Lol that's some "Small on Top" level of storytelling, except straight.
I think my summary covered all the major talking points. If not, I blame how forgettable it was.
It's the same energy as the really early harvest valley stuff that doesn't fit the game anymore. They're not bad... but they felt unneeded given how out of the way they are and most of their content is covered by other NPC's who could use the dust cleaning off. That said, I don't know what the "Becoming a Valkyrie" content is like, I've got one old female save that I just stopped progressing with because there was so little content, maybe Lumia is a better god than Keros and her scenes are worth it?
EDIT: Oh I also remembered having unlocked the option to breed the winged woman that her dialogue didn't even change for the sex scene, not even a throwaway joke about "Taking her in missionary for the sole purpose of procreation" like you got in CoC for Shouldra in silly mode. Really hard to feel invested when it seemed like the writers weren't either.
Actually, this is going to sound really hateful but I do not intend it as such, I've just dipped in to the Thrud (muscle sub) content again to make sure I'm not being unfair, and it really makes me think of the AI storytellers I play around with. Maybe that's why it doesn't work for me, because it doesn't read different to what I'm getting a lot of already. It reads like heavily curated AI content; prompt, AI takes it a little weird, does its best, conclusion, then user comes in and makes it all flow. For instance:
On approach, Halima sighs with relief and walks over to you.
"Hey, Champion. How are you?"
"You know. Living the dream." You shrug amiably.
"Thanks for asking. What about you — what's wrong? Where's Annika?"
"It's Annika. She's, um..."
"She's not having a good day." Thrud, the enormous half-jotun warmaiden you met earlier, moves into view. Her slightly slumped shoulders and pensive frown speak volumes about the nature of that not-good-day Annika's having.
"I don't know how that meeting you were holding went, but —"
She initiates, but then you need to prompt what's wrong, she repeats it's about Annika ignoring your prompt, a third character gets injected out of no-where and you get a reminder about them despite previous interactions. It's a lot of wasted space.
