Lynxelot
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Time Played
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Days in Journal
2 days
Last played
March 6, 2024
First played
October 21, 2023
Platforms Played
Lots of fun, felt more like an extended proof of concept than a fully cooked game though. It's a shame what I've heard about the development and budgetary issues this game went through, cause the mechanical base for it is very sturdy and well crafted but just has very little designed around and beyond it.
Every vocation I tried was a lot of fun barring the Warrior and I really wanted to get through the rest, but the game was not really long enough to let me do so. I'll have to pick up the slack in the second game, or maybe even come back to this one with its apparently lauded NG+. Discovering how to break mechanics was a lot of fun considering how much of it was a mix of numbers and animations rather than just exploiting one or the other.
The NPCs and world were a lot of fun to experience both in the writing and in combat. The quest writing wasn't too interesting but they knew it was meant to take a backseat to the main quest and actual gameplay. When it comes to the main quest writing I wasn't a huge fan of how the endgame lore went, hoping it would be more meta than it was (kinda unusual for me to think so), but the ideas it put forward worked well enough.
I almost wish this game had a dedicated dungeon crawling side mode that might have existed alongside the main game, but it seems the closest thing is just the DLC and sorta the last portion of the game, neither of which spans the whole thing for obvious reasons. The combat definitely serves as the primary draw (that and the vore obviously) and I found that the game weirdly lacked places for it to be pressed beyond either samey skirmishes or unpolished bosses.
The sequel's got me full of hype and hope that they'll do everything they wished they could with this one. I was a bit sad I had to run some kinda humanish character in this but there were plenty of orcish looking options that worked out for me. Beastren stuff in the sequel will be cool I'm sure!
Anyway, the game is soul incarnate. They cooked with this one but just didn't have enough time in the kitchen.
Every vocation I tried was a lot of fun barring the Warrior and I really wanted to get through the rest, but the game was not really long enough to let me do so. I'll have to pick up the slack in the second game, or maybe even come back to this one with its apparently lauded NG+. Discovering how to break mechanics was a lot of fun considering how much of it was a mix of numbers and animations rather than just exploiting one or the other.
The NPCs and world were a lot of fun to experience both in the writing and in combat. The quest writing wasn't too interesting but they knew it was meant to take a backseat to the main quest and actual gameplay. When it comes to the main quest writing I wasn't a huge fan of how the endgame lore went, hoping it would be more meta than it was (kinda unusual for me to think so), but the ideas it put forward worked well enough.
I almost wish this game had a dedicated dungeon crawling side mode that might have existed alongside the main game, but it seems the closest thing is just the DLC and sorta the last portion of the game, neither of which spans the whole thing for obvious reasons. The combat definitely serves as the primary draw (that and the vore obviously) and I found that the game weirdly lacked places for it to be pressed beyond either samey skirmishes or unpolished bosses.
The sequel's got me full of hype and hope that they'll do everything they wished they could with this one. I was a bit sad I had to run some kinda humanish character in this but there were plenty of orcish looking options that worked out for me. Beastren stuff in the sequel will be cool I'm sure!
Anyway, the game is soul incarnate. They cooked with this one but just didn't have enough time in the kitchen.