you seriously have no idea how angry the forcefeeding of the arg-esque plot made me at the very end. otherwise would have just been a much weaker sub/plot but banking all the emotional payoff on that stuff at the eleventh hour makes it that much worse. i've never played pony island and stuff so maybe it works better there but in here it becomes the first goddamn thing i have to bring up when talking about this

especially because other than that... yeah everything everyone is waxing about is true this shit is near perfect