Yes, I recall feeling that the century of torture was way, waaaay over the top. I got the feeling that part was written by someone that did try to realise what a hundred years of torture would do to someone. I got the impression of the writer trying to exaggerate and thereby loosing all credibility ('well, my spaceship can fly at six times the speed of light'). In other words: bad, unthoughtful writing. Not the only example of that, in this game.
Well look at this – two people in a ‘consecutive row’ talking sense.
You’d nearly think there’s a point to be made about how naff the writing is in this game.
The Aylin stuff though is another level of dire. It’s so bad it needs its own game, where that particular writer just writes the whole lame lot of it. And we can just marvel how bad it can possibly get when you’ve no interest in narrative coherence.
Thing is, the writing in Cyperpunk and The Witcher is quite phenomenally good. By that I mean, I’ve read recent Man Booker winners who made me think less than the writers of these incredible games.
Larian should just hire CD Projekt Red to write even a DLC as a ‘POC’ and see what happens…
They’re very, very good writers – think one of their ex-writers wrote the excellent D4 narrative.
Anyway, I digress (I guess)…
