So disappointing. At first I thought I had made a mistake and the story just ended. Then I played it again and it ended at the same place. I can’t believe I waited for years for this. Who will trust these authors anymore?
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While I enjoy this book for the romance a a lot, and think that what I got from the TSSW3 so far is worth the wait, I totally understand the disappointment. I don’t think the most disappointed people here are talking about the word count. If you have finished the game,
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I think you’d also agree that in this one nothing really happened. This game contains mainly exposition, lore dump, down time to talk to other characters.
And that’s what I think people are disappointed about..
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You bring up interesting points. There’s nothing wrong with a short story, the problem is that it needs to be a story. It needs to have inciting incident, midpoint, and climax basic things that is expected from any story. No matter if it is a 2000 word short story or 60 000 word novel, and this book had only given us an inciting incident.
Let me remind you that romance was not the focus of the first two books, it was one of the things it offered but it had placed most of its focus on adventure and fantasy. If I wanted to read porn, I would just buy porn. Porn wasn’t the reason for why I had been waiting for this book.
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i like book 1 and 2 but the rewievs and (free demo on steam) dosent suggest me to buy the 3rd book nothing against romance but thats not what that story did focus sad about the turn well i wait for a cheap sale on steam than ^^
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I’m going to wait until I’m done playing it for myself before I say how I think, but god I hope I didn’t wait years just to buy a porn book… 
I’m very interested now to know how book 3 would play out without any romance, umm, may have to play the first 2 books again just make a MC with no love interests.
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its not porn but the main focus did shift to romance atleast thats what i did feel playing the demo on steam^^ not more that for what the books did stand but still ok to read but only for really cheap sale^^
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Harvest Bounty: You have two loving parents. Then you became the victim of attempted rape, which was stopped by your father. He was stabbed by the perpetrator and it is implied that he later died.
Trident’s Teeth: Your mother died when you were young and you’ve been the sole caretaker of your younger brother. Said brother was a victim of bullying and committed suicide.
Shadow’s End: You are an orphan, who lived with different families in your village. None of them chose to keep you. Your best and only childhood friend was attacked and killed because of transphobia.
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@Jender Thanks, Jender! Hope you enjoy! 
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Are we going to be able to get our skills up at any point in the next game because I feel like we should have higher skills than we do by this point especially if we’re meant to be getting stronger so we can win against Manerkol one day.
Same I didn’t mind that we got to spend more time with our love interest(s) in this book because it makes sense that the MC and their love interest(s) would want to spend a lot of time together just doing normal couple stuff while things seem to be safe and calm for once… aka basically love bombing each other. 
But damn it just felt so rushed and forced like the romance went from a sweet, nice slow burn to a raging lust filled inferno 
plus I would have like to spend some time with our other companions too. 
I think the main problem is that it’s called book 3 so people are expecting it to be you know book 3… when really it feels more like something an author put out to hold fans over while they work on the next book.
Honestly, I think if it had been named something else and marketed as such people would be reacting to it in a different way including myself.
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As someone pursuing the secret romance, I felt very confused with this book. Last I left off, I, Intentionally, let my allies be hurt by Manerkol in order to be with him. At the end of book two, I am finally with Manerkol, which is what I wanted. Yet, when book three starts, suddenly I am at a resistance and all of my allies are fine. This is explained as some dragon person steals us away and I apparently wanted that, even though I have spent the entire series trying to be with Manerkol. Throughout book three, I was really hoping I could just go back to Manerkol, betray my allies even, just to get back to him, yet it seems I am forced to go against him regardless of what my character actually says or does. It feels like this secret route is not actually intended to be played, to me. Also, side note, I am forced to care about Eledwens well-being… when I do not, and I think my character would not, given they have had like three conversations and she ripped me away from Manerkol, something my character did not want. Just my two-cents.
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This series is probably one of my all time favs because of the focus on romance, but also the action and the high-stakes so when this came out I was chomping at the bit to buy it…and was super disappointed. The ending hit so suddenly just when things were getting interesting and not in a good cliffhanger kind of way. More of a ‘wait, what? That’s it?’ kind of way. There was no fulfilling conflict, engaging fight scenes, or resolution. It wasn’t a ‘noooo! What happens next?’, it was a ‘nothing happened yet, why is it ending all of a sudden?’. 
