EDIT: The quoted text boxes were originally part of the first post and moved to this for better feed readability for the thread as a whole.
Aw yeah, I'm bringing it back! CJ Samples, now unbound by text limits and with better spoiler warnings and tagging.
So anyways, just started playing Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and first thing I notice when I can start walking about?
Weird looking masked character called Stranger who said some vague bullshit about answers than walked away and disappeared when they passed behind someone else
And it's like, I love that kind of thing so much. Like, fuck yeah, set that stage baby! Give me that little teaser of things to come! Foreshadow the SHIT out of some ominous overarching plot stuff for later!
So I'm playing a Dhampir Faith Hunter (Inquisitor archetype) because I was told this main campaign is all about demons, so like, first playthrough, let's not get too wacky with the class or anything and let's lean into that demon angle!
But then near the end of character creation I went to pick voices and... I thought the Male - Wise voice sounded like ProZD (SungWon Cho) and even though I couldn't confirm that it stuck in my brain, and since my character is an Inquisitor he has a big hat which caused me to think about the video below...
Anyways, to cut to the chase: my character is named Archibald now and their birthday is the date that video came out because that is the type of person I am.
AND I JUST SAW A GIANT GOLDEN MAN
what resides behind your eyes giant man
why are you so shiny
give me your secrets
The talented and helpful @Minalien warned me that there is a time limited thing in this first chapter and so as soon as I could move freely throughout the city and so now Archibald is like, pushing everybody out of my way sprinting full tilt toward it like:
MOVE BITCH, THERE ARE LIVES TO SAVE
GET OFF THE ROAD SMALL CHILD OR BE CRUSHED UNDERFOOT
ANY CULTIST WHO GETS IN MY WAY WILL BE INCAPACITATED AND HIDDEN SO I CAN COME BACK AFTER AND REALLY WRECK YOU, DON'T FUCK WITH ME
Every time I return to the main hub of this chapter, I stop in front of giant man and offer a silent prayer to the gods of badass fashion.
yeah, so... I found the thing from the previous post, and it has been dealt with, and with very minor issues on my end.
BUT
uhhhhhh, I don't remember corpses being in this spot previously, but maybe that's just my memory? I hope that is the case... Probably not but yeah.
But this line right here? ohhhhh baby, this shit is my kind of chaos.
So the team has expanded, and uh, now not everybody on the team is what I would call "nice folks" in terms of alignment. We got some mysteries, and we got some questionable, and the one straight-up Evil, but the lot of them don't seem all that evil? So like, I wasn't feeling bad about the team right up until I pulled this fucking thing out of my bag while I'm selling stuff.
I want to believe it's not connected to any of the new team additions and is, like, an unrelated side quest? But... yeah, starting to doubt my instincts a bit.
WHAT IF A FOX, BUT ALSO A SNAKE
TALKING BOUT A: PIPEFOX PIPEFOX PIPEFOX
THE VERY BEST PET, MY LITTLE FURRY MATE
PIPEFOX PIPEFOX PIIIIIIIIIIPEFOXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Fuckin' love weird puzzle shit. I had to put tiles into an order, fuck yeah!
Weird Puzzle Shit Edit: The next puzzle I came across, I accidentally solved by trying to figure out how it worked. We take those.
Cool idea in theory; a mini-strategy game as part of the world map, lots of different general abilities and types, spice things up with a new side thing!
In practice.... eh. So much of it is just tedious tedious tedious. Like, the reinforcements part; I understand thematically why your reinforcements come from the first city every time, but in practice all it means is that I have to press a few extra buttons every single time to get them from the city to my forward operating base. Morale and Troop Counts also run into a similar issue of "I mean, yeah that makes sense, but also it rarely adds anything to the gameplay but wasted time."
Solving more puzzles, having mystical conversations with people far away because one of the best gods liked me solving the shit outta that puzzle, found more creepy shit about one of the creepy party members.
Good times.
So.
It's several hours later, and you could rightly assume that I had been playing all this time. Or at least, normally you could. What actually happened is after last post's spoilery things I had a fit of bisexual panic strong enough to knock me out of the game. Or I got sidetracked making food and then watched TV for a bit. Or both.
ANYWAYS after that break I realized that Archibald? Not living up to his potential honestly. The entire point of this man is to poke people with a rapier, so I ended up respeccing him into a Magus Sword Saint (and also changed what god he is for because reasons) and my internal reasoning is that he too experienced bisexual panic but his was so powerful it warped reality retroactively. The new and improved Archibald is now ready to yell his catchphrase louder and prouder than ever before:
"I THINK THAT ENEMY GOT: THE POINT!"
Void howdy, I don't know what I expected from the crusade management aspect of the game but I definitely wasn't expecting for the complexity and options to BALOOON as they have.
In hindsight? Probably should've realized they'd include stuff like this given, y'know, gestures vaguely at Kingmaker.
I have been playing this game.
On my TV.
With my keyboard and mouse lapdesk.
And TODAY was the first time I realized this game has surprisingly good controller options?!
...
FUCK
A loading screen message just said "If an angel can fall, does that mean a demon can ascend?" and that right there is the perfect example of what I want from loading screen messages.
At how good controller support is in this game.
And like, according to Shorty (my brother who despite outgrowing this nickname cannot shake it) this is pretty standard for modern CRPGs so like, I foresee a lot more CRPG playing in my near future.
Oh, and you can bet your slappable ass that I'm gonna try and play some of these on my Steam Deck when it arrives!