Deadfire’s story picks up shortly after the original, and the player retains their role as a Watcher – someone who can see the past lives of others and the souls of the dead. From listening to your companions make ironically awful bawdy jokes to being forced to negotiate with the gods, it’s what makes the world believable, and what makes your decisions (and their consequences) feel as if they matter. The quality of the writing is where the game shines. Watch a trailer for Pillars of Eternity: Deadfire on YouTube (If you don’t want to go into this much detail, more general settings allow the party to function without you having to micromanage every encounter.) Players can also programme their party members’ behaviour, which allows AI teammates to handle complicated encounters.
However, fights do feel more engaging than they did in the original Pillars of Eternity, because they are less frequent and foes use their abilities more intelligently adversaries probe for weaknesses in your party’s formation rather than repeatedly charging into your strongest members. Fewer party members mean fights are less frenetic, but with the number of spells and abilities in play, this doesn’t reduce the game’s challenge. You accept quests, talk to people and go into dungeons to kill things for money and experience-points. Ship combat can be frustrating when cannons repeatedly miss and when your ship’s cook charges headlong into a fireball, it is sometimes more of a hassle than swashbuckling fun, especially because injuries from such fights affect your ability to sail.īack on land, your party is comprised of up to five characters. You spend a lot of time maintaining your ship, exploring the seas and fighting turn-based, choice-driven naval battles – as well as chaotic on-deck battles involving your entire crew. It’s no carefree cruise across the high seas. Expeditions into the unknown are fun, but each day spent sailing costs resources as you travel your stores deplete, your crew’s morale fails and you’re soon searching for the next city to resupply. Speaking of boats, in Deadfire you are a naval explorer: you choose where you go, on land or at sea, and what route you take. It doesn’t rock the boat too much, but a fresh theme, clever writing and improvements to the look and feel make it a very enjoyable play.
Unlike its predecessor, Deadfire is arriving into a market with many similar games attempting to leverage 90s RPG nostalgia while adding their own twists to the genre. Its sequel, Deadfire, also raised over $4m in crowdfunding, and has just been released. The first game, released in 2015, brought in $4m in funding on Kickstarter. P illars of Eternity is an ambitious and successful gamble on role-playing game nostalgia, aimed squarely at people who enjoyed Baldur’s Gate and Planescape: Torment.
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