
The character’s personalities are communicated clearly, even if I don’t particularly like them. There should have been a little more of the plot revealed. As is, it doesn’t do much to interest the reader into reading more. I would have liked at least a murder or something to get me hooked. All that really happens in the demo is that Rivian is a butt, he whines and acts like a jerk, Franz grinds his dick in his ass (okay that doesn’t actually happen but it sure looks like it) and talks about how there’s nobles and people who don’t like those nobles at this grand shindig. Franz seems to know more than he lets on, and apparently there’s going to be murders and it’s up to Rivian to figure them out… or something. He’s hot as hell, much kudos to the artist, but the way he’s written is just not doing it for me. Like who in the hell would do something like that when they first meet someone? No one.

I hate that when we have “foreigners” they are just “so open” and so “different” from the prudish European-eque morality. Always.īut Franz fell into the typical “foreigner” trope.

They were apparently friends from way back but why would you be friends with someone who treats you like shit? Franz

Even when Rivian is being rude he’s still a gentleman about it. I don’t fancy being an obnoxious noble at all. He’s rude to literally everyone he interacts with. I’m sure the way these games are written he’s supposed to soften up as the story goes along, but in the prologue I played he’s such a brat that I’m not really enjoying being an avatar to him. He is our protagonist and if I’m being honest, he’s insufferable. I was contacted by Argent Games to do a write-up of this game.īut even so, I’m going to be honest about my feelings about the prologue I played. Chess of Blades is a BL game up on Kickstarter.
