A burgeoning love affair may be threatened by the disapproval of your family and the lack of money rather than (at least in the parts I saw) the intrinsic conflict between the protagonists that I tend to think of as the core of romance plotting.
You can choose to have your character be politically aware or obliviously obsessed with love, but of the two, the politically active options are more complex and engaging, more richly drawn. the pressures being placed on me from outside. authority, my ability to stand up for myself vs.
CHOICE OF ROMANCE GAME FULL
“Choice of Romance” does ask the player about her feelings and intentions more often than her actions, in contrast with what I recall of “Choice of Broadsides” and “Choice of Dragons.” However, in both of my full playthroughs (one as a politically ambitious female mage who marries for money but sleeps around on the side, consolidating her power ruthlessly the other as a handsome, charming gay man who marries for love) the conflict and thematic interest centered on my own agency vs. What puts “Choice of Romance” in a different category is the nature of the choices offered to the player. The overall effect is reminiscent of The Three Musketeers - set in faux-Spain rather than real France, to be sure, but focused on royalty and nobility, court advisors, the king’s illicit love affairs and illegitimate children, and the odd battle.īut plenty of romances and romantic adventure stories are set in non-generic worlds.
Despite the action-packed opening in which your magical powers can come into play, the magic mostly isn’t that significant through the rest of the game it is more interesting for how it affects the political situation than because it solves very many problems for you. It also adds magic: the great houses include “life mages” (concerned with growing things and healing stuff) and “death mages” (lightning and the odd fireball). “Choice of Romance” puts the hero or heroine in an alternate version of Spain, one preoccupied with wealth, borders, and court politics as well as affairs of the heart. On the contrary, it (like Choice of Broadsides ) is set in a slightly alternate version of a historical setting, designed to allow the player to play as either gender, seeking a partner of either gender, and to give players with female characters the opportunity to exercise more agency than would otherwise have been available. “Choice of Romance” isn’t a generic romance story. ” It makes the stories sound more generic than they actually are, especially when the thing that goes in the blank is as sweeping as “Romance.” I wonder a bit about the marketing strategy of calling the stories “Choice of. Choice of Romance is a piece from the Choice of… series: not exactly new, but I’ve been too busy to look at it until recently.
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