In a post-scarcity economy, the Golden Standard is a hindrance to the distribution of universal healthcare, shelter, and food. So instead currency is based on a non-finite resource: time. More specifically, it is an amount energy generated per hour of labor.

Basically, because Photon tech makes energy abundant, capital becomes more of a mere formality when it comes to obtaining the necessities (healthcare, shelter, food). The value of more luxurious good is measured differently (the * rating).

@Mattwo7 said in Dark Falz Luther:

@RedDingo7777 said in Dark Falz Luther:

Luther is the leader of the Avian Falspawn

Since when exactly?

When he became a Dark Falz. That's an official descriptor for him.

@Mattwo7 said in Dark Falz Luther:

In Episode 5, the bird falspawn were referred to as Luther's. I'm still not convinced...

Luther is the leader of the Avian Falspawn, not their creator.

All Falspawn, the Dark Falz included, are the emanations of the sealed Profound Darkness.

The main problem with this was that Soulsborne games were built from the ground up with PVP as central part to their experience. PSO2 was not and I get the feeling that trying to implement it would be like trying to make a jet engine propel a boat.

As someone who wanted a hairstyle that was rotated out of Fresh Finds before it the game even came to the PC, I concur.

The in-lore explanation is that she's super strong because she perfected her fighting style and body over the course of human history. Barring the fact that the human body just can't get that strong without a handwave like aether or photons, it opens the whole other kettle about just what she and Adam are supposed to be.

In any case, I'd be fine with her superior strength if they played her up as more of a blood knight than humanity's advocate. Hell I'd even be fine with her interventions if they primarily motivated by a desire for a good fight with the ARKS Op down the line. They should have made her a female Elder rather than Adam's archenemy.

@Charus said in Why is Harukotan Architecture so strikingly similar to real accient Japanese/Chinese?:

@AndrlCh Seems like a poor excuse because they didnt have their own ideas, but whatever.

It's no lazier than any other game rehashing a design choice in a series.

Phaleg kind of takes away the stakes for Episode 4, because just by being as absurdly strong as she is, it's pretty much all but stated that she would wipe out Deus if ARKS and team Hitsugi failed.

Mother was just a failed Xion clone with a chip on her shoulder. Deus was basically a very big phantasm who was supposed to play God but ended up more like the Gnostic Demiurge.