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Message: [QUOTE="StopTheCatastrophe, post: 279001, member: 1975"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/06/13/sword-world-sfc-where-is-the-lore/[/URL] [B]”[/B]settles into a simplistic SRPG experience, […] struggling to show or do anything even the most casual player of the genre hasn’t seen or done before. […] odd insistence on bare-minimum storytelling make it all feel very inconsequential.[B]” ”[/B][…] wants to lure in people who like TTRPGs, and wishes to be compared with its pen and paper original. It’s just so […] bad at it. It doesn’t embrace open-ended storytelling possibilities the way [URL='https://kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2020/04/13/a-funny-kind-of-freedom/'][B]Romancing SaGa[/B][/URL] (released the year before) does on the same format, and there are no plot-embellishing notes to discover, secret shortcuts to find (unless part of the story is “find the secret shortcut”), or trapped rooms to disarm (or sneakily lure my enemies towards).[B]” ”[/B]But this is a [I]Sword World[/I] RPG. It’s like naming a game [URL='https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/thank-you-for-ruining-my-life-larian-even-after-900-hours-and-a-dozen-playthroughs-baldurs-gate-3s-patch-8-has-me-obsessed-all-over-again/']Dungeons & Dragons[/URL] or [URL='https://kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2018/11/15/kimimi-digital-explorer-shadowrun-chronicles-edition/']Shadowrun[/URL] or [B]Pathfinder[/B] or [B]Call of Cthulhu[/B]—there are certain tonal and mechanical expectations attached to these names, and those are not going to be fulfilled by another hour of Generic Fantasy RPG #3409.[B]”[/B] [/QUOTE]

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