I played through v0.7 in a few evenings, right after finishing the loosely-connected prequel ‘Sandstorm.’
I don’t generally care for this style of branching game, where a single play-through reveals only a fraction of the content. Usually I content myself with whatever I saw on that first play, but this game sucked me in so far that I did three complete play-throughs and explored some of the side branches.
The pros: great characters, graphics, stories, sound track.
The cons: the sex animations are poorly done.
One thing that I found disappointing is that the MC is written as a fairly weak character. As of the latest update, all three clans are headed by strong empowered women, any one of which would dominate the MC: physically or intellectually, depending on which he took up with. It feels like the devs are angling to make him some kind of Viking warlord: but he doesn’t seem suited to that role. Each of the clans does have a less-dominant LI, and I could see him settling down with one of them and getting a job as a bar-tender, wood-cutter, or some-such. Time will tell whether that route is open.
Another thing that comes across as weak is the background story that ties this game together with the prequel Sandstorm, and the planned sequel Duststorm. It feels like something brainstormed with a buddy over a few beers: Take a scattering of gods from random pantheons, throw in some star-gates and timey-wimey stuff, and profit! I hope I am wrong, and there is some deeper story planned; but I’m not seeing it so far.
Overall I recommend this as an excellent example of an AVN.
I don’t generally care for this style of branching game, where a single play-through reveals only a fraction of the content. Usually I content myself with whatever I saw on that first play, but this game sucked me in so far that I did three complete play-throughs and explored some of the side branches.
The pros: great characters, graphics, stories, sound track.
The cons: the sex animations are poorly done.
One thing that I found disappointing is that the MC is written as a fairly weak character. As of the latest update, all three clans are headed by strong empowered women, any one of which would dominate the MC: physically or intellectually, depending on which he took up with. It feels like the devs are angling to make him some kind of Viking warlord: but he doesn’t seem suited to that role. Each of the clans does have a less-dominant LI, and I could see him settling down with one of them and getting a job as a bar-tender, wood-cutter, or some-such. Time will tell whether that route is open.
Another thing that comes across as weak is the background story that ties this game together with the prequel Sandstorm, and the planned sequel Duststorm. It feels like something brainstormed with a buddy over a few beers: Take a scattering of gods from random pantheons, throw in some star-gates and timey-wimey stuff, and profit! I hope I am wrong, and there is some deeper story planned; but I’m not seeing it so far.
Overall I recommend this as an excellent example of an AVN.