#the life and suffering of sir brante

[catrina-pauk]

Trade with @diesel-art.

This is my part

[a-small-tragedy]

потрясающий экспириенс

[anastasiashelley]

He's not your enemy, people of Anizotte.

This is my commission done by @ 狐平, the artist was quite impressed by the game!

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

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Requested by @iamnotavrheadset

[the-impossible-bird]

so The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante has consumed my entire being, but instead of romancing any of the respectable ladies the game hooks me up with against my will I'm obviously shipping my character with his childhood best friend, because I to am Living and Suffering

[pyrrhiccomedy]

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is a good game that almost but not quite closes the deal imo because it lets god discover mercy in the end.

this is a game where your character lives in a brutal and unfair theocracy which you get the chance to overthrow, except the twin gods really objectively obviously exist. you can encounter them multiple times. And they really do want all of this suffering to be happening, and you really will be condemned to eternal torment when you finally die if you don't follow their harsh and arbitrary rules. And then you get the chance to rebel against this society, and try to introduce a kinder and more liberal world order. And the question implied by that is - is that, like, a good idea? Like...yeah, life is awful in this world, and from the POV of ordering society, none of this suffering is necessary. But you actually really will go to hell if you try to change it. You know this for a fact, and so does everyone else.

It's basically asking - if conservative religious fundamentalists were actually right about how the world works, would it still be an objective moral good to try to change the world for the better?

Imo that's a really interesting moral conundrum, and one I would have been happy to dig into over the course of a game like Sir Brante. But the whole game is kind of undercut by the repeated hints - which become absolute canon at the end of the game - that the gods have decided to change their minds. Lucky for you, would-be revolutionary! You actually won't go to hell, because god's gotten cool about some stuff all of a sudden.

Like, if the world works the way it always has, there is a moral argument to be made that preserving this brutal social order is for the greater good. And many of the characters attempting to preserve that order do make that argument. But it turns out that they are objectively wrong.

like guys that's just the real world now. I hope most of us were already on the same page about how whipping children nearly to death just because god wants us to is not a cool thing to do. the interesting wrinkle you added was that god personally told you himself that he wants those children whipped, and you will undeniably suffer for all eternity if you don't do it.

I get that maybe they didn't want to make a game that was impossibly bleak (either you side with the brutal theocracy and go to heaven, or you try to change society for the better and go to hell), but that lies so much in how your final reward or punishment is presented. Like, as the writers, you have the power to present that eternal punishment as meaningful and worthwhile. Or you could just leave a tiny bit of doubt over what your eternal reward will be, and allow the player to hope for the best.

Idk, I still recommend it, I'm just a little disappointed that it turns out to be just another "religious fundamentalism is bad" story. I was already good on that point, chief. this is not stimulating conversation.

[vonlipvig]

alright, finished my first playthrough of the life and suffering of sir brante. i really liked this game, the lore completely grabbed me and i really latched onto the characters, especially my family, but good god, i played it soooo fucking wrong. unbelievably wrong. like, everything-that-could-go-wrong-goes-wrong type of bad.

like, i loved it because i think that's how a blind playthrough should go, you should just go with your gut and suffer the consequences of your actions, but wow, this was probably the most depressing game i've ever played. my life went horribly, i betrayed so many people i trusted, i accomplished nothing, and it left the world in a worse shape than it was, it was honestly kind of upsetting.

like man, i'm already depressed, i can't fucking go through this lmao.

anyway, i did love it, so i can't wait to go again and see what other fresh hell i stumble upon...or, maybe something nice, who knows!

[lacrisa]

Nathan Brante fanart because I like alcohol and religion crisis

[archie-baldo]

Love in arknian language looks something like this.

The chambers of the Inquisition wept for it, the militia mourned for it, and the Archduke of the Magria province dreamed of it in between. ✍🏻

[ontologic-catgirl]

The funniest thing of the life and suffering of sir brante, is that the gods will bring you back from death 3 times. Unless you where killed as part of a legal court of law. But the gods count like common court, inquisitions tribunal. And basically anything that even vaguely praports itself as a legal process like the pirates hold a court on whether or not to kill the captain of a ship they took over and the gods like yep checks out criminal.

[cillxo-ya]

Gaius

[raccooooool]

Love this guy so much……

[anastasiashelley]

Team Gaius

This is my commission done by @ 鸦与鸦鸦鸦, great artwork!

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[jeka-s-mile]

If Sir Brante had been born not human, I suppose 👀