I didn't get as much done over the weekend as I'd have liked, but a healthy chunk of the war has been finished. The main thing I need to do right now is actually play through it to double check myself, then I can finish the war and get started on the wastes, which is another segment I've seen a number of people struggle with. Though I think that's mostly because you can't actively see the doors you need to walk through when you're outside the towers on one Estate.
The war itself is also a segment I've seen a number of people struggle with, but understandably so. If you don't like the combat system and neglect investing in Emily's (and later Master Emmerich's) Contracts, both your level and your gear ends up lacking. There isn't a ton you can do about that in the moment, especially if you're trying to get all the trophies, so hopefully the guide will help with that. Even if it means following the whole guide or reading way ahead and spoiling yourself on how Act 3 starts.
I'm still not totally sure exactly how long finishing the guide will take me, though. I can make a few good guesses - hopefully I'll have the war done tomorrow, complete the wastes over Thursday/Friday, spend the next week on the northlands and one more week on the castle itself, meaning the story will be done by the end of the month pretty comfortably - but once the story is done, I've got all the appendix information to enter in. The Uncommon language primer is gonna be fairly easy; I already have my own document for that exact purpose, I'll just need to add some commentary and edit it a bit so it's easier to read for someone who isn't me.
I have no idea what the other appendices are gonna take to make, though. I know what I want to do with them, but for example, I don't know if completing an entry for one Maid is going to take me an hour, or two, or a whole day. Spending a whole day on one entry is unlikely, but I haven't exactly made a strategy guide before, so I only have so much to go on when I make these estimates.
Mostly, I just continue to be grateful this isn't proving to be the massive slog I was worried it'd be, even through most of writing out the guide for Act 1. I try to avoid talking about my income because I feel like I'm either begging or trying to guilt-trip money out of people, but it's not easy to keep going when I'm watching my income backslide almost every month. Combine that with making a strategy guide feeling significantly less fulfilling than making a game is, and I don't think it's much of a stretch to understand how ready I am to get started on the next project.
Speaking of, the public poll for my next project is currently up on Patreon and Subscribestar. The vote is very heavily skewed in one direction right now, but if you have an opinion about what my next project should be, now is the best time to let me know what that opinion is.
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