Trithne
Erudite
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Do you actually need to figure anything out yourself as a puzzle or is everything really spelled out for you?
I watched a review and he said when you collect enough info to make the final loop, the game basically tells you exactly how to proceed and what to do in which order to kill all 8 visionaries
Eh.. does that mean there's only one valid solution and until then your just fapping around collecting mcguffin clues?
Do they even react to you on subsequent loops or grow more panicked as your loop gets closer and closer to it's end goal?
I doubt it. Otherwise why would their schedules remain the same.
Not really much of a spoiler, but putting it in one anyway, for Wenjie:
When you kill Wenjie for the first time (which is the last part of the game's incredibly long tutorial/onboarding), there's a note commenting that only Colt and Julianna seem to have this ability to remember information across loops.
I remember reading somewhere that NPC's will slightly adjust to your tactics if you constantly use the same approach - which I thought debunked this.. ??
I don't remember where I read that though.. so maybe it's complete bullshit.
I'm sure that the dynamic difficulty will do that, and if you really wanted to contextualise it in universe you could say that Julianna is giving everyone pointers, but that's more of a justification than anything that needs to be in the "lore".
The whole setup of what does and doesn't carry between loops is pretty arbitrary anyway and is basically just "whatever the plot and the player needs"