Raven_Light

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Aug 4, 2023
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Yup the wife is really badly written. Like absolutely dislikable as a person and a 100 times more dislikable as a wife wife.

Like if they want to use her for ntr make her likable, make her the dream wife so that people can simp for her and for her NTR to really hurt (make it so that Rowan needs to cheat several times, to neglect her and so on for her to finally go into ntr). So far she is portrayed as a dislikable narcissist incapable of thinking from the perspective of others. Only me me me me me me
Just cuz shes poorly written here and there due too old written mixed with rewrites doesn't make her unlikeable. Rowan and Andras is self contradicting of this too. So should we not like them? My comment wasn't me hating on her. It was contructive criticism. lol
 

kevbot5000

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Dec 23, 2020
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I was trying to play blind without spoilers. But I guess fuck me for playing blind.
The game over guide on the first post has the map linked. You'll avoid story spoilers but will at least know where to go which isn't a terrible compromise? (I haven't played through in awhile but I'm assuming things haven't moved since then)
 

DredgenVayn

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Oct 20, 2022
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The game over guide on the first post has the map linked. You'll avoid story spoilers but will at least know where to go which isn't a terrible compromise? (I haven't played through in awhile but I'm assuming things haven't moved since then)
I hope no spoilers. I already got Persona 5 spoiled for me.
 

adrad555

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Nov 27, 2018
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Point to another active VN community and I'll happily migrate.

That's right, I'd gladly cuck all of you. I have no loyalty to you people, just get me a bigger dick to ride on.
This... This right here is where you fucked up!

You structured the sentence in a way that would imply you showing loyalty to the biggest dick!!! Thereby... (deep inhale preparing to shout)

REMOVE ALL THE GAY AND CUCK CONTENT, MAKE ROWAN GROW A BRAIN AND BALLS, (some historic research wold be nice to) 24.5 CM COMMANDS YOU!!!
 

AlexWildfire

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May 29, 2018
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Since last few pages have been a lot of commentary about the story. Why not put my own two cents.

The biggest problems i have with the game are the story , and the way the game builds around it. Starting with the not game mechanic created problems, the contradictions run deep because of the game doing the arcs the way it does, all characters that are reoccurring end up suffering from different writers, different visions, and a disconnected continuity where at times they go back and fort characterization wise has that particular spot of story demands it, the builder can admit that Rowan is the real power making stuff work, but since we are in the fabled "first part" it never referenced again , Adras can supposedly learn and not be the generic brute, but since events have no real order beside time tables he goes back to being a simple brute, until he is not, then goes back. Even in main story bits, where is the Adras that sat his ass down and read a book about strategy next time he is about to battle and his strategy is "run at thing and put all bets on regeneration being quicker than damaged received"

Then we have the ones that suffer the most, Alexia and Rowan , Alexia being another npc that wears many hats, but none really matter outside events of that specific line.
Rowan...he is a mess, the game calls him a great hero and shows bits of how he was a valiant man with great smarts, but at the same time he cannot be a great hero cause the twins are idiots and if he was the game would not have the "3 arcs/games".
Rowan the great strategist would have made a plan, even if warden ignored and blocked all attempts of him to get help, maybe know its a trap, go for Alexia and out. Yet even in the "best" of heroic choices he is very passive on his trying to find ways out, borderline naive, for a strategist he does not seem to understand how to plan against the twins, why? , is it because they are are too smart?

Not really, adras is repeatedly shown to have about has much smarts has a brick on stuff not fight or strength related and Jezera is repeatedly shown to be a wanna be spy mistress with has much whim control has Adras. Yeah she learns stuff quick, but is about has obvious has one can expect, i doubt anyone would be surprised that saying secrets in front of the staff is a bad idea.

Rowan cannot act agaist the twins...because its the first part of the game, neither of the twins learn much, they just show that they are kids playing with daddys toys, Adras does not die by being a reckless idiot cause he has demon blood and regenerates, Jezera does not screw herself over cause Rowan is there to actualy put effort.

Its telling that most bad ends have the undertone of "and then the Twins get destroyed" , their starting plan is to march on the biggest, most well defended city, with what amounts to a handfull of orcs and nothing else, if Rowan does not do the orchid or goblin questline its all but stated their little plans are imediatly crushed cause they cannot even win agaist the army of the weakest, starving realm.

The game both makes a big deal out of Rowan, and goes to great efforts to make excuses to why we cannot even have a hint of actual resistence for what amounts to the "Its the first part of the game"

And with that wall of text, the smaller, mechanical part of what i think hurts the story, random events, the main story is already full of "if a , then b" that does not acount for c . If a more specific example is needed, the builder one since its what comes more to mind. He gets his conclusion, and alright, getting it does not imedialy means he would try to kick the twins , nor do i expect it, but its never again mentioned, he goes right back to the "Normal" way of treating Rowan since its the easier way to do events to work both to those that did not finish his story yet and those that did.

