#pesterquest.pdf

Ooh, this is... Yikes. It's really checking a good majority of the boxes, isn't it? If you don't mind, I really need to like... Make a checklist here. I'm absolutely mind-boggled by this.

>Dave's alleged Toxic Masculinity as a main character trait. Fanon. >Dave's alleged Toxic Masculinity as a root for his Internalized Homophobia. Fanon. >DaveKat-Centric, no matter the route. Fanon. >RoseMary getting absolutely shelved (as a consequence of the former bullet point, especially). Fanon. >Vriska's route, which, from what I know, was clearly written by someone who really does not get Vriska. Fanon. >Eridan's route. See above. Fanon. >Being fucking awful about Gamzee. Canon, but in a bad way. Do these people not realize that a lot of the way Gamzee functions was born out of legitimate racism? >Encouraging legitimate Drug Addiction just so that everyone else stays happy. I'm not even going to say "Canon" or "Fanon" for this one, because this is just bad. I'd accept this as a choice if it was played as being horrible or something. Is... Is that framed as the right thing to do? That's just awful. That's not a good ending.

Most of the characters were amazing and I loved the story of it, my favorite one was karkat since he was so freaked out about someone having the same blood color as him. However there were also ones and I disliked or downright hated

Jakes route is where you have to ignore all of his issues because if you don’t he shuts down and you can’t solve anything. I personally just find Jake a little infiruraring but that’s just me/gen

Aradia route was not friending her in the universe, she is from canon and therefore extremely different than how she would be without sburb. Her story deals around the narrative of the story and breaking canon and while I do love her for that I wish the route was a little more focused on her instead of the narrative

And dirks. Oh god dirks. His entire route was narrative usage. We were completely unable to befriend him before ult dirk stepped in and fucked shit up, it dealt with the epilogues so heavily (again I quite hate them) and he was just a plot device for the story. I like his character a lot and was pretty upset when he was just used for the narrative without a lick of actually getting to know him

Anyways there’s my pesterquest rant, I never played friendsim so there were a few references I didn’t get but that’s neither here nor there

Yeah, this falls pretty in line with a portion of some of the complaints I heard. Dirks route especially is one I've heard of and found a bit... Wince-worthy. From what I can gather, a notable portion of Pesterquest is dedicated to shilling Postcanon, which... Is not very good. It's its own game, don't turn it into an advertisement... Come on. :(

personally I. Really do not think the character writing is very close to canon - which would be somewhat excusable if it didn't also suck narratively and just in general. The artstyle is cool I guess. Characters seem weirdly written and... Eridan's route is awful. He's written to just be a snobby prick with no other character traits beyond "likes dresses" and "hates Sollux". and like.....Jesus it sucks

And here’s some other complaints I see regularly! This is fun.

I’ve heard that most of the characters in Pesterquest feel like they got hit with some rather powerful Fanonization, which is lame, especially considering this is... You know, Official Material? You’d think they’d be more mindful of accurate characterization, considering it is literally Official Material, but… Nope, I guess not. It’s kind of… Tacky, to put it nicely.