Serpent In The Staglands: Video Game Overview

Serpent in the Staglands it seems reproach to those who think that today the hardcore computer RPG is Pillars of Eternity. No, hardcore is when you yourself, handles, write down all the instructions in the journal, and the first goblins are torn in a piece of the party of five heroes.

However, for those who still played in the first century Baldur’s Gate or in Darklands, Serpent in the Staglands – This is, of course, paradise. Actually, the two above games (as well as a bunch of desktop RPG) authors and inspired.

The authors are two people, husband and wife working under the sign Whalenght Studios. Together, having gathered at Kickstarter a little less than 30 thousand dollars, they made a game that makes remember the times when the grass was greener, we are younger, and computer RPG is deeper and more difficult. Some Serpent in the Staglands scares his “pixel” graphics from the 90s and an interface in which not to deal without a bottle and manual. Others joyfully rubbing hands, anticipating freedom and abundance of opportunities.Characters here do not know how to run.
In the animal world

There is a lot of opportunities – from the detailed process for generating a character, where you need to answer questions with trick and choose between the features of different races, before the availability of a special book, where you personally enter different magical commands (after having learned the prefixes) to influence the enemies and the environment.

Races are distinguished by their culture, appearance and even the peculiarities of social organization. There are, for example, inborn hunters living in the matriarchy, there are anarchists-mysticism. And the Pavenice representatives of Varuchov are accustomed to exist and trading underground, so some of them are better fighting when they are in the dungeons. Each race has unique features that give a particular bonus at the start – when generating a character you need to choose one of them.

The role-playing system allows you to create, relatively speaking, warrior, archer and magician, but not only covers numerous combat skills and spells, but also gives a lot of interesting social opportunities. The “pumped” nobility opens up your door-to-noble house character, Philosophy ability will communicate with demigods and get more information from scientists, and knowledge in linguistics will teach your hero to understand the language of representatives of unusual races and even animals. Therefore, when you ask you to get rid of some predator, there is an option not to kill it, but to spend an educational conversation with the animal and settle the world!

However, any magician in Serpent in the Staglands And he can turn into some animal – for example, in a cat and crawl into a difficult place. Well, in general, here are full of different secrets, traps, closed to the time before the time of doors and buried treasures. Therefore, you need to constantly carry a shovel and rope and develop the skills that allow you to wash your close-up to your cherished key.

God among us

Like I Darklands, Serpent in the Staglands Mixing historical realities and political intrigues with goblines, magic, chatty gods and other mystics. The action unfolds in transylvania in the Middle Ages, but the plot tie is not at all historical: we act as one of the local gods, accidentally stuck on sinful land. To return to heaven, he takes the appearance of ordinary mortal, gaining allies (each with its dialogues and other features) and goes travel under the guise of a regular merchant.In some situations, you need to choose who from your group will participate in the dialogue.
Ahead of him is waiting for political intrigues, trade wars and important decisions that affect the ending, but at first it is to be trite to survive. And it is difficult to do it, when even small goblins and wolves deliver a bunch of problems, health is not regenerated, the lifeful potions are worth a lot, and your wallet will be allowed faster than running Usain Bolt (USAIN BOLT). To restore the strength and lick the wound, you need to break the camp – but for this you need supplies. There are still taverns, but you can not spend the night in all of them. In general, dry crackers ..

Battles are a classic “Riltime” with a pause, during which the game constantly throws a virtual cube, calculates and compares different indicators. In contrast to the same Pillars of Eternity, There are no rechargeable combat skills – the bet is made on various passive skills, and you must correctly determine which of them and with which equipment will work in a specific situation. But the magicians have a lot of unusual spells – one of them, for example, literally splits the weapon in the hands of the enemy, forcing it to throw it.

Go there, I do not know where

However, B Serpent in the Staglands It is hard not only to survive and fight, but even navigate in the surrounding space. Where to go what to do – at first it is not very clear. No clearly prescribed tasks in the magazine, no marks on the map and saving exclamation or question marks above the heads of quest characters. Only foggy instructions, letters and cards in the inventory that you need to carefully examine to understand what they want from us.

The whole global card is at your disposal, but again – without pre-applied cities and other important locations. You simply go to all four sides, move in any direction, guessing, to what they come across the next time – to a new settlement, castle, ruins or ambush.On the purpose of this or that spell can be found only from “Manual”.***
Serpent in the Staglands – Perfect Lacmus Papery, allowing to separate these computer RPG lovers from those who love graphics, director and spectacle. Ugly, uncomfortable, complex and rash, it actually pays a lot of opportunities and adventures – the question is whether you are ready to deal with all this.