- Jun 18, 2017
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I can see your point and maybe my textwall could be re-written in more calm and respectful fedora-style and it will be the right thing to do and will help to bring my point across better, but I'm not gonna do it.I can't even quote the whole thing but damn lol. It's a bit hard to take it as an objective opinion when people start getting offensive towards others. You are totally entitled to your opinion and I respect that. You might be right, you might be wrong? It doesn't really matter to me, the team can push out quality content at least.
Why I am so passionate and angry about this game and things that surround it? Because of two things: Hogwarts theme and "Russian game dev" label.
About the Hogwarts theme - good/excellent graphics, mediocre (if you are not a fan of adventure) gameplay and somewhat between bad and passable text. And within this theme the only "problem" with this game that I have is the last one item and its quality. Long story short, I'd seen a ton of fanfics on ff.net with much, much more better text, character and story quality and the only thing that keeps this part of the game from improving is the writer and his whole persona. Sure, this part of the game had been improved, somewhat, especially if you remember the 0.0.1 version of the game that was absolutely disastrous in this aspect, but it has a very long way to go before it could be enjoyable for people familiar with fanfiction and its common faults.
About "Russian game dev" - I'd been on this site for a while (much more on similar sites prior to finding this one) and perhaps the most infuriating thing that I'd seen are lazy-ass games from my fellow Russian devs. You can almost immediately identify them by sight - lazy awful graphics, mind-blowingly stupid story and dialogues, but the most obvious giveaway always is their insatiable hunger for money. Combine that with absolute lack of any skills and you will get the picture. Maybe I'm wrong but "Russian game/Russian dev" is almost a meme here, I don't need to point why this label is bad for more competent and respectful to their patreons Russian devs and future game creators.
Sad Crab used to be one of the prime examples of such "Russian game devs" (if you exclude the whole graphic thing), nowadays they seem to try to at least update their game once a month and if they can keep this schedule up for a considerable amount of time then they might redeem themselves.