by Jabbo » Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:46 pm
Picking a favorite character is kind of tough because every important character in this series changes in one way or another. Rhue's changed a good bit, and anyone who doesn't see Rhue changing even more later is being either narrowminded or farfetched. We've already seen Traziun change. He's much less into the whole self-preservation thing as he is into the revenge thing now. Gaius has changed, obviously. Strata changed too right there at the end of Episode 5. Slade killed himself because of his new persepective. Lyrra changed somehow around the time she snapped, but that might have been the Shadow Sword's doing. Kloe may not end up changing much, but I can see at least something happening. Cetsa is different now, too. Scatha... I can easily see her being less cynical and unforgiving in the future. If you trust Sorya, Lexus had probably strayed from her original intent by the time she died.
And by the end of the series, these transformations are probably going to go even farther. Most of them will be for the better... but some won't be. Hey, anyone else notice how many characters changed in Episode 5? A good 4 or 5 characters changed drastically. Maybe because Ep5 was such a dark episode... Ep6 will probably be darker or something.
As far as my favorite character, I like Slade. I know the whole thing's been done before (Javert from Les Miserables? Haven't read the book, but so I've heard), but Slade's story is a heck of a lot deeper than most any story you'd find in a video game. It actually has a meaning beyond the literal, which is a rare find.