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guayabana · 1 month

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elden ring attracting so much attention from audiences that usually wouldn't touch a fromsoft game has been so annoying when it comes to discussions about its story.

like maybe ironic considering grrm was involved in the writing this time, but the response to elden ring & specifically SOTE feels very similar to what happened with game of thrones, where the story is pretty explicitly about the dangers & violence & cruelty inherent in certain systems of power, and 95% of the audience response is to look at that & be like "wow i hope my fave character gets to be the good ruler who fixes everything because they're so cool & nice :D"

#elden ring #like for all the myriad countless flaws of grrm's writing (of which there are so so many)#the ASOIAF series was always consistent about how the pursuit for the throne was uhh. bad (<- understatement)#and despite the complete lack of sublety about this it went over soo many people's heads #to the point where it became impossible to talk about what ASOIAF was even really about because #people had just made up a version in their heads where girlbossing their way to the throne was the point of the story and #how characters ''won'' the narrative #and if u said anything to the contrary ppl acted like you were too stupid to understand the story #and the same thing is happening with SOTE where like #of course its not perfect but cmon....its such a clear narrative about deeply entrenched societal violence that repeats & is reenacted #over & over #by different people despite different motivations #the repetition (there are spirals everywhere!!!)#the fact that miquella was doomed to failure for trying to create change by taking his mother's place #those are not failures of writing!!

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