Harold Halibut is improving.
I ragequit (from boredom) Suzerain today. And it took me several tries (in the sense of bouncing on first opening it) to get launched.
I was not pleased when I realized how much it is just a visual novel, down to including the obvious decoy bad answers; the equivalent of the Jap porno hentai game having an option where you ask a girl if you can slap her tits being toasting the Communists at the Small Business Owner's Association or whatever), but what really killed it for me was all the Ruritanian gibberish names.
I've played several games that do this, Disco Elysium does it, Ace Combat does it, but those aren't asking you to keep track of several ethnic groups, a dozen countries, dozens of politicians, etc., and usually they have a strength in that they're lazier so they will just straight up expy a culture, or they'll lazily slap two together (like I seem to recall the structural American analogue in Ace Combat has French cultured names). Here I have syllable salad of Germanic/Balkan-sounding nonsense and the whole game is expressed through text, basically, so I have no feeling for what "Sordland" even looks like. I cannot invest in this shite. I just found myself wishing that I was given an alternate history or straight up history scenario.
I think Disco Elysium did a better job with religion, too. It's genuienly hard to make plausible (especially sociologically plausible) and unique religions and Nurity isn't one to one, but I liked Disco Elysium's central church (whatever it was called) a lot better, the way it was basically History in the Hegelian since being incarnated (one per mode of production) in an anthopomorphic Pope.