179 - It's Monday My Dudes. (Patreon)

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Trails Of Cold Steel 3. I am 50+ in and I am starting to really dislike this game. Forget what I said last Monday, this game is bad. The story is incoherent, the characters are wooden and everything else is just... bland. There are plenty of great moments, but about 70% is just bad.

Angelica is a good example. I was never a big fan of her's, but in the previous games she was well written, I really did care for her story arc. Here she acts like a complete dolt hitting in EVERY girl in a completely ridiculous manner. That's it. That's her whole story now: she hits on girl a lot. The end.

Same goes to everyone else. In the first game even NPC characters had their story arcs - if you talked to them during every free day you could observe them evolve and grow and progress through their own stories. Here NPCs are just NPCs that say random stuff. And main characters barely have any personality apparat from the stereotypes they represent. 

The first game felt like a fun anime with a very grounded story and well-built world. Small events were well written and when something big happened it was amazing. There was barely any magic, or any other bullshit. 

That being said ToCS3 still has a lot of great moments. (I never seen a JRPG character actually flip a bird before). But in comparison to the first (and even second) game it just falls flat. I don't care about the new characters, old characters act like idiots, nothing makes sense and at times I am literally forcing myself to keep on playing. -_-

The work. This week was spent on coloring CGs. Still not done. Not gonna lie -- I am getting really fed up with this long development times. I need to make some sort of changes in the way I create things... But not until ep12 is out.  

That's about it. See you all next Monday.