A game of survival, trade and exploration in the universe of Fallen London
Thoughts on Aestival [Spoiler]
Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
2/20/2015
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The new ambition is quite nice, but too similar to the Song of the Zee or the Zeppelin.
Aside from having multiple options at the start for protection against sunlight and at the end for declaring independence the journey wasn't too exciting. It doesn't feel like Aestival is growing as a settlement; you ferry nothing but zailors to the place, you put down supplies and treasures, you make your Campaigner or Magician viceroy and don't get to see them bossing people around. The map does change to reflect Aestival looking better, but I have trouble imagining a life on Aestival with the descriptions we have, aside from lounging around eating fruits.
Would be nice to have some more variations in citizens, buildings and economy I guess. I mean if you get to visit a Post-Ambition Aestival ingame right now it would just be a boring island full of interchangeable zailors eating fruit. If it was up to me I'd set up a sunbathing salon and become the East Neath Company to corner the market on bananas, oranges, and stupid animals. There's a lot of pressure on being a special snowflake island when you are surrounded by places like Irem!
The endings are awesome though. Especially the independent one.
edited by Estelle Knoht on 2/20/2015
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Diptych
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2/23/2015
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I'm happy to just write it up as a visual conceit, a simplification that makes Aestival immediately impressive without having to account for the extremely loose time structure that games like this have to operate on.
(Also, generally, I'm inclined to believe that the Neath really is a literal cave within the Earth, rather than a purely metaphysical location... but also, given that in this setting, celestial bodies are alive and have personalities and agency, that the Neath being this strange hole in the Earth does have immense metaphysical and metaphorical significance in itself.)
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