Kordanor
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Played for a couple of hours now and I just left the prologue and did some other stuff, I am very positively surprised.
I actually like the narrator quite a bit. However not everything is narrated and voiced. It's mostly the starting area as it seems.
I think Encased is a mix from these following games: Fallout, Divinity OS2, Pillars of Eternity
From Fallout it got a bit of the setting and the flair, and the types of interactions like playing a stupid character. The anomaly thing is going more into stalker territory though. The variety of possible solutions also reminds of Divinity OS2, you can just do everything, kill everyone, and sometimes you are surprised "what, this is possible?". For example I just escaped the tutorial area with a car (and didnt take the bus)...after dying on multiple attempts, if you do just the right stuff, you can do it. It's not what I want to do, and I reloaded, but I was surprised its actually possible.
I mention Pillars of Eternity specifically because Encased also has these "Event Screens" and it's also there where the narrator shines. These event screens in some special dialoges or for example when escaping the car, are something you encountered in PoE a couple of times but not often enough. They are very well done in Ecnased, with some supporting background noises, very atmospheric.
So if the game goes on like that, it might get one of the top spots in my all time favorite games, right next besides of Divinity OS2. There is just nothing so far which is bad in any way.
I actually like the narrator quite a bit. However not everything is narrated and voiced. It's mostly the starting area as it seems.
I think Encased is a mix from these following games: Fallout, Divinity OS2, Pillars of Eternity
From Fallout it got a bit of the setting and the flair, and the types of interactions like playing a stupid character. The anomaly thing is going more into stalker territory though. The variety of possible solutions also reminds of Divinity OS2, you can just do everything, kill everyone, and sometimes you are surprised "what, this is possible?". For example I just escaped the tutorial area with a car (and didnt take the bus)...after dying on multiple attempts, if you do just the right stuff, you can do it. It's not what I want to do, and I reloaded, but I was surprised its actually possible.
I mention Pillars of Eternity specifically because Encased also has these "Event Screens" and it's also there where the narrator shines. These event screens in some special dialoges or for example when escaping the car, are something you encountered in PoE a couple of times but not often enough. They are very well done in Ecnased, with some supporting background noises, very atmospheric.
So if the game goes on like that, it might get one of the top spots in my all time favorite games, right next besides of Divinity OS2. There is just nothing so far which is bad in any way.
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