- Feb 5, 2020
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That's a power fantasy so nope, never gonna happen.Personally, I wouldn't mind if there was an end-game kind of quest where your character became the 8th Divine in order to fight the Abyssal Thing, or whatever it's called.
Of course, this quest would have to be insanely difficult and involve all seven of the current Divines, as well as spit in the face of the developers desires to not make the game a power-fantasy.
dam boy, you went hard on Tobs xDI don't think player agency really needs to be considered THAT much when it comes to making a power fantasy. Let's say you're playing some other porn game where you have a harem, nobody really dislikes you, your character manages to bullshit their way out of situations, etc. If you're meant to self-insert as the main character(which you often are), I'd still view it as a power fantasy even if you don't have explicit control over the character's action. You're still in the position of power and living it up with no real downsides. DOOM is a power fantasy even if you play as a predefined character because you're the one wielding that power. Harem anime are power fantasies because we put ourselves in the protag's shoes since they're usually so normal. DOOM sure as hell is a rail-road but it's definitely still a power fantasy.
This game keeps progressively elevating your status and doesn't really take it away in many situations besides kitsune content. You start out as a random nobody that's going to the marches for their own reason. Then you become an unknown quantity due to getting hit by portal magic and Kasyrra becoming interested in you. Then you start out on a quest to stop this big bad demon lady from taking over the world. Then you become champion of a village and an entire race of people. You see where I'm going with this, right? The only times the game brings the player back down from the power trip outside of kitsune content are... all I can think of are loss scenes. The fact that you can actually choose which content you want to see just adds to the power fantasy imo.
Honestly I think ANY content involving TOBS is fucking trash. The way he writes even outside of kitsune shit just drives me up the wall. Guy does not know how to tone down the word count for shit and expects you to give a shit about all these useless words. I don't need an ENTIRE FUCKING PAGE for you to describe the upper levels of the kitsune tree TOBS. I don't need you to write some never-ending thing about touching some Fox-girl's fluffy ears and have her orgasm from it.
The guy just throws never ending words at your face and expects you to give a shit. Like wow very epic word count my dude but why should I engage with your content when you do absolutely nothing to make it appealing besides some mediocre sex scenes? So all these dumbass kitsune cunts my PC can easily murder can treat me like shit except for one of them? I say one and not two because Kiyoko treats you as if you don't matter despite being your spouse. Kohaku is the only decent person there. The whole Gweyr family conflict isn't any better. Not a single person in that family is particularly likable but the dude writes it as if the reader or the PC is personally invested in any of it. Garth is a grumpy and stoic dude who barely talks and certainly doesn't talk about anything meaningful, garret is just some kid in the sticks wanting to be bigger than he is, and Gwyn is just some girl you can dump babies into. But yeah sure, write some "wholesome" thing about a chick who slaughtered a bunch of kids/teenagers reunite with her family or some shit.
Fuck that feels good to get off my chest. TOBS content is really the only content I particularly dislike in the game and it fucking sucks so much of his shit is a pretty big chunk of the game. He does not know how to be concise and writes these unnecessarily long word vomits that just expect you to give a shit even though all of his characters are pretty flat and boring.
Inb4 someone calls me a hypocrite for complaining.
Def on the hate crazy train now lol
In all seriousness however, I do mostly agree with you, his stuff is usually overly detailed and drawn out when it doesn't need to.