‘oh but cool reveal at the end’ that’s precisely the problem
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Fear (I liked it a lot, but I also have a high tolerance for bad pacing).
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if they sliced off 1/3rd of the stuff from 3.7 and gave it to 3.5 then both patches would be much better received
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I do think purple prose in an Appeal To As Many People Possible game is a bold choice, so maybe not lol
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From a zoomed-out perspective, I like how 3.5 is structured.
The pitch of, “The thing is one cycle away from actualizing, and Lygus will do anything in his power to stop you,” is an excellent narrative throughline in the same way that I liked how 3.0 gradually built up the complexity of its Nikador fights.
The problem is that it nixes both its “vying for Cerydra’s favor” and its “only one cycle to do this” plotlines far too early, and I feel like it doesn’t give the thousand-year war against Lygus enough time to really sink in impact-wise. It also means that it ends up pushing all the Cerydra/Hysilens stuff to the Styxia section, which sinks (ha) the pacing hard.
Good things-wise, I really like the tribute scene, and I love that they hid Frozen Tides until that section, and I think they found a clever way to beat Lygus. I also think I came in expecting Hysilens to be a stopgap and was surprised how much I cared for her story afterwards.
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yeah, but constructive feedback (even if it’s negative) is very different than an insult.
And I still stand by, if someone can’t take a (friendly) negative feedback, they wouldn’t be a succesful (or a happy) author. The first thing you will find you against the most as an author are the critics (and unlike a friend you ask for a feedback, they won’t be nice to you.)
Also probably to fanfic authors (with established characters) this is more likely to happen. (I don’t really write fanfics or know anyone, who writes fanfics, so I don’t know about this, tbh.)
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I sorta find that people view criticism and insults very similarly
In theory there’s a difference but it’s the tone that matters the most really
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It did have hype moments and aura, so I’m actually wrong it’s the best patch in history
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A lot of Shaoji’s writing has, “I started writing and kept writing and at some point stopped and realized that I wrote ten pages,” syndrome.
Bro needs an editor.
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truth nuke
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I have embraced limbus and its ‘Actually Getting to the Point in a reasonable amount of time’ storytelling
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yo im jaiden
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hi jaiden
what did you think of imaginal disk
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pretty good
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This but if they ask I won’t be mean about it. I’ll also find strengths too that they have
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There’s being honest and being brutal and critical for no reason pretty much.
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Just bc there’s a huge amount of criticism that exists that is just being needlessly focused on the negatives of something. Criticism is so important but proper criticism is also important
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Overall I think it’s important to point out positives and negatives. So someone can know what they’re doing wrong and right. Cuz what if someone fixes something that isn’t broken and it becomes messed up and they were simply trying to improve
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huge win for me: i finally disassembled this pen (specifically getting the grip off of it.) it was not that interesting & the pen is certainly worse off for it.
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tbh i think it’s a lot easier to be mean than nice (at least in academic contexts i think i’m generally nicer in terms of creative works but i have less experience)
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