Tyranny is a game I enjoyed a bunch. It has a strong setting, being set in a fantasy early Iron Age based period, and has an interesting premise. The story is also intriguing, and there is much opportunity for role play and immersion. The graphics are good, being stylized, and your adventures will let you explore very interesting and diverse regions and locations.
You’ll get to recruit 6 followers, each with its own quirks and characteristics, but you can only have three of these with you while exploring. Followers have a lot to say and talk about, and, sometimes, they will comment on current missions or decisions you make, which can even shift their Loyalty or Fear meters, both affecting some dialogues, abilities and endings. They don’t talk a ton, though, and there was a time during the game where I rarely heard them talking about what was happening.
I played on normal difficulty, and the combat is more slow paced, which I like; it is also more small scale, where you’ll rarely fight more than 4 or 5 enemies at a time, even when your enemies could easily overwhelm you by sending everyone at once. In some parts of the story, I found it distracting how your enemies would only send enemies in waves. There aren’t many different types of enemies to fight, with most being just humans with different abilities, weapons and armor, but it didn’t really bother me.
The music and sound design were pretty great, generally fitting the more grim atmosphere this game posses, but also sounding pretty mystic or glorious when needed.
The story DLC (Bastard’s Wound) is pretty mediocre. I found it much less interesting than the base game’s regions. And this DLC has harder combat encounters (even harder than the last combat situations before the ending), which is no fun.
The story, although having a strong premise, and, in my opinion, being good, is clearly unfinished. This game could really have a sequel, to expand the world and resolve main conflicts left unfinished. Unfortunately, this game did poorly on sales, the developer is owned by Microsoft and the IP is owned by Paradox, which means a sequel will never come.
Overall, Tyranny is a CRPG that has lots of strong points, and, even with its flaws, is still worth checking out. It is not as long as many other CRPGs, taking around 30 hours to finish, and I would totally recommend it to friends.
You’ll get to recruit 6 followers, each with its own quirks and characteristics, but you can only have three of these with you while exploring. Followers have a lot to say and talk about, and, sometimes, they will comment on current missions or decisions you make, which can even shift their Loyalty or Fear meters, both affecting some dialogues, abilities and endings. They don’t talk a ton, though, and there was a time during the game where I rarely heard them talking about what was happening.
I played on normal difficulty, and the combat is more slow paced, which I like; it is also more small scale, where you’ll rarely fight more than 4 or 5 enemies at a time, even when your enemies could easily overwhelm you by sending everyone at once. In some parts of the story, I found it distracting how your enemies would only send enemies in waves. There aren’t many different types of enemies to fight, with most being just humans with different abilities, weapons and armor, but it didn’t really bother me.
The music and sound design were pretty great, generally fitting the more grim atmosphere this game posses, but also sounding pretty mystic or glorious when needed.
The story DLC (Bastard’s Wound) is pretty mediocre. I found it much less interesting than the base game’s regions. And this DLC has harder combat encounters (even harder than the last combat situations before the ending), which is no fun.
The story, although having a strong premise, and, in my opinion, being good, is clearly unfinished. This game could really have a sequel, to expand the world and resolve main conflicts left unfinished. Unfortunately, this game did poorly on sales, the developer is owned by Microsoft and the IP is owned by Paradox, which means a sequel will never come.
Overall, Tyranny is a CRPG that has lots of strong points, and, even with its flaws, is still worth checking out. It is not as long as many other CRPGs, taking around 30 hours to finish, and I would totally recommend it to friends.