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This is strange given that Yrsa is also part of the DR story allowing exploration of the ruins
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Well, i'm back from vacation and had time to continue with the parts i didn't play yet.
I did a WW one, and found it both dissapointing, generic, cliche and frustrating. I found it dissapointing in the sense that their characters seems boring with the leader being a manipulating money grubbing asshole trying to look reputable in a world of barbarians, a bookworm kid with no talent hiding it from her father, the loveable haughty bitch that her dad cant get rid of and the basic moderate looking drunk choosen hero girl. The WW specific story bit was for me the most plain. Go back to the cave, find Astrja's mom is a godess is pretty meh. I did take a liking to Mathilda and breaking her, but she will only be pursued in the evil route. In this path, Sonja also lost some respect with the stupid matching outfits and sadly she chose the WW as her new faction. As for the frustrating part, it is with the sex scenes. I found it very annoying that the first Lizgard scene is in this route and that in the DR route i don't have it yet, just the tease. I also found it frustrating that WW get 1 of the 2 Sonja scenes as an exclusive. I understand that most likely those same scenes will appear later on as the chapter release is stagger in per faction and can cause the player to see some event results before the event happened, but seeing a girl get her scene out of faction first was a let down.
I felt that i was missing a lot of BB content after playing all 3 paths (played Sonja), until i re-read the changelog and saw that the whole update was the evil route. Why do i even call it the evil route? In this setting, i could easily just call it the real Viking route. I guess the cannon is BB=evil, WW=good and DR=neutral, so i decided to take the plunge and do it. And i actually enjoyed it a lot. I liked BB the best and i loved that through all the factions scheming, Candrid's will to do whatever's needed to achieve her goals placed her on top to outmaneuver the other leaders. I also loved that her plan basically started pretty early in game. Using knowledge from the future to give your faction an edge was a great addition to the game. I also was very suprised with how Candrid proves to you that you are her King and not only a tool by giving the MC her virginity. It was very sweet and appreciated and gave me a different view on the character and her motivations. I also am intrigued on who poisonned Thorsten. Was it the inn girl? It couldnt be an accident, as no one else got poisonned from the bottle. Only thing i liked less is that while it's the harem path, you have no choice. I would have loved a Candrid solo route, but all the sex refusal choices make you loose Candrid points. I didn't play the 1st game so i don't know if the evil route will only fuck you over by loosing or getting betrayed, or if by having high scores it will let you have the conqueror's ending with your Queen.
I liked this path the most. For some reason, it reminded me of one of my favorite game in the early 2000's on the playstation, Brigandine. My favorite ruler was Dryst, the mad king. Is whole point of joining the war was because he tought it would be fun. And after you conquered the map, the end game was him redistributing all the conquered castles to his generals and restarting the war for the fun of it. Candrid reminded me of that character for some reason. I hope i will be able to stay with my wife and not just magically dissapear in another portal when the dev's next game, rainstorm, firestorm or whatever storm comes. I dont know how the 1st game ended, but having the same MC jump from game to game would suck, unless in the dev's last game you could choose to pick where and with whom to go back to end your life with.
How i can see/assume/imagine the game story going forward? Based on each main girl's magical item, it gives me these hints as far as progression. I also assume that whichever side you aligned with will have a good and a bad ending. With the WW, you end up winning the war because of the power of the gods and the freezing axe. When they loose, i can see their main characters exiled or taking refuge with another king to plot their revenge. I see the DR winning the "cheap" way with a few OP magical creatures summoned by the lightning staff. I can see them dissapearing in the night never to be seen again if the odds are not with them. Nox is the archetype communist leader. Everyone is kept the same, at the lowest level with no say, no possession, no identity, no goal except being obedient cattle waiting for instruction, while she sits in her tower surrounded with luxury. With the BB, it will be the most akin to the Viking way, conquering with sheer numbers with the Claw to control Draugr, the eager communists wanting in the capitalism and joys of life, the throwaway illeterate drones, and their few elite warriors. Their loss will come from Candrid's bad move having picked the idiot fisherman as her King bossing her around and deciding is own stuff and ignoring her.
Every side is setup now with 1 girl from each tribe to "legitimize" any end game possibilities. For now, i dont understand picking any girls other than the main 3 for a real ending. You basically have the main faction girl that advance the stories (Candrid, Nox, Astrja), the romantic girl that you charm or break (Yrsa, Lizgard, Mathilda) and the useless sex scene filler girls (Sonja, Katja and Astrid). My old tier list has evolved this way.
Sonja
Nox
Lizgard
Candrid
to
Candrid
Mathilda
Sonja
Lizgard
Now, the long 3x time wait for the next BB chapter.
I did a WW one, and found it both dissapointing, generic, cliche and frustrating. I found it dissapointing in the sense that their characters seems boring with the leader being a manipulating money grubbing asshole trying to look reputable in a world of barbarians, a bookworm kid with no talent hiding it from her father, the loveable haughty bitch that her dad cant get rid of and the basic moderate looking drunk choosen hero girl. The WW specific story bit was for me the most plain. Go back to the cave, find Astrja's mom is a godess is pretty meh. I did take a liking to Mathilda and breaking her, but she will only be pursued in the evil route. In this path, Sonja also lost some respect with the stupid matching outfits and sadly she chose the WW as her new faction. As for the frustrating part, it is with the sex scenes. I found it very annoying that the first Lizgard scene is in this route and that in the DR route i don't have it yet, just the tease. I also found it frustrating that WW get 1 of the 2 Sonja scenes as an exclusive. I understand that most likely those same scenes will appear later on as the chapter release is stagger in per faction and can cause the player to see some event results before the event happened, but seeing a girl get her scene out of faction first was a let down.
