Re:jakemorph
I find it very funny that your original post also included an apostrophe in it so when I first read your second reply I was really confused because I read it like "...asking that the reader suddenly start caring* *a whole bunch of new characters. about a whole bunch of new characters all at once..." until I realized you were correcting your sentence fragment at the end.
Anyways, I'm very indifferent on Openbound. I do agree that a lot of the stereotypes have not aged well but this is the one case where the Dancestors' irrelevance to the overarching plot kind of works in its favor I suppose. If I had one personal gripe it's that I wish there was more interaction between each of these characters across the different games. I get that it was probably to limit the scope and workload, but I would have loved to be able to have Dancestors interact with more than just the small handful that appear in the same act. Part 2's Dancestors get it especially rough, since aside from Meenah who obviously gets to interact with everyone, everyone else only really gets to interact with one other Troll who is in the same room as them. Even beyond that though, I would have loved, say, dialogue between Kankri and Meulin, or Cronus and Porrim. Just more scenes with these guys to make the few moments of relevancy they have worthwhile.
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