And, of course, some of the really interesting bits of Ottoman and Mongol history is when these horse armies conquered settled civilizations and decided to settle down themselves. Sarah has a lot of knowledge that could be useful to the khan in this transition.
That's something steppe nomads have been doing on and off since Antiquity and quite unrelated to the institution of elite military slavery which was originally invented by the Muslim Arabs during the Conquest era. The lifespan of the resulting hybrid empires tended to be pretty directly proportional to how well they assimilated pre-existing sedentary governing structures and administrative classes and if they were able to effect a transition into reasonably stable bureaucratic states (the Ottomans and the successive Muslim overlords of northern India being the standouts here).
Yeah the Kate thing bugs me. It's the only moment in the game where Sarah just turns into an idiot to make the plot happen. She's a responsible and smart girl for every other scene in the game. Unless sex is involved because then she just turns into a slut for the rest of the scene. It would make much more sense to just have someone kidnap Sarah, or like you said, have Kate throw out the invitation after the battle.
But If I recall correctly, Sarah accepted under the supposedly information that Kate had about a conspiracy that killed the king and that they were going to get Sarah killed if she didn't escape with her. Which of course turned out to be a lie
Yes but it seems strange for me that she would accept to let her little brother alone on the throne when she know that he needs her support to rule and take decisions. Or at least she should ask Kate that he comes with them.
Thank you! You're right, that's a typo. Just went into the code and fixed it, so that should not show up again when the next update comes out.
I've always loved history and geopolitics so a lot of that ends up being inspiration for how I approach building the world. Nice to see you picking up on that.
These D&D monsters are getting silly even by franchise standards =3=
Phew, sorry this took way too long to make. Continuing my re-review of the game, here is my attempt and a critical analysis of the mage route, focusing on the earlier parts of the story before the Bagrad section. This discussion of the overall story will discuss the elements of the Mage Route that sets it apart from other routes, guided by the discussion of the route execution of the story's general virtues when compared to the other branches.
To summarize, I consider those virtues to be:
1. An evocative and immersive writing that grounds us in the interesting characters, setting, and narrative.
2. Compelling characters, with interactions that allow the characters to build on each other, the setting, and ground the narrative while moving it forward.
3. Choices that allow for possibilities to affect and engage with the characters, setting, and narrative in interesting ways.
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Man, I am not proud with how long writing this took for me. I planned on posting this before the dev posted a new update but I got writer's block and took more than a month to finish this partly because of real life and partly because I felt like I needed to expand my knowledge on writing to make this review. I learned a lot about writing and I am definitely more sympathetic to writers now after this experience. Writer's block fucking suuucks lol. I've rewrote this 7th times so sorry if it feels incoherent in some way and if it doesn't communicate very well.
A lot of things had to be cut down for the sake of making the text of this review coherent, but if you think that its too long or incoherent you can read the articles below this instead, they helped me write this review and they are probably more coherent than the things I'm writing.
Hope you'll look forward to my honest thoughts on the Warrior Route next time. Hopefully it doesnt take too long for me to write them lol.
Btw love the Princess route update. It's amazing!
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