Cool! Thank you for the advice
yeah I mean in general you should treat most of your skills in this as intrusive thoughts whether you wanted them or not
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Will the Thoughts also add some dialogue options?
oh yes
Oh, I will be such a Feminist
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Kim wants to give me some radiant spinners, can I take them without losing any honour or anything else regarding my relationship with him?
You need to ask yourself what it means to accept or reject a gift, particularly one that is a very meaningful gesture on the part of the giver.
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It’s fair to assume that everything you do will affect how the game plays, but there’s no wrong decision, just decisions that lead down different paths.
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I definitely spent most of my early skill points unlocking thought slots and internalized every thought I unlocked just to see what it did. I need all that Content, baby. Once you fill all your slots you can spend points to abandon thoughts if you wish, I wouldn’t do it before then. I don’t think any of the thoughts actually foreclose any options, they often just grant new options. Sometimes they give passive penalties that don’t jive with your build, but it’s like, you know, whatever.
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They managed to build a non violent game which gives you xp and gameplay options simply based on text, and it’s wonderful.
I know I am probably not going to say anything new over what must already be written (although I haven’t gone through the whole thread yet), anyway the setting and the tone are wonderful, many characters are memorable, the cases are intricately presented.
Personally, while loving it (and being spending many hours a day playing it), I think it’s a bit too overwritten and some dialogues go on too much in exploring the lore of the universe, side stories, etc, which often break the pace when i am already focused on the main objectives. This brings me to skim such dialogues too often, and just go quickly in exhausting dialogue options by briefly reading the answers I go, to be sure they make sense.
Obviously, this makes also me feel guilty of not absorbing enough the game and losing important bits of enjoyment… But I still do it more often than I should, cuz I cannot approach it totally like I would do with a book… i want to “do” things, more than in a book.
Am I alone to have felt this?
The Switch version (now 1.0.5) is really mediocre. While the loading times are tolerable (not sure how they were in former versions), there are still many bugs such as:
- the game froze on me 3 times in 3 days, so the Switch had to close the application after one minute of “freeze” time;
- a few times (3 - 4) the game presented non-fatal errors and asked me if I wanted to report them, midgame, and after i chose “no” , it just went on working normally;
- at some point, the screen drifted away from the protagonist and I could only move the screen slowly: had to load my quicksave three times before the issue stopped occurring.
Plus, the game is not smooth, especially when the protagonist walks, and the textures are obviously much lower quality than on serious hardware, feeling somehow like cardboard models over other cardboard models, compared to looking like “paintings”. This would be the only acceptable thing, when choosing to play on the Switch, given its limited hardware.
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Btw, many compare it to Planescape Torment in its approach (minus the combat), which is true, but aren’t there other exellent ancestors, in its lineage? Such as Sanitarium, for example.
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Some buds and I book clubbed this game this month. We all finished it in about a week’s time because it was Too Good to Put Down, essential life chores be damned. Since there are only four of us, we all were able to pick different starting stats and I got stuck with the thinking man one. Didn’t mind it at all, but was jealous when I found out that my other buddies got to walk around with a deranged tie yelling BROTTAND (sp? i dunno, i just heard them saying it) in this insane voice at them all the time. I didn’t mind being the thinking man. Even though, 'sfar as I can tell, no one understood my true genius because no one would make me a drink or take my ramblings about the end of the world seriously.
I can see how first playing this without any voice acting then having it tacked on would be annoying. It’s like why watching movies or TV shows or whatever feels worse after having read a book because you’ve already, like, created these voices in your brain. But, in this case, I was the noob who watched the movie after the book and, man! I really like the voice acting. Can’t tell you how often I say “hahd-cooore!!” or “Cuno doesn’t fuckin’ care” to absolutely no one. It was great, those voice actors are way better than whatever I’ve got going on in my brain.
Speaking of Cuno. Loved that little guy. A true artist who should have had the coolest locust city. I professed my love for him
Great game, hilarious game. I liked the ending a bunch. Thought I was going to do Good things, but turns out nothing will stop the wheel of capitalism. ACAB
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a high-ish Esprit de Corps will suggest there’s more stuff going on in the background, but we’ll see eh
i’ve been yelling “fock does Cuno care?!” at my partner more-or-less non-stop since we played through but also been getting into yelling
as of like yesterday
can’t stop thinking about the transformative power of rave either
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The game had voice acting at launch, it just wasn’t fully voice acted. The two lines you point out were voice-acted in the original release!
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Martin Luiga
Tallinn Inpatient Treatment Centre of Psychiatry Clinic, Ward IX
10/1/2022
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I feel like “upcoming Amazon Prime Video series” was a strong signal but this seems to explain it
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fuck the money men
this makes me so angry, such a flagrantly anti-art move, cutting off the nose to spite the face
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this is a fucking bummer. i hope these people can find a way to make the art they want, in a space they want to.
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