Posted on: July 27, 2023
Krasnoludek5
Verified ownerGames: 112 Reviews: 39
Absolute must-play for any Gothic fan!
Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos is a free standalone mod expansion for Gothic 2, that serves as a prequel for the Gothic series. You play the role of Marvin, who escapes from his home island trying to evade the impending invasion by the orcs, and forge a new life for himself on the island of Archolos. CoM:A consistently displays quality that is on par with the vanilla, classic Gothic releases. In general, the game definitely grew on me with each passing hour. While the Polish voiceacting is great, and the writing generally is pretty good, the English translation is, weirdly enough, maybe the worst element of the game. The translation is perfectly functional and most of the time even correct, but occasionally there are mistakes commited in it that do not really fit the professional level of the rest of the game’s elements to me. And now we come to the aforementioned game’s world. It’s brilliant. It has everything a great video game world should have – not that large swathes of land, but very DENSE, with plenty to discover behind each corner. It was absolutely brilliant to explore and it absolutely rewarded exploration in the best of Gothic tradition. The story actually pleasantly surprised me for the most part. The story dealt with a lot less high-magic and epic level stuff than the vanilla entries of the Gothic series, and istead delved more into politics of all things, which I found to be rather interesting. The story of CoM:A actually brings up a lot of topics that are in general kinda fresh for a fantasy game – things like independence movements, the realities of conquest of sovereign nations, foreign and domestic relations in a war situation, and even things like ethnic tensions or the treatment of refugees. If you want, you can take a look at my BLIND playthrough. I play with Polish voiceacting, English subtitles and English commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrAIS3hWcFI&list=PLp4TpsJ7HUWUT0MB7DeV5WCvX-CceMCVj
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