(from my previous post)
Parts I'm not sure about:
The 'talk like a snow imp' thing would make sense if this were an RS3 event, where thanks to previous events and the Myths of the White Lands quest we've seen plenty of snow imps and know just what their usual speech pattern is. But in OSRS we've never run into any snow imps, in Christmas events or elsewhere. So our knowledge of how they speak comes from knowledge of RS3 that we assumed our in-game character didn't have access to. It'd be like our character making an offhand reference to the Arc and its currency chimes even though they haven't been mentioned anywhere else in OSRS.
Corsair Cove's being the place for Santa and Jack Frost to take their holiday. I've never seen a holiday event that requires one to start a quest to finish. All the events take place in areas that are accessable from the start. Granted, I see the need to draw attention to the new area, but still it seems weird.
Rude Dolph. Yes, I get the joke, and the 'sneezing on the fourth wall' bit is hilarious. But still, it seems kind of a strange portrayal, especially since we have a different Rudolph in the RS3 event. Are they related?
Things I didn't like:
What was up with the Donner kebab? It serves no purpose other than to be dark holiday humor that is completely out of place with the rest of the event. It raises just SO many questions. We KNOW Santa would NOT cook one of his reindeer on a whim (but we also know the Wise Old Man didn't have much of an opportunity to do it either). Did Donner go crazy? Did the Anti-Santa do something to Donner? Did Rude Dolph get in a fight with Donner that got out of hand? Was this actually Donner's counterpart from ScapeRune, and the regular Donner is elsewhere? Will next year's event be about finding out the real story?
All in all, aside from that, I liked this event. I liked it even better than the G-Nome Project in RS3. And the combination blue party hat/Santa hat is a nice reward item.
24-Dec-2017 23:49:13
