Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker

Almost as good as the first game. I liked the characters in the first game a bit more but the drink mixing was also a lot better in this one. If you played the first one, or Coffee talk, then you know what to expect. It's a visual novel where you run a Tavern and have adventurers come in-between quests. The dialogue change very little, instead your interactions with the plot and characters is making the correct drink for them and thus changing the story for each character. It's a prequel and has some of the same characters, both as your customers and as background characters. I think you definitly should play the first game since there are some neat character lore you can figure out that are not outright stated. But it is a completely stand alone story, so it's not manditory. It still have the same occasional real life joke and reference like in the first game, that feels out of place in a fantasy setting, It sort of feel like 4th wall breaks that players of a pen and paper campaign would sometimes do, not sure if that is inteanded or not but I kind of wish they drop them, but it's a very minor gripe and they are pretty few, I'm definitly down for more games in this series. Comp…

I'd stumbled across the first Tavern Talk by pure happenstance and, man, did I fall in love. I replayed it for the different endings and could mix the drinks by heart. The character interactions were amazing and it felt like my choices to help the party members actually had an impact. Sadly, Tavern Talk 2: Dreamwalker feels like it lacks a lot of what made the first game great. -- 1.) The Characters Though some dialogue snippets made me chuckle, it felt like there was a lot less character building and that's not just because we have HALF the roster of the original game. They all felt very one-dimensional compared to the first game and not all characters really were explored on equal terms. I want to know a lot more about our kleptomaniac fae but the fae I genuinely could not stand received so much screentime. It just felt...off. 2.) The Tavernkeeper It felt as the player you could very much affect how the game skewed based on how you reacted to characters and how quests went. This all felt like you almost *couldn't* screw things up. Very much an illusion of choice. Yes, there are different endings but it felt harder to trip the Bad Ending than before. I did enjoy that the Ta…

If you like a dungeon and dragons-esque game, you would totally like this! though it is dialogue heavy so if you might have a short attention span or just dont wanna read much in a game, you can just play this in sections but it is very addictive.

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The first tavern talk is superior to dreamwalker in about every way. The drink making, characters, and dialogue are just better in the first. This game is also a lot shorter than the first one and honestly feels more like some kind of DLC. There is also significantly less world building in dreamwalker. The name of dreamwalker is also misleading as it implies a sequel, not a prequel, which may sound like a minor issue, but if you play this right after the first game, you will know the sad fates of most of the characters of dreamwalker and it makes playing it feel more hollow. There are also a lot less characters and the characters that are there have less of a variety of motivations as the first game.

It's Tavern talk on an Island - different characters but still compelling stories and you can get easily attached to them. It's definitely worth getting if you like the previous games. It also should be said that the developers of games like these really need your support so that there can be more of them. If you have never played tavern talk but are familiar with Coffee Talk or Vallhala, then its similar but set in a modern fantasy setting with some decent world building behind it. Lots of mythical/fantasy characters. Some things I wish they could have done: more characters, the ones they already have I got really attached to - so I want to see more characters like that and hear their stories. Last longer: See aforementioned about having more characters. It seems like this one had less characters than the other games in the series - maybe it's just me. Either way, I hope they have DLCs, definitely several. Developers if you are reading this, I need my next Tavern Talk fix.