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Finrod's avatar

This kind of game analysis is a rare treat! The journos won't and can't offer anything close to this depth of insight.

All too often modern nihilists write their medieval settings as if the clergy and the powers that be are just as cynical as they themselves. If anything, the clergy and the nobility were often the most devout, and had the deepest and most involved interactions with the Faith. A nihilistic medieval setting is a contradiction in terms, because the heart of the medieval ethos is anti-nihilist.

I would be very interested in hearing similar story/writing analysis of games you play through. Usually elements such as the themes and their treatment as well as the story mechanics and character motivations are left completely untouched when game writing is discussed.

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JD Cowan's avatar

I found 3 horrifically dull so I figured this would be an extension of that. Looks like my instinct was correct. As for the cosmology, it isn't that surprising. Every entertainment industry still runs on the same outdated tired "spiritual but not religious, church bad" vapidity they have for the past three decades. It's what makes so much of it ultimately hollow. It's all as dumb as the terrible Neflix Castlevania people tried overselling.

This is just more of the same boring grey goo.

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