I started reading it on my own time back in middle school, but didn't finish reading it until freshman year in high school when it became required. But it was still fun to read - and not just because I am a fan of long descriptive bits, no sirree. I absolutely didn't put little bookmarks into the descriptions of Calypso's pretty island or the shiny sword or anything...

Conversely, though, long badly-written descriptive bits become so much worse and yet so much more fun to make fun of. See all clothing bits from the Unpleasant Memories mission.

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Sounds like you've got a magical girl Bond villain going, there. "GRR! Why do my extensively complicated and pointless traps and countermeasures fail me?!"

My villains... tend to be horrible bastards.

Case in point: Chronicles of Zeyr's main antagonist, Councilman Gangaiza.

You know the trope "Kick the Dog?" Well, Gangaiza hasn't stopped kicking the dog since I first designed his character.

To start, he ascended to the King's Council by kidnapping the Chairman and murdering him. After that, he corrupted the council and ran the incumbent Prince off the throne and took it for the council's self, effectively turning a strong kingdom into a tyrannical republic.

Next, he outlawed all mages not appointed by the council, and disavowed recognition of the established government of Sanctuary, the chief mage stronghold. Then, he kidnapped Sanctuary's revered Prelate, the strongest mortal outlet of magic in existence, and tortured her relentlessly until her magic revealed his future to him, where a group of ex-cons hunted him down and killed him, thus leading to mass racism, arrests for nonexistent crimes, and executions, the most notable being nine criminals who had done nothing wrong whatsoever, but managed to escape.

After that, he went to the leader of the military elite, Adecor Demara, who had been standing in for the arrested General Kraig Lescarr, and brainwashed him into killing his own wife after his son Denestra - one of the nine criminals - had been arrested, so that she wouldn't be able to fight back by declaring her husband unfit for duty and leading the Vanguardians to Gangaiza's door, and so that her son would hopefully lose the will to fight.

Next, he began construction of the Omega Rod, which was the ultimate mechanical conductor of magic, and claimed it to be a defensive weapon, right before using it in a test run to call down a lightning storm on the Isle of Kai'Ni, effectively destroying the First Kingdom of Elvenkind.

The list goes on and gets more and more horrible, such as mass-killing the Eldraec - immortal protectors of the world - leaving all but three of them remaining, torturing the strongest allies of the Champions - now reduced to five, from twelve - until they fell into a protective amnesia to block out the pain, thereby rendering them useless to the cause, and mass-killing pretty much the whole main cast at some point, from death only a few manage to return.

All this eventually culminates in the end of the world, forcing the mass majority of humans and elves to relocate to friendly alien worlds by the strength of their primative space programs.

So, yeah. My villains tend to leave people Not Amused.