Castle Paradox

[Uncommon]

REGARDING PICTOMANCER'S REVIEW OF BY THE SEVENTH BOOK

I won't comment on the writing style, as I would if this were a normal writing, but since it' s a review for me, I'll just stick to commenting on the content.

Isometric houses took longer than I would've liked, and weren't too satisfying at that. The book shelves were partly Frick's, but mostly ripped from Magnus 17, meaning they were mostly mine. The color on the blood for the npcs should, perhaps, have been darker, to distinguish it from the blood on the tiles, eh? That was the problem with the spear. It was all bloody, see.
We actually had a full explanation of why the graphics sucked in the scrapped credits. Maybe I should post the script for that whole scene in my journal sometime soon, eh? Tell me, was it at all obvious that certain scenes were done by two different people (I think it was)?

Italics. I've gotten to the point where I need italics. I just like to show emphasis so much.

Don't feel bad about not hearing the music, 'cos there wasn't any. I've always felt a little guilty about that.

Map design, of course it was bad, I did it! I have a slight obsession with symmetry (I say slight, but I always expect that I have some form of OCD), so that's one reason they might've been so symmetrical. Really, the only map I liked was the Bishop's throne room. That was kind of nice. Sephy's doing the maps for PIRATES OF ARMAGEDDON, and Frick's helping design the maps for Where Gods and Mortals Dance, so I should expect those to look better.

Maybe I need to pick this back up some time and re-release it. From your review, and from hearing Hawk trying to get different story bits from playing the Persuasion game in different ways, I think I prolly should add some easter eggs and things for those that are really paying attention. Maybe even a secret runner, eh? I still need to work out that Dash bug...

You mentioned compassionate Sylvester, proud Geoffrey, and manipulative Eris, but what of Eris' sly, malevolent, and generally quaint lover, Thanatos? Not so impressed by the Master Demon, eh? I should have to remedy that in later tales. Also, one thing I did get right about Thanatos and Eris in Magnus 17 that 7th book lacked was their general disdain for their master, Lucifer. Well, that'll all be in WGMD, so it isn't always necessary...

Also, I've always been disappointed that no one's ever mentioned the visual effects and scene changes. One of my favorite parts is the LETERBOX-to-BIG SLASH OF OBLIVION-to-KILLING EVERYONE OFF SCREEN bit, though I now see that the animations go a bit too fast for the LETTERBOX GET and BIG SLASH... Anyway, does everyone just ignore that part, or am I just being pretentious in thinking that anyone should pay attention?

Did anyone get a 100+ score on the dancing game besides me? It's not that hard, at least, not on my computer...

Persuasion was the most tedious bit in the whole game. Toward the end, I got so bored with writing all of those little conversations that I actually based much of the conversation between Knight and Sylvester on the debate between Ford Prefect and Mr. Prosser in the first chapter of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It was 2AM, I wasn't in the mood, and the game had already taken about a week to make; I think I was quite justified. Only thing I was missing was the line, "Against, as you say, the mob," or something like that.

White Trash was not inspired by Elmo. He couldn't be, since I finished this game before I even applied for the job I'm currently at. However, my description of Elmo may have been inspired by White Trash. Elmo doesn't really have that bad of a comb-over, honestly, but the way he wears his hair makes it look like a comb-over. I probably described it as one because he actually reminds me of White Trash (it is true that you could remove White Trash's moustache, then give him red hair and LARGE glasses, and have what Elmo perhaps looks like at home), except that White Trash can bloody take criticism.


Little known fact (something Mytos would rather you didn't know):
Kornav's twelve books were originally written as BIBLICAL COMMENTARY. They were twelve letters Kornav sent to the rising Mytonian church to teach and encourage. When he wrote the seventh letter, they were under great stress and prosecution from outside (other churches, government?). He exhorted them to stay strong and keep faith through their trials, and not to hate their enemies, though their enemies may hate them. Eventually the Mytonians forsook the Bible for Kornav's books. I'm sure Kornav would've been disappointed.

Where Gods and Mortals Dance's hero-but-not-main-character, Thomas Lamar, was a Mytonian parson at one point, but lost his parish because he preached from the Bible instead of from Kornav's books. He'll have a few things to say about that ("Mytos! Ha! That den of thieves, murderers, and whores!").

Also, it's
~ TELEUTE ~
(tehl-ayoo-tay (EÚ, being a dipthong, really is only one syllable); Greek, "completion, end")