Reviews were accurate. It has an interesting world and lore but gameplay is boring. Monster smithing is very simple. It's no SMT or DQM. There's no mystique to progression. From the start you get to see the small selection of monsters you can choose but grayed out until leveled enough. - ThreadSky

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smagma.bsky.social • 42 days ago

Reviews were accurate. It has an interesting world and lore but gameplay is boring. Monster smithing is very simple. It's no SMT or DQM. There's no mystique to progression. From the start you get to see the small selection of monsters you can choose but grayed out until leveled enough.

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tredain.bsky.social•42 days ago

yup! baldur's gate style CRPG on a much smaller scale by a much much smaller company. Have to remember the game was originally made in 2001, Mutagen updates things but its mostly a new coat of paint. All of spiderweb software games excel with lore and world building though

smagma.bsky.social•42 days ago

I knew going in. But you really cant tell how a game is until you play it. Still, even if I don't love it, I'm happy to give the dude money.

tredain.bsky.social•42 days ago

Very fair! Always worth judging something for yourself when it comes to taste. It's a decent little game, but I'm a bit lore nerd, I love an interesting story so I usually set it to a casual difficulty and check out how things turn out.

He's still making games too! The man is an institution

tredain.bsky.social•42 days ago

there are a couple surprise monster creations, one mostly for jokes, the other kinda strong but its a long quest to get it to fully usable

coyote.band•42 days ago

I recently started Geneforge 2. It keeps building on the interesting world & story, and it does flesh out the gameplay a little, but those flaws are largely still present.

kelevra1988.bsky.social•42 days ago

There is an old PS1 game called Jade Cocoon where you can capture, train and fuse monsters together. Best part is the fused monsters actually look like a chimera of both. Also Studio Ghibli did the animated cinematics

smagma.bsky.social•42 days ago

Woah! I've never heard of it!!

azuruff.bsky.social•42 days ago

The later games seem to get a bit more complexity, but even back playing the ppc mac shareware versions as a kid I was much more partial to the avernum party structure

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