Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-27603392-20150509232430/@comment-27603392-20150520001530

Confession #558:

Ok, might as well give my two cents on this Cryo and Siegfried thing.

We get that yes, historically, and mythically speaking, Sieg's a beast. But this is fictionland we're talking about. Let's say Sieg gets accepted in his current state. Then he'll start winning battles like a piece of cake against all the other OCs on this place, which is unfair. Then he'll run out of enemies to fight, which is boring. Story's over, the end. That would be a waste of a story, would it?

That's why he needs to have some, not a shitload of flaws, several dents in his proverbial armor that make him slip up every now and then. It also makes for the juiciest and most interesting stories. All the protags in your English Lit stories all have well-written flaws. Even the near-invincible Superman is vulnerable to Kryptonite. Otherwise, Superman wouldn't be going on for 84 years now.

Trust me, I have seen situations that made things and people as powerful as yours. Recent Call of Duty games and Battlefield games had to make some of their weapons weaker so that nobody else using all the other guns would be swept away like dust.

And let's not forget SAO. Critics call it the worst anime of all time. Its protag, Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya, is responsible for several of the show's shortcomings.

Kirito is the most knowledgeable, most adorkable, most skilled MMORPG player in SAO, and that drives everyone nuts. He can take advantage of serious glitches and hacks to perform impossible tricks. These include the following:

- Break an high-value sword in one single blow

- Shrug off a fatal stab from the final boss and come back to life like it was nothing. Keep in mind that at the time of the game, no one can log out, so if you die, you die for good.

- Carry large swords with little weight restrictions one handed- including the times when he's flying in midair.

-Dodge and block bullets, and later spells, which are violations of the game physics, because the bullets are coded to fly faster than the human eye can see them.