Mostly??? I popped over to that youtube stream when they were in the early game. That must have been some other Paper Champion I saw making comments on the stream! lol
All of my fault lmao* I just want the game to be amazing so I couldn't wait anymore.
Anyway i like what I see so far but understand that so much of it is taken way out of context. I've been trying to tell people that they haven't seen basically 80% of the game in its fullest and to keep an open mind until they play it themselves, regardless of whether or not they like what they've seen. The ending could be taken in a completely different context, especially if we haven't seen almost all of the second half of the game to begin with. I feel like this community here is the only one that actually understands that lol. Just my two cents on how frustrated I am with the Internet and people that jump to extraordinary conclusions about a game they haven't played yet, and barely even seen.
For example, the streamer yesterday didn't even have the ring of the Lucii section in the ascension tree even after beating the game. Somebody could have easily complained about that and said that the item is just a gimmick. Yet today in the 101 trailer, we saw that it indeed has a skill tree of its own (there's a 9th skill tree to the far right that we've never seen before). Which clearly indicates that the streamer rushed through so much of the game that he never bothered to utilize an entire gameplay mechanic within the game.
The point I'm getting at here is that people are doing the same with the story right now. The whole train section is missing, which is where the bulk of the story mainly is according to devs, yet a mod on Neogaf just jumps to conclusions about the games story, and countless users complain about the fates of certain characters after only seeing the same 3 chapters for the last 2 years, including leaks, not realizing that 90% of the game has basically been left untold, that so much of it comes from dialogue between the Bros, that ending scenes likely happen the way they do because by that point we accept the conclusion the game is offering us. And this is coming from a person who actually likes the ending given how little context was given to us.