The first act was pretty slow, especially since I have an ingrown aversion to text-based adventure games, but once they started actually playing I stopped noticing.
...and, see, I'm not really finding the troll emotional stuff all that alien so far. I'm finding it a pretty realistic depiction of how 13-year-old humans treat each other in the absence of outside restraining factors. (The amount of damage they're allowed to do to each other is out of scale with human kids, yeah, but considering I knew two people who lost eyes between age ten and fifteen just from horsing around, and that was without a strife specibus or a giant monster to feed...)
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...and, see, I'm not really finding the troll emotional stuff all that alien so far. I'm finding it a pretty realistic depiction of how 13-year-old humans treat each other in the absence of outside restraining factors. (The amount of damage they're allowed to do to each other is out of scale with human kids, yeah, but considering I knew two people who lost eyes between age ten and fifteen just from horsing around, and that was without a strife specibus or a giant monster to feed...)