LAKueiJin
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- Apr 15, 2020
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Hmm, perhaps I gave it too much of a gleaming endorsement, (truth is I never cared about Andras and literally avoided all of his avoidable content - my Rowan AND Alexia are always both Jezera's bitches) as I will agree that even from the little Andras content I have seen he does seem to conform to the trope you linked.I didn't like Seeds of Chaos much. The world building took too much from the A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones book and didn't work for a world where political life depends on homage and loyalty. The story works I guess, but that relied on the twins' role as OP nepo babies. Andras is kinda of the Man with a Thousand Faces trope for an antagonist, going from Kapo to Casanova when the story needs it. He sorta looks like Nigel Farage too when he laughs.
Just feels kinda unbalanced in the way grimdark stories usually are. It's like the mirror image of those high fantasy happy JRPGs for teens.
I will say however that Jezera has a far more consistent personality throughout, that the overall writing is pretty high quality for a porn game (I even liked some of the Alexia heavy-on-symbolism corruption dreams with the dark tree - if I have to say something bad about the writing I will say that at times it is oversaturated with porn scenes in an unrealistic way, which is a pretty common occurrence anyways given the website we're on,
and maybe that it copies the Forgotten Realms a tad too much in parts, with it having Drow that are a matriarchy, live underground and have "dryders", eg Lolth's eldritch spider monstrosities, which is certainly uncreative of them. What they did with the goblins, by contrast, with their ancient tree cities with carved wooden walls and translucent silk clothing, making them more like Elder Scrolls Bosmer, was far more unique and interesting) and, as I already said, that there are several characters with very hot and well-written femdom scenes. That includes Jezera, X'zaratl, more recently even Shaya and, my favourite, Cliohna, probably because dommes whose main fetish is mind control are very rare in porn games. (Shadow over Meridia does this pretty well in Lezdom format out of the newer games I tried by the way - it uses AI art and doesn't really have CGs, but the writing is quite good and it's a mind control focused game)So yeah, all things considered I still think Seeds of Chaos is a good game and I do not believe it falls into too many dark fantasy tropes, (rather I'd say, for example, the Baldur's Gate 3 has worse writing than it when it comes to evil characters, making them very often act nonsensically evil just for "being evil's" sake, whereas SoC has more nuanced lore on some of the "evil alignment races" it tackled, like goblins and to a lesser extent even its demons, like the 2 twins, and orcs) but it does have its drawbacks and it's understandable if you don't personally like it of course. Hell, you are probably better off than us suckers who like it, as the main plot has advanced by, like, a quest per year since 2020, so they might be aiming for a complete game by the turn of the century!
There still isn't any content past the fall of Rastedel, nor a completed goblin path to get there, (only the orc one, which was already implemented when I first played the game 3 years ago) whereas a lot more CGs or side romances with a billion characters have been added... (very few of them femdom and therefore irrelevant from my perspective) It feels like it's one of those games that try to please too many people with too widely different fetishes, and that has become a bit fan-servicy and lost its original vision unfortunately. (not necessarily lost it, but at least that they expanded the scope of the game so much it has become unmanageable by the devs) At least that's my 2 cents on its development direction - I hope I'm wrong.
