is the writing better for tainted space? I was thinking of trying it out.
JimThermic used to write for the game. A former smut writer that actually managed to make you care for his characters and not just forget about them once you've unlocked all of their smut scenes and finished rubbing one out - which is a rather rare feat in porn games. His characters all had their own stories to tell. The drama scenes he created for them are never overbearing and don't divert too much from the actual porn setting. It rather helped making them look like real people.
And he didn't just write like that for important characters, no. His side characters have a lot of that depth to them as well.
SavCo only managed to give two characters in CoC 2 the same depth and those are Savin's Kasyrra and Etheryn. Alypia tries to dip into content like that as well but as we've seen with the game's latest update, she is still far from reaching those heights. She did write a lot of backstory for Annika, but once you finished reading through her it, it becomes apparent that this character has no rough edges around her.
She was never considered by anyone as an outsider or a freak for being half-sexed like Ryn is, had a very stable family life, managed to get into something like a queen's guard and then became a valkyrie after the warrior queen herself told her that she was just too fucking good and would be better off just joining their faiths most holy order. The order that's not just the most important in the boreal elves version of it but of the whole Lumian faith as a whole. - Which she is now also the seneschal of.
If Alypia's new character didn't have that one line mentioning that she was worried about their old friend's children from the queen's guard, she would come off as a completely one dimensional being.
Although she however was a bit stressed out about her fellow valkyrie's inquiries, who all look up to her, after becoming the second most important person in the Lumian faith. - Woe is me! - Good thing our character can give her a quick blowjob and her apparently biggest problem is suddenly solved. Just like that.
Like wtf, Alypia?
Annika just needed a good pump and dump. Doesn't even matter if your character enters a relationship with her after that.
Uhm.. Where was I?
Oh yeah, Wsan, who is widely considered CoC2's most competent smut writer, also used to write for the game. Same as Fenoxo and I at least would say that quality wise his writing is on par with Wsan's. But Fenoxo also wrote a lot of "hyper" scenes for the game that match in crazyness something like that one scene with the Behemoth where your character can take him for a stroll and "ride" around on him, strapped to his underbelly. So if you're into crazy shit like that, the game won't leave you wanting. Not a lot at least.