Our Adventurer Guild

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Our adventurer's guild is a special gem of a game. I happened to chance upon this game while looking at July's humble bundle and just being curious decided to see what it was all about in the demo that the game offers and it really feels like it gave you a good look at what it was all about. The initial hour or 2 started off a little slow but lo and behold I was sucked into it and before I knew it boom just 100% the base game. If I were to provide a quick description for why the game felt so amazing, Its a game that really feels it had a vision and every design choice felt that it followed through to that vision creating an amazing experience. Gameplay So the gameplay is the heart and soul of the game and while it does have some rough patches, it can be a addicting experience. Its a tactical role playing game similar to final fantasy tactics or XCOM with so many nuances that can be involved with crafting your party and also alot of different ways to how you'd like to tackle the game. Do you like to min max? Well in this game, leveling up will reward each character stats based on the growth % of the stat. These are influenced by the characters talent, their class and what traits they have. Now class you can change whenever as long as you meet the base state requirements of the class, but traits can be both innate, obtained from special events from quests and some can be trained. So technically if you want to craft the perfect character you can it would just require alot of research and work to hunt everything all down. Its also really interesting because even when your character meets the exp requirements, you don't actually have to level them up right away you can do it after you feel you have the traits you want and the exp does carry over. So for example you could legit have a character go from lvl 1 to 25 (end game level) all at once if you have enough exp banked up. Is this necessary? Most definitely not on normal but you can really feel payoff with how strong a character can get even if you do only part of it. The other way of tackling this game is to not worry too much about min-maxing and rather crafting unique characters based on the adventure. So what I mean by this is to just let your units collect whatever traits they collect along the way. This was fun for me as it really helped personalize each of my units and it exemplified the adventure they went on. For example, one of my units helped take care of a puppy which became a loyal doggy companion, took on a elder frost giant looking to die in combat, was a arena champion, first diciple of a martial arts master, a arm wrestling champion and a bunch of other things which all gave him a trait. Not every trait was useful, but it crafted a character that was likely very unique to just me. As for the difficulty of the game, I found that normal could still be quite challenging for most of the game. The threat of the enemy always felt present and it felt like I always had to make strategic choices. The one except was the end game although for me, I did super rig some of my characters by the end that most likely put me far above the power level of someone playing on normal but that might be a totally different story if someone didn't grind and super power some of their characters. Story So the premise of the game is that you are taking over as guild master for a late friends adventurers guild. While the story isn't anything too special in that it doesn't create grand narrative telling some transformative story as you might find from something like final fantasy 10 it does a wonderful job in making you feel like a guild master for a adventurers guild. While you are relatively unknown guild, you start off with jobs as simple as helping some parent's looking for their missing kid to protecting a village from bandits before slowly building up to larger and larger threats as your guild gets more and more famous. Even within these stories though, there are still some emotional moments that can tug at your heartstrings a little and the special unique characters the game offers you also have their own narrative where i found myself often rooting for the characters in question whenever a big moment would happen for them. The game also has plenty of moments that offer a good laugh with some endearing characters. I love the entire cast but I feel that one of my personal favorites is the merchant mec'can. He is a extremely fishy looking guy who wears a mask, completed covered and we don't even know if he's human or not. He is however a gremlin who's always messing around with both us the guild master and also everyone else around him always giving me a good chuckle whenever he shows up. The other great part of the story is not actually the story written by the developer but rather the story crafted by you. As mentioned in the gameplay section, if you aren't trying to min-max your character each character you have will be quite unique compared to someone elses and each one will have their own narrative and story behind how they became the character they are shaped by you. Music/Art The music for this game isn't anything super impressive but it gets the job done. Its never out of place and always fits the atmosphere well. The art is classic 2000s flash game style art. It honestly reminded me alot of adventure quest and while it might not appeal to everyone, it's unique and I certainly quite enjoyed it. Overall Its a fun game that I highly recommend. Its got a well crafted demo that gives you a perfect taste of what the game is about so give it a shot! That part is free at least.