All the campaign characters feel the same and are of poor quality in general. None of them are likeable at all, especially the main character in the first campaign. Very ugly and hard to look at
I have two monitors, and one is very obviously my second monitor.
I have no idea why this game insisits on starting there.
Clearly, it doesn't want me to play it.
So you start the first campaign and immediately the game reminds you that it is in fact the 2020's, with the first two major characters being human female warrior-commanders who act exactly like you'd expect a man to. Trully, if THEY were competing in the olympics no trans athlete would steal their gold. Obviously one is black, in case you somehow still had any doubts about the current year of our Lord.
It doesn't even look like this game had a DEI consultant breathing down the dev's neck telling them to make the female sprites uglier, or how insensitive it is to have a race of swamp things that are enslaved and that there isn't enough homossexual intercourse in your strategy game. It just seems that they decided to greet me with empowered wamen as a defense mechanism against *spit on floor* game journos having a hissy fit over literally anything that isn't progressive propaganda.
Regardless, I am imediately un-immersed from an othwerwise quite gorgeous looking game. Thanks! The annoying 'the swamp *insert thing*' lines in the second campaign don't help with increasing my interest over whatever is being discussed. Nor did the terrible writing in the first campaign when characters didn't realize they were obviously being pitted against each other and instead of discussing the problem princess girlboss had a more... straightforward solution for removing living obstacles from her path. Gotto act her part in being a brute that only values honor and the letter of the law, like any normal woman.
Fair difficulty feels like you can't lose, worthy feels like you can't win.
And when you realize you can't win but don't want to restart from scratch (no changing difficulty on the fly)... do it anyway, because there's no cheat codes or console commands and the save files have been encrypted somewhat recently, as there are posts online explaining how you could do it in 2022. Thanks!
Also game is set to send data to dev by default, which makes me 100% sure about disabling it.