>>54171277Not him but you raise a fair amount of points regarding that side, not sure why the argument "directionless" would be thrown against a literally story-driven series, especially after the directionless shitstorm of Journeys's production.
You're right on Team Star being a joke in retrospective, I like at best the Ninja guy and the Eri gigantess while the rest was really hits and misses. Penny is the most lackluster character of them all.
>Victory Road doesn't even have Nemona acknowledge the dragon dog againThat completely flew over my head now that you mention it. Except for the beginning part the dragon dog wasn't involved at all for that storyline.
Hard disagree on Arven, his storyline is one of the more mature approaches so far in telling a character arc, I give that his aggression was more an initial hook than anything but otherwise has a very flexible role with his story that allows Storyriders to adapt quite fairly.
Area Zero is 50/50 on me: No soundtrack and just a few ambigous noise would've improved the tone far better. The ride down is really gud. But Penny might as well could've been cut out of existence for that and nothing would've been lost. I'd give that last mile of the game a 7/10.