Sorry to pester, but would you mind throwing a spoiler over this bit? I'm sure there's a few people floating around who haven't figured out the big twist yet, don't want to ruin it for them.
And do you remember any scenes specifically where this happens? I typically skim over content written by Observer these days since their writing style is not one I'm particularly fond of, but you've gotten me a bit curious.
As Antler said, people will usually keep this hidden behind spoilers, on account of it being a massive bit of lore.
These are already accounted for, either with specific Powers (Banishment behaves differently against Ethereal and Construct enemies) or because the elemental weaknesses of particular enemy types are specifically targeted. There's a reason that the Beast Killer bow does Blight damage: It's targeting that taxon's -75 Blight Resist stat.
Repeatable Corruption-reducing mechanisms are designed to be fairly low because it's meant to be easier to gain the stuff than to lose it. It's spelled out right in the game's primary design doc. The big exception is the Cloister and that requires both Winterstem and a whole bunch of in-game time to balance things out.
The game is designed to not have a gear treadmill, so making any weapon that's extremely overpowered (and giving one weapon the ability to grant multiple possible buffs most certainly would be) would either make that weapon game-breakingly powerful or it would require every future encounter to be balanced around it, penalizing players who don't use Ashe. Either way would be an incredible amount of work because one person didn't think a weapon that already is very good, unlocks multiple types of sex scenes and gets special lines on crits isn't Super Speshul enough already.
This sounds like a fascinating idea... for a game where the focus is all on the combat and not on trying to find a nice middle ground between 'Smutty text adventure where you're just selecting options' and 'Fucking end this fight already, I've been stuck fighting these mobs for half an hour!'.
I see what your saying but it's not like the characters themselves have, any real say. The people that use Harley as click bait. Deserve your anger not Harley herself but, still you bring up a good point. "Hey look everyone at this new comic book. With all these characters and if your still not satisfied, we'll throw in Harley Quinn as a bonus. So act now".
Nah, it's good. I noticed this with their early game content but it becomes less prominent the further you get in the game; I can only assume it's only because they were relatively fresh at writing a story and are getting better. A good example of many is:
those are very niche options but I get that your saying it's acknowledged to an extent but Like I said negligible at best, I waltz through the game without knowing they existed till the Wiki, that should not be the case.
I'd agree with you if any of that mattered; time doesn't matter because there is no pressure on the player; those ingredients and requirements aren't too hard to get for the cloister, and Zo is a far better and less clunky way to reduce corruption. The only reason I choose 1-3 rng is because gambling keeps ppl hooked and rolling for 3s would keep her meditation relevant while not making the others redundant.
I gave options not like I want her to have them all; one offensive buff and one defensive buff (you give it or you take it ;p, Ludo-narrative harmony), if they want balance they can tweak the numbers and make them hr based so the player has to reapply that buff if they want it. The multiple sex scenes thing is not unique and not a draw in itself, we the pc are flushed for choices in that regard and the only draw is that she livens up combat with crit comments, thats why incentives are necessary to keep her scenes relevant.
Tbh I'm hoping for more enemies that aren't just walking fap material. The wolves that attack in the Old Forest were so refreshing for me; the fact that there are npcs, lore, and stories that talk about how unruly or wild and dangerous the world is you never get that feeling because everything just wants to fuck you. The difference between this and say Monstergirl Quest is that at least they kill off the characters and have bad ends and scenarios where ppl die or vividly describe when the characters get viciously stomped out or deliver a stomping.
I see what you're saying. It just irks me is all.
This is a fair line of questioning. But there's a fairly simple explanation.
Maybe you should pay more attention to the text then, instead of skimming over it while looking for more things to back up your preconceived notion of what's going on...
"but it can be assumed" that right there is what I hate the most, why is my character being forced into accepting and agreeing to another's thought process? Because its convenient for the writers. This revelation should've been saved for the mid to late game and not achievable at lvl 3, because thats Phyria's pov on the topic and there are clear branches of thought that can come from that situation: 1. Are they trustworthy? 2. Do they know that you know or has sexy-snake kept it to herself? 3. Do they still know how to use souls and can it be taught or acquired?
There doesn't have to be extremes tho, the Gods can be Good guys but shady and Kas can still do reasonable stuff without the hero worship, the point I'm making is that it's a big deal and its being treated as trivial info when the games and media that make, popularize, use this trope do it to greater effect. Just brushing it off is not the way to deal with it; its something the Protag needs to grapple with, especially since almost every scene has ppl screaming the name of their god.
Yes, forgive me for making the clearly foolish assumption that what the creators of the game have to say might be relevant to interpreting the game, especially since the game is still incomplete so whatever they say might just indicate what sort of things will be implemented at some future date...
The most Bs reasoning I've seen in while
