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I've seen so much people say good things about a tale of crowns on tumblr, reddit and other if spaces, maybe it's on me and I came with too much expectations? Since the setting, not playing as a white American/European mc for once in royal settings sounded awesome........ But it was such a letdown, it suffers from the same bland mc, no choices, ros who are more into each other than mc in every other twine wip, I think it would have honestly worked better as a visual novel.
I understand the mc being naive, they are a fish out of water, buts it jarring to see this 25 year old acting like a child sometimes, I expected them to slowly get better, but they don't, I went with A because they seem cool, but I'm not a fan of slow burn so I restarted and went after X because I thought at least mc would be getting some(kind of like M from WH) ....but even in their route you don't... I mean X gets some mc just gets nothing (which is fair because they know each other for a week). I then decided to try the magician, but they are pretty boring so I came back to A, but it's been like 10 chapters and mc doesn't seen to mature and everyone dogpiles on them (even me in this comment sorry) you have people doing way worse things in the story, sorry if it's long, should I keep playing, do they(mc) get better? Anyone felt like this while playing?
 
BiscuitB said:
I just wish there was a way for Itchio to remove some of these IF which are dead. I mean it was SCOUT that go me into this. It's been dead for 5 years whats the point.
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If anything they should get labeled as abandoned after a length of time of no activity on the developer's part (if it's still listed as in development that is). That way no one is under any assumption that it's still being worked on but also leaves them there for posterity or for fans to revisit every so often.
 
cloudyday said:
I've seen so much people say good things about a tale of crowns on tumblr, reddit and other if spaces, maybe it's on me and I came with too much expectations? Since the setting, not playing as a white American/European mc for once in royal settings sounded awesome........ But it was such a letdown, it suffers from the same bland mc, no choices, ros who are more into each other than mc in every other twine wip, I think it would have honestly worked better as a visual novel.
I understand the mc being naive, they are a fish out of water, buts it jarring to see this 25 year old acting like a child sometimes, I expected them to slowly get better, but they don't, I went with A because they seem cool, but I'm not a fan of slow burn so I restarted and went after X because I thought at least mc would be getting some(kind of like M from WH) ....but even in their route you don't... I mean X gets some mc just gets nothing (which is fair because they know each other for a week). I then decided to try the magician, but they are pretty boring so I came back to A, but it's been like 10 chapters and mc doesn't seen to mature and everyone dogpiles on them (even me in this comment sorry) you have people doing way worse things in the story, sorry if it's long, should I keep playing, do they(mc) get better? Anyone felt like this while playing?
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I doubt it'll get better the ATOC author is one of those authors who doesn't take criticisms well and surrounds herself with yes men.
 
A VN dev that decided to set their story in early 2008 has all their characters who work minimum wage have phones worth thousands and food that wasn't sold yet in the region for maybe a decade (and it didn't even exist yet). Please just say it's loosely based off of the year or decade before I play so I'm not taken out of the story.
 
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Authors be trying to make mythology lighter and softer, meanwhile I think for example this here would have made for a good premise/worldbuilding piece. Just imagine the scene.

"In antiquity this sylvan landscape was the scene of a strange and recurring tragedy. On the northern shore of the lake, right under the precipitous cliffs on which the modern village of Nemi is perched, stood the sacred grove and sanctuary of Diana Nemorensis, or Diana of the Wood. [...] In this sacred grove there grew a certain tree round which at any time of the day and probably far into the night a strange figure might be seen to prowl. In his hand he carried a drawn sword, and he kept peering warily about him as if every instant he expected to be set upon by an enemy. He was a priest and a murderer; and the man for whom he looked was sooner or later to murder him and hold the priesthood in his stead. Such was the rule of the sanctuary. A candidate for the priesthood could only succeed to office by slaying the priest, and having slain him he held office till he was himself slain by a stronger or a craftier."
 
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