bardofvibes

bard of vibes

Cat, 20s, they/she || mostly here for Hannibal, CR (M9, shadowgast), Ghost (the band), TAD, the locked tomb, TWN,... || queer bean trying to figure out life

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Another Thing I Love About Drawtectives Is How Julia Just...doesn't Do Exposition. Very Rarely Does She

another thing I love about Drawtectives is how Julia just...doesn't do exposition. very rarely does she need to put on a GM voice and narrate something that's happening. her beautiful, detailed backgrounds provide the location. her excellently designed character sprites (with minimal animation) show other people around. her voice acting gives them characterization and she purposefully has a personal player character to guide events if need be.

any additional world context can be gotten from various posters and newspaper articles.

It's just so different than other roleplaying games I've watched. Even in Drawga, that has a similar drawing-based premise, Caldwell is forever giving explanations of what's happening around them and the results of the characters' actions. Julia doesn't need to explain whether something they tried to do worked, because they literally don't have a pass/fail mechanics. There's no dice, no skills, no levels. Aside from the season 1 individual abilities (2 out of 3 of which were functionally useless, though comedy gold), there's no specific actions the characters can take other than draw.

How does this game even work? I don't know, but it works perfectly and I love it so much.