Ash of Gods: Redemption

Disappointed is the word I'd use to describe my feeling playing this game, and the best way I can describe this game is it's a pizza cutter; all edge and no point. It has a beautiful art style reminiscent of Banner Saga, but that's honestly the best thing going for it. The combat lacks the depth of strategy in that series, and feels very unrewarding and clunky. the characters are needlessly edgy and trying too hard to be "cool", or at least what someone might find cool. I think I've seen more descriptions of dead fetuses and pregnant women in this game than I have the rest of my life combined, and it just comes across as rather tasteless and trying too hard to be dark. It really feels like someone didn't understand the subtle horror of Banner Saga and how grim that setting really is and thought "nah, this needs more dead babies and masochists, THAT is dark". It's just pointless shock value without any reason behind it. I tried to keep going with this, but time and again when it had an opportunity to develop the story or characters, it just decided to try and be edgy and dark for the sake of it, and not even doing a good job of it. You're way better off playing Banner Saga and…

The cartography is spectacular and detailed, the combat is simple yet satisfying, leveling up my characters and keeping them alive is a good feeling, the dialogue is good but sometimes feels rushed or to many sentences in one paragraph-kinda like this. The style and colours of the maps and characters is pleasing to the eye-I've only just started and am about 13 hours in. So far there is a bunch of history and lore throughout the world to make you really think about the events in a wider scale.

If you liked The Banner Saga, you will most likely like this game as well. While many say it is a copy there are a few things that make it distinct, primarily the story. But the game does have a few issues. Not sure the langauge of the devs, but the script in english is often bad, weird, or poorly written. Frequently it will have 3 question options and then an exit, it seems clear that the intention is to ask them top to bottom as if you ask them out of that order they will frequently mention something that is only discovered in the above question. This means you only have the illusion of choice. Additionally, most of the choices seemed to have little to no effect, the primary effect seems to just be the morale mechanic which barely effects anything (at least on the lower difficulties, unsure if it changes in the higher difficulties). On top of this, many times they will repeat pieces of text they've said in the previous sentence (an example of what it's like "Gleda, you will be in danger... Gleda"). A scene is seemingly missing when the twins are insinuated to have betrayed you (which also felt very out of nowhere). There is no mention of their betrayal at any point in the…

I will just say this. If you want an emotional tour-de-force journey equivalent to that of the fellowship of the ring, play this game! The bad translation was never an issue for me, even if some sentences did not make perfect sense. I was in awe at the end of the game, I felt like I really experienced a monumental journey!

Has that Banner saga feeling, very melancholic. Good Game

edited review to positive because the game is way way better after the post-launch updates, hopefully devs see this so they can update linux version so nobody else gets a horrible first impression linooox user 10+ crashes in 20 hours played so far, probably because the linux version never got the big last update(s?) so high difficulty is impossible due to the card animation blowing up the game (enemies only play cards on higher difficulties i believe) translation is really horrible some weird bugs but nothing game ruining will probably still finish it like the dirty slopeater i am with the updated version and a proper translation itd probably be peak