Hi, my name is ColdBeer and let me tell you about the Archaelund.
This is an upcoming party-based RPG game where you explore the world in first person, just
like in Skyrim, Morrowind or, it even has the vibes of Might & Magic franchise, but
when the fighting starts, the view goes up to the top-down perspective and you are thrown
into a tactical turn-based battle.
Unexpected this is
Yeah, I don’t think I ever saw something like that before to be honest.
And that is really great, innovating the well known genres takes some bravery and balls,
because you never know what to expect from the gaming crowd.
Anyway, so far it looks really good.
Here you can take your party of adventurers through a vast open world and explore as you
wish, find secrets and run into trouble, get involved in conflicts or just pursue your
own goals and discover what lies beyond the horizon.
Because everything you can see in the distance is reachable.
Here you will also find deep and engaging character progression: a career-based system
will have your characters start out as lowest of the low, squires, hunters or even beggars;
later on you can choose a new career path, including advanced ones like Knight, Loreseeker,
Assassin or Battlemage.
I know that those classes say shit to you, but in other words - here, like in any other
RPG, you will be the lamest puniest peasant with the smallest balls and then you will
become a god for no reason with balls so massive that they bend time and space around you.
Although developers are promising that the game's system will ensure that every battle
matters, and every opponent is scary.
Yeah, we will see how true this is when I’m level 60 or something and I cast Armageddon
just by blinking.
And the open world here is really open and really big.
As they say Archaelund is huge enough to lose yourself in; yet everywhere you go you'll
meet people to talk to, unique quests to complete, mysteries to solve and, of course, battles
to fight and treasures to loot.
Although I really do hope that they’ll voice their characters, because nothing screams
about cheapness more than just a simple “hello citizen” and then you are presented with
two pages of text you must read by yourself.
that’s a shame
Yeah, now let me tell you about the story part of this game.
The Andorian Empire united the whole human race under the same proud banner for millenia,
until a magical cataclysm brought the Horrors from another world.
So probably someone said the wrong spell, and instead of Fetus Deletus they opened the
gates of Oblivion and the Empire and most of the human race was annihilated in just
a few days; only a few hundred ships could escape to the island of Varannar, a distant
imperial colony beyond the ocean.
So long story short the survivors bred hard enough to evolve into four different kingdoms
that kinda hated each other.
You know how it starts.
It’s the little differences
Later the old continent of Andoria, where the shit hit the fan previously, was rediscovered,
and it was proved that the Horrors were no more.
Most of the old continent appeared to be an uninhabitable wasteland, but finally a vast
and fertile coastal region was found; it was the Archaelund.
So for the first time in a long time humanity left aside the old grudges and obsessions
and looked up to the future.
Expeditions were arranged, and thousands of colonists, soldiers, adventurers and rogues
embarked to Archaelund.
The land of course wasn’t completely free of dangers - it was filled with Eldritch energies
and various creepy stuff just roamed around the land.
So here you will get involved in a plot that traces back to the terror of the final days
of the Empire, and now threatens to destroy the remnants of civilization...
The game is being created by the indie studio, who previously created a simple mobile game
Exiled Kingdoms.
It is also released on Steam and is a proud owner of very positive reviews, so that gives
me hope that Archelund may become a wonderful title after all.
Game will enter Early Access someday this year and I’m really looking forward to it.
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