NORSE: Oath of Blood

Вердикт: приемлемо, но только по скидке. Игра коротковата - проходится буквально за пару вечеров, и контента на полную цену здесь не хватает. Если надумаете брать - однозначно ждите распродажи. Её можно сравнить с Expeditions: Viking. Обе игры про скандинавов в одном временном периоде (в годы жизни Карла Великого) и в одном жанре (тактическая RPG). Но здесь, увы, Expeditions выигрывает с огромным отрывом: - глубже ролевая система - создание персонажа и отряда, вариативность прохождения квестов; - последствия решений - твои выборы действительно влияют на мир; - законченная история - в отличие от Norse, сюжет которой ощущается обрезанным. Единственное, в чём Norse обходит ветерана - это современная графика и красивая постановка кат-сцен (хотя у Expeditions она тоже не сильно режет глаз). Til Valhall, Арн.

This game has fun combat and a good story. The development of your base is lackluster and you find out it doesn’t really add any true meaningful mechanic to the gameplay. But be warned, endgame had a truly game breaking (known) bug that didn’t allow me to complete the mission and game. And it was so far into that mission that you can only restart it. So my journey, unfortunately, ended on a game breaking bug.

Very unpolished game experiece that feels like an Early Access. Exploration gameplay is clunky. Combat has potential, but there are glitches everywhere (player input, UI feedback, animations, colisions with terrain, silly pathfinding, unbalanced skills, weird AI, ...). The strategic layer is very shallow. In general UI/UX is not great, especially noticable in the the character and settlement management screens.

It is a very good turn based game. on the cons, I finished it in 19 hours, it has a linear story. on the pros it has a great story.

Cannot decide if i recommend it or not.. I am a massive tactical fan, and there are some great things about the game mostly just the voice acting and storyline, but the combat itself is insanely easy and past the first couple missions you couldn't really die if you tried since your people are easily upgraded and quickly and every mission past the first couple just gets easier. Excellent bones for a strategy game but absolutely missed the mark and released a full demo teaser of a game and called it complete and charged for it. Also the absolute biggest factor to consider is that there is quite literally zero replay value whatsoever. Once you finish campaign on "hard" Which is honestly a joke difficulty past the first two missions, there is no "super hard" or anything it unlocks that would actually make things challenging. No wave mode, no challenge mode, no modifiers to be added. Its a massive oversight to not even add a mode that halves all your units hp and doubles the enemy. Overall without being mean I would give it like 4/10 for all the missed marks of what could have made this a super interesting game and easy to get my friends to play. I don't even think I would consider buying any extra content for it as I honestly felt a little cheated out of my money for such a small game that would honestly be considered a large demo of a game with excellent cut scenes, and I wouldn't trust a dlc to not be just as small.

I had been waiting for this game for a long time. After its rough launch, I decided to wait almost seven months for the patches before playing. I'd say there's a beautiful game underneath, but that surface is still covered with a lot of rough edges. I haven't finished the campaign yet, so keep that in mind. I'll just list what I liked and disliked to give you an idea. *LIKES* -The cinematics are surprisingly good, especially for a studio of this size. I'd love to see what they could do with a bigger budget. -The story starts as a typical revenge tale, but I like the different layers that unfold as the story progresses. -The gameplay is above average, and some of the combat combos are genuinely fun. -The visuals are generally very nice. -The main characters actually have personalities instead of feeling like generic nobodies. -Simple but enjoyable city-building mechanics. -The music is good, although I wish there was a bit more of it. -The variety of quest types is good enough for a game of this scale. *DISLIKES* -There are still too many bugs: turn-passing bugs, compass bugs, character bugs, skill bugs... the list goes on. -The UI feels a bit clunky. -The dialogue during turn transitions doesn't really add anything meaningful. -Crafting and trading are too simplistic—it's basically just collecting a few materials and clicking "Craft." -I don't like how equipment classes are indicated. Whenever I want to craft something, I end up clicking through multiple menus just to double-check which class can actually use the item. -The enemy AI is pretty dumb. -Some cinematics randomly freeze and then suddenly skip to the next scene. It always feels like I accidentally clicked and skipped something, even though I didn't. -Switching between buildings to construct or inspect them is a pain. -The building status indicators are confusing. Most buildings have a green marker on the side, but sometimes it means they're available and other times it means they're already under construction. It's not very intuitive. Despite all these issues, I can see a lot of potential here. I'd really like to see what this developer could accomplish with a bigger budget and a little more development time. They came very close to making something great but fell short in several areas. Hopefully, the experience they gained from this project will help them make an even better sequel—or an even better next game. FINAL VERDICT (Personal Experience) 70/100

Fantastic story, great mechanics, some bugs in the game such as freezing cutscenes but it all played well, berserkr builds just go around the map one tapping most enemies so by mid-late game theres not much of a challenge even on the final boss i pretty much just double tapped, tranced, and double tapped steinarr.