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- Jul 28, 2018
I think the implication, despite not being present in cutscenes, is that he didn't just buy a scroll, but "trained every day, without neglect" to get to that point, as all the game's systems point back to buying new move scrolls, mastering them, training to level up etc. I think the more you embrace that side of the game, the more the narrative works. That's going to vary from person-to-person.To now, where ryo (as least in my story), got whooped no problem by the niaowu thugs and had to come back a second time after buying a book for 5000 Yuan, now all the sudden he reads it and now he has the skills to not only destroy like a hundred men on his way to that temple, but also then defeat that same thug at the top, almost mortal kombat style.
Due to budget limitations, I think they had to rely a bit too heavily on the RPG-style levelling to gate your progress. In an ideal scenario not every fight with goons would require several days of training to overcome, but they just didn't have much "mainline" content to work with, forcing them to spread it out and make you work for it. This loop works better in some situations than others.