A beautifully animated story-driven strategy game. The first of a trilogy.

Story is pretty good, albeit predictable, and the start not being that engaging until you get introduced to Rook and Alette. Through the game, you follow two separate groups, Vognir's and Rook's, each with their own caravan you have to manage. Each day costs you resources and morale, and random encounters can cost both resources but also your soldier's and clansmen's life. The game is filled with weighty choices, and some of them heavily impact the story, since the choices you made in the first game also carry over to the next one. Gameplay is pretty bare-bones, reminiscent of the Shadowrun games, but simpler. It's decent, and it had some intense battles, but I realized the game actually punishes you for killing enemies. An immersion killer, in my opinion. I wonder if it was an intentional choice, even. You'd think killing enemies as fast as possible sounds logical, but I guess not. The music is good, but most importantly the art style is FANTASTIC, clearly inspired by classic Disney movies. It really carries the game, sometimes I stopped just to admire it. Probably one of the prettiest animation styles I've seen in a video game.

Gameplay might not be much, but I think it's worth trying for the story and visuals alone. I'll probably go straight to the next one. I'm between a 6 and a 7, rating might change after playing the trilogy.

★★★ – Good ✅

Edit: From a 7 to a 6.