Mercenary is a profession. “Sellsword” is an anachronistic term used only by modern fantasy books. If he doesn’t like using mercenary too often, there are plenty of synonyms: soldier of fortune, professional soldier, hired arms, free lances, condottiere…
Similarly, he insists on using “whore” every time the narration or any character refers to a sex worker or an unchaste woman. That gets tiresome and repetitive, especially since it’s one of the more offensive options. Do none of his characters ever use polite euphemisms? Or even just other impolite terms? Does the narration benefit from using whore all the time instead of more neutral (and possibly more accurate) terms? Why are they all “whores” and never prostitutes, ladies of the night, streetwalkers, harlots, tarts, strumpets, doxies, Trollope, molls, courtesans, fille de joie, trulls, vixens, mistresses, concubines, hussies, or tramps?
I don’t mind the occasional use of whore or sellsword, but to use them exclusively when there are so many evocative and nuanced synonyms is just lazy writing.
Vampire Survivor.
Art is bizarre, incoherent mess that looks like they used whatever was cheapest on fiver. UI is absolute garbage. Gameplay is literally just “avoid walking into enemies for 30 minutes.” It should be the lamest most boring game ever.
I’ve lost track of how much time I’ve sunk on this dumb game so far. It’s strangely satisfying to just pilot my little sprite through a weird pixelated map watching enemies blow up around me.