Yeah, I'll agree with this statement. The game seriously goes down hill plot-wise with her introduction.Originally Posted by Forsaken Lover
I keep going back and forth with Skull Face from MGSV. On the one hand, he's probably done more damage to the MGS universe than anyone else barring the Patriots themselves, but on the other hand, his juxtapostion of motives makes him seem both petty and kind of in the right on a few things. His ending was pretty hollow as well, but that was kind of the point. He's great on screen (or audio tape) but he's definitely more deliciously evil and interesting in Ground Zeroes than Phantom Pain, where he seems to have mellowed out.
Speaking of the Patriots, they go here as well, they were trippy and poorly explained in MGS2, coming across as some weird omniscient force of nature, but MGS4 kind of does away with all that ann makes them feel more like a background force that's never directly confronted. Again, just kind of felt hollow.
Gene also bugged me, mostly because he's a type of character I really hate to see in these flashback/start of darkness stories, where he's basically a less threatening version of the villain the start of darkness character is meant to become.
Wilhelm from Xenosaga is another I never cared for, it never really helped that we all figured out back in Episode 1 that he was the real big bad, but he ultimately comes across as a poorly developed expy of Krellian from Xenogears. It didn't help that he was upstaged by the superior Yuriev or the scene stealing Albedo, Margulis, and Virgil. Even Cherenkov ultimately gave a greater lasting impression than he did. Kevin was also kind of disappointing but, again, we all saw it coming as far back as Episode 1.
Troy from Suikoden IV does little to nothing in the game, which is odd cause the game makes a big deal about him, and his very few scenes are actually really good. You can tell he was meant to be a true foil to the main character unlike Snowe who only thinks he's the worthy rival, but Troy never really gets anything done or has much of a reason to be there in the plot except to watch over the game's real villain. The duel against him in the game's ending comes out of nowhere and feels like it's mostly there because the writer suddenly remembered he was in the plot.
Hi-no-Kagutsuchi from P4 Arena, though this mostly stems from me really wishing he was Nyalarthotep instead. Doesn't help he takes after his mother from P4, and feels tacked on.
I'll think of more later.
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