I can't care less when the story is long, however, 3.0 story feel overdone not because the story is way too long, but because we have to walk through 3 puzzles sessions in a freaking capital of warriors. The story feel even longer because they still haven't given more characters animations, we literally have like 5 standard animations for everyone. This is even worse when there are places where an animated cutscene would have worked way better than than literally static characters, ie Gnaeus speech, that whole thing need to be animated instead of partially, they wasted the best line, best performance in the patch, or in the game period, on a static cutscene. There is also issue with black screens and weird camera angles that they haven't fixed since 1.0. Had the puzzles been actually hard, had the cutscenes actually more lively, had there been more animated cutscenes,... It would have been great. Which doesn't mean I hate this patch story that much, I just have alot of criticism with the game story. So far the only stories I have been actually enjoying to their fullest in the game are the 4 major non playable characters quests in Penacony, Belobog, companion quests and the Arcadia quest, I dislike the Hades and Persephone one because it paint Hades as a douche, when in reality he is neutral or actually helpful. I dislike alot of Luofu, which is a given. My main gripe with Penacony is Firefly, she is easily the weakest and most detrimental part of the story, I like her backstory and personality, but I hate her story in Penacony.
I can't care less when the story is long, however, 3.0 story feel overdone not because the story is way too long, but because we have to walk through 3 puzzles sessions in a freaking capital of warriors. The story feel even longer because they still haven't given more characters animations, we literally have like 5 standard animations for everyone. This is even worse when there are places where an animated cutscene would have worked way better than than literally static characters, ie Gnaeus speech, that whole thing need to be animated instead of partially, they wasted the best line, best performance in the patch, or in the game period, on a static cutscene. There is also issue with black screens and weird camera angles that they haven't fixed since 1.0. Had the puzzles been actually hard, had the cutscenes actually more lively, had there been more animated cutscenes,... It would have been great.
Which doesn't mean I hate this patch story that much, I just have alot of criticism with the game story. So far the only stories I have been actually enjoying to their fullest in the game are the 4 major non playable characters quests in Penacony, Belobog, companion quests and the Arcadia quest, I dislike the Hades and Persephone one because it paint Hades as a douche, when in reality he is neutral or actually helpful. I dislike alot of Luofu, which is a given. My main gripe with Penacony is Firefly, she is easily the weakest and most detrimental part of the story, I like her backstory and personality, but I hate her story in Penacony.
The story doesn't need to be long to deliver what people care about
Take Jarilo 6 for example