You know, I've been reading the last posts, and remembering the older ones, and it seems to me that some of you didn't ike the game because it didn't give the answers you expected about Trilby. But from where I stand, this tetralogy is not about him, it's about Chzo, and the game did indeed give me all the answers I wanted about THAT... you know, Trilbs is a great character, alright, but from the beginning this wasn't his story. It was John DeFoe's story, and later, Chzo's story. Trilby was only one of the people who got involved with the elemental, just like DeFoe himself (who, by the way, is a much more interesting character, if you ask me); ok, he was a key element in the story, but the true star was the evil entity all along. And that was handled just right. In the first game, that evil entity was John DeFoe, but we already had a hint that there was something deeper in him. Then in the second game, we got confirmation, but it wasn't until the third game that we learned about Chzo and the true scope of the Evil in question. I am not even sure that Yahtzee had already created Chzo in the first two games or if he thought that up only for the third game, but that is irrelevant. The fact is he tied everything up very nicely, and even created a "crescendo" in the series that only makes it all the more appealing.
But I'm losing my point here. What I really want to say is, this series isn't about Trilby, not in my point of view anyway; it's about Chzo, and it's 400-hundred-year-spanning scheme to get a new Prince. That's why I am not concerned about what happened to Trilby when he was not involved with Chzo, at least not for THIS tetralogy. And I sure hope, if there is to be another Trilby game in the future, that it is about his life before the DeFoe Manor Incident, or after sending the idol into space. Maybe a game starting with him sending the idol away and moving on to a completely different mission? Maybe a mission that was a consequence of the act of sending the idol away? That would be interesting...
And on a side note, I have a question for Yahtzee: have you ever read "The Crib" by Paul Kent? The way you handle the flashbacks in TN, showing all the steps of the idol back to its origin as a tree, well, it's very similar to what happens in that story. Noy that it makes it any less interesting, I was just wondering about your source of inspiration.
Oh, and about the movies: I don't think Trilby could be involved with them, because they are mentioned by Janine as being relatively recent, and not more than 150 years old...
This post has been edited by True Hare: 29 January 2007 - 12:19 AM