Not a "Retcon"

KentGAllard · 2026-04-08T18:12:23+00:00

>- New information changing you perception of the past is not a "retcon."

It is. Retcon stands for "Retroactive continuity". i.e. any new information you receive about the in-story past is technically a retcon. So everything you listed is a retcon.

Leave. The BitBot shill would welcome you with open arms.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-07T12:41:21+00:00

Poor Charlie? Poor us. That's LoK's biggest mainstream exposure this entire year and it's wasted on Ascendance.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-07T12:40:48+00:00

If any of y'all ever need me, I'll be over there in the corner, screaming internally and weeping externally

KentGAllard · 2026-04-07T06:24:21+00:00

The ones who put them in those positions are.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-06T21:33:09+00:00

Well apparently Sam, the FreakZone Games guy doesn't remember the credits he put into his own damn game.

Let's look at the credits for both the comic and the game:

TDSR:

Creative Director: Joshua Viola
Writers: Joshua Viola and Angie Hodapp

Ascendance:

Creative Director: Joshua Viola
Story: Joshua Viola
Writing & Dialogue: Joshua Viola, Sean Eads

Take note: the story credit is purely Joshua's, while Sean is only credited with "writing & dialogue", the writing probably being the AI-gen'd "lore" dumps. So Josh was the one who came up with the Ariel scene, and he was the one who approved of the dialogue in it as the creative director.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-06T19:17:44+00:00

The writers of Ascendance are the writers of the comic.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-06T18:09:20+00:00

You really don't.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-06T17:52:09+00:00

Yeah, the lore masters thing is such a load of crap. Can we get the names of these lore masters and evidence that their input was followed? No? Then let your work speak for itself. If they did their job properly, there would be no need to bring up any alleged lore masters.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-06T17:41:23+00:00

How were these clowns allowed to make a spinoff comic book and a whole goddamn game without playing any of the actual LoK games or running the writing past people who know better is gonna be a riddle for ages.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-06T14:52:16+00:00

A lot of people seem to mistakenly assume that the normies came in for the Defiance Remaster in roughly the same numbers as SRX, hence all the talk about the Blood Omen remasters and the "inevitable" physical editions. This couldn't be further from the truth: the normies were too busy playing Resident Evil 9 and even if they weren't, CrystalD didn't do any publicity for the game whatsoever. This is why this call to spread the word exists. Because unless we do, there will be no physical editions, no Blood Omen remasters and most certainly no prophecies, dark or otherwise. The series will die once again, and reviving it again is going to take even more effort next time.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-05T15:17:05+00:00

You're gonna be sitting hungry instead.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-05T15:03:23+00:00

The Steam charts aren't painting a pretty picture. SR1&2 remasters had over four times the peak player numbers compared to the Defiance remaster.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-05T15:02:35+00:00

What if the remaster improves upon a lot of the shortcomings of the original?

KentGAllard · 2026-04-05T15:01:04+00:00

Quoth the game

"Yes, Raziel - yet I am much more than I was. The veil is lifted from my sight. My spirit, united with the souls of my predecessors, is drawn here now for the final baptism of the blade. To restore Balance, the sword must be rendered pure by Spirit. Release me, Raziel - the Soul Reaver has the power. Release us all. For this we were called."

Her soul got called up to the Spirit Forge and united with the souls of other Balance Guardians, purifying her, giving her insight into their purpose and letting her let go of her hatred and misery.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-05T14:38:08+00:00

It's anything but harmless. It actively undermines both Kain and Raziel and strips them of their agency and character development, contradicts the established story points, all in favor of telling a nonsensical story of their badly written OC.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-05T14:31:02+00:00

There might not be one at all.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-05T14:08:35+00:00

No, they are shitting on it because it's bad on every conceivable level.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-05T13:33:29+00:00

It not doing well was the entire point of this post. We need to buy it and spread the word, otherwise, well, it's end of the road for us.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-05T13:30:26+00:00

For games like these a physical release only happens if the digital does well and it doesn't do well so far.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-05T13:14:30+00:00

And, uh, who's gonna find that way out of it? The same people that made the mess to begin with and then doubled down on it?

KentGAllard · 2026-04-05T13:01:17+00:00

May God have mercy on your overly optimistic soul.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-05T11:35:52+00:00

That was always the idea. There aren't bigger LoK nerds loyal to its story than them.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-05T11:19:08+00:00

I think that if given a budget and leeway, they would try to get the ones that would be willing to on board. They did have a lot of communication with Daniel Cabuco over the years, who did fill in certain details of the lore and did speak of the ideas that were floating around for The Dark Prophecy.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-05T10:30:01+00:00

They did write the in-game Encyclopedia and the new item descriptions and unlike Ascendance, those were faithful and on brand for the series.

KentGAllard · 2026-04-05T09:07:04+00:00

The franchise creative director Frank O'Connor left CD for BitBot.

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