Posted on: March 24, 2018
Antilope
Gry: 272 Opinie: 1
A great foundation, but...
In a nutshell, Ash of Gods (or AoG) is a beautifully illustrated 'Choose your own adventure'-style game, with optional but robust tactical RPG combat. In that way it obviously shares more with Banner Saga than just the art style but setting, lore and overall presentation are different enough to set it apart. As there's an option to essentially remove combat from game, I'm going to focus on the 'adventure' (aka the story and it's choices) more the combat. The adventure: The majority of AoG's gameplay is split between dialogues and map-travel, in both of which you're usually presented with several choices or paths to take. I would have to play AoG several times to tell if most choices do have actual consequences or rather the game does the illusion of consequence very well, but there was at least one occasion where the game both surprised and impressed me, when my decisions lead not only to rather crass outcome but the game's story was able to deal with this somewhat major shift. That said, while the story itself is not uninteresting and engaging at times, it's presentation falls short at times, mostly due to odd tonal shifts in writing. I assume that this has to do with the team being from Russia and the game's script either being written in Russian (and then translated) or written by non-native speakers. There aren't that many outright errors in dialogue and text (most jarringly pronouns are missing from time to time), rather the text something just feels 'odd' or overly verbose. I've found myself reading paragraphs several times to understand what the writer was trying to tell me or being confused by a seemingly out of place response in a dialogue. The combat: I'd love to go into detail here, but alas, GOG's review-system limits length and encourages uninformative & short reviews. I suggest actually scanning the steam reviews for this one, as some of them do a good job at presenting the game. tl;dr it's good & challenging, never unfair or random.
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