i followed a bunch of Miquella Fans tm right around when the dlc came out and ended up unfollowing all of them because the way they reacted to the dlc struck me as, mm odd and now that i am playing it i am simply vindicated. this entire dlc is set in a fucking graveyard every single setting is the smaller graveyards in the base game writ large. this is a game where you rely almost entirely on context clues to string the story together. obviously something has gone terribly wrong with miquella. obviously. his curse is nascency and the setting he is in is a graveyard. these are easy pieces to put together. and also obviously we aren't getting an age of kindness ending come on. come on. ranni's ending is the only one that isn't abject horror and it is also abject horror when you consider that she had her half brother assassinated and killed herself for it. come on.
i think i agree that using Radahn at the end makes no sense at a narrative level and is very much The Game making itself known. Everyone loved the Radahn fight so here it is again. it should have been Godwyn. it should have been Godwyn. i'm sure there are handwavy reasons you could make as to why it wasn't but that's the thing, innit, the entire game is handwavy. it's almost the point.
anyway. every time i stumble into a new setting i want to chew it apart with my teeth. why was no one talking about Ymir. I love those little finger monsters.
