No. I hate your position and the way you argue it.
We don't. Bullet hell is something we had the opportunity to specialise in, but instead we chose to specialise in Cero and then round out our skillset to become more of a generalist. Bullet hell would've required us to have made Nemo into a full Bala specialist, which we have not.
I do too, but that's not the end of the story. We Stand in Awe was a quest made by an excellent author and he would write well no matter what the players chose to do. The value of the quest was still significantly diminished in many players' eyes because of the choices of those players. The quality of this quest is determined not only by Omicron's ability to write, but also by the actions and decisions of the playerbase.
Stories in which the protagonist starts weak is every Bleach quest to ever exist. What makes this quest special is that the story stays about someone who has to survive in a world of titans, who works through her issues, builds a life for herself, and generally tries to survive despite inherently being as powerless as she is.
I will again point to We Stand in Awe. That was a quest that began with someone even less powerful than Nemo and eventually became powerful enough to kill Captains. The power curve always matched the protagonist of that quest, ensuring that she always faced challenges no matter how powerful she got. Despite the relative challenge being the same, the increase in power still resulted in a radical shift in story and tone. Were Nemo to get too powerful, she will still be challenged, but the core of what the quest is about will nonetheless be removed.
We stand in awe was significantly diminished by the QM's lack of ability to communicate certain things and his assumption that his players would be able to see the same details that he did.
You know, I'm not averse to removing flaws from the way I argue, but a complaint as broad and unspecific as this one doesn't really help. As far as I can tell you're just complaining about me saying that other people's opinions are wrong (isn't that part and parcel of disagreeing with someone else?), not addressing that my opinions aren't fact (isn't it assumed that this kind of thing is opinion and not fact?), and making assumptions, of which I don't think I've made any.
We didn't chose to specialize in cero its just one of our highest skills but it along with control and bala are our favored skills. Not only that but were no were close to being a generalist. Our hierro and combat arts are at the bottom of skilled with perception about to be veteran only to prevent nemo from constantly be bombarded with imagery.
"To be more of a generalist" is not the same thing as "to be a generalist". Spreading out our XP spread outside of our Favoured skills is something I see as an attempt to make Nemo more rounded in terms of her abilities. Were she to get Perception up to Veteran, Nemo would have 5 skills (including Res) at Veteran and 3 skills only one level away from Veteran. That's more generalist than not, and even if we assume Control will be upped to Master, it'll still be a fact that investing in Sonido and Perception has rounded Nemo out a bit in terms of skills.
I am not afraid of us becoming overpowered or of hitting infinite escalation. I'm aware that Omicron will end the quest if Nemo hits Espada level. What I fear is that Nemo will stop being weak. As I've said before, this quest isn't just about someone who starts weak, but whose entire story is about living as a relative weakling. That's what differentiates it from countless other Bleach stories. Nemo will never get overpowered, but were she to ever stop being weak, were she to reach the power of a Privaron or higher, it would no longer be a story about 'weak person tries to survive a war of titans', it would be a story about 'weak person who is now strong in a war of titans' and we have seen that story many times before.
I laughed at this, then undid the rating just so I could click the button again.
Please do. You're a great writer and I'd love to see another Bleach quest by you.
I wonder why.
