#just... 5 games of incredible buildup completely wasted on 4 (or i guess 5) painfully drawn out and dubious to terrible writing

[fortune-maiden]

Thinking about Cold Steel and it’s many writing problems and one of the most baffling ones to me is how the ILF’s actions are just kinda swept aside after a certain point because their leader ‘is our classmate and we’re bringing him home’

The ILF literally tried to nuke Crossbell at one point.

They did a lot of other things, but I feel like that Class VII should find at least that one a little concerning

#don't mind me having a moment #maybe C wasn't personally involved in that one but pretty sure he still would have signed off on it #i can't remember all of his appearances but I think he was definitely aware of the plot (and possibly had a scene with G discussing it?) #actually no given who they were targetting he was definitely a-okay with it #i just can't remember if him faking an appearance was in that chapter or the next one ^^'' #anyway there are a lot of things wrong with cold steel's writing but Crow's treatment in particular drives me a little nuts ^^'' #his whole situation should have been complicated but it was really forgive and forget #or really just forget. forgive implies they were ever mad at him in the first place #one really interesting thing they could have done was make rean's obsession with crow purely his own thing #while the rest of class vii was a lot more divided about it #instead of just a hive mind #actually so much in general with the writing could be fixed if class vii stops being a hive mind #i feel bad about ranting about cold steel so much but honestly i invested so much time and love into this series #and every new installment just made me want to scream into a pillow more #just... 5 games of incredible buildup completely wasted on 4 (or i guess 5) painfully drawn out and dubious to terrible writing #i've heard kuro was better received but at this point i'm probably just going to stick to the sprite games and nayuta ^^'' #unless i start hearing that kuro is on par with sky/crossbell or something #because nothing will ever take my love of sky away from me! #and i generally never hear anything bad about crossbell #or at least nothing that cold steel didn't do worse anyway #(relationship values cough) #i just need to get cold steel rage out of my system once in a while xD #one of these days maybe i'll turn it into something productive