Posted on: June 11, 2019
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A Pile of Unorganized Ideas
Masquerada is a game I wanted to love but ended up not finishing. The time I spent in the game had charm, but the constantly mindless grind of combat is a real drain when it tends to boil down to using the same abilities over and over again. Reminded me of Dragon Age 2 in which heaps of enemies are mistaken for interesting challenges. In the beginning the unique Venetian aesthetic is fascinating and there is a ton of lore, but even that becomes opaque with weird words replacing ordinary concepts and only explained in a glossary of collectable entires. The style of the art is simple and bright, from cutscenes to gameplay, but almost nothing is intractable in the same environment. NPCs without full dialogue just emit speech bubbles and otherwise are just background elements. You make no decisions in dialogue. It might as well be a visual novel. And about halfway through the intriguing concepts give way to an overlong social message which seems out of place, barely defined, and frankly quite preachy. With the original epic story in shambles I couldn't bring myself to endure more boring combat to see the unsatisfying conclusion. Play if you like the world, but you might get just as much enjoyment watching the CGI introduction which condenses the good of the game into a couple of minutes, and might have made for a fine animated series.
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