I love the direction the story is heading right now, but i definitely have my grievances that i hope echo project work on resolving in the future! Mainly just Amicus as of now, but the more i dwell on it, the more i do feel like Khemia is moving away from those tones i loved so much in Adastra.
Now, I'm fully aware that Amicus always had those arrogant undertones that were simply glossed over from the view of Marco, but holy shit does that just make me miss that POV even more. Every scene with Amicus in this game feels like a slog to get through excluding like... Two.
It still doesnt help that (Even though it has been three years in-game) Amicus' character in Interea is able to have the emperor tone we see in Khemia whilst still being a lovable, fair and respectful individual. He's even able to hold this professional tone in intense situations, something he completely fails on doing in Khemia, bursting into a fit of rage instead.
It doesn't help that his new sprite is genuine whiplash compared to the other sprites in this game, the new art style in general just feels... Odd, actually. Not that i fully dislike it, i think that Neferu, Virginia and Brunis look great, but i found Aya's sprite to be my favorite of the game as of version 0.4, which as far as i can, tell that was the old style!
Like i said, this comes from a place of care, i just want to see a satisfying conclusion to this game that doesn't completely kill Amicus' character going into the next game in the franchise. Also give the poor wolf boy his belly back and my life is yours :(