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An edited version of a review originally posted at intfiction.org on September 24, 2025
I... did not enjoy this game, for multiple reasons. One was that it's buggy; it frequently referenced choices I hadn’t made and items I didn’t have with me. But much more significant was that it’s gross toward its female characters, including playing the idea of sexual assault for laughs.
BERT: Who has the gold?
SEWARD: The King. It is well-guarded, in the castle.
CICILIA: As is my sister. [...] I guess she was the beautiful one.
Cicilia later elaborates, "Every maiden, when she comes of age, must present herself at the castle. Some never return." And later we get very explicit clarification:
BERT: Is she being violated, there?
CICILIA: Of course.
However, Cicilia is not actually particularly concerned about her sister; she's more focused on aggressively flirting with the PC and fretting that she wasn't being beautiful enough to be taken. Besides the cavalier treatment of the sister being kidnapped, this is a case of a female character being written shallowly to prop up the male protagonist (who, frankly, has done nothing to deserve her attention except... be from the 21st century).
She winks. Is she flirting or suggesting that…
CICILIA: She’s the most beautiful girl in the village, you know. And unmarried. Unsullied. We think. A Wizard for a husband! What girl should be so lucky?
BERT: Are you trying to seduce me on behalf of your…
CICILIA: Legs like this!
CICILIA lifts her skirts.
Overall, I found the story and the main character actively unpleasant. His attitude made sense at the beginning, while he was being treated like crap at a miserable retail job, but he's also a total asshole to his mom and friends. He then gets rewarded with the opportunity to become a hero in a poorly-realized version of the medieval era. Very much not a game for me.
