VN Ren'Py Price of Power [Ch.25] [Pandaman Games]

[jadepaladin]

So I'm near the beginning of chapter 10 and there is something that is troubling me a lot about the story to the point where I find the game more annoying than enjoyable. I find Legacy is a major problem...impossible to trust. For all we can tell(at least at that point in the story) he's making the whole thing about the fertility plague up or at least using the situation to start experimenting with spreading to other people. It made it exceedingly clear it is not above emotional manipulation, blackmail, or even death threats to get what it wants and we don't know what it really wants...at all. The MC and the primitive society with zero understanding of even basic technology or science are way out of their depth if they had to deal with a super advanced hostile AI and he doesn't see humans as any better than parasites. I really HATE how much this underlying narrative is dragging on in the background with practically zero real answers.

Are you enjoying the story otherwise? Chapter 10 is probably about 1/3 or so of the full story so you've got a ways to go and twists to discover.

 

[e6mill]

For all we can tell(at least at that point in the story) he's making the whole thing about the fertility plague up

Emilia knows of it.

 

[Dark479]

Are you enjoying the story otherwise? Chapter 10 is probably about 1/3 or so of the full story so you've got a ways to go and twists to discover.

I don't know. The romance side is good but the Legacy issue looms large over everything and its intentions are impossible to determine. Even as a player with a fair understanding of most of the terms and issues Legacy's talking about it's impossible to know what's truth, what's manipulation, and what its true intentions are. Way too many unknowns. It would be much better to at least know for sure what is going on. There are also zero meaningful choices...most VN's have at least SOME choices here and there when you can at least optimize some outcomes or have some impact but here there's literally zero...there are too few of even meaningless dialogue choices.

 

[Rehwyn]

I don't know. The romance side is good but the Legacy issue looms large over everything and its intentions are impossible to determine. Even as a player with a fair understanding of most of the terms and issues Legacy's talking about it's impossible to know what's truth, what's manipulation, and what its true intentions are. Way too many unknowns. It would be much better to at least know for sure what is going on. There are also zero meaningful choices...most VN's have at least SOME choices here and there when you can at least optimize some outcomes or have some impact but here there's literally zero...there are too few of even meaningless dialogue choices.

There's meaningfully choices that come up. But there are fewer choices in general because there's no relationship points or whatever and because there's fewer LIs than many AVNs.

It's best to think of it as a kinetic novel with occasional significant choices.

 

[Dark479]

Well at least I feel a lot better about Legacy now that I've seen the scene where it's trying to fix its companion. At the very least I now feel that in this story it's extremely unlikely that Legacy is malicious. Though it may deny it Legacy's goals now appear far more human and potentially benevolent than anything else. It seems to want its companion back, likely because of love. And his goal in assisting the MC also seems to be about preventing humanity from returning on a self destructive path. At least for the purposes of a romance centric VN like this I now feel fairly well that Legacy will almost certainly not be an enemy.