Replaying this after so long was such a wild experience, it's so funny to me how I can change and grow so much over the years and then play things like this in almost the exact same way I did forever ago. I made some changes to my morality/corruption and the like, but spending over half my playtime seducing random townsfolk for store discounts and growing a property-empire took me back to all the times I played this on my Xbox 360. Unfortunately the combat was pretty lacking, it's not awful but it's a lot clunkier and more awkward than I remember, but for what it is that didn't sour the experience much at all.

There's such a charm to the dumb shit, it's really something. Knocking on the door of a house I can't afford until a pissed-off man and wife answer in the dead of night, dancing to them on their doorstep and watching their 'love' meters increase until the man clocks on to what's happening and gets a big wave of 'hate' for me, sternly reminding me that "that's [his] wife!" and I need to leave. Proposing to her right in front of him and getting married only to be reminded that this doesn't transfer ownership of the house to me, but to their young child 🥹

The highlight of this playthrough has to have been having sex for the first time and unlocking the 'apologise' expression as soon as I finished :)

Man I hope the new Fable game keeps all the stupid life-sim stuff while massively improving the combat, I could easily see myself loving it to be bits if they get it right.