If there’s one little nitpick I have towards Freedom Planet 2’s story, it’s that we didn’t really get much insight into how Lilac felt about her entire race getting wiped out.
Like, yeah, we get two cutscenes dealing with this, alongside one or two brief mentions here and there. But once we see the cutscene of her lashing out at the Magister for his unintentional victim-blaming, we don’t get anymore insight as to how she feels about the genocide until AFTER we beat Merga.
It’s a nitpick, because it really doesn’t detract from the overall story, but I can’t help but feel like there was a missed opportunity here to really explore her perspective.
For starters, her anger towards the Magister really shouldn’t have vanished after that one cutscene. I’m not saying she should’ve been telling the dude to fuck off every other second, but maybe show her being more bitter and sardonic towards him (and Neera to an extent). When he tells her not to fall for Merga’s tricks after finding the first time capsule, have her start muttering something along the lines of “bold words coming from the earth dragon,” before stopping herself. Have her actually contemplate Merga’s offer of joining her and show her almost accept it before realizing that she’d been letting her anger and bitterness control her. This would make the scenes where the Magister apologizes to her for everything, and where she finally breaks down after defeating Merga hit even harder than they already did.
Oh, and maybe throw in a scene where she smacks Neera for accusing Carol of being a traitor while you’re at it. That’d be fun to see.