““We were finally at a state in the project where we could play through the whole [game]. And it became very clear that we were missing the large final location that was going to tie the story together and have a satisfying action-filled payoff,” Shen said. “I was both implementing the main quest and leading the quest design team, so I had absolutely no time. The entire quest design team was already overbooked.””
The quest design team being overbooked and not having time certainly explains a lot.
if you gave me 30 seconds to design a final quest for a video game, I could come up with something better than “you float around the room and you have to touch the right star a dozen times but you move really slowly and we don’t bother explaining it to you the first time”.
man, I spent so long trying to figure out that first power chamber whatever thing thats never explained. I was expecting some brilliant reveal about the origins of the galaxy and life in it or something.
but nope.
useless not-magic.