Drova - Forsaken Kin

好玩

When I got this game I was not expecting much, but it really blew me away. The story combat, world building, it was all spectacular. To start the game offers you a lot of freedom. If you want to treat it very realistically, you can stick to the main paths at the beginning and slowly build your strength to venture out further. But you can also dive headfirst into extremely difficult foes right at the beginning and use your skill to defeat them. I was expecting rather basic combat mechanics, but there is a lot of room for personalization there as well. You can treat it like a souls battle where you have to time your dodges and attacks well, or you can rig the match from the beginning with lots of traps to tip the odds in your favor. In my experience no one way was truly better than the other and you were able to experiment with a few before finding what felt best There are a multitude of different ways to solve problems or progress in the game. Without giving too much away, there is one rescue quest where you can solve it by either taking your foes head on, or by letting them capture you so you can be taken to your targets. This is just one small example of the freedom you are given to pursue the story how you would like. It is not too difficult to achieve the good ending in the game either. I have never been a fan of a game that makes you jump through a million hidden hoops to achieve the "actual" ending. That said, you will have to do a lot of exploration to achieve that ending; but there is no rush, the game will warn you at the point of no return so you can finish any loose ends before progressing. Basically I could not recommend the game enough. I thoroughly enjoyed diving into the story and solving the mysteries of Drova my way.