That being said, the romance aspect was still fun, but even that felt more rushed and forced than the last two games.
Edit: I feel like a summarized way to describe it is as a ‘filler light novel’ of some sort. It doesn’t feel like an official third book in the trilogy, but just a bunch of lore-dumping, backstory, some romantic (somewhat forced, unnatural feeling) interactions, and a little bit of build up for a third book instead.
I also felt like the dialogue was at times robotic and weird? Especially when the MC was recounting their tragic backstory. It kinda gave fanfic vibes because of excessive descriptiveness (if you’ve read wattpad fanfics, you know what I mean.)
I’m not trying to be mean, at all. The other two books are still some of my top favs and writing is hard! So please don’t take this as a personal attack!
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So to recap:
- Nothing new really happens;
- more (rushed) ROs added to the already crowed cast;
- it’s very short;
- the price is 5 € (with 30% discount!).
As someone who loved the first and enjoyed the second, I say…
Alright, time to abandon the ship.
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I’m a bit disheartened that I waited three years for this. While I love the series, book three is much too short. All we do is wander (aimlessly) around the Resistance headquarters, have brief conversations with our companions and soulstone, investigate the library, touch the fountain - and then the book is already over.
It would be fine if this was an interlude. As a full game, it left me feeling disappointed. Even so, I’m invested in the series. I hope you will continue writing it.
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Admittedly less happened then expected but overall i’d still say it was pretty enjoyable, still gotta replay it for all the routes and i’m just as invested in the series as I was when I read the first one and consider this a worthwhile purchase. I am curious how many books are planned cause for some reason I had convinced myself this was a trilogy
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Five. But if the pacing keeps going as it goes now, they could be merged into a trilogy and maybe they might even improve.
The author said that the book 2 ending where you end up with Manerkol is basically a “bad end” to the story. The series only continues if you escape and end up with the resistance. Here’s the source:
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I feel like it could be redeemed if the author does as a few other authors have done before and releases a free update that adds a hefty chunk of more content. We know they’re capable of doing better than what we got and they seem to care about feedback so I’m willing to hold on to hope that they’ll take these critiques to heart and do something to improve it.
But if nothing’s done, I would have to agree. I wouldn’t want to buy the fourth only to find it’s disappointing too.
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Apologies if this was already answered before, but I noticed the DnD influence in the book and wanted to know if you took inspiration from pact of the blade warlock for the Soul Stone Weapons.
A bit suprised with how…short it felt. It doesn’t feel like it matches the word count. But if that word count is the sun total of every route, i kinda get it? Since theres the old RO routes solo and poly. Then now theres the stone, i think the bad guy, and i dont know if Mornie is actually one.
But the entirety of it is just chilling in a camp. 
Epic ways to tackle problems with new powers granted by our soul stones?! …Where? Even before this i only recall like 2 uses of the stones before. And BOTH were invisibility.
So real question, does it even matter what stone you get at this point? I havent seen any actual “unique” traits behind any of them. Feels like you just get a different stone based on your personality, but the stones are actually all the same just given a different name. Which seems like a roundabout way to up that potential word count.
Ah, also. Possible bug. Had a thing where despite taking Torc and using it in 2, it denies that choice and says the Dragon was attacked by it.
But yeah, expected a wee bit more for a title 3 years in the work, with 2 good predecessors before it.
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Pretty sure this is a bug or I’m really forgetting something from the first game… 
but my MC is with Daelynn and the first morning after getting to the underground we’re talking about something that’s to do with her backstory/plot I think.
However it didn’t happen because I had only got two of the clues so whatever was meant to happen didn’t and we definitely didn’t get into a fight that would have made my MC angry with her. 
Also, why isn’t there a relationship tab in stats? like it’s a good thing to have especially as this game is very companions heavy plus there’s new ROs and that tab would be great for telling me who they are and how I’m doing with them.
Plus another bug my soul stone is Crazy Lace Agate, the Hysteria Stone aka Agate but the game thinks he’s called Sielthan and I’m not sure yet if it’s just the name that’s wrong or book 3 thinks I have a different soul stone… so yeah I can 100% say now that Book 3 thinks I have Lapis Lazuli, the Stone of Universal Truth instead.
That is helpful, thank you however I thought you only learned the true name later in the game but I had Agate being called Sielthan right away.
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