What I think he nailed is the 'Jason is playing the game' thing - and I do think it added to the enjoyment. To be fair, Cintra does literally say 'You win' at the end :D But yeah, I do like his intentions, I just don't think delivery was all that great. In the final fight with Vaas, I did find myself wondering if the flashing hallucinations of Vaas and Jason being the same person were put in just to be provocative and make the player 'think', without having actually any cogent reason for it. If the writer is the only one who can identify it as satire, is it really satire? I don't know.Īlso, he says: 'The end of this story is very blatantly a subversion of any kinds of racist stereotypes.' At no point did I find myself wondering if this was satire. Ultimately, to me, it doesn't play like a parody it plays like a shoddy story. He's obviously thought about the game a lot, and to me he's lost in his world of abstruse connections and hidden meanings. I caught this much out though: Jeffrey says 'it's parody! it's hokum!', but his reasoning is too loose for me to follow. I skimmed the article - Jeffrey is clearly very excited about the game, and I can't read through all his rambling in one sitting. I can appreciate that is was all by design, and I got my fair share of enjoyment out of it. At first I thought it was bullcrap and agreed with the RPS guy, but more I think about it, the more ingenious that is. The Alice in Wonderland quotes are a good example they feel shoehorned in to look 'deep', but the story doesn't parallel Alice in Wonderland at all beyond the fact that both are kind of trippy.įenixp: All of that was more or less there 'on purpose' tho, lead writer pretty much said that the story is utter bollocks. But in general, a lot of the stuff feels like it is trying to be clever, but isn't actually clever. I didn't actively dislike it until the ending, but that's a discussion for a thread with spoilers.

Plus it's the only 'deep' example he ever brings up, even though he insists that there are hundreds of deep moments just like that.Ĭount me in the story-is-hokey-drivel camp. We don't collectively flip our shit over how clever it is that the Khajiit are from Elsweyr in Morrowind. I appreciate that the guy is passionate, but to me it sounded like: 'It's called ROOK ISLAND! ROOK means FAKE! Isn't that GENIUS!?! Read a DICTIONARY for once, people!' Ok, we get it, you thought of a clever name. Fenixp: All of that was more or less there 'on purpose' tho, lead writer pretty much said that the story is utter bollocks.

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