The writing was good when SierraLee was still part of the team, but things went noticeably downhill when she left Hreinn to do her own stuff ( books/games ) and the "new" guy ( Monsinne ) is writing at the level of a very thirsty teenager who turned Sabia basically into a dumb bimbo.
Edit: Confused Ndsferrari with Monsinne.
Unfortunately, this is largely true.
Damn, I love bdsm and submission themes, but here...
I'll give you an example with the main cat girl (forgot her name) at the very beginning when she tells you what she knows about Manticore.
She and a couple of orcs are blackmailing Sabia. And Sabia in the pitch script... Is afraid of the orcs?
Is it okay that she has already killed several of them ( 10-20? )? And will kill many more in future events.
And the fact that she passed the arena?
I would understand if she was poisoned or drugged first.
Or started the scenario of slowly subduing the proud girl, but...
No, Sabia is immediately let loose and total fucking begins, and it happens in all scenes and episodes, and the heroine immediately turns from an interesting warrior into a squealing sissy.
And this is where the most unfortunate “magic” happens
1 Whip and lash.
Sure, I don't really like this super lightning-fast approach to total submission, but maybe I'd put up with it if there were well-drawn scenes.
But the scenes in the tent, the orc training scenes, and the scenes in the store - they're... “not good.”
So the end result was, on the one hand, a poorly drawn event for me, and on the other hand, not a good drawing.
2 Version 0.14.
Well, I'm going to get tired of Sabia on the submission path too quickly, because now I have no choice, and so for the next 86 updates (minimum, maximum 200-300) I'm going to have to watch a constantly crying and groveling weakling.
That's going to bring things to a dead end too quickly (if it hasn't already), it's weird that some people don't realize that.
Same with the dominance route.
3 Version 0.14 Again.
Well, if Sabia became such a submissive and humiliated wimp in version 0.14, I just can't imagine what she'll be like in version 0.30 or..... 0.40.
Hopefully in 0.50 she'll still remember words other than “dick” and “fuck”.
It's all very sad, it was one of my favorite games and now I'm not even sure I'll be able to play it if a new update comes out.
It's lost what I loved about it and I'm left to ponder about it.