Recent reviews by Rook Sha

good hunting sdalger

First time I booted up this game, I never got past the introductory experience and I didn't get what it was trying to do.

Last week, I booted the game up and got past that hurdle. Because, I think, I was ready to experience it. This game came to me at a point in my life where I needed to really understand the message of the game, and I am really grateful for it.

This game does not cater to anyone, the universe is ignorant to you, any meaning is only really the meaning you can ascribe to your experiences, and it's perfect. Whatever you feel while playing this game is valid, just make sure you take your time, take it seriously and keep going.

I'm ready to die in space, and to smell the pine trees along the way.

guy like me? loved this game.

absolutely beautiful visually, stellar soundtrack, hilarious and gripping dialogues and monologues from the characters.
really fun and unique gameplay.
one of those games that I can only complain about not having enough of.
i could have been flipping eggs and listened to people ponder, complain, argue and discuss their lives for 30 hours without any hesitation over the Slop most big publishers/developers put out every year.

Water Museum are showing the sheer creativity and prowess in this game that indie devs like them can only display.
cant wait for the next project.

Another game forcing us to link our account to their third party account for no reason.
A third party account that is historically lacking security, has been breached several times, and is unavailable to certain parts of the world now forcing players from those places out of their own game that they have been playing just fine so far.

The community moderators and the developers have been callous on this issue, telling members of the community that their opinion does not matter on their own discord outright, and frankly the reasoning that the PSN account link is for "griefing and abuse" when it is because their overlords at Sony want to collect data on the massive PC only player-base of this game.

I do not have a PSN account. I do not want one.
To all developers and publishers, stop trying to get us to link accounts and download third party software and all of this other stuff that no one needs, as shown by the legion of games already on Steam that do not require it.

All of this to say, this game was fun when the devs seemed to care about what the players and the community wanted. I already stopped playing when their style of balancing a PvE game like a PvP game by nerfing the strongest options until you only have a variety of boring milk-toast equipment to use instead of buffing the weaker options so that everything feels fun and powerful took all of the fun out of the game for me.

good game :o

amazing game, honestly one of the best games ever made and you should play it.
Act 2 is the best part of the whole game, hands down.

also kill all githyanki

A masterfully crafted roller-coaster of emotions.

The sheer breadth and depth of the lore of this world is staggering, just considering that people sat down and wrote all of this is beyond my imagination.

Experience this for yourself.



After life, death. After death, life.

As soon as I picked up Roadwarden I could instantly tell that it was exactly what I was looking for. I could not put this game down for several days until I had done everything I thought I could.

The writing, the visuals of the locations, and the soundtrack created a world I was not ready to leave by the time I finished the game. My only gripes are that I wish there was more, and I wish the text inputs were more common. I would like to see more in this series or in this style that expands upon what is introduced here in Roadwarden.

I will miss the feeling of exploring, investigating and running errands as the Roadwarden.

I loved this game from start to finish.

The story and player choices felt meaningful.
The art and music worked in tandem with the story and characters.
I felt this was an improvement on the first Life is Strange in every way.

A few of the dialogue was a bit off, a few lines just don't land well. But they were few and far between for me.

I hope to see more from this team.

EDIT: I am a bit disappointed that the game took me between 11-12 hours to complete with all my exploring of the town at ever opportunity and redoing a section of a chapter. I am very confident in the ability of the writers/developers of this game and I would like to have had more quality time in this world.

This game is great on all fronts. The gameplay and the gameplay loop itself fits perfectly into the story of the protagonist.

The retelling and re-contextualising, and canonising mistakes and changes over time of Hellenistic mythology is perfect. All the best parts of the Greek pantheon are on show in this game, with the parts that, although shouldn't be forgotten, omitted.

The story and gameplay fit so well together it's hard to imagine one without the other. It's a great game with a terrific soundtrack and visual design and it all comes together to be one of the most interesting gaming experiences of the last 5 years.

Highly recommend this game to just about anyone because although it is tough, it is rewarding even in failure.