Posted April 14, 2022 by CrimsonDelightGames
(NOTE: These devlogs usually lag behind our official updates. The latest up-to-date information about the game can be found on our team's Patreon page!)
Hi, and welcome to another devlog! :)
In this one we'll be talking about role-playing opportunities realized through the protagonist's archetypes!
Archetypes are basically self-contained, role-playing bundles that encapsulate certain aspects of the protagonist's psyche. Put simply, they let you decide what kind of Captain Hale you want to play as! The Captain has a certain amount of preset backstory to him (1st Company Captain in Fort Ninevus, war hero, ladies' man, minor local celebrity, relationship with Meredith), but apart from that he's a blank slate, and you can (role)play him any way you like!
From the pic at the post's header, you have:
There's nothing stopping you, as the Player, from deviating from a set path and picking a 'Crusader' option in one conversation, then opting for a 'Madman' choice in another. These role-playing replies aren't set in stone, nor will the game force you to choose one to the exclusion of others; pick whatever you like, at whichever time you want to! In-game, they're not even labeled as above, but exist more in the form of a loose grouping of dialogue choices which you can mix-and-match at your convenience. They're just a useful way for us to write Captain Hale's responses, and organize his replies around a set of archetypal themes - hence, the term 'archetypes'!
Obviously not all archetypes will be present in every single conversation, and some dialogues might lean more towards specific ones (depending on the context), but the Player will for the most part have a healthy amount of choices even in the smallest and most trivial of encounters!
These unique dialogue choices are one of the many ways you'll be able to shape the world of ToLLA... and your place within it!
And that brings us to the end of this devlog! Thanks for reading; we hope you had fun! As always, come back next time and we'll have more cool stuff to talk about! ;)
~ Crimson Delight Games