- Pokédex No.
- 181
- Caught
- Jun 30, 2019
- Messages
- 515
- Location
- A place to nap
- Nature
- Gentle
- Pronouns
- They/Them
- Pokémon Type
- Ghost, Normal
- Pokédex Entry
- This ghost tries to be studious and businesslike, but will squee or keysmash easily. They would love to cuddle every adorable cat in the world.
This is an interesting thread! There's a lot mentioned here that I don't mind (coloured text, storyshots, even some grammar mistakes) but that's just personal taste. As someone who (very very briefly) tried to write a storyshot with characters and plot, I think it can be done but to do it well (which I don't think I did) is harder than it initially looks. Trying to work around screenshots, where characters are placed and weird game choices (the fangame i was working with had wild tonal shifts/was very dark even to start with, in what I now think was a badly executed way) can mean that you may feel quite restricted in terms of writing style and what to say. I don't want to put anyone off writing them or to say that it's all the games' fault if a storyshot run needs improvement. I do think though that it's worth weighing up which medium to do a run in very very carefully. Though of course, I've seen some very good and intriguing storyshots.
What honestly turns me away (though if I had the time and energy I would try to comment on as many runs as I could anyway) is when a run is set in a game and region that I don't know about, and the run does not explain or set the scene very well. This goes for any run in any genre, but especially commentary runs. This doesn't mean pages and pages of description are needed, but if a run leaps forward into a game I know nothing about - especially non-Pokemon games - then I will literally not be able to follow what's going on.
What honestly turns me away (though if I had the time and energy I would try to comment on as many runs as I could anyway) is when a run is set in a game and region that I don't know about, and the run does not explain or set the scene very well. This goes for any run in any genre, but especially commentary runs. This doesn't mean pages and pages of description are needed, but if a run leaps forward into a game I know nothing about - especially non-Pokemon games - then I will literally not be able to follow what's going on.
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