Short rant about DOTO A) I was really pleased, since we can rob Dr.Galvani safe for the third(well forth, technically)time B) Ending was as anticlimactic as dead rat. I truly expected it to be based on Chaos system, and not "Tired daughter argue with bitter Da(u)d" C) Sisters of the Order design were such a disappointment! They supposed to be Oracles, spirited and such, not those Dominatrix wannabes! 4.7 dead rats of 9
Imagine what it’s like to live in Dr Galvani’s world. He’s continually scraping together what savings he has and moving to a new city, but it’s still not working out for him. Perhaps he’ll consider becoming a novelist (or selling his story to a writer) -
Mister Galvani and the Rat Plague (the first in the series that almost no one reads, yet some claim is the original and best)
Mister Galvani and the Witches of Serkonos (the actual bestseller and the one that makes his name famous. He is irritated that the publisher decided to change the protag’s name to “Mister” Galvani on the basis that it would sell better)
Mister Galvani and the Winds of Tyvia (the sequel that everyone claims must have been written by someone else cos of poor pacing, sluggish dialogue and boring action sequences. No one realises it was written by the Doctor himself. It sells about a dozen copies before people start using it to balance out rickety desks or hold open the bathroom window)
I agree with you on the ending. It was even not as good as a dead rat, because at least you can eat a dead rat and get some health or mana. I watched that ending and felt my mana and health draining away. The dialogue debate you have with Daud was like… a Mass Effect-style conversation where you don’t have any Reputation choices but instead must navigate and select the correct options out of eight or so choices to get the outcome you want.
I don’t know if the devs originally mentioned the Oracular Order in-game with the intention of fleshing out their characters and finally showing them in DOTO, but it turns out they’re fairly generic enemies to fight, which doesn’t at all gel with their supposedly normally cloistered behaviour. You’d expect them to be weirder and have more powers and less normal melee fighting skills - of course, they can’t have actual void powers since that would be non-sensical since they’re allies of the Overseers.
Anyway, I for one cannot wait for someone to write The Majestic Adventures of Doctor Galvani (the complete omnibus set, he got the name changed, and as a result, no one buys it).