
VED is a story-driven RPG with a unique turn-based combat system and rogue-lite elements. The free version "Purification" lets you explore the very beginning of VED's narrative and see if its world, art style and music draw you in - and continue where you left off in the full game!
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VED is a story-driven RPG with a unique turn-based combat system and rogue-lite elements. Embark on a magical adventure set in a vivid world in stunning, hand-painted graphics. Explore mysterious islands, defeat monsters, and master the magic of the Veds!
The free version "Purification" serves as a prologue to the main game so you can sample its combat system, narrative style and teleportation between the magical and human worlds, but not spoil the full story for yourself!
Its events are set 30 years prior to the narrative of VED, following a different character, a Vedic warrior by the name of Dook, who fell in love with a magical being. But as the Vedic order is sworn to keep the magical and the mundane worlds separate, eliminating any semblance of magic from the human world, theirs is certainly a complicated love story; and it’s up to you to decide how it will end…
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Languages: English*, Russian*, Simplified Chinese*languages with full audio support
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[h1]La durée microscopique de ce prologue (intitulé Purification) m'a frustré et, bien que seuls des fragments étincelants de son potentiel émergent, les promesses charriées prolifèrent.[/h1] VED développe une puissante identité, frappée des sceaux de l'excellence et de l'originalité. Dessiné à la main, sa direction artistique se présente somptueuse et raffinée ; tant au niveau des séquences animées que des plans fixes, oscillant entre onirisme et féerie. Des plages symphoniques, de haute volée, se déploient alors que les voix du narrateur et des protagonistes (très convaincantes) forgent l'atmosphère. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3362079564 Le récit, à l'écriture soignée, est criblé de choix capitaux, à valider par le biais des dialogues (des conséquences irréversibles et des fins différentes sont promises). Un système ingénieux (reposant sur trois caractéristiques – dextérité, magie et force – et des jets de dés) insuffle du dynamisme dans les rouages de la narration, introduisant de l'action au cours des conversations. L'univers, au cœur duquel on évolue, m'est apparu aussi dense que structuré, notre personnage naviguant entre le monde des humains et celui emprunt de magie (le prologue n'offre aucun accès au premier). En ce qui concerne la progression, elle épouse celle d'un roguelite, cheminant par le biais d'embranchements. Les développeurs nous promettent plusieurs factions cohabitant et un système de relations dynamique. Un village troglodyte est censé accueillir le héros et ses compagnons, au sein duquel on déverrouille de nouveaux sorts et autres améliorations. Le prologue n'offre aucun accès à ces pans du jeu. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3362078413 Les confrontations, un des épicentres du jeu, se déroulent au tour par tour. Sans m’appesantir, la bonne gestion des déplacements s'avère prépondérante, différentes options découlant des quatre positions disponibles. L'ennemi à abattre, soit dispose d'excroissances latérales, soit est flanqué par deux acolytes: il faut donc choisir entre l'affaiblir sur les côtés ou se concentrer sur le centre. Le prologue ne proposant que deux combats, je me limite à cette présentation sommaire. VED m'est apparu très prometteur, l'implication et l'application des développeurs étant avérées. Une direction artistique très travaillée (aussi bien visuellement qu'au niveau des musiques et des voix), une narration dynamique (induisant des choix et des conséquences) et un système de combat original représentent de solides atouts. Malheureusement, ce prologue occulte les pans gestion et optimisation. A noter que, techniquement, le titre est impeccable ; tout comme la finition, globalement. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3362079016 J'attribue la note de 13 à VED Purification, me reposant sur ce qui est offert tout en intégrant les promesses consenties. Ce verdict provisoire découle d'une expérience convaincante, bien que tronquée! [h1] -= 13/20 =- [/h1]
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VED, benzersiz sıra tabanlı bir dövüş sistemi ve rogue-lite öğelerine sahip hikaye odaklı bir RPG'dir. Oyun, anlatısının en başlangıcını keşfetmenizi ve dünyasının, sanat tarzının ve büyüleyici müziğinin sizi içine çekeceği bir deneyim vaad ediyor. Deneyin.
В целом, пролог понравился. Рисовка, сюжет и боевая система выглядят многообещающими и интересными. Если вся игра будет озвучена на таком уровне - отлично. Что не понравилось: лицо Кира слишком женственное, грамматические ошибки и слово бафф на русском языке. Разработчикам успехов! Ждём полноценную версию игры.
Interesting battle mechanics, a fascinating story - a very atmospheric game.
"VED: Purification" is is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "VED". VED is more e-book than game, a simple CYOA e-book with some lightweight mobile/browser tier RPG combat tacked on pointlessly. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not VED, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "VED: Purification" too. The purpose of this advertisement is to get you to shell out a whopping $25 USD on buying VED, and I don't recommend you do that either. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. As an advertisement, this is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at [b]only 4 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.
It's a fun little demo with interesting positioning-based combat. If you like games with choices and multiple endings then you'll have fun trying to get the 'good ending' with this one. Even with multiple playthroughs you can finish it in less than an hour, which is good if you're time-poor.
A Very Enjoyable Choices Matter RPG with d20 Game Mechanic and a Fantasy / Victorian age environment feel. Definitely recommend playing!
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this is not a full game
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