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[MCreeper]

Recently stumbled upon this likely wonderful text game. So it's like Long Live the Queen but
It's monochrome late medieval instead of pinky anime medieval...
And there is vastly more text...
And it is a lot longer in general...
And there is a grand total of six skills...
And you up them by doing sort of relevant actions...
And you got four lives...
And all most important events for current chapter and their skill requirements are always visible...
As are relations...
Totally diffirent game really. 

The bad - it is not out yet, release date is March 4. The great - there is an about 4 hours long demo that contains first two chapters out of five, and it is really damn great. Saves will most likely go over to full game, so you can play it now and get prematurely excited.  As it happens, first two chapters are the shortest. As there will be at least 3 distinctive paths and they got to make use of all "Tom will remember this", this still has potential to turn out as a story trainwreck. I fear that main character will become a Mary Sue that will govern over fates of kingdoms, religions and Ye Gads for no proper reason. He is not at all like this in demo (bar just maybe scene in church), but steam page does not look reassuring.

Also, almost everyone got four lives there, not just main character. To mitigate silly spawnkilling, Very Important Pork and those sentenced to death got just one.

Ah yes, steam page.

[EuchreJack]

I'm a bit worried about this:
"text-based child abuse"

[MCreeper]

I'm a bit worried about this:
"text-based child abuse"

I assume that refers to a scene where half-crazy grandpa burns main character's toy soldiers (too noble for you!) and crushes his head with a stick when main character optionally hits him. And maybe mother almost killing her cries-too-loudly youngest son. And that's probably it, at least in demo.

[forsaken1111]

Looks very interesting, ptw and I wishlisted it. Thanks for posting about it

[MCreeper]

It's out. I'll be listening to soundtrack now.
EDIT: Eh. 17 tracks, nothing memorable except "Brante family" and "A Sword and a Whip".  Second one reminds of Parhologic. And first two chapters are ordinary lenght, it is just fourth that is longer than others.

[Caz]

PTW

[MCreeper]

Finished the game (as a boring and straightforward rabble rouser) with a brief sense of what a fuck. Game is great, but fifth chapter is pretty much short and lackluster railroad to equally lackluster pick-your-ending that is maybe based on ending of chapter 4. And is pretty nonsensical. I, for one, had a choice of "defeat the legion for now", "die in the futile battle against legion" and "run for your life".

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Also "ruin the city even more, even if it should'nt even be possible" if i allow Sophia to run amok a bit earlier, and "defeat the legion completely" if i don't waste manpower on some rabid gobbledegooks and let them kill my family. Although there were at least two other ways to to dispose of them that i blocked in chapter 4.

And then whatever you pick happens exactly, with no further input or checks. Come on now. 

Before that, as i said, it's great. And of course i can't make a proper writeup from my memory. 

[Some more stuff probably not impending, would be anyone so gracious as to write a decent review instead of me?]
EDIT: Oi, steam forums are raging about noble mc dying in every swordfight no matter the sword skill. So this part is dumb too.  Oi, and you can end up with actualrailroad at chapter 5 if you are unlucky. Eh, no miracles there. Was it inevitable? Y\y.

[Aoi]

I'd recommend playing Ironman and Consequences off... and don't read the unlockable events at the start of each chapter, as it'll tip you off on possible major events in each chapter and how to activate them.

I went down the theology route, and, uh... somethingeverything kind of went horribly wrong.   

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I was trying to support the New Faith, except I ran out of Willpower at the crucial juncture that lets you declare how you want to align yourself, so I ended up playing a supporting role for a good chunk of time. Then I spent half of A4 trying to undermine my church, before I realized that I was actually lowering my own personal authority.

And my partner, that I was trying to kill (but also not make it my fault)... evidently was in love with me the whole time, while at -4 relationship and we decided to break our vows of chastity (18 Theology...) under a tree. And the best morning after I was forced into: "Oops, I didn't mean it. (-1 relationship)" 

And my family's honor crashed straight down to zero like two years in to A4.

I didn't find A5 feeling quite as railroad-y as prior posts made it sound; it was FAR better than "We. The Revolution", at any rate. The progression of things felt appropriate to me; I developed allies and enemies based on the things I did throughout the game. Though if you want any semblance of a good ending on the revolution side, you have to...

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take control of the revolution, probably by killing Sophia ASAP.

Anyhow... my ending was basically:

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EVERYBODY DIES. Except Sophia, who burns down the world, me, who's her right hand and executes everybody that didn't get burned down, and my former boss at the church who ran away before all hell broke loose and became a cult leader. Every other named character died, either explicitly or implicitly.

Hell, I even killed god, sorta. I told them to stop messing around with their creations, and... they packed up. Miracles stopped working, etc.