EPTOn October 26 2015 06:22 pure.Wasted wrote:
srs critique INC:
I enjoyed chapters 1 and 2 a lot, but, IMO, this one fell flat. Here's some constructive criticism.
-No tournaments? So Maru's greatest achievement of the year won't be told from the POV of either player who was involved. That kinda... sucks. I mean, Maru isn't one of these guys who's been at Blizzcon three years in a row. This is his first time. He's got a wealth of untapped stories, from his preposterous consistency, to his domination of Protoss, his squashing of Dream and near-toppling of Life this year specifically... and instead of any of that, we get a chapter that focuses almost exclusively on Maru's character. Except...
-No supporting cast? So we can't really get a feel for Maru's character the way we got to understand Life and Dream through their interpersonal conflicts with Flash and INno. Plus it's just fun to see plenty of players be reinterpreted, and it makes the world seem bigger and more real. The allusions to Prime were neat, but having MKP come in as a disgraced mentor would have been a more dramatic way of giving us that information.
Non-chapter specific:
-Why does Dream vs Life take place in Browder Valley? This chapter clearly refers to Spostalea as the site of Life vs Dream (confirming Spostalea as SSL and not SPL), but the map continues to not agree.
Anyway, thanks for all the hard work, obviously this is an experimental thing you guys are trying, so there are bound to be some hiccups here and there... and naturally not every writer's approach will appeal to every reader. That doesn't take away from the coolness of the ambition. And I'll be sure to check all those games out, as always.
srs critique INC:
I enjoyed chapters 1 and 2 a lot, but, IMO, this one fell flat. Here's some constructive criticism.
-No tournaments? So Maru's greatest achievement of the year won't be told from the POV of either player who was involved. That kinda... sucks. I mean, Maru isn't one of these guys who's been at Blizzcon three years in a row. This is his first time. He's got a wealth of untapped stories, from his preposterous consistency, to his domination of Protoss, his squashing of Dream and near-toppling of Life this year specifically... and instead of any of that, we get a chapter that focuses almost exclusively on Maru's character. Except...
-No supporting cast? So we can't really get a feel for Maru's character the way we got to understand Life and Dream through their interpersonal conflicts with Flash and INno. Plus it's just fun to see plenty of players be reinterpreted, and it makes the world seem bigger and more real. The allusions to Prime were neat, but having MKP come in as a disgraced mentor would have been a more dramatic way of giving us that information.
Non-chapter specific:
-Why does Dream vs Life take place in Browder Valley? This chapter clearly refers to Spostalea as the site of Life vs Dream (confirming Spostalea as SSL and not SPL), but the map continues to not agree.
Anyway, thanks for all the hard work, obviously this is an experimental thing you guys are trying, so there are bound to be some hiccups here and there... and naturally not every writer's approach will appeal to every reader. That doesn't take away from the coolness of the ambition. And I'll be sure to check all those games out, as always.
Maru was at BlizzCon in 2013.