Add the random events that happen, and there is a lot of things that only exist in their self contained world. There aparently being a dragon on the loose, the dragon oger girl , all the villages that you interact with and little stories. They are nice, but at the end of the day the story at this point is made of seperate developments that only exist on their arcs or do small cosmetic changes.

When playing the game one is not playing a hero having to do hard choices, one is playing a man that suposedly was once a hero serving two brats in adult bodies having no ability to get any semblance of actual resistence until the tail end of the first game (arc) where the fabled "second act" will apear and pick up this disointed threads of self contained plots and start conecting them.

With that i end with the "hero" part, i get its to hammer the point that rowan is not going to have a nice time acting like a hero, but it more seems like the point is "This is not a game of redeption and heroics" , there is no silver lining on the "good" path, the game makes it clear the priestess is not a good person and that werden is a dead man walking, the nobles are part of why the twins did not get their teeth kicked in by an actual challenge before getting to rowan, and are also incredibly corrupt, and somehow this are the people that will be a key element on the "future arcs" to get the good path?

I choose to belive that its a red hearing and the kick in the balls to say "You will not get anywere trying to find a good path". Rowan gains nothing and loses everything trying to do that.
The orcs are not loyal to him since tarish is not and he cannot put her in her place or even interact with her
Dellane gets dollified after a kinda meh "feel bad" scene of having rowan seemingly have fallen more in love with her than the actual woman he got in the situation for to begin with
He gets beaten up
Does not get the girl.

Compare that with a Rowan playing the gaining personal power option. He can
Save dellane, even if she goes away, probably not to apear again, maybe will reapear and actualy get a better arc than "good path dellane" gets
Gets patricia to serve him and not the twins
Gets more on the good graces of the twins
Gets the girl

And tell me its not the writers going "Want to be the hero, play the pragmatic instead of the naivly stupid"

In conclusion. I like the game, but i think it realy will become better and pick up steam once it gets out of arc 1 and stuff can start to happen besides rowan dancing to the twins tune all the time. But so far, the disconected reality of the arcs, the random events not adding to much more than one time things will little weight to the plot, and limitations of the game being this big and limited to just one arc, hurts it.
 

Nym85

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Dec 15, 2018
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Where is the next fey event? The last one i got is when they play riddle in azaryl room
I do hope we eventually get some sex with the wolf dad. Rowan has been fucking his daughter forever, he should get a chance at the dad as well!
 
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Buddy, if you want to only read stories about morally upstanding people defeating evil together you should go to Sunday school, not play adult games where the corruption of the main characters isn't a mistake, but the main point. Actually, scratch that, you aren't gonna solely read stories about morally upstanding people in Sunday school, either.

Neither Rowan nor Alexia are good people even in the most pure and corruption-resistant playthroughs. And that's kinda the point. The only way to play this game as a good Rowan is to refuse to serve the twins in the beginning and die in the dungeon. Regardless of how morally you try to play the game, you are actively helping evil win, and anything where Rowan tells you where he's only doing this to bide his time and betray the twins is cope from a character whose primary goal is self preservation. As Rowan, YOU are a bad person. YOU are the reason why the twins can accomplish anything. YOU are the primary reason why thousands and thousands of people can be murdered, tortured, raped, and enslaved by the forces of chaos.

This game isn't for everyone, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's impossible for the devs to write paths to satisfy literally everyone, and that's fine. They aren't obligated to appease everyone, and you aren't obligated to play the game.
That's nice and all but the real reason people don't like the game is that it's MC is a bitch. Where I come from we have two genders, women and men. MEN.

Where is the MC that cuts off Andras head, rams it up Jezara's ass and then fucks a baby into her cunt while she tries to shit it out? All while he slaps the fuck out of the hired help for being weak sissy ass beta cucks?

I'm a man, I like doing manly things. Please let me kill and rape to MY pleasure not yours. I don't want to rape village girls, all I have to do is give them a pretty shiny thing and they'll hop on my cock like the whores they are. I want to brutalize Andras. I want to rape him bloody night after night and watch him eventually curse his regeneration like the sissy bitch he is compared to me. I don't like playing the bitch in games because I don't like playing the bitch IRL.

Please give us a manly man Rowan route all god damn ready dev. Getting real sick of Rowan being touted as some kind of amazing dude when he's a bitch. In fact he's such as bitch I'm shocked he doesn't have tits like Bob.
 
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