Heaven's Vault beautiful intertwines a character-centered narrative, a broad-scope, yet inevitably indistinct, world and simple-yet-engaging gameplay elements to create an engrossing story. Or, perhaps, it creates multiple stories which are pursued in parallel.

Though the language constructed to drive the gameplay may lean rather-too-consciously on English, it still has a reasonable verisimilitude despite this connection. Dialogue and interaction choices can spring unexpected and unchangeable consequences on the player, but this only rarely felt frustrating or unfair—and never struck me as unmanageable.

The most disappointing thing, for me, was that there simply isn't enough. Hardly a problem I mind having.

Heaven's Vault beautiful intertwines a character-centered narrative, a broad-scope, yet inevitably indistinct, world and simple-yet-engaging gameplay elements to create an engrossing story. Or, perhaps, it creates multiple stories which are pursued in parallel. Though the language constructed to drive the gameplay may lean rather-too-consciously on English, it still has a reasonable verisimilitude despite this connection. Dialogue and interaction choices can spring unexpected and unchangeable consequences on the player, but this only rarely felt frustrating or unfair—and never struck me as unmanageable. The most disappointing thing, for me, was that there simply isn't [i]enough[/i]. Hardly a problem I mind having.