User blog comment:Hawki/Legacy of the Void - Reflections, Ruminations, and an End of an Era/@comment-1496755-20151207080002

Nice review.

I liked SC2's story overall, although some of the retcons were disappointing - I really prefer the original SC1 lore, where the Xel'naga messed up (twice) and the Overmind did what ti did by its own free will (pursuing perfection). It's a much better story premise than "that evil guy made me do it". The Tassadar twist annoyed me - I was really hoping it was the actual Tassadar.

Amon is a cool villain, although a bit monotonous as well. Most of his appearances within the main campaign consisted of his endless rambling about "bringing salvation", which started to become boring at some point. He seemed more interesting and sophisticated during his first appearance. I just wonder if he was a good guy before and turned evil later (a la Sargeras) or had the seeds of evil in him from the very beginning.

The Epilogue was great - and it even follows Brood War's campaign order (Protoss-Terran-Zerg). Good design, challenging battles and a great conclusion. The stills in the end reminded me of the stills from the original SC2: WoL installer, which recounted the story of StarCraft. It forms a cool beginning/end frame.

I loved the troop assignment system. This allows greater immersion into the story, in a way, as the player puts his "trust" in one faction or another, balancing the forces of light, shadow, cold machine logic, and chaos to forge the best possible army setup. (Side note: For some weird reason, I get some Dune universe associations in my imagination, with the Aiur faction being Atreides, Nerazim - Ordos, and Tal'darim - Harkonnen.)

The Purifiers - I am 99.99% sure these guys are based on the Cylons from the Battlestar Galactica series. They even share the same background (sentient machines that rebel against their creators due to being treated poorly).

As a whole, my favorite part of SC2 was HotS - it was (as you wrote) the darkest part of the trilogy, it had a cool revenge motif going on, had awesome music, and I also loved the concept evolution missions.

SC2 was great - of that therei s no doubt. But for me, personally, SC1 will always be more than just great. It will be legendary :)

(the same way I consider the older Diablo games to be superior to D3)