Small, compact RPG with a lot of soul
Let's premise that this game isn't a masterpiece, but deserves five stars all the same.
Felvidek is a small RPG about paranormal events happening in Hungary during the 16th century. It takes a lot of elements from what I can only assume is folkloric elements deriving from the mixed heritage of Eastern Europe and some tropes deriving, no doubt, from Disco Elysium, to make its very own insane story.
Sometimes the dialogue is a bit too much, it throws historical and cultural references into the player's face without much or any context, mixing it with Ye Ole English and untranslated Hungarian, which makes some passages completely void of sense if you, like me, have little to no grip on Eastern Europe's history, language and culture.
However, the writing is overall extremely well done and quite fun. It has a lot of humour comng from very unexpected places, the three main characters are wonderfully portrayed and have some extremely charming exchanges between themselves, and the story, well, the story is bonkers.
RPGs mechanics are solid but nothing to write home about. They are however very much elevated by the style and animations, which carry a lot of the game in general.
The Aesthethics of Felvidek are what all indies made with a small budget should strive for: they are unique and captivating throughout the whole game. Enemy design, character art, backgrounds, animations, all are so coherent and unique that make me want to replay the game just so that I can see Pali heal himself by popping open a bottle of wine again.
Game's very short: From 4 to 7 hours max, and while there is some very minor decision making, I don't really believe it offers a lot of replayability. That's okay to me personally, as I believe it makes everything very compact and solid overall, but just know that you are not going to get lost in hours of gameplay here.
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