@ErinRosado I want to think he cares but I just don’t know… There’s so many other characters who manipulate you over the course of the games that I’m completely uncertain. I have two playthroughs, one where my heroine stays with Black Magic, and one where she’s with Lucky. I’m thinking about playing a third one where she breaks up with Black Magic but stays single.
I wish there were a way to have your character stay single after the breakup, but be heartbroken over it (a breakup with either Lucky or Black, which could lead to a possible reconciliation in the third game). That would make sense for a hero who really cared about Black/Lucky but refused to vote against their conscience.
@yermog - I am doing the exact same thing, making sure I’ve got it ready for June. With regards to your comment about manipulation, the one that upset me the most was Rebellion, because she was your idol, and didn’t she know it.
yermog - I read the other day in the thread, the one about 2014 releases, it said ‘June?’. But I feel your pain - I downloaded both Heroes Rise and the Hero Project, a matter of days after The Hero Project came out, so when I got to the end, I was like, “Don’t tell me I have to wait a YEAR?!”
Personally while I find Black Magic’s use of lifeforce to fuel his powers to be abhorrent, he (or she) isn’t a bad person at the heart as evidenced by the care and time he puts into his human batteries.
Keep in mind all the people he “uses” are pretty much terminally ill or brain dead so it isn’t as bad as some people seem to claim. It IS very mercenary, cold almost; a “sacrifice the one to save the many” sort of thing but it isn’t evil as such.
The romance with BM is pretty sweet in the first game. But in the second how he/she behaves is such a 180 from their “normal” selves that it’s pretty shocking however there are two major points to consider here that i think people forget.
Black Magic is a subordinate to Rebellion - a person we KNOW is acting against Powered Interests. He/she is doing what Rebellion instructs for the most part.
Black Magic is something of a show off. And we are on a nationally broadcast “reality tv show” that is about as real as Jersey Shore or The Only Way Is Essex. Any time a camera is “on” we literally can’t take anything anyone says as gospel - and through the second story pretty much the only times we interact with Black Magic is in front of a camera.
I admit that Black Magic has some SERIOUS explaining to do in the 3rd game, and would full deserve a punch in the mouth for his/her behaviour on The Hero Project. But it isn’t as surprising or shocking or wrong as you might initially feel.
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I think part of the problem with this installment was that he needed to get the Player Character to pick a side, but had trouble communicating this and communicating the rivalry between the two camps in an organic way. So some parts come off a little hamfisted and pushy.
I would go a lot further than hamfisted and pushy myself.
I had three playthroughs for the second game. The first one, I stayed with BM, the second I got together with Lucky, and the third I broke up with BM and stayed single. IN both the second and third playthroughs, I got BM’s relationship level down to the mid-30’s from being in the high 90’s. On the Facebook page I was told that you could repair your relationship with BM, but it would be difficult. The thing is though, I don’t know if I’d want to repair a relationship with him if he’s going to keep being a snippity, stuck-up creep.
