Waiting this thing since 2012 and they dump a mangled corpse cut on half. Man, I'm really liking the Bloom so far but it is an area that deserved a much better game and I dunno if I will continue, especially as the main story just fucking died after the twist, don't feel there is much reason to continue. Only experienced three legitimate quests on all this time wasted on this game so far, Ashen Imitation, Sorrow's Prey and the only one I can say is legitimate incline and that was really well done and that goes beyond the banal fetch quest was that Endless Horror quest on the Valley of the dead heroes. You only have the impression of being a longer game because of the verbosity of it all but take Shadowrun Hong Kong lore dump NPCs, multiply them by 10, make them all special snowflakes on a much inferior setting in comparison with shadowrun and force you to go through a ton of loading screens talking with those douche bags, there you are Sagus Cliffs and pretty much all content until you reach the Bloom. The game is super short too, DragonFall and Hong Kong extended edition short but there were real quests on those games with decent combat, what I can't say here. My God, the main plot of this game is just awful and I don't say awful in comparison with the original Torment but just awful, awful on its own right. I would expect this from fanfiction writers not from professional writers (not that distinction is clear on the video game world anyway). Jesus, I just got through the first twist and the only thing I can say is: The entire thing was written by someone that didn't even try to put themselves into the situation, but instead created an unapologetic strawman devoid of character, with all the depth of Skeletor but without the relevance. Fuck, the slaver didn't even try to argue with us that she'd have a better life as a slave than as an orphan. There' a ton of ways for slavery to be handled in interesting ways with varying degrees of historicity or moral judgements and philosophies, the least interesting of which are "It's evil". In fact, in many cases, slavery has been considered a step up, despite the fact that you lose your freedom. Most European societies that have kept slaves didn't do so out of malice, and didn't recognize it as malicious, nor as a "necessary evil", but often as a kindness, nevermind that there's other types of de facto slavery, such as voluntary indentured servitude, other viewpoints such as keeping people that would de facto be worse off "in the wilds" or "in the gutter". Some verisimilitude and contextual moral flexibility would've been appreciated, to say the least. The annoying part lies in that the default assumption is that it's evil and reprehensible, despite the fact that we're dealing with a post-apocalyptic/pre-civilization feudal-level society/setting, in a country/city where slavery is legal, and we're practically a newborn consciousness that literally fell out of the sky less than two days ago. And sure, they don't have to like it, in fact I liked how the thugs (if you have the quest before finding Rhin, some thugs show up) are explicitly reluctant to haul the kid back to the slavers (this is only explicit if you've got Sense Thoughts). Unfortunately, it gets extremely little exposition beyond that, so it's hard to tell.
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