- Jun 26, 2021
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Would it be really possible to keep an epic game going for eighteen months to two years when most (or even all) of its characters were absolutely vile, revolting and despicable; using and abusing each other to sate their sexual appetites without giving a shit about consequences or welfare of others, even the people they were most closely bonded with and even related to? I don't believe that the original primitive NLT style, riddled with pidgeon English and spelling mistakes, lends itself to sustaining a story of long duration and could only be used successfully in short entertainments like comics and similar. The characters in the original comics were for the most part disgusting, horrible and hateful individuals, with few or no redeeming features, without a MacGuffin like "serum" to explain or blame their perversions, nastiness and excesses on. To continue expanding and gaining paying supporters NLT Media needs to cast its net wider and broaden the appeal of their product from niche to wider markets; if they want sustained growth in the business besides exceptional graphic art and animations they absolutely will have to couple the admittedly excellent graphic with much, much better written stories too.I think the problem arises from the sudden change in writing style NLT attempted in order to shift his audience. If you look at his comics and the first 2 games, they are irreverent, crass, and explore antisocial themes pretty flippantly. Now he's trying to create stereotypically likeable characters with more typical relationship dynamics but they just fall flat because he is still incorporating elements of his old writing style while poorly navigating this new narrative style.
Personally I prefer his old writing and characters excepting a few extreme caricatures I've pointed out before, but if he's going to keep going in this direction he needs to step up his writing skills.
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