u/LurkytheActiveposter

I think it's the nature of the medium. If you slow down and do the story from the last expansion, listening to the dialog and so on, the story is actually pretty great.

By the time we find Neyrelle, she doesn't really even remember Lorath anymore. Or you. She claims every memory before Memphisto was like a dream that turned out to be her whole life. Even her mother, she only rememebers that her mother loved her, but her face? Gone. Her childhood memories. A fuzzy amalgam of what her life used to be.

Blizzard really put time and effort to build out this haunting Frodo-like story of someone small, even handicapped, enduring torments indescribable, all the while completely losing everything about herself, just plugging along with a singular focus on a mission she probably didn't even understand anymore by the time the wanderer meets up with her.

Blizzard really put a lot more production sadly into that story than the one in this expansion. At least we got a end-of-expansion cinematic and Neyrelle actually looks like she does in game instead of switching to a completely different asian face like they did for in-game Memphisto for some reason.

Also no way you saw the water recede and didn't think that was the shit.