rant about enreco3's ending and minecraft stuff just scroll away if ya don't wanna hear me ramble :) 👍
with enreco season 3 ending last weekend and seeing the uproar of people's distain (mainly from twitter) i really wanted to talk about why enreco is kinda a such a flawed minecraft rp coming from someone who has experience as a viewer in live minecraft rp
i should clarify, it isn't any of the girls' fault for why enreco is the way it is. a lot of my issues with enreco are with how it's structured as a rp and not anything wit the girls subplots. this season had some of the strongest rp moments, especially with roa's decent into conspiracy with the illumination, shiori's bit with gates and advents whole cult, and bloodravens...well bloodraven usually has something going on every season but this time it got really fucked up. but it was still cool!! and i liked it!!!
a lot of the issues i saw with this season specifically were that the girls felt like they had to cut off their days of story development to bow down to what the main story needed them to do. i'm not saying having a strict story is a bad thing. notably, a big story and rp based smp who i think has a lot of similarities to enreco, the flight smp, ended up winning a crafty at twitchcon rotterdam literally the day i'm writing this!!
the flight is similar to enreco by chance of being in a set place (the university & the world outside it) and already having notable characters (mr professor, terry, etc.) but a core reason as to why the flight (and other story driven minecraft rp servers) work and enreco struggles is that they allow their players to create their own stories freely without having events that contradict those stories.
the flight has events in game like the dragon tournament and the main goal of raising their dragons is to fight the corruption that has a chance of destroying their home, but a lot of the events don't do anything to contradict anyone's character arc's specifically. it's more general.
since enreco is based on the girl's pre-existing lore, staff wants to use that to make an interesting story which makes complete sense don't get my wrong. however, you can't have a pre-made story when doing live rp because anyone can make any subplot. it's like playing dnd with a dungeon master who wants the story to go the way they want to without any room for improvisation. it's just not going to happen and the people playing are going to be very upset playing the campaign and the same applies for enreco.
there's other multitudes of things as to why people didn't like it (the main story was starting to feel unengaging, the last episode was aimless, the last episode was them playing hypixel minigames for like an hour, and other complaints i've seen) but i think this has been an issue for me since enreco was announced like a year ago. cover is pretty hands on with what goes in the story and i had a feeling it was going to cause issues eventually due to a core lack of understanding for the concept of streamed minecraft rp since it's conception. but i hope they take the community's comments and use it to do something else lore or minecraft rp related and improve! i want to see this done right especially since the girls are so good at it, i don't want this to become a flopped concept and for cover to never touch it after it's finished. that's not fun for all parties involved.
so the moral of the story is, don't hold high expectations for minecraft rp. it won't end well.
and also this may or may not have been secret propaganda for the flight smp, everyone go look at their site now and find a pov to watch!! it is so worth it trust me