Torment: Tides of Numera free weekend on Steam
themazingness
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Just letting everyone know Tides of Numera is having a free weekend and sale on Steam.
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Because mostly I was reading descriptive wall of text after descriptive wall of text. And then I was told it was pretty much what the game was all about, a visual novel of sorts. Well, I do read visual novels, but usually they're written in normal language that easily sticks in memory, and have somewhat bigger fonts that are easier to read.
Well, the actual RPG part of the game doesn't seem too bad - I liked the STR/DEX/INT effort pools, and character development systtem is also sufficiently refreshing.
But the writing... is simply cringeworthy. I understand the game had some good narrative designers, but what they clearly forgot is to hire people who can actually *write*, as in compose from letters easily readable fluent sentences.
I agree with @jjstraka34, the game is better than a lot of the earlier critique made it appear. It's well worth a playthrough and if you think the game has a wall of text, then you are obviously not part of the intended player base and should put it aside and go play something else instead. Personally I found the world, the lore and the writing itself good enough to keep me interested. My personal grief with the game was the NPCs who I've found to be rather dull and not very interesting. I pushed through their story arcs just for completion, but few of them appealed to me and I never did play it more than once just to try another set of NPCs.