I had a similar experience with Roadwarden. I played a few hours but it didn’t hook me and gave up on it. My verdict was that while the premise is interesting, the writing isn’t good enough to keep me invested.
Yeah. There are games out there with worse writing, but honestly that is not saying much. And when your “game” is literally only text, that text better be top fucking quality. And this isn’t really bad enough to be entertaining, it’s mostly just dull.
I have a lot of qualms, but there are two main problems:
Protagonist has extremely weak (almost nonexistent) personality and internal motivation
The overarching plot has no early hook, no emotional investment and no stakes.
Again if we take the Witcher comparison: imagine The Witcher 3 but you play as a cardboard cutout instead of Geralt, and the whole Ciiri storyline is completely absent. You just ride around doing contracts.
I had a similar experience with Roadwarden. I played a few hours but it didn’t hook me and gave up on it. My verdict was that while the premise is interesting, the writing isn’t good enough to keep me invested.
Yeah. There are games out there with worse writing, but honestly that is not saying much. And when your “game” is literally only text, that text better be top fucking quality. And this isn’t really bad enough to be entertaining, it’s mostly just dull.
I have a lot of qualms, but there are two main problems:
Again if we take the Witcher comparison: imagine The Witcher 3 but you play as a cardboard cutout instead of Geralt, and the whole Ciiri storyline is completely absent. You just ride around doing contracts.