Can someone build a better “Skyrim”?

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Arrived on 2011, and the last word for a certain type of fantasy game from the first person remains the last word for a certain kind of fantasy game from the first person. But that was 14 years ago and one episode is probably still years away. Why did anyone do anyone? Skyrim One better?

This is the cleanest pitch for ConfessibleThe new fantasy game by Obsidian Entertainment. Unfortunately, “SkyrimHow “is not the kind of game Confessible Actually it is. It is more interesting than that. It is also more disappointed. Unfortunately, the ambition cuts in both directions.

Confessible Has a lot to do. On the one hand, its premise is unusual and immediately distances itself from Standard Fantasy Tropics. They play as the envoy of the emperor on an island called Living Lands with the mission to examine a strange illness called The Dreamscourge, which devastates the local flora and fauna. The living area is reminiscent of Jeff Vandermeers Area X about swords-and-sorcery fantasy in society and nature in surreal conflict, and nature is ready to defend itself.

This setup is preceded by a number of welcome in versions on a typical fantasy tariff, which alienates the player character. Confessible Emphasizes that you have sent a government lacquy to an occupied area, and everyone cannot stand it. It also throws you as god -like what Noise Well, but mainly means that they have a kind of flora that grows on their face, of which people are careful. And then, shortly after your arrival in the living countries, a supernatural unit is taking care of you, one with the behavior of a very powerful toddler that observes all your decisions and possibly learns from you – a delicious charged weapon that you can attract table Right at the beginning of history.

ConfessibleThe developer, obsidian entertainment, has a long history in the genre and a success story of sharply written, funny and compact games in one of the most stod’s genres of the medium. In the past ten years, the studio has expanded its own franchise list after years of unit work Fallout: New Vegasa continuation too Skyrim Developer Bethesda Game Studios’ Fallout 3. Nowadays, obsidian is trying to shoot his own stories and worlds, although it is still very easy to read his latest games, as Proprietary IP takes on experience with his game in 2019 The outer worldsFor example (which contains a sequel this year) has a lot of a lot Stand out in it.

Therefore people can come to Confessible expect Skyrim. Or at least Skyrim As an obsidian: snappy, with a focus on history and unforgettable characters that at all Skyrim‘The fans would probably agree that the game was missing. For some, this marriage may sound like the perfect game. In practice, it is mostly confused.

Every role -playing game is a fascinating thrust and train between the designer and player. The goal is to give the player the feeling that he has a certain level of self -determination, although he is actually always on the right track from the designer. Since people are unpredictable in a way that computer programs are not the case, it is dangerous business to influence a story. Confessed, Then suffer from the terrible irony to have a world that is too interesting. I have a million Opinions for every dilemma The game presents me and yet in most cases I can only answer with three options: to embody the idle government lacke, to weaken it weakly so that the locals may have a point or crack a joke. Accompanying characters, an element that can play or break role-playing games or do not leave any impression and even if your individual fights are introduced, mostly deal with the upbringing of your character-which in turn is frustrating in your expression.

It doesn’t take much time with Confessible release Skyrim Compare, but here the game escapes the pressure of a box, only to be trapped by another. It is involved, plenty of presented, who call the games more on games like The Witcher 3 or Baldur’s goal 3 (Another game that many will be burdened by the association in the genre in the coming years.) Although much smaller than these games, Confessible Ironically, it feels best for a game that is even smaller: one that the demands and compromises of the mandate of the player or the uncanny strangeness of a country that decides to decide the nature of nature in a seizure of rebellion or to decide tod god learn how to behave from their actions. I love all of these ideas on paper; Confessible Only the language is missing so that I can express my interest in the game.

One last note too Skyrim: It is fascinating How broken is it. The game always seems ready to implode at any moment, and that contributes to its charm. SkyrimThe disorders, its quirks and restrictions are integrated into the fabric of its popularity and contribute to its memory quality. This is one of the really unique things in video games: how breakdowns and mistakes in the code for the way we experience them can become of fundamental importance. Similar mistakes in other media would be catastrophic. In games, however, they are signs of humanity, a memory that our imagination always exceeds the machines with which we render them in detail. Maybe that’s the problem with Confessible. It fits into your hand, too tailor -made and disciplined in order to consider.