@doctress and @shock-centurion bc Idk how replies work anymore I’m old and don’t understand this newfangled tumblr bullshit.
doctress replied to your post “hmmm maybe now dragon age has reinvigorated my tumblr energy i should...”
I've not heard of that game before! What's it about?
Idk if you’ve heard of Choice of Games at all, so if not they basically do a whole lot of Choose Your Own Adventure novels. But as games with stats you can increase and decrease, and you can succeed at stuff or not based on your stats, or your relationships to other characters. And they’re totally text-based so pretty cheap!
Grand Academy in particular though is a really fun story where you’re a student entering a university for villains from all different genres, from chapter one, we have:
The Grand Academy is a genre-bending place. Buildings that don't even belong in the same narrative framework, let alone in the same physical reality, rise around you, and the people that inhabit them are no less diverse. Masked assassins and sharply dressed corporate sharks, bulky barbarians and icily beautiful aristocrats, and here and there a few actual monsters all milling about as the Academy prepares for the school year about to begin.
So there’s some meta stuff where the students want to get their own narratives, and a subset in the faculty who feel anti-heroism is the way to go, and a lot of people talking about how Important and Special a nemesis is.
The writing style is incredibly fun--it’s full of lampshade hanging on villanous cliches, and Genre Savvy is even a stat in the sequel. And the characters are absolutely delightful.
As fun as it is though, a lot of the plot is driven forward by the protagonist’s relationship with their abusive mother, who’s a wonderful villain, and definitely prone to hammy moments, but the game also quietly makes it clear that yeah, she’s legitimately bad for you and it’s more serious than some simple cackling betrayals, and I really love the writing of your relationship.
It’s just. a very good game.
shock-centurion replied to your post “hmmm maybe now dragon age has reinvigorated my tumblr energy i should...”
I've only heard of it twice and both from you but if you post appealing memes I might look into it
Oh man I was planning on just a load of text about my character But I could also post the “memes as made by an academy student” I made a while back bc they were fun. I should just... also add the other ideas for them I had. But here’s one of them for now