Monday, April 8, 2013

The Risk of Building the Big Picture Plot

Radiant Historia's story looks like it'll be quite fast paced in retrospect. Picking your way through it, though, makes it seem very slow. Because of the game's time travel mechanic, and how integral it is to the development of the story, you don't play through it so much as you build it.

However, it is interesting to build such a plot on parallel lines. At the same time, the special agent timeline has developed almost none of the story, so far. This, so far as I can tell, is because your mission to get into Granorg is long to complete, whereas defending the Sand Fortress is quite quickly over.

Nonetheless, the special agent timeline has you much closer to Heiss, the guy in charge of spec ops, and he's as involved in what's going on behind the scenes as General Hugo. So there's a lot of potential for huge plot developments down that line - hopefully once I reach a plot point down it that plot point is something amazing.

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