Posted on: November 17, 2020
Wottie
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A Beautiful Blend of Genres and Ideas
It doesn't happen that often that developers throw a lot of themes, genres, gameplay elements, and ideas into the cauldron and the result is not an indigestable mess but a game as delicious as Druidstone. It's a thing of beauty. It has beautiful graphics, beautiful music, the plot includes some very original ideas, and - best of all - it is beautifully balanced and has beautifully crafted missions with polished gameplay. On the one hand, every turn matters, and you often think, "Oh, this has just cost me the battle, I should have done X instead." On the other hand, most missions have multiple ways to victory, based on which skills you'll decide to use. The story includes a fantasy setting in a parallel universe, druids, an evil Sorceress, and an old technologically advanced race that seems to have escaped from a sci-fi novel. Characters? There's the Archdruid's daughter, a strange being called Oiko, the Warden - a human-like creature created by the Menhir Forest itself when in danger, a Japanese-speaking karate girl (no kidding), conscious stones, minor deities, mail-delivering intelligent birds, a spacetime demon... And it all just works. The gameplay is a perfectly working mixture of turn-based strategy, RPG, a puzzle game, and a card game. You level up your characters, which earns them new spells to learn. The number of times they can use the spells during a mission and their strength are determined by allocating gems you get for reaching the missions' objectives (some mandatory, some optional). And while some missions are about careful planning and outsmarting the enemy, others are more like puzzles where once you understand the main idea, you'll just do the trick and win. Add a big dose of humor, music ranging from lyrical to monumental string action to a tribute to arcade game tunes, throw in some pop-cultural (rather game-cultural) references, shake, then stir, and you'll get Druidstone, a game I spent 110 hours with - and don't regret a single minute.
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