ysbreker:
Just a quick note on this; I think after playing Half Life 2 and experiencing the complex rigging of the characters for animation it really does set a new level of immersion that you might not forgive other games for not achieving [i remember wanting every action game after Hitman to use ragdoll physics]
Just today I revisited Outcast (an often overlooked title) because I was reminded of how impressed I was with the animation all the way back in 1999 (almost same time as TLJ!) Its a simmilar situation in which you have long sequences of dialogue between characters within a complex story arc.
So, given the importance of story and dialogue in TLJ series maybe the dev team will expand on the middleware engine they used to include more complex animation rigging.
Anyway, I managed to suspend my disbelief long enough to be enthralled in a cleverly written story. Which leads me onto;
How would someone get to The Storytime? Brian gets there with the help of some monks (which was probably intentional.) Zoe seems to just appear, after her out of body experience as I would imagine Faith could have done. So if both "magic" and "science" can open up the Storytime from Stark perhaps the same could be done from Arcadia? Check out the top of the manual on p18 (credits.) Looks like a man with a sword stepping away from the Storytime guy. It may be someone from Arcadia (not to mention any obvious names.) Or maybe its just nothing.
Was there any mention of the storytime in TLJ? Perhaps the pro-/epilogue with Lady Alvane was the storytime (the title:threads might be a very weak clue) and the reunification of the worlds may include this realm.
Whatever else happens, it looks like things will come full circle back to Lady Alvane, Crow and the world they live in (which just happens to be accessible via a strange door near the fringe.)
Just out of interest, I wonder what part pseudo-Reza could play in the second sequel because surely there's nothing left for him to do (unless Zoe's dad knows something of interest! He is after all in Biotech)
