AH AH AH left wing fegit has no standards AH AH AH AH

I think we all know who the actual racist is here. You guys are the world champion of projection.

You know when someone uses ‘social enginnering’ like that, they are not the brightest tool in the toolshed.

AH AH AH right wing tool compains about realism in a Fantasy Game. AH AH AH AH

Poppy is there for social engineering which you see a lot of these days. She turns on her family, has no discourse with them, there is no discourse that can be had and she will kill the people she grew up with and that raised her at will. Animals are more important than them.

World 10/10
Story 0/10 outside of Sebastian which is moral grey and not really a theme for kids. He belongs in something like a Witcher game for adults.
Gameplay 8/10. I expected it would be a lot worse.
Score for kids. Great game if you want your kid to be an entitled sociopath and teach them that good and evil are not much different. This story is to the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy as Harry Potter is to the orignial Star Wars. One is about struggle, friendship and self sacrifice. The other is about being a god with no struggles, that really doesn’t need friends or mentors and is a law unto themselves. It’s Harry Potter in only name, unless you are well…stupid.

Not surprised it’s gonna be a HBO show. Expect complete subversion and a postmodern deconstruction of the original work while pushing more things like Sirona.

I give the race diversity a pass cus magic and the other schools all have magic travel devises etc (if it was done in correct amounts), but the character from Uganda and the backstory of the Uganda magic school was ridiculous. You can tell it’s written by an actual racist whose afraid to be called a racist. Probably a white woman.

Always the same things with characters like this. The school is biggerer and betterrer, the students more advanced. “Hi I’m Natty and I’m smarter than you, here use my answer. BTW my magic is more advanced than yours, oh and in my spare time I’m deeply invested in protecting you primitive English people I don’t even know. My only “flaw” is that I’s a superhero in my spare time.” Natty could have been a really good character. Have her be emotionally scarred. Have her struggle as a student due to dealing with her father’s death and survivors guilt and then come through at the end with what she did. We all would have loved her. She was impossible to root for as is though..

Also yeah the gender stuff was pure Hollywood subversion.
I forgot that a mentor in the story uses forbidden curses as well. Complete subversion of the source material and pushing moral grey. No punishment for using them in the story, no morality system. Just moral grey nonsense that should never be in kids stories. No society would teach their kids that unless they wanted to be killed by those children in genocides and anarchy. Something we saw last century in communist countries where 80-90? million people were killed by their own countrymen? Think there was 60 in just China.

Don’t forget the ridiculous amounts of “diversity” in the characters and NPCs. If it took place in modern days it’d have made much more sense because that’s how England (especially London) currently is, but this game takes place in the late 19th century. It’s completely immersion breaking. One or two characters would’ve been okay (e.g. that girl from Uganda and her mom) but not half of the goddamn school.
And then there’s the ability to be in dorms that don’t match your gender. Didn’t the school have some kind of safeguard against that in the books (I think it was something to do with the stairs turning into slides)?

Some day the world of videogaming stop to put as reference RPG boring world to the RPG genre in videogames, this day the humanity grow a bit more, really who cares the “reality or rating” if is a “real” rpg or not except for the bookworms obsessed with the purity of that genre.

Seriuosly, any zelda put you in a inmersive story more effective that any “hardcore” rpg that you think, in the videogame world

The gameplay and graphics were really good though. I had fun with those.

I just came from replaying the Witcher 3 and the writing gap could really be felt between these two