Playing Nina's quest, and I just can't stress enough how poor a writer The Observer is. His dialogue reads like it came from someone who's never listened to another human being speak before, and his voice is all over the place. He getting paid for this? I'd edit the whole thing and send it to Fen if not for Fen being a dirty weasel who has volunteers do all his writing while selling things on Steam along with his still keeping a Patreon.
Ugh, I know. I try to keep an open mind, but now that I'm exposing myself to him directly by playing it again it's so hard to ignore all the irritating little things he does that take me right out of a passage. I -always- know when one of his scenes pop up because suddenly everyone starts talking like they have autism, addressing
every single little point in order that someone makes, leaving absolutely nothing to subtext, and making weird points that another character will then point out as weird (THEN WHY DID YOU WRITE IT THAT WAY GHEHRJEHJE). The PC's "dialogue" always makes them sound like a smarmy, cynical redditor and it's often unclear when the voiced section ends, so it'll blend into the prose - which will inevitably have these obnoxiously stupid phrases sprinkled throughout.
Like I just finished the quest in the mountains and ran across this sentence:
"If the reaver was trying to stall you while whoever further along the trail completes the job they're meaning to, it's best to make like a gods-damned tree and leave."
Along with its terribly awkward structure he apparently didn't realize that it's 'make like a tree and
leaf'. It's a joke. Make like a tree and
leave is not a pun and makes no sense.
This is setting aside the fact that the actual content is always so by-the-numbers uncreative. I read his Evergreen scene and it was just so...empty of any and all eroticism compared to the ones that William cranked out. The more I read of him since I last played the more I think they just let him go nuts with his OC wank because he's got those adderall levels of productivity.