The Forgotten City

What a game

this was a blast to play

played this because of Mark Brown and.. yeah, this is stellar

Very enjoyable but I am surprised by the amount of praise the writing gets. The main story is interesting , especially the idea of having not to sin without being told what a sin is. The plot twists also work. But so many other things do not, like the painfully one-dimensional characters. It is very clear that the developers had a plot in mind first, and only then created the characters but giving them only the absolute minimum depth needed to move the plot forward. It was mind boggling to me that I couldn't even ask Sentius about his daughter's disapperance after learning about it from his other daughter. Also, why did he not tell me about it in the first place? I get it that he's the kidnapper, but he sends me to investigate the whole city, he must have expected me to learn about his daughter in the process. This immediately made him extremely shady. Going further, persuading others is way too fast and easy (you can talk people out of their hard beliefs with two lines of dialogue). Finally, the final twist was lame: why are the gods just some technologically advanced aliens? I love this idea and I've seen it done well in other games, but what did it add here?. It felt like a redundant twist for the sake of a twist, which perhaps summarizes the general attitude of the writers.

^ i didnt interpret it as the gods actually being hyperadvanced aliens or whatever, i think everyone who stumbles across them just views them as being like: so far beyond them. so since youre from the 21st century, your frame of reference is naturally sci-fi stories and that's how your perception shifts to match

but yeah this game is a blast, truly amazing. addicting as hell.

this game rocks. janky as all hell but i love it. only have 2 of 4 endings rn but im planning on tackling the rest tomorrow.

the final ending went from very absurd to very touching very quickly. very very lovely game. i feel like if their next game gets some more polish and some tighter writing it could be a flatout masterpiece.