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<blockquote data-quote="WolframL" data-source="post: 422698" data-attributes="member: 32705"><p>Einin has <em>no</em> content though, just a handful of blurbs in disconnected scenes that were future-proofed in and which you can only see by cracking open the game. William did write a whole bunch of stuff for her but it wasn't finished and ready for submission before the deadline so none of the stuff where you'd even meet her in the first place (much less recruit her) actually exists in usable form.</p><p></p><p>And who's going to write the content to get Berry 'up to speed'? Because the amount of stuff expected to keep a companion current is the reason <em>why</em> the decision was made to drop him down to an NPC.</p><p></p><p>As mentioned, this is literally what happens plot-wise. The big change in gameplay terms is that he gets removed as a playable character outside his two quests, but the impact of this is pretty negligible because due to his writer being gone, he didn't <em>have</em> much of a role in any ongoing content. He was the one character completely missing from the Abyssal Depths, for example. Also, he was kind of the biggest party deadweight since his only set tries to do a bit of everything and only did one of them well, but that didn't synergize with anything else.</p><p></p><p>One imagines that they could have left him in as a complete content dead-end for players who didn't do BQ2, but that would have just exacerbated how much of a black hole of content he was as the game goes on and it would have set up false expectations for future players who get into the game without the benefit of following along during its development.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Since nobody else has responded to this part yet...</p><p></p><p>Viv isn't a <em>replacement</em> for Berwyn, she was already in the works as a companion before Hugs left and was going to be another mage by default. That she fills a somewhat similar role is a coincidence. She has two options for Fire damage that both inflict debuffs (always nice, pairs very well with Ryn or Thiefchamp) and two abilities that grant elemental damage buffs to allies (which stack) plus summoning Ghost Doggo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WolframL, post: 422698, member: 32705"] Einin has [I]no[/I] content though, just a handful of blurbs in disconnected scenes that were future-proofed in and which you can only see by cracking open the game. William did write a whole bunch of stuff for her but it wasn't finished and ready for submission before the deadline so none of the stuff where you'd even meet her in the first place (much less recruit her) actually exists in usable form. And who's going to write the content to get Berry 'up to speed'? Because the amount of stuff expected to keep a companion current is the reason [I]why[/I] the decision was made to drop him down to an NPC. As mentioned, this is literally what happens plot-wise. The big change in gameplay terms is that he gets removed as a playable character outside his two quests, but the impact of this is pretty negligible because due to his writer being gone, he didn't [I]have[/I] much of a role in any ongoing content. He was the one character completely missing from the Abyssal Depths, for example. Also, he was kind of the biggest party deadweight since his only set tries to do a bit of everything and only did one of them well, but that didn't synergize with anything else. One imagines that they could have left him in as a complete content dead-end for players who didn't do BQ2, but that would have just exacerbated how much of a black hole of content he was as the game goes on and it would have set up false expectations for future players who get into the game without the benefit of following along during its development. EDIT: Since nobody else has responded to this part yet... Viv isn't a [I]replacement[/I] for Berwyn, she was already in the works as a companion before Hugs left and was going to be another mage by default. That she fills a somewhat similar role is a coincidence. She has two options for Fire damage that both inflict debuffs (always nice, pairs very well with Ryn or Thiefchamp) and two abilities that grant elemental damage buffs to allies (which stack) plus summoning Ghost Doggo. [/QUOTE]
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