The King has created an idealised version of The World Before, a fantasy with no discrimination, when we know that it was division and discrimination that led to the Magla War that destroyed humanity. He’s trying to run away from the problem in his fantasy. MC instead sees fantasy and utopia as a motivation to change the world he’s currently in. That’s the core message here: fantasy and idealism have the power to inspire meaningful change in the world, but they are not a crutch or an escape. We have to tackle the world’s problems head on.
I like that the “real world” is not real at all. It’s the King desperately trying to save his son from the very real hell he lives in. He’s doing a Maruki, but more over, he’s giving into his fear and anxiety.
It kinda sad tho mc want to make a kingdom based from more or his father book but stop by his own father because of fear also in the ending mc reading new book maybe in future game the mc will reading that book and start a new game
They have some key differences. Maruki's impetus was being so broken by his grief, he reasons that nobody can truly overcome theirs. This causes him to try to attack the "root", he questions why suffering needs to exist, and he's compelled to change things as he sees them. He's convinced that with his abilities, he's the only one who reasonably can. If people simply allow him the control to grant their ideals and aspirations as he sees fit and appropriate for them, then he could change reality. More is long past that. The late Hythlodaeus earnestly tried to change Euchronia, he believed he truly had what it took to unite the Tribes and secure peace in his time, but he was crushed by the grotesque, all-encompassing weight of reality. He's motivated by fear, once he remembers who he was, he is terrified of losing anything more than he has already lost. He would rather sit in a prop, a fiction of his own invention, than risk otherwise. More believes that changing reality is a pipe dream, anyone who tries will inevitably have to come to terms with the impossibility of the task. Maruki is convinced he can change reality, More is convinced it can't be changed.
This whole game is basically a melting pit of almost everything Atlus has made in their three and a half decades as a company, especially some choice mechanical and thematic elements reminiscent of DDS, and this part reminded me a ton of Gale's affirmation that the events of the previous game were real, they mattered, and they weren't just illusion in DDS2.
