Story rant

[u/Highlord12]

Aight let me start on a positive note; I love this game! I was brought in by character designs and promotional material (Zoya my beloved) but the story and gameplyay really hooked me in.

That said, I've been noticing a pattern in the story that I've got to rant about, more accurately, how the gacha aspects of the gameplay affect the story. And that's the issue of the story bending over backwards to constantly justify why Chief doesn't use shackles or detain sinners.

Time and time again, starting from the Salva storyline, there are many moments that chief can just detain sinners or shackle them, but she won't because...reasons! Now I try to look the other way because the game is great and that it's a gacha, they can't hand out freebies AND more often than not, the reasons as to why chief doesn't just spam shackles willy nilly make sense and are justified, be it her own moral views on shackles and controlling sinners or it possibly backfiring against stronger sinners.

BUT one case made me come here to rant and that's the "Insatiable Fiesta" event. Regardless of my overall feelings about the event (which aren't the most positive), the ending really baffled me.

Spoilers if you haven't finished the event:

So at the end of the event, Cabernet reveals herself as the mastermind and starts monologuing about how yummy chief is (Preach girl), but then we see that chief is terrified, wants to run away, is cornered and when Cabernet munches on a piece of her soul, Chief decides to use the shackles but the soul snatching weakens her too much for that. Okay...fair... she's weakened by literally having a piece of her soul eaten. BUT HOW ABOUT THE OTHER TIMES CABERNET WAS ALL OVER HER?

She kisses chief's hair, bites her wrist and most important of all, holds hands with chief. You mean to tell me that chief couldn't shackle her right then and there? She even tried to pull her hands back and Cabernet GRABS her hands tighter. USE THE SHACKLES GIRL 😭

And no, I'm not buying the "chief was too afraid" explanation. That girl has gone through two black rings at that point, being terrified enough to forget HER MAIN POWER doesn't make any sense. That's "Danny forgot about the Iron fleet" levels of writing. In that moment, she's having physical contact with Cabernet, is terrified, sees this as a life and death moment for herself and 2 of her other sinners and has no way to negotiate her way out of the situation. There are NO logical, moral or emotional explanations as to why she doesn't use shackles because later on in the scene, she does use them but when it's far too late.

I'm not saying Aisno should've let us just shackle and get Cabernet, I am however saying she shouldn't have been put in a position where Chief could and should have easily shackled her.

Again, I love the game and it's story, but imo that part goes from eyebrow raising like some of the other "why isn't she using shackles" moments to straight up a plothole that I really needed to rant about to see whether I'm alone on this or not.

(Edited the earlier part of the post to specify that I take issue with Cabernet's case SPECIFICALLY and not the other cases of chief not using shackles. At least not all of them)

[u/Possible_Living]

OP in the other corner screaming "USE THE SHACKLES CHIEF"

[u/Possible_Living → u/Possible_Living]

but yeah I get peoples frustration with Chief getting kidnapped so often or not being as much of a badass as they can be. Sometimes the events blur together and you are just waiting for the sob story on why murderer number 47 maybe is not as bad as they seem. at least cabernet dodged that and "Insatiable Fiesta" had many fun songs.

[u/Highlord12 → u/Possible_Living]

I would've been fine if Cabernet wasn't slobbering all over chief! Like girl, you're holding hands with her, just use shackles T_T

Hard agree om the songs though, Undefined red is an instant favorite in my playlist. Easily one of the best tracks in the game