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eclipsecrowned · 1 year ago

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remember how i said playing galdur bait 3 made me realize the flaws inherent in age of dregons?

remember how wiobare made the original galdur bait games?

i'm rewatching the second game in anticipation of adding some new muses and just. good god. the flaws were always there and they've refused to grow out of edgy nihilist bullshit huh. the issue with fantasy racism was always there, overtly so in the way other characters talk, but in terms of meta narrative the game treats it as somehow ok bc it's aimed at 'bad people.' the same way the q*nari and d*lish get treated in the other series in question...

#don't get me wrong. they can tell a good story. but their fantasy fare is more and more looking to me like a one trick pony--#negative //#and like yeah the politics of a 2000s game is never gonna compare to what we acknowledge now as society #but they had this same sort of issue in the 2010s when people were already hip to being better about rep/experiences so...#again it's a pattern huh. it's not just that ip trying to be edgy. it's how they work huh.#you can literally tell a dr*w follower to shut up about being h*tecrimed and it does not count against your morality. my GOD.#no wonder i romanced and cherished this woman in my teens.

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