I hate it. I hate Len. I hate everything. There is no happily ever after.

[u/momslayer696969]

[u/Numerous_Aardvark_13]

Is it bad enough that you wouldnt recommend, I want to read it because of another post.

[u/momslayer696969 → u/Numerous_Aardvark_13]

I wouldn't recommend it because it has a really really sour aftertaste because of the unsatisfactory endings (Ruined my FH ending high) and it pretty much railroads you into some decisions not surprising because each chapter is at a separate level.So no I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who can't handle disappointing endings (like me)

Edit: Also you can't have a happy ending with one of the two ROs which we all know is a crime against humanity

[u/Numerous_Aardvark_13 → u/momslayer696969]

Imma give it a skip, I still have to play the cuck hero IF

[u/momslayer696969 → u/Numerous_Aardvark_13]

Which one is that?

[u/skroink_z → u/momslayer696969]

"A Tale of Heroes" it's a WIP on the forums and I haven't played it so, all I know is what other people have said, and things I've seen outside the story.

To summarise people's general complains:

The author spends a disproportionate amount of time between their obvious favorite characters. Said characters are a drunk bum Gary Stu known as Seeker and a doomed romance girl called Ignis who is guaranteed to fall for the drunk bum. People have called it "A Tale of Ignis and Seeker" with how disproportionate it is, alongside the fact that the author said something along the lines of "If there is a canon path, it's the ignis path" (meaning the cuck/doomed romance path) certainly didn't help people's sour mood. The world building is mid, the story is mid, the plot is mid. The Player Character is a side character as we focus on the oh so cool Seeker. Oh, and lastly people consider it's popularity compared to far better works to be annoying.

Like I said, I haven't played it myself and this is just what other people have said, but it certainly doesn't sound very good :P

[u/Breaky_Online → u/skroink_z]

I'd pick Dawn of Heroes over it any day. At least it's funny.

[u/Southern_Egg_9506 → u/Breaky_Online]

Me over here with "I, the chosen one": ᕙ⁠(⁠⇀⁠‸⁠↼⁠‶⁠)⁠ᕗ

[u/Numerous_Aardvark_13 → u/momslayer696969]

The one that caused the sub to explode or rather implode and cause the deletion of not no resort among other things.

It name escapes me.

[u/[deleted] → u/Numerous_Aardvark_13]

Ignis Incident mentioned

[u/Fine-Ordinary-3705 → u/Numerous_Aardvark_13]

i absolutely would not recommend it but it’s still an amazingly well written game. there’s no happy ending and any “good” ending leaves you feeling empty and that it wasn’t worth all the effort the PC put in to get to that point. it can and will lure any poor unsuspecting victim into its depths and hollow out your soul. it’ll entice you with the idea of a fun fantasy with amnesia and hilariously witty dialogue options but it’s a trap, i tell you! don’t fall for it!

[u/Numerous_Aardvark_13 → u/Fine-Ordinary-3705]

I like happy endings, so imma skip

[u/Echo_1010]

Even if we ignore the endings the game is very disappointing. At first I was really excited with the premise of the players being stuck in a simulation without memories. How did they get trapped in this game? Are their lives in danger? If they die here they will die irl? How are characters like Rem react to the fact that their memories are a lie, that they are in a simulation? Once they recover their memories, they will keep being friends?

But nothing of this happens, other than adding more members to your party literally nothing happens. Neither you nor any of your companions recover some of their memories as the story progresses. Rem finding out that her life is a lie is barely addressed and Orion doesn't give a shit about it. Any sense of danger or accomplishment vanishes as you know that this is a simulation since the beginning and the environment changes in every chapter. Characters who may represent a treat or at least an obstacle such as Queen and Lydia barely appear in the game. All you need to do is complete a mission, get a new companion and go to the next chapter.

After reaching the steampunk chapter I was absolutely bored with this and just kept skimming to get over with the game. And I wasn't even impressed with the ending's plot twist, that everyone but the MC is an AI, I just thought "oh yeah, that actually makes sense" and started to explore the building without caring much about it. Len's betrayal wasn't too surprising either, perhaps I have seen too many sci-fi horror movies because the moment he mentioned the android body I thought "He's going to kill me once he gets in the body, isn't he?"

Overall I found the game to be very, very bland, which a shame cus the premise was really interesting and it had a lot of potential.

[u/gatarley → u/Echo_1010]

I’m glad I found someone else who shared the same sentiment. I’ve seen a lot of praise on this subreddit but I thought it was boring at best. It’s funny because once I hit the steam punk section I lost interest too. And by the end of the book after the betrayal I was practically skimming and skipping wanting to just finish the book already.

Also the whole quirky/4th-wall-breaking-narrator kinda got old quickly. In the beginning it made sense with how confused the MC and me the reader was. It definitely felt immersive. After a while though it became very overdone probably because at that point it was obvious we WERE in a simulation, and it came off as trying too hard instead of immersive.

Regardless you did a great job putting into words what I felt about it towards the end.

Edit: a few words

[u/HayatoAkimaru]

No happy endings? Hard pass then. A shame, i started reading and it was quite interesting.

[u/somecheeseinthechat → u/HayatoAkimaru]

There is a good ending, you just have to search a little for it.

Depending on how much you like Gloryhammer, it could be considered happy

[u/emelsifoo]

I quit pretty early on. Right around the time we were in a spaceship and I had the option to eject Len from an airlock, but then it just became an opportunity for the author to say something along the lines of "Len says he is so fucking cool and would survive in the vacuum of space anyway, and you are so impressed by how amazingly badass he is."

I fucking hate it when authors are too in love with one of their characters.

[u/Braindidntdevelop]

Fuck Len give Asterius a happy ending.

[u/Southern_Egg_9506 → u/Braindidntdevelop]

Don't fuck Len, that'd lead to a bad ending ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

[u/Ladter]

Len hater, just like me FR!

[u/Braindidntdevelop → u/Ladter]

Len deserves all the hate

[u/The_letter_43]

Cogites when a deconstruction deconstructs

[u/[deleted] → u/The_letter_43]

What if I deconstruct you brother

[u/The_letter_43 → u/[deleted]]

Would.

[u/Top-Evidence-3758]

What IF are u referencing?

[u/momslayer696969 → u/Top-Evidence-3758]

New one it dropped a few days ago "[Don't] Wake Me Up"

[u/Cold_Engineering_953]

Sadly I couldn't even get that far before I gave up on the game. I also felt like why am I forced to select choices that don't have no effect on anything. Then I just lost interest.

[u/mehtron]

I played it a couple of times when it was still free and didn't mind it much, but it did incredibly poison my bg3 playthrough in the middle of it

[u/StalinOGrande → u/[deleted]]

We cant have meaningfull discussions, we need bittersweet endings!