reidanota
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It's one of the rare cases where the author's personal vision seems to permeate the entire game. I've no idea if the author ever incorporated community feedback (other than taking up the "dark story" as a suggestion by a supporter), but I want to believe there's a difference between someone completely owning their style and vision of a story and their characters, being able to incorporate suggestions that don't change anything fundamentally, or someone who doesn't know where they're going and gets lost.
My guess, without having been watching this thread for very long, would be that the nature of this story - more "soap-opeara-ish" than epic adventure, meaning that successive episodes advance the story rather than an overarching narrative thread, with tension, development and demanding a conclusion - made the author more susceptible to "writer's block". Give you an example, ol'Rock. The mystery surrounding his origins could take on a much longer and more consequential role, were this a different kind of story. But it resolves within the same episode it came up, or the next episode at most. The author's focus wasn't on narrative thread, but on the characters, progressively enriching them.
This reads a bit like an impressionistic work, where you're guided through a succession of "paintings" where the author invites you to focus on exquisite details of both visual scene and writing. As if he's telling you "you know this isn't new, but let me surprise you regardless".
My guess, without having been watching this thread for very long, would be that the nature of this story - more "soap-opeara-ish" than epic adventure, meaning that successive episodes advance the story rather than an overarching narrative thread, with tension, development and demanding a conclusion - made the author more susceptible to "writer's block". Give you an example, ol'Rock. The mystery surrounding his origins could take on a much longer and more consequential role, were this a different kind of story. But it resolves within the same episode it came up, or the next episode at most. The author's focus wasn't on narrative thread, but on the characters, progressively enriching them.
This reads a bit like an impressionistic work, where you're guided through a succession of "paintings" where the author invites you to focus on exquisite details of both visual scene and writing. As if he's telling you "you know this isn't new, but let me surprise you regardless".
