders or something, that lets you keep the setting but gives you a clean slate for a new cast) and instead put more emphasis on the riding club/friend group you already help form organically through quests, and make that group the new soul riders or something? I could work with that. It gives the pc some agency and retains the girl power message SSE is trying so hard and so ineptly to push. Hell if you want to give the player agency, scrap the chosen one “all four stones lit up” thing and have them choose a circle to specialize in that has minor effects on how events play out, and so there’s actually a reason to have a supporting cast (and massive potential multiplayer mechanic opportunities). Throw some varied skill trees in there. They don’t have to be combat things, just anything that makes the player feel like they can control anything about who their character is.

i somehow fell through the floor in the galloper race and guys