Pendragon: Narrative Tactics

Pendragon is a decent tactical game surrounded by a lot of little annoyances. The core battles where you move your characters around small battlefields works fairly well. The rules are simple, but allow some depth, planning, and tactics; it's interesting enough if you like that kind of thing. The surrounding Arthurian flavour helps, in that the battles would be dull if the pieces were featureless tokens. But they don't do too much more. The whole "gameplay drives the narrative" doesn't really do much. Sure, you get some story when you sacrifice a generic character for a main one, or the reverse. That's about it, though, and you might as well say you get a story from chess. What you do get is a lot of text to click through, and this doesn't help the experience. The first couple of times you play, it's interesting enough; but it quickly gets tedious on replays. I'm also somewhat annoyed because in my last playthrough, on the highest difficulty and at the final battle, clicking through text I'd seen many times lead to my accidentally selecting the wrong choice and failing right at the end; and I've grown too bored of the game to play again. In the end, I give this a thumbs up because the core mechanics are fine and there's enough new stuff for a few playthroughs, and for the price that's enough. You can probably tell that this is a very lukewarm recommendation, though.

Inkle ha sempre un modo particolare di raccontare, Pendragon forse quello che arriva più in là rispetto agli altri che ho giocato. Un gameplay lento che accompagna sempre i dialoghi e che cambia a seconda delle scelte narrative. I personaggi sono interessanti, soprattutto rispetto inquadrati in vicende che si scartano di molto da quanto viene raccontato normalmente della loro leggenda. La grafica e il design sia di personaggi sia delle ambientazioni distintivi e molto curati. Purtroppo dopo poche ore il combattimento ripetitivo stanca

The combat and artsyle seemed like a match made i heaven, with ideas reminding me of Wildermyth, but sadly the gameplay itself is extremely lackluster. Combat felt way too simple up until the last encounter, where the game stopped warning me about a move being dangerous (which it had done the entire time), and instead just let me die. Campaigns are luckily very short, but its not worth full price, let alone a huge discount. This game is for VERY specially interested people, perhaps roleplayers who are playing for a stream, but that is the only fanbase I can see for this game.

Pendragon is a party RPG turn based game where you play as a knight of the round table to save the King. Graphics- Okay Soundtrack- Alright Audience- Teenagers or Adults Difficulty- Not too hard but requires some tactical thinking to prevail Story- Okay story Game time- Descent length Price- Not that cheap 6/10

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Le jeu est complètement en anglais, et encore, avec pas mal de mots "arthuriens" donc même si j'ai un plutôt bon niveau, je rate quelques mots. Ceci étant dit, si vous avez le niveau en anglais, c'est un très bon jeu, qui invite à rejouer bien des fois cette même histoire d'une équipe de héros au secours du roi Arthur. Très beau, très chouette ambiance sonore, très agréable de sentir qu'on commence à maîtriser les subtilités de la stratégie et des attaques des héros. Un ami me l'avait recommandé il y a longtemps et depuis il prenait la poussière sur mes étagères steam, je ne regrette pas de l'avoir dépoussiéré cet après midi !

This game seems promising but there's a lot of dialogue--which I like--but you need to constantly click to advance the dialogue. Which I hate. A lot. This review would be like this: This game seems promising [pause] [mouse click] but there's a lot of dialogue--which I like-- [pause] [mouse click] but you need to constantly click to advance the dialogue. [pause] [mouse click] Which I hate. A lot. [pause] [mouse click] This review would be like this. [pause] [mouse click] That would be bad if you only had to to that for your character. But you need to click through constant pauses for NPCs too. It makes it almost unplayable.