Captain John, Sins of
Aug. 25th, 2023 02:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I finished listening to The Sins of Captain John.
I'm not sure I can recommend it, the fourth wall aware unreliable narrator bit is... well, not sure about it myself, not sure it improved things.
But it does leave you able to doubt Jack would ever actually do that, right at the end.
As does exactly when the adventure cuts off.
Which you may be glad of.
... what John is being threatened with sounds really really bad.
The box set was mostly about gauntlets, ones that raise the dead, which at least sounds very like the Risen Mitten from tv, and if so this is what happens when you use them both together.
Got to say I would not have guessed.
It's a whole lot darker than I'd have guessed.
Plus it wouldnt have occured to me to wonder what happens when you use it on living people
but the answer here is... very stare into space and hope that's one of the bits he's lying about.
Of course it's also possible he's only lying about their names at the time.
You never do know.
The fourth wall bit is not how I would have told it.
And it seems like they decided the distinguishing features of a John story are a lot of sex and murder.
But the actual adventure parts have a sufficiency of scary and several good bits.
Still not sure what my opinion on this set is, somehow.
Hope they had fun making it.
I'm not sure I can recommend it, the fourth wall aware unreliable narrator bit is... well, not sure about it myself, not sure it improved things.
But it does leave you able to doubt Jack would ever actually do that, right at the end.
As does exactly when the adventure cuts off.
Which you may be glad of.
... what John is being threatened with sounds really really bad.
The box set was mostly about gauntlets, ones that raise the dead, which at least sounds very like the Risen Mitten from tv, and if so this is what happens when you use them both together.
Got to say I would not have guessed.
It's a whole lot darker than I'd have guessed.
Plus it wouldnt have occured to me to wonder what happens when you use it on living people
but the answer here is... very stare into space and hope that's one of the bits he's lying about.
Of course it's also possible he's only lying about their names at the time.
You never do know.
The fourth wall bit is not how I would have told it.
And it seems like they decided the distinguishing features of a John story are a lot of sex and murder.
But the actual adventure parts have a sufficiency of scary and several good bits.
Still not sure what my opinion on this set is, somehow.
Hope they had fun making it.