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7/9/2025, 10:38:03 PM
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The writing is easiest to criticize but I think you go too far. The scenario is workmanlike and the characters are threadbare. But the narrative is very well structured. I believe the scenario is intentionally bland due to the narrative goals and structure requiring it to hew close to universal, the same way character-study stories are rarely about inherently fascinating plots.
You seem to be reading the characters as "persons in a situation" rather than as "personification in a psychodrama." I would 100% agree that the characters make no sense as full persons, but I do not at all think that's the only yardstick by which fantasy literature must be measured. One of the more interesting differences between dark fantasy and drama is the heightened unreality of fantasy making psychological splitting and certain kinds of moral analysis possible.
It is unfortunate that characterization suffered so much from the need to form a more perfect narrative structure. E.g. Kina going on an insane out of nowhere tangent about how much she loathes BDSM and '50 Shades of Gray' when Yui, the BDSM queen, was brought into the drawer. The game's author had nothing but positive things to say for the Jap translation of 50 Shades, this wasn't male resentment of female ero lit, this was splitting for narrative balance. Structurally the game needed someone to say the thing so Kina had those words shoved through her mouth. A really great psychodrama would have been able to make its splitting work in a way compatible with normal human behavior while maintaining the analytical purpose. The kyp's clearly not at Palahuik's level.
The writing is easiest to criticize but I think you go too far. The scenario is workmanlike and the characters are threadbare. But the narrative is very well structured. I believe the scenario is intentionally bland due to the narrative goals and structure requiring it to hew close to universal, the same way character-study stories are rarely about inherently fascinating plots.
You seem to be reading the characters as "persons in a situation" rather than as "personification in a psychodrama." I would 100% agree that the characters make no sense as full persons, but I do not at all think that's the only yardstick by which fantasy literature must be measured. One of the more interesting differences between dark fantasy and drama is the heightened unreality of fantasy making psychological splitting and certain kinds of moral analysis possible.
It is unfortunate that characterization suffered so much from the need to form a more perfect narrative structure. E.g. Kina going on an insane out of nowhere tangent about how much she loathes BDSM and '50 Shades of Gray' when Yui, the BDSM queen, was brought into the drawer. The game's author had nothing but positive things to say for the Jap translation of 50 Shades, this wasn't male resentment of female ero lit, this was splitting for narrative balance. Structurally the game needed someone to say the thing so Kina had those words shoved through her mouth. A really great psychodrama would have been able to make its splitting work in a way compatible with normal human behavior while maintaining the analytical purpose. The kyp's clearly not at Palahuik's level.
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