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Originally Posted by devlin1
Thanks for the review -- I've been curious about this one for a long time.
I don't know if Eos Press mandates long-winded writing or something, but I found Weapons of the Gods, another Eos product, almost unbearably overwritten much of the time.
If nothing else, it sounds like Unhallowed Metropolis has a lot of cool ideas to mine for other games.
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In UnMet's defense, the reason for the long-windedness is to help convey the victorian feel of the thing. Have you ever read the writings of the era? Your brain ends up in a knot from the excessive overuse of words. Nicole and Jason did a great job of adopting just enough of that long-windedness to help keep the whole feel of the book in-setting while keeping it clear enough to understand. I had no problem reading it at all, esp after the text format nightmare of the nWoD books and the over-explanations of some parts of Exalted.