Talk:The Outsider/@comment-43614028-20200708020334/@comment-26199726-20200708100351

While I don't necessarily agree with a judgement that harsh, I think what we can all agree on is that there are very noticable differences that aren't for the better.

In D1, the Outsider's main agenda (if you can even call it that) is an exciting show. Whenever he intervened, it was to make things more interesting, to bring meaningful choices into the game. In that way, he was quite aloof.

While I don't think that has entirely gone away in D2 and DotO, he seems much more involved here. He seems to have much more tangible goals and intervenes more, giving Emily the timepiece and the information on how to defeat Delilah, and granting Billie the tools to reach him. In the case of Emily, you get the feeling he has a personal stake in Delilah's downfall ("Delilah is... a part of me now. And I don't like it."), and in the case of Billie, he aids her at least in part because he wants to be free from his prison, one way or another.

And while I don't think he doesn't also enjoy the spectacle along the way, it doesn't seem to be his only motivation any more. A somewhat jarring departure from the old "I don't play favorites" or "I don't decide who wins and whose body gets tossed into the river to rot".