It is also interesting to me how many people consider it a troll question. It is most acceptable to kill only men and no one beside me sees anything sexist about that? How is discussing that troll? I have trolled trillions of times, but this one is an actual facet of our world to discuss. I would actually say those who cannot view this as anything but a troll question would also 100% kill the men and leave the women unquestioningly as ‘the one true way’. Doesn’t mean me highlighting your sexism makes my question troll. We are in a world now where both sexism is bad and women are not inferior. Duh the ideal is to kill no one. This question isn’t about that. Reminds me of modlogs where mods ban ppl with different ideologies than their own with the reason being ‘trolling’. Consider my question trolling and I consider everything you ever do trolling. :)

ironically, this leftish area has caused me to go from thinking the right was terrible and the left was good to realizing there are really annoyingly aggressive people on both sides. I generally can’t stand oppression, so I am naturally on the side opposed to antiLGBTQ oppressors, racists, and sexists; which causes me to fall on the left side. But, now being in a leftish area a while, I dislike how the sheer vilifying and mob mentality disrupts calm logical thought. I will get downvotes for saying this (and that’s exactly my point), but, for example, if I were to think a policy of trump or elon was smart and good, you know there is no way i could mention it without 80 downvotes and constant personal attacks. If Trump liked gummi bears, saying ‘thats cool gummi bears are good’ would instantly result in 40 people yelling how terrible Gummi Bears are… because Trump likes them.

So lemmy caused me to go from leftist to instead having a distinction between respectful, nonaggressive people and those that aren’t. I would value a respectful, wellmeaning republican that I can have a meaningful conversation with (even if I disagree), over an aggressive lefty attacking any hint of an ideology other than their own.

Ok. Tried it and my review is:

It makes me miss Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

The world graphics in Songs, being 3D with swaying trees and such is much better, but meh. It has the same sort of issue as HOMM3 where gameplay comes down to memorizing how strong each unit is in comparison to others and knowing matchups. Heroes build buildings instead of it being an option in towns, and generally building choices for structures are far more simplified. Biggest thing causing me to stop playing is that the characters lack personality in normal noncampaign. What do I mean?

In HOMM3, let’s say I want to be a Necromancer. There are a bunch of different ones, with different backstories, stats, specializations. There are male necromancers and female necromancers… I like Vidomina. Her story text: “At a young age, Vidomina showed promise as a great Alchemist, but was driven from Bracada when it was discovered that she had been using her skills not to animate inanimate matter, but to attempt to bring life to previously living creatures.” And her pic is this intimidating boss woman. Only problem is the model on the map is the same for all necromancers.

So in Songs it’s more like I choose the mage hero of the Old Ones. They only have one pic, and it’s a woman, so all mage heroes of this type are women, and they only vary in name. Basically heroes lack character and are generally interchangeable. In HOMM3 I could play a game and really like the witch Verdish and be like “ya she my main hero she rlly cool”. Songs lost this aspect of ‘heroes’… the Unique and Character aspect. In Songs they should be called ‘bigger units that command other units’. It is otherwise similar enough to HOMM3 that it makes me miss HOMM3. MAY continue playing and rlly I’d complain about the building in comparison to HOMM3 too, but I haven’t made it far enough to know if my complaints are valid. The lack of heroes being individual characters I can become attached to is too big a turn off for me. Without that, it’s basically building units and attacking stuff, which, for me, gets boring. I think they have one artist, which is the one that did the cover pic. And they paid that artist to do a certain number of pictures. So all the game art is by that artist and if there is only one pic for a certain type of hero, too bad. Anyway, I disagree with the style being ‘impeccable’ as in faultless. I actually think that they felt so strongly they had to only have one type of image in one type of style from one artist to be among their greatest weaknesses and the lack of diversity it caused, especially in heroes being able to be different from each other, is, for me, gameruiningly bad. Kid with a free ai art generator could make better.