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While Enderal's story is well written and paced, with some excellent dialogue, it's core plot concept and sub elements are not unique or fundamentally original. So I think that potentially discussing it in terms of transcendent art may be overstepping the mark slightly. It's a game story.

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While Enderal's story is well written and paced, with some excellent dialogue, it's core plot concept and sub elements are not unique or fundamentally original. So I think that potentially discussing it in terms of transcendent art may be overstepping the mark slightly. It's a game story.

@Moirai

I actually can see your point, and I know Enderal isn't perfect. I think I wrote that already somewhere else, but I know that it's linearity is one of the weaker points of Enderal - that is, if you are a player who values choice a lot. The main reason we didn't incorporate more choices is ...

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In a different thread ( http://forum.sureai.net/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=11274 ) I had stated:

«A true artist does not provide the people with what they want. A true artist offers the people what they need.
In general, the people do not know what they need, but they sure think they know ...

Interesting discussion...

I guess it depends on what you personally look for in games, and what you expect to get out of them as a result. To be frank, and these are general comments, I don't play games to feel frustrated, irritated or unsatisfied at their conclusion. Like most, I get enough of ...

I get your points and agree that it is not designed as a wRPG experience. In fact, my personal opinion is that far too many games nowadays have followed that "I live a hero" approach rather than Enderal's "I live a story", but that's me.

However, I disagree that it has no replay value. Ever ...

I did have my own concerns regarding the rather negative ending, and posted those thoughts in a different topic. I won't spam it here as well, although it's arguably more relevant to this thread, but here's the link if you are interested:

http://forum.sureai.net/viewtopic.php?f=212&t=11111&p=88234 ...

I think, for me personally, Enderal was a beautifully crafted one-time experience. What it does, which is to lead the player through a well defined story, it does exceptionally well. However, for me, in that respect, its story is both its strongest point and its weakest point.

In essence, you have ...