Thanks man, really appreciate you saying that.

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36:07 1. Yeah i agree on the opening. Its rather weak and disjointed. There was one element which confused me specifically, in the opening rook falls into the brine and warns the arisen about it. Why mention that? I thought, its not that important to the story to show this. The player will uncover this on their own eventually. 2. Not onto point two which is about how dragons dogma handles context. The story of dragons dogma in retrospective ends up being far more consise than when you experience it. This is because the game tends to withhold a lot of context until later on. For instance the brine thingy i just mentioned. The entire post-game is brine-themes. Turns out the beginning of the game was hinting at the stronger presence the brine has in the games lore/story now. 3. I think a major flaw to be noted here is how the game is not very effective in providing adequate context while playing experiencing the story itself. While i like puzzling things together in retrospect, it leaves the experience lacking while i am playing it.

57:30 1. I miss the old vocations. The fit together like a wheel you know. I mean the new ones are cool (especially warfarer), but the classes now feel kind of disjointed. I think in some kind of DLC the assasin and archer base classes will need some kind of advanced class and two extra hybrid classes to balance things out and make them make sense again.

1:11:21 1. Dude, i am kinda drunk rn and have to wake up early tomorrow to visit my cousins new child. Wish me luck as i am dying inside. Its 3 AM 2. I think i fucked up my knee during work because it kinda hurts whenever i do virtually anything with it.

1:33:15 1. On crafting Dont care much for crafting tbh. 1st game never really made me feel the need to use it and the same goes for the second. I did like how you could combine flowers and how that feature was integrated into a quest tho. 2. On gregor I forgot who gregor was when i encountered him. Did appreciate the foreshadowing to the quest via his wife and some commentaries. However i never realized he was the gregor from the beginning of the game. 3. On the sphinx She makes me feel things. Oh and the riddles were also fun/creative. Except the token one. I know it can be skipped and wont fail the quest, but whoever thought that was a good idea deserves a feeling of constantly having a pebble in their shoe for seven days. 4. On the wakestone and NPC nuke I think its cool that the important NPC's get revived, but i would love to see some story element showing it happening. Otherwise it feels like the players story is trivialized somewhat. Idk maybe a special order of monks/pawns who wander the world ressurecting those who still have a part to play and you can physically meet them after a catastrophy. 5. On story issues The seconds story isnt very good. Like it first focusses on the player becoming sovran and then around a 3rd of the game relegates it to side-content (the sven/disa storyline). No offense, but i think that is objectively bad narrative design. 5.1. On the end game story issues In the unmoored world i went to check on ulrika to see wether i could help them evacuate. I did not even experience any dialogue/interaction related to the current situation. This is also a pattern. Sometimes it feels like the world does not react to the players desicions and i think that is a major bummer.

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