I’ve lost count of how many times I talked to a person, hoping to stumble upon an amusing little episode or piece of dialogue, only to be met with the same generic questions over and over again.
In a similar fashion, the various other NPCs inhabiting the towns and villages you’ll travel to act as little more than hollow decoration – some give you braindead “go here, kill/retrieve this” type of side quests, while others regurgitate the same old dialogue choices you see everywhere else. They’re about as dry and unremarkable as you’d expect, and despite having spent a good dozen or so hours in their company, I still can’t even remember any of their names, which should be pretty telling.
BLACK GEYSER COURIERS OF DARKNESS METACRITIC FULL
The game hastily hands you a full party within the first couple of hours, with every single character deciding to immediately join the protagonist upon meeting them. Even when the story starts showing signs of maybe picking up, the game somehow still manages to make it as dull and tedious as humanly possible.ĭon’t expect much in terms of unique and memorable characters, either. During the Early Access version of the game, the plot does not evolve into anything meaningful, and your most important tasks will involve running around doing absolutely mundane, soul-crushing busywork that would be relegated to nameless NPCs in any other game. Aggressive mediocrity continues to be on the menu for the remainder of the experience as the game does what I can only refer to as “hey, let’s do Baldur’s Gate, but let’s also make it extremely boring” it tries its hardest to live up to the classic it desperately mimics, only to fail at each and every step. First impressions are important, and when a game can’t get its own player invested in the plot, you’ve got problems.
The narrative attempts to paint the picture of a politically-charged conflict between various factions, but the dry, lifeless writing and the subpar voice acting fail in conveying this in a way that doesn’t make the player fall asleep. Black Geyser’s issues become glaringly apparent within the first hour.
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