Posted on: February 16, 2017
claiminglight1
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A poor presentation for a poor game.
The Age of Decadence is absolutely riddled with typos and spelling errors which, in a text message, wouldn't be a big deal. But in a for-profit, narratively focused RPG is absolutely flabbergasting. And there's no redemption in the content, either. Dialogue relies heavily on modern-era sayings and needless profanity which alchemize to burn right through the fourth wall. Combat has a good deal of features: the ability to power attack or to trip an opponent are, on the surface, interesting. But it doesn't take long to discover their wholly cosmetic nature. Knocking an enemy down, for instance, costs your entire turn. Should you succeed, the enemy will simply get back up with no more penalty than having lost -half- a turn himself. If there's a purpose to that... I don't see it. Where combat is concerned, once you've stripped away all the bull, all you're truly left with is an attack roll simulator that, due to the nature of the game, will always be stacked against you. It's like playing craps. But craps is only fun when there's money on the line. In the AoD, your sanity is what you bet, and the house always wins. Non-combat options allow you to take a different path, exchanging a poor combat system for poorly written vignettes. But these choose-your-own-adventure sequences require high levels of proficiency in a vast panoply of character skills that you simply can't afford. Strategy and planning have no place: you're simply left to the mercy of unforeseeable pass-fail checks that wag their fingers at you when you, say, don't have enough historical knowledge during a sneaking section. This ultimately leads to constant reloading to allocate the skill points you've learned never to spend until you've reached a barrier. Far from inspired, The AoD is reminiscent of the efforts of a wannabe tabletop game store DM. Nothing you do works, mind-reading is essential and the whole product, while terrible, has a smarminess about it that betrays an ego that was dialed up to 11.
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