#natter

Lobo was actually very important to the movie as a foil to Kara in Ruthye's arc. He is not on the same level as them as a protagonist, but he needs to be established as a character early enough to give his presence some weight.

Because the real meat of his presence in the movie is his conversation with Ruthye where she says Krem killed her family for no reason, "for sport", and then Lobo calls that a reason. And then talks about how he kills for money. He's outright enthusiastic about the potential of her becoming a killer herself while Kara doesn't want that for her.

For Kara, no reason, not even revenge, is enough for Ruthye to carry the weight of taking a life, but for Lobo, who views sport or money as good enough of one no matter how superficial, revenge is definitely enough.

I also feel the new bosses that are mainly HP sponges are just...not as memorable or interesting as the more puzzle-like ones that actually utilized other ability outfits too.

And it kind of just makes Infinity Nikki as a whole a lot less unique as a 3D open world gacha game. Good for you if you find this combat fun, but where it was largely quick and painless in the past, now it's just kind of tedious and feels like a bait and switch, or even a rug pull where the game is trying to become something I wouldn't have bothered picking up in the first place gameplay-wise

the entire convo about how the world is "fundamentally" broken basically cements Isgarren as the ultimate idealist who, despite seeing the same things, fought for an imperfect Tyria and still tries to do the greater good while trusting in Tyrians to do the same. Isgarren and Vloxx share hubris as their flaw, but they use the same power in completely opposite ways

puts into perspective WHY the Seers hoarded knowledge and protected the Ascension ritual, and why Sidony went to extremes to punish Isgarren (but leaving a loophole because Sidony had the intellectual foresight to identify that there was a chance Isgarren sharing with "lesser" races and forming friendships could be what lets Isgarren outlive all the other Seers)

the downfall of the Seers is less the protection of Ancora and the Ascension ritual and more how the rest of their society is also very elitist and isolationist

I have finished the story already after writing these down but I feel that the rest of it didn't change any of these thoughts.

I think I have never philosophically disagreed with a GW2 villain more than Vloxx. I don't care for his character, but I do see what they are doing with him. Kuda was excellent. I also enjoyed the trials.