User:Mesherada/Agenda

Disclaimer

Feel free to skip this tbh, as this is very opinionated lol. That’s it!

But if I had to explain why I’m doing this here, and to express it in a non-agenda way before I really get going, it’s because not only does this bother me, it also matters to me, so I’m using this platform and my reach to plug my thoughts. Some people seem to have extremely mistaken expectations for Elin based on a single guy’s video on Elona, and I’d like to take this opportunity to address all of that to set things straight, so here we go. This way, people know what they’re getting into when they start playing Elin.

Anti-Sseth agenda

Maintaining the agenda is always the top priority, so why am I talking about SsethTzeentach? Ugh. While I will acknowledge some of the attention he brought to Elona, he’s also the cause of so, so many misunderstandings about the game. He’s the reason so many people have weird, cringe expectations of Elona (and now Elin) as some “adult” and “ero” game. With regards to some of the misunderstandings and mistaken expectations though, you can easily see this on the Steam Discussion boards before Elin is even out, where people rave (yeah, it’s pretty bad) and express their excitement about things like “bleach abortions”, “pregnancies”, and other stuff like “prostitutes out on the streets [of Derphy] everywhere” or whatever Sseth said in his video. First of all, a lot of it was translators who took the liberty to translate things inaccurately. Very tasteless, edgy stuff that was emphasized and exacerbated by Sseth, who is obviously a content creator and thus his focus is on shock value and entertainment, rather than accuracy. Secondly, from what I’ve heard, this was even eventually addressed in the Japanese version because now it’s “parasitized” instead of “pregnant”. But still, you’ll see people in the examples below focus on “pregnancies”.

I’ll just quote one of the mods in the Elona/Elin Discord.

So please, remember, this game isn’t only about all of the weird things Sseth emphasized and focused on in his edgy video about Elona that he made with the primary goal of max shock value. Elin is a much slower and deep RPG game that has you really take your time, interact with its various mechanics, and explore the world. There’s a lot more to the world of Ylva than whatever dumb things he talked about, like its world-building, its characters, its lore, and more. You could focus on all of the shallow things that Sseth talked about, but those are moreso a result of the mechanics of the game as well as random, procedural generation. Or you could focus on the world of Ylva like I mentioned. What you choose honestly says a lot more about you than it does about the game.

I guess my final thing would be proof. You might think I’m exaggerating. That this isn’t all that bad, or that it isn’t as bad as I’m describing. Well, please refer to the following posts on the Elin Steam Discussion boards. These kinds of cringe opinions are not unpopular; in fact, I’d say they’re terrifyingly commonplace. Please make sure you set your expectations accordingly. Because it’s pretty hard to read some of these.