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Oh yah. Glad you liked it. The game is a masterpiece. I keep trying to get people to play it and everyone has the same reaction. "Sure sure, I'll check it out..." they don't understand how special it really is. Despite being like 95% positive and getting rave reviews from everyone. I did get a writer friend to play it and she couldn't believe how amazing the writting was. I think it really changed her mind about how video games can be a unique form of writing. I need to start a new game of DE!
I guess I'm not good at it or something. I pick it up and put it down and want to like it, sometimes I can get sucked in and make some progress but idk just feels like I forgot what I was doing or what makes sense to go do next.
Hope I beat it some day.
Same with me -- all my friends love it and I've picked it up a handful of times, but it never really grabs my attention.
Maybe it's a matter of pacing? I know I needed to sit down and enter a state of flow to really start enjoying it. It also picks up only after a few hours, once you get acquainted with the perk mechanics and the case really starts unraveling.
You bet ! writers must be in a privileged position to appreciate this level of craftsmanship. I mean, the interweaving of stories, the coherency of it all... I cannot imagine the amount of work that went into it.
I couldn't even tell you why I didn't fall for it earlier. Perhaps it's the genre ? or the pacing...? I don't usually play RPGs or games that don't obey a realtime clock. I guess that must have played a part in my initial reluctance. It's also super heavy in text, but I got over that pretty much immediately the writing and worldbuilding were so good.
So what will your next Harrier be like ?