Instead, we get a big cliffhanger and an upright middle finger.
#Versus the deathscapes code
The payoffs of various plots felt like slaps on the face, and I can tell from other people’s reactions here that most of them went through the same.ĮDIT: You know, they could even have completed the tie-ins with free DLC for The Hero Project: Open Season, or even use code saves to transfer characters and plot elements (as some Hosted Games did). Now, I regret even spending time playing through all the titles, doing perfect runs, getting all the achievements, and hoping for a satisfying conclusion. I regretted that as his style developed into something different during the Hero Project and the second installment of Versus. Zachary Sergi was the only author from the CoG titles that I supported blindly, after the Heroes Rise trilogy. This was a major letdown, and it wasn’t because I did not “like” the ending. The fact that the author did not go the necessary length to deliver on the game’s promises shows that he was not fully committed to the story, and it tells throughout. As a last resort, you could even have players input their Heroes Rise characters choices and attributes manually, so they could have some participation. This was not a creative decision, it was a major design flaw not accounted for. When you buy a book, you expect to get the whole story, not to make it up on your own imagination. Zachary later implies, on a final note, that there was no technical way to import the characters from another game and that there was no time to tell all the stories in this book, and ends by asking that you fanfic the story yourself, essentially. This is a not a spoiler in itself, but the Heroes Rise characters are mentioned in passing on a brief paragraph at the epilogue, with minor hints, way after any important events in the story, and have literally no involvement whatsoever in the plot. The game begins by telling you there will be “a time for Heroes to Rise again”, implying that the plot involving our characters from the Heroes Rise will come after the conclusion of the Versus plot. Regardless of that, this was not the major disappointment.
#Versus the deathscapes series
Why the hell would someone make a final instalment in a long series of choice-driven games to mock you by saying that your choices led to a non-canon, not real, ending? While this was supposedly an outlier, my first playthrough resulted in an ending which the game itself had the audacity of telling me “is not canon”. Simply put, this promise was not delivered. I was looking forward to the conclusion of the “Sergiverse”, precisely because it promised a finale and explanation of every major arc in Versus and The Hero Project.
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