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@f2dless IIRC this is because there's a big divide between the side of the dev team that wants to lean into lore stuff and the side that thinks it should just be an exploration and puzzle simulator.
You used to be able to walk into an autistic man's home and identify his favorite chickens to gain his daughter's hand in marriage. Libs put a stop to this.
Played this game for the first time this year and was blown away by how charming the visuals are and how beautiful the lighting gets when the time of day changes
It's pretty trippy that the Simpsons is so old that early episodes have characters with *WWI* backstories.
This is from Three Men and a Comic Book, S2 E21 (1991).