shouting into the storm of activation-based DRM<\/a>. Man, that was an ugly time. I’m really glad indies have moved away from that sort of stuff.) A few months later they released Episode 2. Then (stop me if you’ve heard this one before) they never got around to making Episode 3.<\/p>\nYears later a completely different team showed up and made more episodes. This was good for fans of the lore, but bad for my daughter.<\/p>\n
Esther recently discovered RSPOD and fell in love with the first two episodes. She loved being able to make her own character. She loved having a female avatar in the gameworld. She liked the narrator. She liked the humor, at least the parts that didn’t go over her head. (Yes, I let her play the games and yes she knows what those words mean.) She liked the expressive characters and the accessible combat.<\/p>\n
She was sad when she got to the end of Episode 2. Then I (foolishly) told her that there was an Episode 3. I bought it for her. I didn’t say anything about it. I just installed it and let her find her own way with the thing. The next morning there was a little note:<\/p>\n
The new penny arcade game SUCKS! :(<\/em><\/p>\nAccording to Steam she gave it 39 minutes.<\/p>\n
The new one is a Final Fantasy IV riff, which is great for nostalgia-driven thirty-somethings and terrible for a thirteen year old girl with no knowledge of or interest in its mechanical forebears. No voice. No avatar. No girl character. (At least, not to start with.) No expressive faces. Instead of seeing characters smack each other with garden tools you’ve got little retro 2D sprites bumping around.<\/p>\n
I played through the Mass Effect series so I know how it feels, but this is the first time she’s ever gone through something like this.<\/p>\n
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