#e33 tag

[fodjet]

Oh no... I painted Verso... Sry bro, but I need it for study

Nah, he will be fine with Lune by his side, don't worry

[oranzhs]

also also also E33

the ""romance"" between Verso and Sciel/Lune (I ended up with Sciel kinda sorta not so accidentally) felt like a very obvious male-gaze fanservice.

And I mean male gaze in the "the devs assumed the player would be a cishet man" and wrote the game according to it - CLEARLY you would want to bang one of the hot women ;)

It's very telling that the "main" characters in Act 1 and 2 are men and kinda work as the player surrogates, so the narrative twists around that.

Also personally I just saw the forced romance really weird, especially with Sciel - you have a fling with her but then she returns to her deep personal trauma and attachment to her husband, which is all fine and dandy but also imo cheapens her character if she's just willing to open her legs for Verso because... ?!?!

idk, the scene where Verso helps Sciel overcome her fear of water was much more satisfying and good to, you know, show them actually bonding in a meaningful way, not just go "talk to women three times and sex her"

Can't men and women just be friends smh smh

(Yes, yes I know I could have friendzoned them both but also I'm curious... though I read somewhere you can only "romance" one but it was heavily implied he also slept with Lune like HELLO!?!? why make the man a whore... I guess this is just how French people live and love, freely and without shame LMFAO)

[fodjet]

Yeah, just made Expedition 33 cardholders... Whatever

It's actually available, but the shipment will be from Russia, so...

[strengthofmayhem]

is aline like. dead. in the maelle ending?

[strengthofmayhem]

my other main e33 opinion is that i think verso is actually the reason there isnt a "middle ground" ending but by the time act 3 has hit the moment has passed-- by failing to give alicia's letter to maelle he doomed any chance there ever was of a compromise resolution. the only path left is the path of division-- light or dark, black or white, but not either or! woof!

naturally, versos reasons are completely understandable, and in fact theres no telling if him making different ones would have ended better at all-- but oof!

[strengthofmayhem]

renoir, in a brief ceasefire, staring at expedition 60: did you... make them like that on purpose?

aline:

[strengthofmayhem]

i think it says something funny about original verso that painted verso (an idealized clone pulled from aline's memories) keeps trying to kill himself repeatedly. like on more then a few levels its the butter machine rick and morty joke but like. this is what aline thinks verso was like, and she loved that boy to bits. fkldsajkfldsjaklfsda

[strengthofmayhem]

the moment where verso is visibly trying to figure out which one of his deep dark secrets sciel has stumbled into and it’s like “ah, it’s just the wine. ah— it’s the wine. dammit.” is a funny bit of background face journey-ing.