On my first file I didn’t pay attention to the story, admittedly. I feel like that was my own fault and detriment. One thing I did listen to however was the Elius monologue, and after my second playthrough where I did pay attention, I was wondering, why are Sea Curses?
They’re these big ugly cubes that make you instantly more powerful.
Now, at this point, I know exactly why they’re like that. It’s because of One Piece.
Consider this though. Why weren’t they more? A Sea Curse could’ve been anything. It didn’t have to be a giant box that simply makes you more powerful, and a little crazy, and hydrophobic. It’s all shoe-horned in, it doesn’t even feel logical in the universe it’s for, and it’s the inherent source of a lot of troubles with the lore recently.
First Gripe: The Name
“Sea Curse”, so lame. First of all, they weren’t even invented when the Sea was a big deal. Did King Arthur just really like sailing?
It could have just been “Curse”. It could have been “Magic Curse”. It could have been “Arcane Curse” to emphasize their importance.
Second Gripe: The Purpose
Why did King Arthur even have all of these made? Why didn’t he just get enough for him and his homies? Why have more created when you’ve already gotten your fix of them?
Third Gripe: The Creation
So King Arthur just headed up to Prometheus, said he’s really upsetti spaghetti that he won’t give him something that he shouldn’t have even known could be made, and beat up Prometheus until he made them, and then he actually did it? If you’re gonna die, at least don’t give the man what he wants.
Fourth Gripe: The Use
So, we have these super powerful objects that make the user nigh-invincible, especially to things other than magic and spirit energy.
What are we gonna do with them? We’re gonna make skill-less hacks of characters, of course!
At this point in the story, it feels like everyone and their racist grandfather has a Sea Curse.
It means characters don’t need to be skilled to make it, they just need to collect a funny cube that happened to land on their doorstep.
This leads to the player being inherently weaker than many major characters for the larger duration of the story, which would be fine if it wasn’t no fault of their own. The player just can’t get a curse. This doesn’t make them feel like an unlikely hero, but more like they got the short end of the stick.
Fifth Gripe: The Shape
Why is it a cube? That’s really ugly.
They could’ve been sentient humanoids, because apparently they have personalities.
They could’ve been spheres because nature doesn’t make cubes for funsies.
They could have been swirling masses of energy.
Why are they cuboid? Not even decorated cuboids or anything, just bland boring old cube.
Oh, and let’s not forget that they’re really big. You can compare the ground texture in that image to the same ground texture in any other Roblox game, and apparently Sea Curses are the size of an average SUV…
Sixth Gripe: Experimental Curses
Why aren’t all the curses Experimental Curses? They’re original, it can be whatever you want it to be. If it has to be an element, no problem, elemental curses don’t exist, it’s not like it can’t be identical if there’s nothing to be identical to.
You can still have elemental curses, and then you can also have a higher variety of cooler curses that actually do something unique. And this new variety of elemental curse could be tied to unique abilities to make them even more different.
Seventh Gripe: Grand Fire Curses
Why did Arthur allow Prometheus to make not one, but six different curses that automatically make the user really want to kill Arthur? Why did he let him do that? Did he specifically ask for that or something? Why did he allow this to happen?
Eighth Gripe: Specifically Rupin
Alright, I want you to stand right here on this oddly shaped volcano and protect this sea curse that is sitting right out in the open. No reason, just keep people from having it.
Why though? If it’s so special, why don’t you take it? Well the obvious answer is that it makes you clinically insane, but why? Why does the fire curse make the user a psychopath? The Magma Curse makes you frickin chill, but the Fire Curse makes you a homicidal maniac? I guess Vetex never heard of Pompeii.
Ninth Gripe: Intentional Confusion
- Why is the Water Curse called the Tide Curse?
- Why is there a Growth Curse but no Growth Magic to be heard of?
- Why is King Caesar’s curse a secret, and why is the censorship so SCP-ahh? “[Redacted] Experimental Curse”, bruh.
- Why can Magic and Spirit Energy hit curses, but not tangible weapons? Oh, but they can when they have weapon aura.
- Why is this imaginary location in a cutscene called the “Curse Vault”? It doesn’t exist, at least four of the curses shown couldn’t possibly be in any one person’s posession, especially considering that the Lightning Curse and Light Curse are both actively taken.
- Why are they “Curses” when there’s like two downsides, and only to one variety of curse.
- Why doesn’t a Healing Curse exist?
A cube made out of green fire? How queer! I must tap it at once!
becomes big buff dragon
