by A side-scrolling/turn-based adventure to clear out your inherited castle with some town upgrade elements thrown in. It seems a solid game, but it has a gritty grimdark aesthetic which doesn’t quite click for me.
My only real complaints are these:
- The narrator – who sets a wonderfully insane tone in the introductory cinematic – has a comment about every other action you take, which gets old before the introductory mission is over.
- Single actions in combat take about 10 seconds to play out – slowing things to a crawl.
- Due to the art style, buttons and actionable items blend into the environment and make menus seem crammed and unclear.
I may pick this up again in the future – especially if I can find an option to turn off the narrator (to be fair, I didn’t look while playing). I do enjoy Lovecraftian horror, but the art style and combat pacing are too off-putting.