[Mesnick]

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Originally Posted by Frontier

I think it was just doubling down on Sieg as a dark twist on Baku.

Instead of a dream agent Sieg was a dream assassin.

Instead of seeing dreams as a means to make people happy as Baku did, Sieg saw it as a means of punishing the wicked even if it meant killing them and having to live with that sin each and every time.

For Baku his dream journey furthered his heroic resolve and belief in humanity while for Sieg it just made him further sink into believing the worst in humanity and embracing his own sin.

Baku was never consumed by his Nightmare while Sieg embraced his and can't tell where he begins and Punny-chan ends anymore.

Instead of working with and eventually understanding his father like Baku did, Sieg ends up killing his father for abandoning him to prison.

So I feel like that gave a lot of context to Sieg, what he represents to Baku, and how that played out in their final fight.

And this comment actually makes me think about the lost opportunity for a final villain who would complement the protagonist well. So, we're left with Tree, who's just a nasty jerk with too many resources, the faceless CODE leadership, and a possible flare-up of Lady's madness. Lady isn't all that bad as a villain, but she and Baku haven't interacted in too long, so I'm not sure she'll be able to create the necessary level of threat. Plus, I don't want Nem to suffer even more. Of course, it's always possible that Dawn will rise from the depths of Nightmares with a power-up by the end, but that's not a certainty.