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[Warning: Major Spoiler] Let's Talk About That Branching Path


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I'm sure many of you already know what happens in this just due to the discord chat constantly talking about it, but I'm going to put it in a spoiler anyways. If your wondering eyes caught your curiosity before playing, please click away from here and play the game.

 

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Gunna be honest, I battled Taka when I first played through e16, and then sided with both Tania and Amy in this episode. I think I just like making people feel good so I agree with them. I just hope I don't get a bad ending from all this...

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  On 12/4/2017 at 6:28 AM, Mogget said:

The first being that Taka is easily the weakest link in Team Meteor, so I'd rather have someone like him inside the organization than outside

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Good point. I'd rather be somebody like him acting as a good infiltrator than have someone like Titania fight Team Meteor anyway. We can get good info out of him if we keep secret working together with him. On the other hand, Titania is too rash to really achieve anything other than lowering their numbers, which only helps in the short term. What good is the truth if a key member of the terrorist group is gone and can't help you out anymore? 

 

Idk, just my two cents. It's pretty clear that the path of truth is the correct one here since you get a lot of info about the desert, which is a real shame. In a situation like this, you gotta think smart and not just throw away someone important to the wolves. Especially when they made it clear they're not against helping you when they know (think?) their bosses aren't aware of it. 

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E17 makes it abundantly clear there's a right and a wrong choice. That's black and white, regardless of whether you wish to hear it or not.

 

 

Being lost in a desert alone is not bad per se. It's just indicative that you've already messed up.

Now go to the SPICE to drink your sorrows down, maybe improve another forgotten part of this forsaken city and perhaps call Fern, see how he's doing.

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If it didn't take me so long to get through this stuff, I would have stopped reading once I saw the branch condition.  As it stands, I would probably only have a slightly faster trudge than my first playthrough, so thank you for putting this together Commander!

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There are a couple of questions I have for the ones who playes the pace i did not, if someone can take some time to answer me, thanks ^^

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  On 12/4/2017 at 7:06 AM, Azeria said:

E17. Honestly I was quite fine with the episode at first.

Then I played the Reshiram path.

 

The issue I take with the episode is not the ideal vs true path, no it's the fact that pretty much all of the actually fun gameplay and content of e17 is lost if the player chooses to side with a character who's been nothing but helpful to them.

 

There's little to no content to differ the Zekrom path uniquely, there's absolutely 0 reason to side with Taka period here. You say thing's are not that 'black and white' but as it stands E17's content actually is that black and white.

 

You either pick Taka in the WTC and get absolutely nothing, or side with Titania, go against a friendly NPC who's in need of help, and get frankly a much better episode period.

 

I can understand that one split gets a bit more content for being the right choice, but the amount of differences is actually outright jarring and frankly extremely disappointing.

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This. Even tough when it comes to the amount of content I believe the tables will turn around next episode (the other path content was axed and moved to the E18?), I'm dissatisfied with this whole branching story and the reasoning behind it seems completely made up and out of the blue. It is literally never even slightly hinted or shown that Titania's and Taka's characters and their stories are connected in any way. If it was on me, I'd change the dialogues during WTC part, to maybe show Titania's hesitation about the reasons behind Taka? Or some compassion and sympathy from anyone towards Taka? Or just make the diary part being decisive here, then the whole reasoning brought to us in this post would actually make more sense - it was Titania that was afraid of revealing the truth, if the player chooses to reveal it, this could work as an eye-opener for Titania, that the truth is better choice than living in a lie? After all, why would Taka want to sacrifice himself (in fact only) for Titania?

 

Not to mention the more we interact with Amaria, the more I understand why everyone wants to escape from her. It's just Titania's resillence and inner strenght that prevented her from doing it long ago, but it only entangled her and twisted her within Amaria's tormented soul, which is completely hopeless. Well, if Zerkrom's path ends up with Amaria realising she's torturing Titania, that only she can overcome her problems and eventually she lets Titania go, then it would be the good ending. I don't know how much of this story is based on real events and if this is even possible.

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Yeah I'll admit, I was wrong about that story choice.  Not battling Taka is clearly the "correct" timeline for the secret ending.  You can understand how I'd make that mistake, since every other "correct" choice requires taking the harder path.

 

Which one I think is better, however, well...

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