I feel like the bulk of this seasons story has focused on Osiris and Saints honeymoon rather than the conductor or the vex.
It feels like bungie had more of a general idea for the seasonal story, but couldn't figure out how to get from plot point A to plot point B, so they decided to just fill the gap with more Saintiris bromance.
I mean, this week's story should have been huge, but instead, we got 2 extremely long talking scenes with Saint and Osiris expressing their feels for each other. By my 3rd character, I found myself going to the bathroom, getting snacks, and refilling my drink, just to come back and find them still talking about their feelings. Meanwhile, we got to see the conductor for 30 seconds.
Even most of the post activity dialog from the seasonal activities focuses on their relationship rather than the conductor, vex, or Nessus.
At this point, I feel like bungie was misleading with their marketing for Echos, and they might as well have called it Honeymoon or Bromance. It's even more exhausting knowing most of their dialog could have just been a lore tab/book or in-game text screen. Not to mention, at this point, bungie has given us more information on Saint and Osiris relationship than any other relationship in-game, I mean this is like the 4th or 5th season that featured their relationship and every cutscene/lore tab that features one of these characters since Witch Queen, always somehow seems to diverge into them talking about their love for the other rather than what's going on at that point in time.
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1 commentaireYeah, I'd have to agree. I don't mind relationships in video game stories at all, but Saint and Osiris relationship is being shoved in our faces at every opportunity these days - to the point where it is not a part of their characters, but rather their entire character. None of the other relationsships we've seen has been at the forefront in this manner. Amanda and Crow's were kept quite subtle most of the time - being more apparant during Season of Defiance, but tied up with a nice bow after her death. A subtle hint or two is pretty much all we've got since then. Almost the same with Zavala and his long-dead wife Safiyah - center stage during Season of the Haunted, subtly here and there afterwards until it came back as part of his meltdown in the Final Shape - and then we haven't heard much more about it. With Saint and Osiris, it takes center stage every time they are featured in the seasonal/episodal content, to the point where the actual threat/story of the season/episode is placed in the back. And it's been like that almost since Saint's return in Season of Dawn - which was season 9 in the Shadowkeep era. It was kept subtle at first, but towards the second half of the Beyond Light year - their relationship became more and more the focus whenever they were the seasonal characters. Echoes is especially odd with Osiris due to his connection with the Vex - in the lore his obsession with them were a big part of his exile long ago. But his dialogue is almost never related to the Vex or even the actual activity in this episode, it's mainly about Saint. The final week of Act II of Echoes is especially egregious as we were forced to "listen to the conversation" not once but twice and neither conversation was about the Vex, Nessus or the Conductor - they were about Saint and Osiris and their relationship. Both conversations were either a quest objective or a in-mission objective and neither were a cutscene - which meant that we were forced to wait through both several minutes long unskippable expositions. And then we get to the reveal of the Conductor - the main reason we are even on Nessus to begin with - in a minute long cutscene that is skippable. I can't help but think that the priorities are a bit confusing.