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Talking about my experiences with Lovecraftian indie crpg, Skald: Against The Black Priory, after a thorough look at the title!
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Talking about my experiences with Lovecraftian indie crpg, Skald: Against The Black Priory, after a thorough look at the title!
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There’s so much about this game to love. I just hit my 100% tonight and I’m over the moon with it. I fell in love with the world, the lore, and the characters (Roland especially). I want Skald to become an indie franchise and if we can’t have that, I at least desperately crave a spiritual successor from the devs.
Great breakdown of the game on your part.
I LOVE that they included quality of life improvements as well as the retro look
This game was dope as hell
The ending of this game… sheesh.
liked, subscribed, keep up good work. Thx 4 this reviev
Finally getting board of bg3, maybe I will pick this one up.
I didn't grow up with a Commodore64 but I do enjoy this game a lot. Definitely worth it's price and then some.
just beat the game. loved it. Gonna try another run with one of the DLC backgrounds and character portraits and try to find the attribute shrine people in Horryn this time.
Just picked this up and am having a blast! I do like that any text in green during dialogue or even in the menu is clickable and opens up definition pages for all the terms, even going so far as having new links inside those dialogue boxes in some instances. It really helped me in understanding what a lot of feats did outright.
Guys, i hugely adore the art style of this game. Can u recommend smth like dat? I can remember loop hero and…. thats all i guess.
I missed out on those C64 RPG experiences as a kid because I didn't have a disc drive, this is why I bought this game and I am not disappointed.
I wouldn't have heard about this game if not for this channel. Picked it up and have been having a pretty fun time with it. Cheers.
So random question but do you want to play some dnd. I'll DM for you and your friends. 😊
lovecraftian. I am pretty sick to death of bad ends or pyrric at best in games these days. I am not sure where this obsession came from for game devs. dark souls didn't start it. although, clearly a factor. it seems greater. a much larger millenial/gen y,z, disillusion, demoralized, and constant deconstructing everything. never reconstructing. never genuine.
now, that may not be what you are hinting at in the story here. I've not played it. but thats the vibe I'm getting from those warnings.
Good show sir
How do i get this quick at 100% games😂
It was a fun game.
Interesting that you enjoyed the Battlemagos, when the general consensus (on the steam boards at least) seems to be that it's one of the classes that's just a straight downgrade compared to another class (the Guildmagos in this case), if not the worst class in the game.
Namely due to giving up many of the best spells a Magos can get in exchange for very minor combat capability, that ultimately amounts to so little that you should still basically always stay back. You get worse combat bonuses than all the fighting classes, no multi-attack and would have to invest in both Str and Int, dragging your magic down as well. Heck, you're basically a worse combatant than the Thief (without Backstab to make up for it). The divine hybrid classes perform notably better and Ranger is so good it borders on OP (combat bonuses almost on par with the fighting classes, multi-attack AND free attacks, as well as its own magic school which borrows from arcane and divine as well as having its own unique spells and goes to tier 3).
Can you shed any insight into what you specced that made you feel like your Battlemagos performed well compared to your other characters/companions? Maybe there's a build everyone just missed here.
As a fan of both Lovecraft and classic RPGs I will definitely be checking this one out.
Thank you for this review. It is high quality and very thorough.
Here's a couple tips for new players:
– hire a mercenary early. Having an extra character in your party will make a huge difference in early game and you can build them to fit any hole you have in your party
– be careful of positioning. Never let the enemy get on both sides of your character or they'll decimate you
– backstabbing. If your rogue hits an enemy from stealth, they do a backstab, but also if you have characters on both sides of the enemy. Move your rogue around a lot and go for those backstabs! Speaking if which, stealth during combat is much more useful than stealth deploy!
– find a vendor with cheap arrows and stock up your ranger! Those guys can do insane damage but they burn arrows which can get expensive. Better to have a stock of cheap crappy arrows than no arrows at all
– don't be stingy with mana. It's pretty easy to recover in this game with potions and food. You'll find and cook way more good than you'll use so you can rest pretty often. It also refills during level ups
– save your level up for combat. You can level up your character in the middle of a fight, fully replenishing health and mana. If you have a level up available, go bezerk in a fight, burn your spells, take crazy risks. Once that character gets low, level them and BAM, full health and mana
I can grab a mace and whack cosmic horrors with it?! Say no more!
Love this. Thank you Morty.
I know you can change the graphical style but man, the combat map looks like a cluttered mess to me, I can't tell what I'm looking at.
I see people br3inging up Ultima as a spiritual predecessor but I see alot more of the SSI Gold Box Games at play here like Pools of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds.. Looks like alot of fun and what a great time to be alive when we can replay games made in the spirit of those old games so many of us grew up with.
The game is a bit of a visual mess for sure, one moment it can look amazing and the next it's just a garbled mess of pixels.
Ok I'm loving the game but how do you destroy the mole burrows? I can see them, but when I use a shovel on them all it says is I find nothing. It's driving me insane.
Sounds great.
Have you ever played Darklands? It's an old RPG from Microprose that I remember being really cool at the time, could be a fun game to look at if you ever feel like covering some older stuff on the channel.
Awesome review thanks so much Mortim!!
I feel as if he tones down the contrast on the background sprites, it would do a lot for visual clarity. But other than that it really does look unique.
I bought this game because it was so cheap. I played 30 ish minutes until the prologue ends and i love it so far.
I will likely pick this up if I have time to do so. It certainly reminds me of the Wizardry games ages ago. Plus, Lovecraftian is always a bonus.
Thank you and have an amazing day
Thanks for the video. There is day 1 DLC, but it's just cosmetics and the soundtrack, which, as the devs said in response to my last comment, is a banger. Onward to 400k. All glory to the algorithm.
Just finished the game, a great experience. And what I especially liked — a pretty short one for a CRPG.
I hope everyone gives this game a chance, it's really interesting, and even more so at that price
I wonder if some people will make a mod to sharpen some of the visuals.
15:03 seasoned crpg player pressing tab to highlight
Well, I have already played these type of games in the 90's, and Im not into nostalgia, so I'll pass this one. Plus, pixel art is not my thing, despite having done a lot of those in my youth 😅
Gronk!
I think I'll have to pick this up at some point, thanks for the review.
Crunchy is the new buzzword. 😉 Great review as always. Good to see you give a Lovecraftian game a fair shake.
Been thoroughly enjoying this game on hard mode, just got to chapter 3. Only one minor soft lock bug that's avoidable. And dev is extremely helpful and active on twitter.
What classes are everyone playing or planning to play? I’ve been stuck in indecision!
I like the pixel art style, but the color palette is bland. The colors need to be more vibrant.
How do you get into Horryn Castle? the gates are shut can't find anyway in
I just bought this game! Gonna do an Officer on my first playthough, seemed like a good face type character
See, a lovecraftian game is pretty awesome. But the graphics are so….retro, to be kind…..that it's hard for me to make sense of what's happening in game when I'm watching the review. I just can't really get past that, trying to read the text makes my eyes hurt. As in, I literally got a headache watching this video.