Set in the fantastic world of long ago Venice, the young Scarlett falls victim to a terrible mystery, which begins with the murder of her companion by a secretive alliance of mighty necromancers. Thus fate takes its inevitable course and threatens to throw the world out of order.
Scarlett finds o...
Set in the fantastic world of long ago Venice, the young Scarlett falls victim to a terrible mystery, which begins with the murder of her companion by a secretive alliance of mighty necromancers. Thus fate takes its inevitable course and threatens to throw the world out of order.
Scarlett finds out that she is the daughter of death incarnate and is blessed with his ultimate powers. She is the only one who can stop the gruesome powers that threaten to destroy the entire living world.
Now it’s your chance to reverse fate! Get ready for a fast-paced adventure set in an epic world filled with dark dangers and merciless adversaries. Arm yourself with mighty weapons, rally together powerful allies and master the dark powers of death. Can you conquer the powers that threaten to inescapably destroy the world of the living? Follow your path down into the deepest abyss to death itself – and back again, if you are worthy!
Key Features:
Experience a visually stunning action RPG with a unique and captivating atmosphere
Follow the hero journey of Scarlett through a rich and original story
Conquer a host of merciless nightmarish creatures that pounce on the threatened world in a raged frenzy in action-packed battles and ultimately confront their masters
Explore palaces, villas and numerous dark alleyways in a living dynamic Venice filled with merchants, rogues, allies and traitors
Learn how to use the powers of the “Twilight World” and wander between the worlds of the living and the dead. Put the ultimate powers of death to your advantage in battle.
Use the advantages of the “Twilight World” and the ultimate powers of death
Experience an open game world with dynamic night and day cycles
Clear, easy to pick up rule system and intuitive game-play
Experience a dynamic and open game world in which you can freely develop your own character and decide on different game strategies yourself.
To become death in Venetica is a calling, fulfilled by a man of flesh and blood – equipped with special supernatural skills in order to be able to carry out the duties of the office. A new death is selected regularly by “Corpus”, a secret council. This time however Corpus really makes a wrong decision: The “new” death, Victor, turns out to be a crazed necromancer who manages to turn himself into an overpowering undead with seedy tricks and dark rituals and thus attains almost unlimited power in addition to immortality. As it is strictly forbidden for the chosen death to devote himself to necromancy, the committee revokes Victor’s nomination immediately and declares a new death in his stead without delay.
The power-hungry Victor however does not want to relinquish his position again. He continues to practice the dark arts in order to gather numerous dark and dangerous creatures and tainted souls from the underworld around him. He thus succeeds in eliminating the newly designated death and takes over his power for his own purposes. The effects on the world’s balance are calamitous and – should Victor be able to keep himself in power – its dark consequences are irreversible. Only a person who has the same mighty powers as Victor can prevent his prevailing and vent him his deserved punishment.
Scarlett, the daughter of the real death does not know anything about her ancestry and the hidden talents which slumber within her. She is immersed suddenly in this story due to the brutal attack on her home village and the tragic loss of Benedict, the love of her life. It is a story which she now begins to write herself, a story during the course of which she unleashes her capabilities, a story in which she tries to save Benedict from the world of the dead and a story in which she must protect the world of the living from the dark threat posed by Victor and his henchmen.
包含内容
Making of (ENG/GER)
Venice
Soundtrack (MP3)
Manual (ENG)
Artbook (GER)
I wanted to play this game since it came out. And I finally got the chance to do so in the end of 2021. Venetica is a psudo open-world action RPG that came out in 2009. For its release year, Venetica looks and feels kind of dated. Although the game offered players a few open areas to explore, they are more like different levels, you need to progress through the main storyline to unlock them.
The combat is very basic hack and slash. There are four different weapon types with different play styles for players to chose from. Some enemies will require player to use certain weapon types to effectively defeat them. It's kind of annoying blocking is assigned as a 'skill' in the same category with magic attacks. Which makes it not as easy to perform if you're playing with keyboard. Fortunately you rarely need to block enemy attacks if you're playing on normal or lower difficulties. For higher difficulties, enemies simply delt more damage and have more health. The enemy AIs stayed the same braindead with all difficulties. You can simply lure enemies one by one and kill them off most of the time. Boss fights also do not feel too creative either. Each boss fights feels more like solving a puzzle. You either cannot deal any damage to them or you can kill them easily once you figure out the right method.
As for the story, Venetica isn't too bad but it certainly lacks meaningful player choices compare to other RPG titles. Also there are a few cut scences got overly reused to the point they makes you want to skip them. There are two endings for the story, but they don't feel too different from each other.
Overall, not a bad purchase for $2.99. But there are many better games out there to play
The game starts off with promise however fails to hold attention due to repetitive nature of the quests and dungeon crawling elements. The side missions are quite creative and believable and environments are visually quite interesting and interactive during exploration. Unfortunately, gameplay becomes monotonous when navigating your way through Venice undergoing petty tasks to progress the storyline. Venice itself is the main location of game and once there most of the games missions are based within the city itself. Sadly, there is simply not enough variety to keep the player captivated on a long term basis. I have played this game in multiple bursts and each time i did not necessarily feel excited about jumping back into it and eventually giving up completely and playing other games which offer more playability and fun in the long run.
Venetica has the soul of a point & click adventure game but with the coat of a messy Gothic/Fable hybrid. The city of Venice is fun to explore and has plenty of secrets, but the combat is painfully simple and the RPG elements a complete after-thought.
Venetica strenghts lie in the city of Venice itself and its design, the themes of its different zones, the art-style, the weird characters that inhabit it, and the many different choices/paths the player can follow which can affect the story and other interactions.
Though the setting and the art-style may be charming, it is a deeply flawed title with tons of jankiness, bugs, incredibly unpolished, which gets repetitive very soon, specially with terrible padding at the latter half.
Venetica is a game that makes you constantly wonder what could've been, if it were not for the cut-corners, jankiness all over that end up bittering an overall enjoyable experience.
THE GOOD:
-Charming art-style.
-Venice is fun to explore, full of secrets, paths and choices.
-Cool art direction an architecture, Venice is an unique place.
-The protagonist is endearing and grows on you.
-Plenty of loot & equipment to choose from.
-Plenty of choices that affect certain events in the game.
-Good amount of content for a first playthrough (20hr main story + a few side-quests)
THE BAD:
-Unpolished, from animations to sound editing. Very janky and quite a few game-breaking bugs.
-Gets very repetitive very soon.
-Tons of unrealized potential.
-Extreme, shameless padding half-way through.
Unpretentiously creative and fun, easy as fuck, and the MC is a cutie. Just enjoy a classic chosen one story well done, and the good world-building and art direction. The sound could use a little bit polish in levels but everything else is very nice. Art-wise, this is obviously done without normal baking so you'll be seeing pretty much the peak of what raw low-poly asset design can give. Also the work they put into things like transparency and cloth mechanics for this age it turned out relaly nice. And the stylization in the sculpting is not to be ignored as well. Most of the armor designs are a bit ridiculous but whatever, theres definitely a nice concept layer underneath all the assets and levels. Like I said this is no dark souls so just chill back and enjoy the ride, it's a fun time.
