Good video and I think they are doing a good job of showing that they are putting some effort into this. Tim is clearly well-aware that his team joined SG development in a less-than-ideal scenario and they have a long way to go in winning people over, which I think is a good attitude to have.
There are a lot of animated sequences in the story which, at least so far, we haven't seen in any of the SGM stories (we have had cutscenes but they were all static images). Tim did say they are bringing in "small form animatics" so I suppose they will actually be in the game rather than just promotional videos. Some of them look a bit janky to me personally but I'm not against it.
(Edit: Just to clarify, I'm not against having animations in the cutscenes, but I'm definitely against the style of animation they are using lol. Where they rig parts of the body and make them move digitally rather than drawing the in-between frames. I've seen them use this in some promo posts for SGM as well and they look terrible. I guess they look "smooth" but they look extremely cheap, and having hand-drawn frames, even at lower framerates, would look way more classy)
It was also confirmed separately in another post I think that the story will be fully voiced which is nice, at least with Beo and Annie voices being confirmed here. Although obviously because of the timeline a lot of the younger characters would not be appearing in this story lol. I'm more interested in the actual story than them being voiced (hey we played SG without voiced stories for years before they were released with 2E), but I'm sure they will be received well by most people, especially since people keep asking for them for the new DLC stories.
In the video I think there are some interesting previews of the story:
- Beowulf's dad, Theo, was either a wrestler or a boxer. Seems like he was asked to throw matches against Medici-affiliated fighters. I guess this means he ends up not doing it and got in trouble with the Medici (as shown in the script preview where he seems to be forced to work for the Medici). Would be a bit cliche but eh, it's a simple enough story to set up why his family was struggling
- Beowulf's mum, Elaine, seemed to have some health issue, and seems to have signed up for experiment with Lab 0, maybe for money or maybe for some experimental cure. Probably both. A little bit iffy on this small detail because at the time (and still), Lab 0 is the secret lab, so I don't think she would have been made to sign on a piece of paper that is labelled "Lab 0". Would have made more sense if it was just an agreement with the "Anti-Skullgirl Labs" or something and then she was transferred to Lab 0. But I guess we'll see since I dunno anything about what led up to this scene
- The contract also showed her surname partially "Har-". Assuming she changed her surname after marrying Theo and Beowulf took that surname as well, we might have the first clue to Beo's real surname. (EDIT2: Someone pointed out that you can compare it against her signature and the surname clearly ends with a T, so it is most likely "Hart")
