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Offline Ragnarok

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Explains this game to me
« on: July 14, 2012, 02:57:51 pm »
So, with the Sale on Steam and me being a fanboy for Arcen, i wondering if i would enjoy AVWW.
I watched a tiny bit of Youtube on it, and it seems to be a lot like Aquaria and Metroid mixed up with some more rpg-stuff ?

Offline Mánagarmr

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Re: Explains this game to me
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2012, 03:01:12 pm »
AVWW is difficult to explain, tbh. The absolute best way to find out if you like it is to try the demo of it. It's a metroidvania, exploration based action game with RPG elements and random loot system. There's also some citybuilding parts in it. It's...quirky, to say the least.
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Offline BobTheJanitor

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Re: Explains this game to me
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2012, 03:53:30 pm »
Also the inter-relation of all those parts might change in a month or two into something hardly recognizable from the current version. Like AI War, it's constantly getting updates with new features.

It's side scrolling exploration with an overworld map with random loot rewards in the form of spells kind of like Diablo loot or Borderlands with its guns (although not as ridiculously huge a variety of spells as there are guns in that game, at least, not yet). It's got leveling up, at least at the moment, although the progression system is one of the things that has probably seen the most variation over time. It has broad goals to free a continent from an oppressing overlord, but each continent freed will open a new one with a bigger, badder overlord to fight making the game endless in scope. It's basically best to try out the demo. Like most Arcen games, it takes a long time to explain and mostly consists of saying 'it's not quite like that, it's sort of like this, except...'

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Re: Explains this game to me
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2012, 10:00:54 am »
The long and the short of it is: there's a free demo, the game is cheap even at full price, it's currently on sale, and you should try it this week and then buy it if you find it intriguing in the least, because it's fascinating and constantly evolving. :Db

It's unlike anything you've ever played before, and if you aren't wild about it, but found it interesting, you should still buy it while it's on sale, because you may end up loving it in a matter of weeks, or months, as it grows on you and as it grows as a construct with Arcen's constant updates. :D

This is one of those cases where it really is okay to just jump in headfirst without knowing what you're getting into, because there's really no way to know what it is until you try it.