K1ng_C00mer
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You don't need to worry about me taking your disagreement with my statement wrong. I'm more than willing to entertain disagreement, especially since you're coming at me with full sincereity. Everything posted here, is, naturally, opinion for the most part, so everyone will have alternative takes.Obviously I am not disputing your opinion. I can't really agree with the B statement, though. I mean, B did write Zo, and despite her simple style, her interactions and relationship building are unique, as are her scenes and the skills you can learn. I feel the same about Lyric (girl Lyric for me, so always feminine). She's a unique companion you can bring along (I don't use her in combat), and even overlooking the male side for me, I know the kind of work that goes into having to write a scene and always having to do a [lyric.heShe] or [lyric.hisHer] check for every pronoun. Then there's the feeding electrum for fun and filling her out to please, and her interactions with other kobolds. And then Kailani... I can't hate Kailani! It might be mostly due to Moira's artwork, but damn, she rival's Zo unclothed bust in Wow factor (for me, at least. Obviously I don't have to persuade anyone else)! He did up a unique language and style for her (mostly just some native words and such, but still), so I can't agree that it's an empty shell.
Just sharing my thoughts on that part. Not telling you how you need to feel.
I will just concede that my statement was a bit more of a shallow blanket statement than how it should have been phrased. Yes, B does experiment with his writing too. I mean, Lyric alone is very experimental and there's nothing else like her in the game. Oma too, is also quite unique with her mechanics if a little shallow everywhere else. And I don't doubt that he doesn't put effort in writing. As the writers who have come here have shown, even writing a minor scene is an exercise in and of itself given the parser system.
I suppose my main faults with B's works is, the execution. I will freely admit, I did not touch Zo's content other than a quick playthrough given how I personally wasn't attracted to her bust. I know that alone had a decent amount of content though, with a training and relationship building arc.
Kailani, for me, was boring. Her quest is very quick to complete mostly relying on RNG to pad it out when you have to take out 20 vulperine hunters. There was no time for us to really sort of get know her on a deeper level. I get that the it's not the intention for us to speedrun through her quest. We're suppose to meet her, start it, and then slowly chip away at it while visiting her and Inaya to learn about them. Even so, it's in the style of "click this button to learn about Kailani's religon, click this button to learn about her family, click this button to...etc" which thankfully, all the writers are starting to move away from that sort of lore drop, but it still does nothing to help Kailani in this regard.
Then there's Berwynquest, which has been talked to death here and I've given my take on it already. And Agni, who I also have talked about and made clear how I dislike her.
One recent character of B that I actually really love is Ivaze, the female imp that can show up at the Frost Hound. I seriously love her. She's a character that doesn't use words, so B really brought his A game when it came to writing the interactions between her and the Champ. I won't mince my praise I have for B for delivering us an actual S tier shortstack, and from a race that typically isn't written more than cannon fodder, in a game that's really starved for more.