I was going to say, in order to not be entirely negative, that Erritis is pretty solidly written throughout. It felt like the only time the game allowed itself to be fun.
Feel like that was handled by someone else, not my fantasy fiction nemesis.
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oh and I liked exploring the loving passages of sphincterland
It’s the single tear that makes my jaw clench up, though the rest of it is treacly
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Here’s the best writing in the game fyi
I’m actually pretty forgiving of said bookisms (my brain is rotten with old pulp), but “The frost that surrounds his words” paired with “suggests that” is just intolerable. The writer couldn’t trust me to understand a simple metaphor so they had to have an explanatory coda for the purple prose.
See, I like Erritis.
Erritis even had a @HOBO line once
This is the last bit of good writing I found in my screenshots folder. Might as well end my kvetching here
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Oh and just to explain why I had a screencap of the chalcedon, “corded bands” of muscle is a stock phrase used by Lester Dent in old Doc Savage stories all the time. It’s associated with the lowest grade of pulp in my mind. Many of the attempts to convey specific imagery through metaphor in the game come across as shopworn cliche to me because I’ve read too much absolute garbage in my life.
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“I’m gone.”
“I’ve updated my journal.”
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This is what I get for sleeping in but I can’t believe you all let Felix get away with being like “well I have a New Yorker subscription”
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I am constantly owning myself on purpose just to get out of arguments without having to reach some absolutist conclusion
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thinking of learning to make infinity engine mods so I can give annah a combat ability called “sugar walls” in honour of her voice actress
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