i saw there was a new comic book series of this and it looked very cool so i decided to play the video game of this. i didn't really know what the game was, i just vaguely recalled a trailer some years ago of a funny sheep running through funny scary environments. game look cute but also Violence!!? who would think of something so twistered.... game look roguelike but also town management who would think of somehting g

playin wit all da default settings. i appreciate the 'Developer Recommended' label because naming a difficulty 'medium' rather than 'normal' brings out my Playing the Quote-Unquote Correct Way OCD just a tad

really pushing that Peppa Pig front-facing-but-also-side-profile art style to the nth degree here. i feel weird about rescuing a new guy and then pickenchoosing their entire whole selves. you're a pink fox named Elmen? welcome to the cult you're actually a blue bird named Fanya. trying to maintain a degree of diversity around here buddy. whenever i kill a boss and they go followermode i reluctantly keep them in their hideous weird tentacle bush guy forms, as a trophy

this thing i could Not make sense of. pretty sure the "tutorial" was like two sentences that just said Play the dice. Try to win!

wasn't too sure about this game at first. initially struck me as half Okay Roguelike half Okay Town Sim but i get that towns always take a while to really get towning. but the rogueing part it's mostly the combat feels kinda weird? 2D sprites on a 3D plane it's hard to tell where i'm hittin a lot of the time. anything that isn't a boss fight is a little too hectic for me to not think the best course of action is to be dodge-rolling 95% of the time

YES i think this dude and his henchmen are hot but this troubles me. i was cool with this being Animal Crossing But Effed Up but now i'm being asked to sacrifice my guys.. sometimes running through the dungeons the boss will appear and say Grr you are have maddened me!!! i make a your followers HUNGRY and i feel very protective of my guys and wanna get back quick to feed them!!! i want to care for them because they're my children but damn if they're just a means to an end.. i'm startin to wonder if this whole cult business might be bad news

plus it turns out followers grow of old and die of old superfast so obviously the first thing i did was look up if i could unlock immortality for them somehow. i can i think but in the meantime my 24-year-old who was looking good and spry when they joined is breaking out the walking stick on day 17. when i started playing one of my initial weird complaints was that the voices they give characters weren't cutesy enough but now i see it is because they were all old men in disguise

so false alarm the decision as to who to sacrifice is not as big a deal as i thought

started dying after beating the second bishop and my guys decided i was cringe. the first person to start blindly following everything i say and eating and doing what i tell them to was the first to say "wait maybe this guy sucks", isn't that just always how it goes. i was havin some real trouble with food upkeep!! i thought i had too many followers even though i wasn't particularly seeking out new ones, then someone would say to me oh funny lamb please recruit my buddy eric and if you don't we will lose even more faith in you aaaaaa!!!!

dude likes to sit by the corpses in the ground and work on his poetry. when i first saw a follower having the trait "doesn't do work and actually just writes poems" i thought haha that's a funny guy i like them join my devilclub. but as time goes on i can absolutely see myself wanting to kick em out for not devoting themself to me wholly. i've completely stopped customizing my guys since they just be dropping like flies, so i've totally transitioned to thinking of them as numbers. all the guys i was ever mildly attached to are already in the ground

it's for the best anyway dudes are freaks. someone will drop dead and people will just stand around them going oh! :) oh ahh look at that :) then have the nerve to come complaining to me about how their rotting carcass is stinking up the place. i built a crypt to move all the dead bodies to so i could save space, not knowing that digging up corpses "mortifies" followers and decreases their faith. no matter they won't remember it a few days from now, because they'll be dead

i unlocked the wedding ritual to "marry my followers" which i assumed meant marrying them to each other. in fact i can just marry all my guys and as far as i can tell its only purpose is to enable me to Kiss them every day. so here i am marrying my beloved wife [opening up the game to check their name] Thortrena, because someone else asked me to do so

of course now everyone wants a piece....

sigh.....if only i was as pretty as them

third bishop is down, which unlocked the ability for my guys to perform Sinful Acts whereas up until this point they were exclusively perfect little angels. i had to brainwash them all for a quest which is supposed to help keep da faith and just be generally useful. except i'd unlocked a trait that makes most of them become sick and useless after being brainwashed, since i was like Nahh i definitely won't ever need to do that. the vibes are, consequentially, very off in this nudist ritual

bone tent bone tent bone tent. the only other thing i heard about this game was they added a Sex Update and it just suddenly unloaded everything onto me. when i first unlocked this big skill tree i specifically went looking for the bone tent but there was naught. guess that was for the best, i was already getting more guys than i could take care of and i didn't need to flood the place with even more who were also small and poopenpeeing all the time. actually i suppose that is all of them already

the Sex Update was apparently also the Guns and Alcohol Update so i'm glad they one day decided to make the game really really good

i have a habit of wanting to wait until i have a good amount of structures and functionality unlocked before i start prettying up the place in these kinds of games. it goes really well with my habits of being lazy and uncreative. sometimes someone will come up to me and complain that the camp is an eyesore, so i'll stuff a couple bundles of leaves in the corner where they won't be in the way and then they're content