I knew a girl once who was freaked out by hair. She didn't mind the hair on her own head, or anybody else's, but thick beards made her uncomfortable. She couldn't tolerate pets because they shed, and she would scream the way most people do for a spider if she ever saw a dust bunny. We all have our weird things we can't tolerate. My wife hates teeth, especially loose, bloody, or cracked. My dad watches medical dramas, but turns away during surgery because he's too squeamish. For me, that thing is eyes. I have pretty bad eyesight, but cannot wear contact lenses because of a fear of things anywhere near my eyes. I cover my face in horror movies whenever eyeball grossness is involved. So wasn't it just great when 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur's Gate 3 opened with a horrible slug being💝 shoved into your eye socket in a POV shot?
I had a vague idea that Baldur's Gate 3 didn't have a classic Big Bad Evil Guy in the form of a massive dragon or beholder. A mind flayer is a top tier BBEG too, of course, but rather than fighting a specific horrible squid monster, I knew the campaign started off with the general concept of mind control rather than 'kill this one bad guy'. I knew that brain manipulation and parasites featured too - with the PC launch a whole month ahead of the console version, there were certain things I couldn't avoid. But the fact it goes into your eye socket as the very first thing you do? You all allowed me to have that as an unpleasant surprise.
Obviously, this is a main part of the game, so the characters constantly talk about it. They want a cure for it, and to find the source of it, but also meet True Souls who celebrate its presence. It can even be used in conversation as a means of manipulation, though its uses are subject to a cooldown. It's not just a gross thing you can forget - the game constantly reminds you that the whole reason for doing anything is because you have a bug in your eye.
Worst, they keep calling them 'tadpoles'. This does two things, both of them terrible. Firstly, it gives them a sense of kawaii, like they're just goofy lil guys swimming around in there. It feels like a term of affection, like naming your pet cow before killing it and serving it as steak. Secondly, it reminds you that they're alive in there, swimming around. It's not something beneath what we might recognise as 'alive', like a bacteria, or something synthetic like a computer chip. It is an alive thing, right behind your eyes, swimming around right by your eyeballs.
In its defence, the game has, well, not helped me get over this whole deal with my eyes, but at least confront it a little. At the party after the goblin camp, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Volo offered to take a look at my eye. I knew this wouldn't be a good idea, but having freshly saved, I let him have at it. First, he went in with a needle, though thankfully the game took a more zoomed out look and made clear he was poking around the eye, rather than through it. That's still extremely disgusting, but far better than the alternative. He was unsuccessful, so out came the ice pick. What the hell, I can reload another save, right?
In went the ice pick. Out came my eye. Plopped right out on the dirty ground, and for some reason, all my party disapproved. Oh yeah, I'm the bad guy here. However, the replacement eye allows me to see Invisibility, so I guess it all worked out. I opted to stick with this current save, my new ability a reward for being ever so brave during the eye operation. A Faerun equivalent of a lollipop in the doctor's office.
I cannot believe that the game that is, right now, in pole position to be my game of the year, is all about having to remove something stuck in your eye, and that I've already grown so desperate the ice pick has come out. I still hate that we call them 'tadpoles', but despite everything, it's a cool inversion of fighting the BBEG in that your whole quest is to stop yourself from becoming the BBEG. But please, stop calling them tadpoles.