i love that it's very implied that the 2nd woman introduced in this plotline is an evil seductress-coded character. and the ash protoframe is a japanese guy who cares about honor and who, shocker, sounds like how you would expect a honorable japanese ninja character would sound like WAIT
HE'S A GREEN CYBORG NINJA HE'S LITERALLY JUST GENJI
and of course, jade's dead, what's her plot relevance now? "Husband Man, let me teach you how to cook in a AAA movie dreamy flashback!" followed by the stalker saying "grrr your mom belongs in the kitchen, not me..."
and of course this update carries on hunhow being the worst written character in the entire game. he's... beyond pretentious.
it is so, so strange that we go from "devil man go to heaven, soul redeemed, smiley face" to "BECOME A DEVIL TO STORM THE GATES OF HEAVEN TO DESTROY THE UNJUST EMPIRE THE GODS HAVE BUILT" and back to "devil man is angel man now has big robot turn himself into himbo dog man to create heaven for angel man's angel and devil children"
at least this dlc didn't just... completely butcher the corpus?
the dlc also doesn't even justify its existence! why are the children here in the past? to do... what!? why are they still fighting after hunhow undoes his character arc to create heaven? the protoframes are in the past to..?
and the tenno are invited to stalker heaven tower because..?
and the protoframes are still fighting because..? and they're... using people from the future..? their ships are from 20 years in the future, are *we* going to the future to fight for them? if this is the past, how do they *instantly* have *galactic infrastructure?*
and WHY is this a doomed future the boys can't tell the woman about cuz she can't handle being sad or whatever the fuck?? the future isn't deterministic in this setting?? provably??
also ash's ship sucks to play on. i love traps that make you get knocked over and that's it.
and every boss fight can be cheesed by turning invisible. man. it'd be too bad if you were forced to play as a warframe whose gimmick is turning invisible.
i remember when the orokin towers being white and gold and angelic being a bad thing.
i am only as mad as i am because this game is *so* fucking peak right now! even this update introduces so many good features!! we can finally pull the camera back!!! i can play hildryn and temple!
follie's quest was fun, the pre-tau missions are fun, the pre-tau *quest* was fun, 1999 is fun, everything warframe since the zaramin has been the best warframe has ever been! and then jade shadows is some random stain from one of the writers jacking themselves off for being so clever and smart because they used the most overused imagery of the last 2026 years. moffat-ass writing.
i'm glad railjack is getting some love, at least, just wish they'd fire whoever's in charge of jade shadows, because they are clearly neurotypical, a parent, and that's all that's going on in their head
warframe truly is a great and terrible game