I felt that i was missing a lot of BB content after playing all 3 paths (played Sonja), until i re-read the changelog and saw that the whole update was the evil route. Why do i even call it the evil route? In this setting, i could easily just call it the real Viking route. I guess the cannon is BB=evil, WW=good and DR=neutral, so i decided to take the plunge and do it. And i actually enjoyed it a lot. I liked BB the best and i loved that through all the factions scheming, Candrid's will to do whatever's needed to achieve her goals placed her on top to outmaneuver the other leaders. I also loved that her plan basically started pretty early in game. Using knowledge from the future to give your faction an edge was a great addition to the game. I also was very suprised with how Candrid proves to you that you are her King and not only a tool by giving the MC her virginity. It was very sweet and appreciated and gave me a different view on the character and her motivations. I also am intrigued on who poisonned Thorsten. Was it the inn girl? It couldnt be an accident, as no one else got poisonned from the bottle. Only thing i liked less is that while it's the harem path, you have no choice. I would have loved a Candrid solo route, but all the sex refusal choices make you loose Candrid points. I didn't play the 1st game so i don't know if the evil route will only fuck you over by loosing or getting betrayed, or if by having high scores it will let you have the conqueror's ending with your Queen.
I liked this path the most. For some reason, it reminded me of one of my favorite game in the early 2000's on the playstation, Brigandine. My favorite ruler was Dryst, the mad king. Is whole point of joining the war was because he tought it would be fun. And after you conquered the map, the end game was him redistributing all the conquered castles to his generals and restarting the war for the fun of it. Candrid reminded me of that character for some reason. I hope i will be able to stay with my wife and not just magically dissapear in another portal when the dev's next game, rainstorm, firestorm or whatever storm comes. I dont know how the 1st game ended, but having the same MC jump from game to game would suck, unless in the dev's last game you could choose to pick where and with whom to go back to end your life with.
How i can see/assume/imagine the game story going forward? Based on each main girl's magical item, it gives me these hints as far as progression. I also assume that whichever side you aligned with will have a good and a bad ending. With the WW, you end up winning the war because of the power of the gods and the freezing axe. When they loose, i can see their main characters exiled or taking refuge with another king to plot their revenge. I see the DR winning the "cheap" way with a few OP magical creatures summoned by the lightning staff. I can see them dissapearing in the night never to be seen again if the odds are not with them. Nox is the archetype communist leader. Everyone is kept the same, at the lowest level with no say, no possession, no identity, no goal except being obedient cattle waiting for instruction, while she sits in her tower surrounded with luxury. With the BB, it will be the most akin to the Viking way, conquering with sheer numbers with the Claw to control Draugr, the eager communists wanting in the capitalism and joys of life, the throwaway illeterate drones, and their few elite warriors. Their loss will come from Candrid's bad move having picked the idiot fisherman as her King bossing her around and deciding is own stuff and ignoring her.
Every side is setup now with 1 girl from each tribe to "legitimize" any end game possibilities. For now, i dont understand picking any girls other than the main 3 for a real ending. You basically have the main faction girl that advance the stories (Candrid, Nox, Astrja), the romantic girl that you charm or break (Yrsa, Lizgard, Mathilda) and the useless sex scene filler girls (Sonja, Katja and Astrid). My old tier list has evolved this way.
Sonja
Nox
Lizgard
Candrid
to
Candrid
Mathilda
Sonja
Lizgard
Now, the long 3x time wait for the next BB chapter.
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your whole overly worded post is pretty much as useful for average reader/player as your (newly found) obsession with the bb path and consequently (evolved) tier list is for getting the best out of this game for you
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Off course. As stated in my other post, it is MY opinion on the game and what i appreciated or not, not a general review.
Does he plans for 0.9 DR then 1.0 WW or will he do 0.9, 0.10, 0.11 before o.1? If only 2 updates left which would mean (for me) no more BB updates and basically i got to the end game already?!? will there be, based on the previous game, a general epilogue, or some kind of faction ending to end the story in a conclusion? Would that be a separate short update at the end, or would everything be included in 1.0WW if so?
So the next update is 0.9DR then 1.0WW which will be the final update. The dev plans to release the next game in the series in 2025.
However even if an updates primarily focuses on a specific faction, the other factions will still get some story progression if it’s connected to a chosen sub path. Like in 1.0 WW, if we play Mathilda’s path, I would assume there will be some BB story progression since Mathilda is allied with them. Or since 1.0WW will be the final update, there could be a climax to the story which might give an epilogue to the story.
It's far from being the last update. There is still at least 0.9 - 0.10 - 0.11 - 0.12.
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It's far from being the last update. There is still at least 0.9 - 0.10 - 0.11 - 0.12.
I was rather surprised myself that anyone thought the game was going to end soon, “soon” being a very relative term in this context. Having chatted several times with GleenX on Discord (as Mandalore), he had hinted to me that he apparently still had a lot of work to do on this game before he could finalize it and move on to the next one.
Although I know he'd like to diversify his projects and and push for new ideas, I think the person who thought that was a little too hasty.
Incidentally, it's been mentioned many times on F95 that the version numbering systems for games published/leaked here doesn't mean much, nor is it really representative of a game's state of progress before its final release (unless the dev advises otherwise); it's specific to each developer and their way of proceeding.GleenXstudio : I wish you all the best for the end of the year, my dear compatriot, and I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with at the beginning of next year; I know in advance that it will no doubt be very good
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you got me there for a moment i had assumed Sonjia got hot...
but clearly thats not my sandstorm cannon ending... Maddie would cut my neck after i raped her...