I spoiled my kitty and he got fat. -- j/k, it's a different black cat.

At last a game where I can be a true "cat lady". Forget gameplay, I'll just tame cats for hours. Sadly, cannot rename.

There's a few outfits to start, rumor has it one can get more. MUST GET.

Edited March 28Mar 28 by LadyCrimson

Can you get a hamster?

5 hours ago, HoonDing said:

Can you get a hamster?

Sadly no. There's tons of animals but so far they only seem to be for meat. I've become a butcher of chipmunks for food. 🤡

Gedonia

(Steam shows 70 uploaded screenshots)

A level 6 powerful wizard.

I'd think that verbal abuse would decrease the defence, but whatever works.

Threatening a minor. Better than looting from the corpse, I guess.

How? And why?

FPS dropped to 15.

Is the mysterious assassin an assassin?

Defeated 1 lurker at lvl21. Then there were 6 more deeper in the cave.

The dagger was the same as the one I looted from a random chest in the next area. But good stats.

A drakeling boss. Not hostile, but not recruitable either.

Kings' Tomb it is not.

Debating by tapping E.

Was their demigod/Chosen One nailed to a cross too?

Very hardcore barbarians - sunburn-resistant and brought wood with them.

The main story

The PC is nowhere around and the BBEG is monologuing at the damsel in distress.

And this is why a PC must be silent in RPGs.

From this point on, I was just skipping the cutscenes.

The game really did not like me doing it. The room is locked and I cannot teleport out (no skills).

The game ignored the settings for the area, so FPS dropped to 15-19.

The pre-pre-final battle is going well.

It is indeed painful to read.

The pre-final battle is going well - no walls to take cover behind.

Another softlock - the PC died, then the boss died and a cutscene started, so I had to Alt+F4 to reload.

I joined the not-Ewoks faction after completing several quests for them and still needed books to learn about them.

The quest was the opposite of epic.

Possessor(s)

I like this loading screen - it is an amusing thought that the NPC buddy drags the MC's corpse back to the checkpoint.

I'd think we'd have better luck with the regular explosives, but sure, let's go find 4 people in a large city and pluck out their eyes.

This was not an eye.

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The Land of the Magnates

As the store page states, the game is "harnessing the power of Unreal Engine 5".

The "power" was not enough to match the NPC portraits with the models.

Is he suggesting succeeding Arthas-style?

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Recital Of The Heart Playtest

Very realistic reasoning.

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Every time I see RNG in dialogues and the panel being on the side, I blame Disco Elysium.
It is a demo, by the way. The full version currently costs more than I am willing to pay for the perpetual annoyance of the poor UI. I have small hopes that the developers might fix it.

checking out Starfield update, you can launch ICBM

Got a Husky. Don't use it much, since they don't leap onto my shoulder. Or stand on hindlegs, or shake paws, or anything. But doggos are quieter.

"Cat, help me." "Meow, no you help me."

I've figured out why the wind/trees have super strong wind dynamics. It's so characters hair will fly around beautifully! Not so obvious here, but some of the longhaired witch's hair movement is awesome. Wasn't at all into Kliff's looks until they put in the "don't show helmet" feature, and suddenly in the wind he's kinda generic-stoic handsome, and it's mainly the hair movement. :P

I don't know what weapon this guy is using, but I want it. All they dropped was the fuel tanks tho. :/

romancing Roxana

This needs to become an actual permanent pet you can acquire, not just a temp one you can "steal" from enemy and use for a play session. Like, STAT.
It's called a KuKu hatchling, but we all know what it really is. CHOCOBO.

due to bug this thing is regularly appearing on my ship out of nowhere

Bunch a guys riding giant iguanas or something attacked me for no reason. So I killed half of them, then stole one of their rides and killed the other half. The little beasties even had a purple spit ranged attack. That was pretty fun. Alas, couldn't perm keep the ride, as usual. Why do the enemies have all the hotrods.

Mundane sights you sometimes see while randomly roaming. Mundane, but nifty enough to admire for a few moments, before shooting them full of arrows because I need their antlers. :P

I hate forced prison escape quests in rpgs

Possessor(s)

Started moving before the room loaded.

It was not, in fact, quite fine.

The first attempt. The boss did not have the time to do it when I played more aggressively.

He was not wrong.

The first of the major bosses.

I was sceptical.

So, yeah.

Mid-game spoiler

The unrealistic part is that one of the prisoners got to stop the torturers. Also, humans tend to abuse beagles - they are trusting.

The area boss

The shell is the best modifier (reflects projectiles at the attacker).

Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga

Chapter 12

He did.

Also, the writing was weird - not sure if was misogyny or misandry (we are not cannon fodder), but most of the dialogues use "men" instead of "people", while the strongest squad at that point consisted of women and the units were changing their gender expression depending on class.

I wish my ego was that big.

He's not wrong.

It is a pretty good trait.

Chapter 17-19 (I think)

The Classic portrait face looks like a poorly-peeled potato. The new one is fairly decent.

It is a bit later. Mixed feelings, but we've got an extra squad.

RGB dragons.

The water-walking clerics.

The party has "interesting" ideas. The enemy is a significant chunk of the population. But the survivors will need less resources, so it evens out.

Some of the later battles showed that the quality is more important that the quantity of the dragons.

Best friends and roommates

I could not tell if it was the writing or the translation (I believe the game was written in English).

Thank the devs for the toggle

The Sayunaa arc (spoilers)

On one hand, the attempts at writing reflection are welcome. On the other, it still sounds funny. Yes, our friend is confident that destroying her enemies is a good thing.

Our way is the smart way.

They had it coming. We offered very reasonable terms of them not dying to our swords while providing us support against their former ally. /s

Her squads are on the right and hit like trucks.

All the qualifications a true monarch needs - being related to the previous one.

So, we've put our buddy on the throne in the neighbouring state and he's given us stuff. Not unrealistic.

I.e. our power structures are for the betterment for the world. I guess, it is what a cleric would say.

"Liberating" the other locations was fine, but the capital is a no-no.

Chapter 27 or so

Actually, the highest point of the writing - the MC has enough long-term memory. But also the assumption that the random civilians were aware that the MC was framed.

The "proudest sons of Veridia" surrendered en masse.

Yes, but they can be ransomed if captured alive and we need money.

Chapter 28

Positive attitude. Sometimes, you get framed and executed, but with the right attitude you definitely can come back.

Unless the paladin gets creative, he will feel only one hit either way.

All is forgiven. To the assassins' squad he goes.

End-game spoilers

The BBEG monologuing. It might not be wrong, but it is long.

YOLO. Well, YOL-trice (?).

The final boss does not have a portrait. This is his sprite.

It looks epic.

And so the country became a republic.

The Legends DLC. I did bring more of my squads there, but the paladins could defeat the 20 hostile squads alone with enough time.

Some of the unique mercenaries.

Edited Wednesday at 06:31 AM5 days by Hawke64
Added more screenshots.

I swore not to play any Dancing Dragon games anymore.

Skyborn was generally nice but Echoes of Aetheria became very obnoxious to finish.

22 hours ago, HoonDing said:

I swore not to play any Dancing Dragon games anymore.

Skyborn was generally nice but Echoes of Aetheria became very obnoxious to finish.

I think I had seen the other Dancing Dragon games before purchasing SoW, but they seemed like more generic RPGMaker games and I quite strongly dislike the JRPG combat in them. There are some exceptions (Crystal Tactics and Trans Theft Horso), but most go with the defaults.

Could you please let me know what you liked and disliked about the Dancing Dragon titles?