Feminism in the 90s was having some women fighters and it was not very outrageous. Like Mazzy or Jaheira having less strength then male fighters.
Here seemed very much forced, the barbarian chick tried so hard to be just a stereotypical barbarian that was just cringe. At the start you had to save people but every woman was saving herself already or how top leadership seemed to be largely women.
You can say WOTR also has some of this issues but maybe I've started tolerating them more.
Both are kind of racist as there is no white male companion in an European Medieval Fantasy section where they should be the majority of characters. This is just paizo being paizo.
I was skeptical if the game can be fixed, hence why I'm just now playing it. It turns out that the woke stuff is mostly shallow and once removed it does feel like an actual medieval fantasy rather then modern day California but with magic and swords.
Regill and Lann are what makes the game interesting for me. Woljif is ok in principle but the writers did not know how to make him actually funny. The rest are boring.
Ember seemed interesting at first but her "insights" seem to be inspired by "I'm 14 and this is deep"
Not only they are lesbian Anevian is a tranny as well. Probably a lot more but wokeless took that out. But it does feel like it was a checkbox that Paizo asked them to check rather then ideologically driven on part of the devs.
I couldn't get in to kingmaker at all. Maybe I'll give it a try again, I found most characters to be either uninteresting or straight up disliking them. I played with mercenaries for a while but got bored.
Also the feminism parts are just to much in your face.
WOTR is considerably worse in term of wokenes, one of the first characters you interact are an ugly black female paladin and a tranny that is in a lesbian relation but with the wokeless mode is considerably better then kingmaker. Outside of a few noticing on gender power dynamics it does feel like an actual medieval fantasy rather then modern day California with swords and sorcery.
You can find it on basedmods https://basedmods.eth.limo/
It removes all the gay and trans stuff and makes the paladin good looking. It does some other stuff as well.
As a disclosure, I did not take all the companions, there was this rich asimar that was a complete degenerate and this girl, that was suppose to be very smart but it made the initial dialogue seem like Loony toons and not a dark fantasy and If you are very observant there is some things that smell of wokenes but not really woke, but I'll not get in to details.
I've been playing Pathfinder WOTR with the wokeless mod and it turns out the game is good, not perfect but very much enjoyable to the point where I'm starting to think the devs are not really woke and it was just paizo that made demands on the amount of LGBT, race diversity and strong females.
I doubt any amount of mods can save this game, it's not just the trans stuff, it looks woke in every video and screen shots I've seen.
I so hate the media.
2 weeks before elections dems are panicking and are throwing everything against the wall.
Trump is a rapist, Trump is racist, Trump is Hitler, now Russia collusion again.
At the very least I would think they would come with something else.
The idea of a Vampire is very interesting. It offers immortality and a bunch of other powers but at the cost of eternal torment. You can even go further as it is in itself a temptation beyond your control and there is a level of desire to give in to the pleasure of being a vampire.
A vampire curse is a romanticization of uncontrollable urges in humans and how they can doom us to eternal damnation.
Remove the downside of being a vampire, the eternal punishment that will inevitably come and vampires are just marvel type characters with superpowers, vulnerabilities and an origin story.
Meh, everything is fucked.
Deportation does not work and even if a right wing gains power it's always just a delay on immigration until the left takes power and then they speed things up to make up for the lost time. Or in the case of UK, there is no anti-immigration party.
Indians just happen to have the numbers and are less violent then alternatives so it will be the go-to for globalists for the next decade or so.
In Blood Origins every kingdom was to much alike. Have different ethnicities with different laws and different culture and architecture that is so distinct that when there are scenes in that region the viewer would know what region it was.
It creates immersion, excitement, a sense of awe and interest.
But we got modern day diversity where every region/ kingdom is a mix of every human ethnicity and everything screams modern day California.
If it would be a return to form then I would have liked it. right?