I own this game on Steam.
I want to like it so much. I really do.
But I just have too many issues with it.
Let's get the elephant out of the room. I'm a paying customer, this game is going on 10 years of development and still isn't finished.
For a game that's supposed to be part of a Trilogy we're looking at the story being done in about 30 years.
Given my own age, there's a real chance I might be dead by then.
Now lots has been said about the grid exploration and combat stuff, I'm not crazy about it, but I don't hate it either.
My real concern is the content in the game. Rowan just sucks as an MC.
And I'm not saying that because I hate NTR, I have a complicated relationship with it.
Rowan is like, a shittier version of Carwyn from NTR Tactics. Carwyn is literally a lithe, small skinny man whose designed to be able to be turned into a woman or a femboy if you want and be used by other men...
And yet he comes across as a 100 times more Heroic, Dangerous, and Bad Ass than Rowan.
So it's not the fact Rowan is pansexual, I don't care he can have gay scenes. He has no fucking Spine or competency.
This guy is supposed to be one of the Legendary Heroes yet he continuously gets his ass kicked and gets dominated by every single person he meets. There is almost no choices for Rowan to be dominant, to stand up for himself, or to show competency.
For me it was when we came across the all female orc tribe and the only options to recruit them was for Rowan to submit to them fucking his ass, or call in "Andras" the creator's obvious self-insert to come be the REAL man who brings them to heel.
So for all the effort, all the great art and storytelling, the fact that this is an obvious case of one specific way Rowan is meant to be portrayed (A subby pansexual leaning on gay, cuck) takes so much out of enjoying the game.
I want to like it so much. I really do.
But I just have too many issues with it.
Let's get the elephant out of the room. I'm a paying customer, this game is going on 10 years of development and still isn't finished.
For a game that's supposed to be part of a Trilogy we're looking at the story being done in about 30 years.
Given my own age, there's a real chance I might be dead by then.
Now lots has been said about the grid exploration and combat stuff, I'm not crazy about it, but I don't hate it either.
My real concern is the content in the game. Rowan just sucks as an MC.
And I'm not saying that because I hate NTR, I have a complicated relationship with it.
Rowan is like, a shittier version of Carwyn from NTR Tactics. Carwyn is literally a lithe, small skinny man whose designed to be able to be turned into a woman or a femboy if you want and be used by other men...
And yet he comes across as a 100 times more Heroic, Dangerous, and Bad Ass than Rowan.
So it's not the fact Rowan is pansexual, I don't care he can have gay scenes. He has no fucking Spine or competency.
This guy is supposed to be one of the Legendary Heroes yet he continuously gets his ass kicked and gets dominated by every single person he meets. There is almost no choices for Rowan to be dominant, to stand up for himself, or to show competency.
For me it was when we came across the all female orc tribe and the only options to recruit them was for Rowan to submit to them fucking his ass, or call in "Andras" the creator's obvious self-insert to come be the REAL man who brings them to heel.
So for all the effort, all the great art and storytelling, the fact that this is an obvious case of one specific way Rowan is meant to be portrayed (A subby pansexual leaning on gay, cuck) takes so much out of enjoying the game.