Drova - Forsaken Kin

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I bought this game looking for what seemed to be a simple, short RPG. I was soon taken aback with the depth, story-line, dialogue, and combat system. Solid 8/10 for a small studio.

I haven't played Gothic, but people say that this is basically a 2D Gothic. The game is decent and I haven't experienced any bugs at all. Everything seems to work as expected, there are no systems that feel out of place or unnecessary. Quests and characters are fine, but nothing to really write home about (I knew that this is an indie game, so I had lower expectations and you should too). The plot is for the most part linear, which is again not ideal, but honestly a lot of the RPG games nowadays are like this, and this one is also an indie - so it's ok. If you compare the beginning and the end of the game, the overall feeling of power progression is great. At first you struggle to kill a rat, and by the end - you zoom around the map using the Misty Step and kill hordes of undeads with huge AOE spells :^) However, this character progression is kinda weird. Maybe that's just how Gothic was? Anyway, the thing is - you really need to do quests at first, and there's no point to explore the world for quite a while. In the open world there will be really tough fights, and there are usually no decent rewards for them. And even when there are rewards - you can't really use them because you don't have enough stats to equip them. Once you reach like level 10, however, you will be able to equip decent weapons, and thus the open world will start making some sense. Unlike other games that I've played, weapons have almost no scaling with your stats, so you really need the best gear available to progress. Magic feels like the only viable option and I have no idea how melee characters are supposed to win in that secret Vortex Mask fight. RPGs are usually easily broken by doing all the quests and creating min-maxed builds, that by the end nothing presents any challenge. This game, however, is different - feels like the hardest difficulty was specifically designed to provide a challenge for the most optimized builds. Felt a bit like dark souls, where I had to make several attempts to kill some especially tough enemies. The secret encounter after the Vortex Mask was especially tough. Good thing I googled that misty step allows you to get rid of rooted status effect. Without that knowledge the fight is nearly impossible. With it, however, it just took me a couple of tries and a few dozen of various potions :)

One of the best games i ever played. Do it again.

Долго не хотел брать из-за надоевшей пиксельной графики, негров в кельтской мифологии и прочей поебени, но в итоге не жалею, что купил и прошёл с удовольствием от начала до конца в прошлом году. Помимо Архолоса - тотального мода на движке оригинальной Готики, который характерно унаследовал все геймплейные механики с некоторыми улучшениями, - Дрова, пожалуй, самая успешная попытка в Готику, что я видел за много лет. Идентичная прогрессия "из грязи в князи", какая и должна быть в подобной RPG. Детальный и рукотворный мир с кучей секретов, который интересно исследовать. Динамичная боёвка, к которой легко привыкнуть, но с врагами, которые не дадут расслабиться. Напрягают разве что стамина и другие элементы в стиле дарк соулз, но общего впечатления не портят.

近乎完美，通关后疯狂的寻找类似的游戏