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IMHO, the problem with the behemoth questline was that it didn't make sense for Volga. I mean think about it, he's a former soldier whose entire life was upturned by this creature, he lost a man who seemed to have more than a simple intimate attraction to him, and then he was forced to raise a bunch of kids, which turned him into a bandit. That's the story that goes along with the behemoth, fine.
But how was that story ever going to end?
It's a basic 'revenge story', however, those types of stories rarely end with the hero/protagonist walking out happy. Castlevania the anime was shaping to be the same way. I mean think about it, by the second-third season, everyone was miserable after fighting Dracula and his horde, not because they were a bright and happy group at the start, but you're asking a group to go up against a monster and watch as those around them bleed, suffer, and then die. That was never going to be something the group could shake off, as stated by the infamous line :
Trevor: "We've spent a couple of months living your life. Adventures and victories. And now we're living my life."
The subtly being, now we have to deal with the trauma, the heartache, and the nightmares. That the story that's going to come with the behemoth.
Now ask yourself this, is that what you really want from this story? Because at its heart, this is porn story. A very odd porn story at that, because it was setup very...strangely.
Like when we first met Volga, he was this cold, standoffish mercenary, one in whom seemed to have a tragic backstory (that I honestly think was changed midway, but later on that). Then he gets sexually assaulted by a kid, and...after that he's constantly put into sexual situations that are just plain rapey. I mean, the thing with the fox and the nipples...Volga didn't even seem like he knew what to do at that point. And before that was the tree that assaulted him, and for which he had to be saved from . And then there's the punishments, which he NEVER seemed to stick around for, really telling how he wasn't interested in the sexual situations at play.
I really believe that the makers of the game didn't have Volga in mind to become as important as he has been, nor as a centralized. Remeber, there were three characters at the heart of the story when this game was first made, Volga, the cat, and the bear. Because Volga wasn't supposed to be so important, I think he was supposed to win the tournament, then become a secondary character when the behemoth or whatever else was to arise was to come into play. This would lead Cyrus to becoming the main character, and him being hinted at being a prince or other royal figure was to make it so that he and the king would have a close relationship with one another.
How Tharsix fit into all of this, I have no idea, seeing as him being a slave doesn't allow him to become centralized to this story, not unless he and the Behemoth have some tie to each other, but again, we'll never known.
What we do know is that, after 5+ years it was clear that the team were running on fumes, and just axes the other two from being playable. I would say that this was because they wanted Volga to become more centralized as a character, but after 10 years, Volga hasn't really changed. And what we do know of him, isn't all that impressive. I mean think about it:
When we first meet him, he seems completely unsure of himself around someone who wants to be intimate with him, but after chapter 3(?) it turns out he was taken care of a group of kids led by a dog who is completely infatuated with him, so much so that he and rhino boy argue about this when they, Volga, and Darius go into the dungeo together. But that doesn't make any sense, seeing as how did Volga not get boned by the dog earlier on? It's clear that he wants to have Volga as his sex partner, but Volga just...didn't?! Okay, so why tell us all of this now? And then why add the dog's father into this?!
That was completely bizzare, because it now makes it seem like Volga is not who we think he is. He has more backstory, but that backstory makes him confusing. He's was a soldier in a town militia or what have you, that town was attacked, he runs off with these kids...and he never once reported what happened to someone of higher authority?! He never sent these kids off to another city to be better taken care of, and instead turned into a bandit to provide for them, before suddenly abandoning them to come to this tournmanet to fight?! Only to then have them show up with him...and then him basically ignoring them for the rest of the game. I mean think about it, what have the introduction of these kids added to his personality or character? What has the dog added?!
This entire story is confused, and I think it has to do with it not being written out from the go. And this is on the makers of the game.
In 10+ years there's no reason for every character's storyline not to have been written out in its entirety. You should know who everyone is, what they want, and how they plan to get it. Everyone should have a had at least one dungeon that fleshes them out, so that by the time they get to the coliseum we know who they are and what they mean to Volga. Instead, we know nothing half of them. And what we get told has no real effect on either Volga and our attatchement to the characters.
I mean, does anyone really care about Thraxis being a slave?
It's not like Volga is going to buy his freedom, does that even seem like something Volga would do?
Edited at 2021/09/10 10:38:07
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