Perkel
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Since i didn't find even one thread about it (or even half a thread) and i started to play it i thought i could make proper thread for it. This is for both Delta(base game + expansion) and normal edition.
So i finished Dragon's Crown few days ago and i wanted something more akin to Monster Hunter. Since SS was hailed back in the day as answer for monster hunter i guess ss should be game to play, right ?
I expected Monster Hunter with 0 story and just gameplay fun but i got game with really fucking deep and amazing lore. I am not super deep into game so far but game really is interesting in therms of story, dialogs, themes and so on. Each and every monster is weird spin on some legends which are really creative and interesting. Like Elven Queen being just woman child kidnaper who fell into ravine while people pursued her and there she merged with dendelions as she craved for offspring and later on she came back and started to hunt children fusing them with plants. That Elven Queen story is like 5-6 pages long and that is just one moster type.
Then there is gameplay. I though this will be straight up MH just with different monsters and weapons but here it is more about item based skills almost no armor or weapons to begin with.
Skill system also is really deep and you can mix several skills. Like axe and feathers to have quick slash axe skill for a time. Or iceballs and axe to have ice axe.
My only gripe so far is that combat feels clunkly like they skimped on animations or something like that so ton of things don't feel impactful or have 0 effect on monsters.
Story itself also is suprising as it reminds me more of Sacrifice (by Shine ent.) or Torment rather than anything else. Basically you are prisoner of some mage waiting to be sacrificed but you found some book of some mage and that book is actually living book that can give you ability to relive moments and learn stuff. So you "read" book reliving different aspects of sorcerer life from initiation to various events.
Writting is really really really good. Mostly in book form but voice acting on characters in story really does writing justice.
Main character voice acting is interesting as it is both famale and male voice at the same time which sound really weird but fun i guess...
Also world is uber grim. Like really fucking grim. Even bastions of humanity (sorcerers) are basically bloodthirsty maniacs wating to kill one another rather than clear monsters and they often sacrifice one another in blood rittes to gain power.
So i finished Dragon's Crown few days ago and i wanted something more akin to Monster Hunter. Since SS was hailed back in the day as answer for monster hunter i guess ss should be game to play, right ?
I expected Monster Hunter with 0 story and just gameplay fun but i got game with really fucking deep and amazing lore. I am not super deep into game so far but game really is interesting in therms of story, dialogs, themes and so on. Each and every monster is weird spin on some legends which are really creative and interesting. Like Elven Queen being just woman child kidnaper who fell into ravine while people pursued her and there she merged with dendelions as she craved for offspring and later on she came back and started to hunt children fusing them with plants. That Elven Queen story is like 5-6 pages long and that is just one moster type.
Then there is gameplay. I though this will be straight up MH just with different monsters and weapons but here it is more about item based skills almost no armor or weapons to begin with.
Skill system also is really deep and you can mix several skills. Like axe and feathers to have quick slash axe skill for a time. Or iceballs and axe to have ice axe.
My only gripe so far is that combat feels clunkly like they skimped on animations or something like that so ton of things don't feel impactful or have 0 effect on monsters.
Story itself also is suprising as it reminds me more of Sacrifice (by Shine ent.) or Torment rather than anything else. Basically you are prisoner of some mage waiting to be sacrificed but you found some book of some mage and that book is actually living book that can give you ability to relive moments and learn stuff. So you "read" book reliving different aspects of sorcerer life from initiation to various events.
Writting is really really really good. Mostly in book form but voice acting on characters in story really does writing justice.
Main character voice acting is interesting as it is both famale and male voice at the same time which sound really weird but fun i guess...
Also world is uber grim. Like really fucking grim. Even bastions of humanity (sorcerers) are basically bloodthirsty maniacs wating to kill one another rather than clear monsters and they often sacrifice one another in blood rittes to gain power.
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