Thread:StoryGirl83/@comment-35158873-20180228055426/@comment-3452092-20180304205648

It is an in accurate assumption, but an understandable one. And I thought you might think I got off topic talking about the other series, and again, it is understandable that you would think that as I stated in my comments. However, it was on topic of trying to explain my thought process. Really, that was a short version of my reasoning, but to fully explain. . . well, most people don't have the time to listen to me for that long. and generally, I don't have the patience to type such a thing up, because we are talking about my going into extreme detail. And in some points I would going into topics that are even less familiar to you (unless you read, watch, and play everything I do, which is rather doubtful). I could probably take up half an hour to two or three hours writing about why I like Aleister as a character alone and and that's if I don't go on a tangent about David Willis's It's Walky webcomic series, which I could, because I see so many similarities between Aleister and one of Willis's characters named Jason (although I'm pretty sure Jason never sided with his dad against his friends).

I'll try to give you a sample: I just finished reading chapter 1 of book 2. Due to the diamonds I collected and used on it, I had Rourke with me in that chapter. This lead to Estela trying to beat him up. Okay, I don't like people beating up other people and I did stop her, but I completely understand why she would want to. He ordered the death of her mom. She doesn't have proof, but she knows it happened. It's why she's here. It's why she had tried to track Aleister down, so she could get to Rourke. Now she has the object of her obsession, the man responsible for her mom's death in front of her and she wants to lash out. She wants to kill him.

I find this consistency of character and the development she's had up to this point to be interesting. She tries to be one dimensional. Not that the writers write her this way, but it's what she is trying to do. She wants to stay focused, but the others are slowly pulling her out of that. Now, suddenly, she has the chance and she's going to take it. Except she can't, because these people she has been reluctantly getting close to are in her way and she has to deal with this.

I forget what happens if you let her beat him up, but either way you have to choose a person to side with and the other person feels betrayed. The choices are much more real here. They matter and other than It Lives In the Woods and to a lesser degree, The Crown & The Flame, I don't feel that way about any of the other stories in the game, which is another reason why those three are at the top of my favorites lists.

Since you believe that I like the style not the substance, let me clear, I love the style, but not at the expense of the substance. This story is, at its essence, a story of survival, of friendship forged in fire, of hard choices that don't always lead to the outcome we want, of betrayal from the places you expect it from and from the places you most certainly do not. Style is perhaps easier to convey and certainly a shorter conversation, but if you want me to talk about the substance, you are going to get a break down of the series, chapter by chapter, which most people don't want me to do and if will take weeks, maybe months for that conversation to be over, because I get really long winded when I am talking about a topic I am passionate about.