in other news i really feel like looking a up a glossary of weird 16th century slurs now
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a whole ass recommended reading list!
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def a game i wanted to like a lot more out of the gate than i have. even at the highest text speed and mashing buttons, within 10 minutes i was already irritated by the dialogue speed/writing gimmick. if you’re gonna lore dump at me just give it to me faster, dont get so cute!
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The Cheese and the Worms is really good! Will second that recommendation
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I like how the St John’s Eve festival is handled in this game, it reminds me of Ukraine’s Kupala Night, famously portrayed in Nikolai Gogol’s short story
Would not be surprised if this was a primary source, since searching for the fern flower is such a specifically eastern european tradition that I felt genuine surprise to see it come up in this game.
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i don’t entirely buy that any iteration of andreas would leap in a burning building to save a buncha books, and certainly not my sardonic hedonist
i gotta appreciate how they’ve done the handoff to my magdalen uh ‘roll’ via the book she was gifted though, that’s some consonance right there
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i haven’t played a pointyclick game this good since gorogoa
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oh good they’re gonna add a volume slider for the writing sounds. I just need it to be a LITTLE bit quieter than everything else and it won’t bother me as much
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a literal checkov’s gun too
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turns out my psych nurse really loves The Name of the Rose but he means the movie
he loves the movie adaptation of The Name of the Rose
this is one of the most fucked up revelations of all human history
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some men will run into a burning building to avoid their wife before even considering therapy
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ok this and disco are almost the only two of These Games i’ve played in my life and now i must wonder if others are this good
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most are not, these are just the two very best ones
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And I say this as person who loves this particular subgenre of choice-centric rpg
As someone who earnestly believes that this is the best genre of video game: these games are rarities because they are labors of love in an industry hostile to love.
There is something distinctly autobiographical about Andreas’s attitude towards his patrons during Act 2 of the game.
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so i figured out the motive would be something about linking the pre-Christian past to current traditions pretty early and easily even if the culprit eluded me so i’m calling that a victory, for me, i win
i’m not sure there’s need to replay? feel like most of the key beats aren’t going to shift radically, but
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putdowns and polyglotting, but otherwise yeah
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i beat it today and i ended up caring about everyone in this stupid village besides that fucking miller. Good game.
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just started this today and adore it, I don’t think it showed very well at all compared to how much care is evident in the presentation from the first moments
reminds me what I liked about deadfire immediately too
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