#i refuse to set my home to aviary village. i go there for my nest and thats it

[eggthew]

A lot has changed in sky cotl since i last was really into playing it. And while i still really enjoy playing it and love it, idk I dont like a lot of the changes. Before it felt empty in a way that was really bitter-sweet, like there was life everywhere and here you (the character you are playing) are exploring it, but its empty of what came before you and its so full of remnants that is always there to remind you that once, there was More Than This. And you can find those remnants, you can see snapshots of the lives these people that came before you lived, and you carry them with you and it Changes You. Theres so much you dont know or understand but youre learning little pieces and with each piece you connect with those who became before you and absorb them. You learn their expressions from the snapshot memories they left behind

Now theres aviary village thats just. A normal village. And sure you still have to bring the spirits home before the village is populated, but. Now its just like any other social game in that aspect. Eye of eden to me was about sacrifice and losing everything but now there isnt actually that sense of loss. Idk. The spirits are no longer in the past, theyre hanging out near the cafe, and that bittersweet loss and emptyness but going forward and learning from the past to help make yourself whole has disappeared. Why learn expressions from spirits memories when theyre just outside my house. Im no longer disconnected fighting for that connection