Glad it's actually different designs and not just "Generation Xerox" copies of the champions, like their bodies are.

It should be an active choice, not baked in, as it were.

Been loving all the fun art I've seen people doodle for this, I just did a really scrappy SOUL.

Pauline is making me hope the next Zelda will return to have a companion, and with actual voice acting instead of Sim-lish.

I know it's heartbreaking and discouraging when ICE succeeds in kidnapping someone despite the neighborhood showing up.

But people showing up, delaying them, making ICE waste half their shift, is still an effective nonviolent organizing tactic especially at scale.

The machine can be slowed down.

More generally, magic "knows" the same way magic would exist in the first place, the caster has the magic act that way through whatever catalyst the world has for casting. Know the correct spell, have the knowledge to focus magic more specifically, etc.

And take the recent BG3, that had a parasite infection be the main plot point. So the parasite was specifically called out as being magically tampered so that removal = death of the host. So the plot is partially about circumventing that.

Dnd, as an easy example, has most parasite style infections only cured by specific spells, not just anything that restores HP. Plus such spells are generally only learned by the "holy" types, restricting the access further.

It's not like magic is blasting x-rays, magic can be written to affect specific things. And if it feels cheap, make the ability to do such focus a difficult trained skill; so that you would still need to see a trained specialist and not just any noob who can cast dancing lights.

Either it dies and the body still has to expel it, or the magic also destroys the parasite itself. Writers choice based on if they want the logistics to matter for the story.