thinking about soto again. does anyone else feel like eparch feels a lot less threatening than, like, even cerus did in early soto? we hear a lot about how he’s this great tyrannical leader who eats his subjects and ooh ahh so scary!!! but we never really see that. we see the aftermath of what he’s done, which yeah sure, he’s a bad guy and i feel sympathy for the kryptis under his reign, but it’s not enough for me to feel like he’s a threat. i understand anet wanted to keep his design and grand reveal towards the end of the storyline but i feel like he could’ve been a much more effective villain than what he currently is if they did less of telling us how bad he is .. and more of properly showing it. we also don’t ever get to interact with him personally until then. even something minor like him talking to the commander akin to what peitha did would be nice. in some of the first story scenes with cerus, it establishes how strong he is in comparison to the commander and the way he can just so easily overpower us. eparch doesn’t do that. he suspends us in the air and knocks us back for like three seconds and then leaves? ok man
i think it would’ve been so much nicer if during the big confrontation scene with peitha, labris & eparch if eparch … ate labris. in front of us. and left. it’d show he really doesn’t care about his family/subjects and it would also just rock??? and make labris’ death much more meaningful than it was. and his design. it’s okay he’s cool looking and all but he looks so boring in comparison to cerus & deimos. he looks like he’s about to keel over and die whereas the big demon bros were intimidating looking. EPARCH LOOKS LIKE AN OLD MAN! maybe that’s the vibe they’re going for but id rather him be some big horrifying beast of a demon than what we got
maybe i’m alone in this but idk. i’ve enjoyed soto so far but there’s certainly issues
