Replaying requiem (again) and I have thoughts
As much as I love this game, requiem often at some points gave different impressions of what it was going to set up. Innocence at least had an initial antagonist that was consistent throughout the narrative, but with requiem there was often...sparseness??? in how it portrayed it's conflicts.
Obviously, one could look at it from the angle that no matter where Amicia and Hugo went, there were going to be adults and danger that triggered the threshold regardless.
Like when first playing, because of how his introduction was set up, I thought Tonin was going to be a new member of Amicia's little crew and that was further foreshadowed by how Hugo said "I'd like to have a friend like him", but it wasn't the case, and the group diverged and separated in ways I wasn't expecting. (I remember on my Lucus post, how I mentioned I thought it would've made more sense if he went with Amicia and Hugo on the journey to La Cuna, because...it just made sense? It was built with alchemy at its roots. But I won't ramble more.
Has anyone else had similar thoughts? If so, what first impressions of what you thought the game was setting up and so on were going to go?