God, is this the worst one of the first four DLCs? In some regards, maybe, but Five's is the trashiest and Three's is the most embarassing. Two's is just eye-rolling, even if it made me wonder about a better timeline.
Like all of these DLCs, these are excuses for trying out a new weapon that Zero can use in the base game once you complete the DLC's story. Unlike the other DLCs, Two's follows a self-contained plot that connects the four levels that actually answers a "mystery" from the base game: When Zero meets Two, why is Two a non-verbal shell of a person?
The answer is incredibly dumb in a way that gets worse the more I think about it.
Because this game and these DLC's aren't real stories. These aren't real characters. They're charades. Pretenses. The base game makes fun of the self-serious tropes it peddles. Five's DLC makes fun of its own trashy horniness. The writing is fully in service of getting to whatever type of fun the creator has in mind as fast as possible as shallowly as possible.
So, this DLC elects for psychological horror in the most trite, naked, embarrasing way I could imagine. and like, why tho.
Because it's not funny! It's not making fun of anything! There are no characters winking at the camera! Everything is just played straight, with these card-board character cut-outs that were meant to be garnish for Zero's storyline. They killed monsters and looked after orphans and were happy and in love. But then a mishap happens and they lose everything, leaving Two a husk.
I have to remind myself that the plot doesn't matter in this game because otherwise I would start nit-picking about how the mechanics of how they lose everything raise a billion unanswerable questions of how anything magic works in this universe. There are no rules, only repetition for ritual for gameplay purposes dressed up as rules. As soon as the developers want something else to happen, it's just magic again and it can do anything. Pah.
I'm just baffled at the range of weird badness in this DLC set. Why are some anime beach episode filler bullshit and others trying to be serious drama character studies? This is almost as jarring as Rosalina's storybook backstory in Super Mario Galaxy. Not what we're here for, sorry!
Like all of these DLCs, these are excuses for trying out a new weapon that Zero can use in the base game once you complete the DLC's story. Unlike the other DLCs, Two's follows a self-contained plot that connects the four levels that actually answers a "mystery" from the base game: When Zero meets Two, why is Two a non-verbal shell of a person?
The answer is incredibly dumb in a way that gets worse the more I think about it.
Because this game and these DLC's aren't real stories. These aren't real characters. They're charades. Pretenses. The base game makes fun of the self-serious tropes it peddles. Five's DLC makes fun of its own trashy horniness. The writing is fully in service of getting to whatever type of fun the creator has in mind as fast as possible as shallowly as possible.
So, this DLC elects for psychological horror in the most trite, naked, embarrasing way I could imagine. and like, why tho.
Because it's not funny! It's not making fun of anything! There are no characters winking at the camera! Everything is just played straight, with these card-board character cut-outs that were meant to be garnish for Zero's storyline. They killed monsters and looked after orphans and were happy and in love. But then a mishap happens and they lose everything, leaving Two a husk.
I have to remind myself that the plot doesn't matter in this game because otherwise I would start nit-picking about how the mechanics of how they lose everything raise a billion unanswerable questions of how anything magic works in this universe. There are no rules, only repetition for ritual for gameplay purposes dressed up as rules. As soon as the developers want something else to happen, it's just magic again and it can do anything. Pah.
I'm just baffled at the range of weird badness in this DLC set. Why are some anime beach episode filler bullshit and others trying to be serious drama character studies? This is almost as jarring as Rosalina's storybook backstory in Super Mario Galaxy. Not what we're here for, sorry!