Shoutout to the Devs
After watching the roadmap I really want to give a shoutout to the devs, they blew my expectations out of the water (and they were already high to begin with)! Love all the new game modes we'll be seeing and I really appreciate how much they emphasized bringing out other characters strong points in game modes, and letting so many more characters have a place they can shine. Additionally the upcoming corruption versions of Hugo/Orlea are soo cool to see, i love that it's not just a buff, it will be cool to see the extra effects and things they can do but the corruption art goes HARD, even if it's just shown when they enter that form or something and it's not like a change to combat animations it's really cool to see, and kinda like a skin for them - but in a way that fits very thematically to the game as opposed to say "here's orlea's beach skin". Not that i'm opposed to skins being added either i'm totally happy to them added - but the corruption route for both visuals and tweaking the characters kit is 10/10 peak design (if it also included a corruption theming added to other combat animations that would be crazy but i know thats a lot to ask for each buff to come with new animations for everything lol, but i can dream).
Onto the characters teased: I love the design of Nine - it screams fire emblem to me, and her color scheme reminds me of Ike (well his sword specifically is black/orangish gold like she is) and he's my favorite fire emblem lord, so i'm 100% getting Nine no questions asked. I really love how the designs have varied, every design has knocked it out of the park.
Thirdly I judge a lot of games by how much they keep up with the small stuff, so i was particularly concerned with how Ark city would be updated/maintained post release, and you all are really taking time to improve/give it updates over time. it's a small part of the game but the care there I think looks very favorable on this dev team, and i have high hopes!
I currently can't support the game financially a ton (just monthly card/battlepass) but i really am hoping for the success of this game. it's crazy how far the game has already come in just a few months - and it looks like this next quarter is absolutely jampacked with updates! The only thing i'd like to see which would be really cool is moretalks with the devs kinda talking about design choices and how characters came to be, more of that look at what's going on behind the scenes stuff, this roadmap showed a decent amount of that kinda thing like with the concept/model diagrams art of nine/serenial - would love to regularly see that stuff. Oh and bosses with targetable body parts is such a cool idea!


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