The Vale: Shadow of the Crown

It was quite a challange to play it on 1.2 speakers (left one barely works), but it was well worth it. While I played other sound only games, it was the first that I finished or even went beyond the tutorial really and I'm glad as it's become one of my favorite games. Hopefully we can hear some more from Alex's stories in the future The gameplay is alright, but when you stop at the wall, bush or whatever the boundry is, you should just slide along it instead of making full stops, the walls feel irregular and like magnets, which makes looking for merchants and side quests little bit more tedious once you're in the vicinity and exploring the caves specifically harder for no reason. What it makes up with is solid fights, as even if nothing fancy, are balanced, different from the usual button spam of visual crawlers and feel meaningful. Which leads us to the best part in my opinion, the story, while not really the most complex or revolutionary, it feels real, portrays the struggles of the princess and the peasants quite well, gives us a moral dilemma or two and few choices for the paths (I didn't check how different they are and don't plan on doing it but it's nice that they are there). Sometimes it gets a little bit too theatrical and stiff (partially due to how voice actors talk at times) but it's decent lenght and didn't bore me, I was actually quite invested since mid section and toward the end, as only the beginning was making me reconsider if I should continue. I wish there would be few more options for the skill progression and they were more clear in how much do they scale or the cost etc but as they don't play that big of a deal in being able to finish the game or any side content, I'd say it's not big of a deal. PS. I hate the bees