Postby Venithil » Tue Sep 06, 2016 3:37 pm
With only several weeks of experience with Creatures 2 and several days of experience with old, free Creatures DS, most things are fairly fresh in my mind and, despite my age, I do get a little excited about and fond of Norns, although more as pets than anything. This is midigated somewhat by my realization that a Norn may die easily on the very same day it hatched. As such, I tend to have certain mechanisms of getting attached, if at all! I am able to drop these attachments when testing things.
Creatures 2 :
- First Norn in a world tends to get some fondness and extra attention from me.
- Exotic-looking and interesting hybrids tend to also get some extra attention and adoration, especially in later generations when there's a lot of Norns populating the world and watching over them all seems borderline impossible.
- I get attached to *smart* norns. My first Nova Subterra was by far the Norn I liked the most and pretty much the only one I honestly got attached to.
Creatures DS :
- I get some emotion out of watching groups in specific metarooms rather than being attached to specific creatures. I find it easy to document Creatures 2 progress, but not Creatures DS progress. My favorites this time are Norns (and freshly hatched two Ettins) in the Chione metaroom.
- I don't feel as sad when a Norn dies. One of the first 2nd generation Norns died when I moved him away from his parents, despite his genetics being supposedly an advantage in the new environment.
- I failed to get attached to my first two Norns, partially because the learning stage was very simplified and partially because they were too... odd. The breeds I can choose are limited as I am in no position to get Creatures Exodus yet, so all my breeds are the ones available for free or made by the community with sprites included. My first trio was a set of Frost male, Flora male, and Wood female. The Flora male was exported because of tremendous sprite issues. The Wood female and Frost male proceeded to produce a three offspring - one died when moved to Chione, one died for seemingly no reason at all, and for the third... When the boy grew, his father developed some weird issue where he HAD to push buttons, or he grew scared. Meanwhile, his mother decided the young Norn was a better mate than the mentally challenged father, and the two of them produced 4 children. I exported one and separated them eventually when I started populating other rooms. Suffice to say I hatched more Generation 1 creatures since, but I always feel just a tad awkward about Norn parents mating with their children - for social reasons, as I understand genetics work differently for them and as such have no trouble with sibling or cousin pairs.
To keep thing short :
I can get attached to smart creatures, creatures with plenty of personality, or unique mixed-breed looks. In DS, I seem to only get attached to whole groups at once.
One day, all the weird mutant Norns, Ettins, and Grendels shall make themselves an X-Albians movie.
If you'd like to read a blog-style story of my Creatures playthroughs (including struggles with Creatures 2' "Smart" breeds [Canny, N. Subterra, Kannova], and my own genome) click
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