i'm not too far in just yet but i do find it really funny to see posts already putting endfield down as garbage with no writing value whatsoever or anything because it says "nothing" about the social situation or it's endlessly praising endmin or it's ignoring the problems of originium entirely etc etc
because arknights did start more or less the same way? only treating reunion as the bad guys, desperately glazing the doctor and setting them up as this amazing figure, not saying anything beyond "we need to get out of here so you can help us". like arknights' writing is amazing and so deep and layered, but it very much also started off simple and with no depth until it eased you in the world and story. they are literally starting the same way, they even mirrored amiya at doctor's side when they woke up with perlica at endmin's side. we are literally still getting eased into the world right now, give it time to set things up.
now if it just stays this way with no added depths and layers as time goes on then you have valid grounds to criticize it, but you just can't look at a game that released a day ago and be mad that it doesn't have the same amount of layers and worldbuilding and story depth as a game that's been out for 6 years?
also the complains about issues on originium being ignored entirely are both funny and weird to read when the game is very explicitly set in the future after those issues have been addressed entirely, the terra archive in the game explicitly says 150 years since they returned to talos! that's a long time!
