I pꦆut off playing it for years, but finally got around to it a year ago. On a half-dozen levels, it was a refres🐼hing take on the medieval RPG and one of most interesting and original rpgs I've played in over a decade.

I agree with most of your thoughts, par🐭ticularly with regard to lackluster (and often w𓆉holly unnecessary) remakes, particularly when it's just a graphical overhaul of a game less than a decade old.

And fort money, to another point of yours, I think that a strong argument could be made that no RPG has bee🅠n (proportionally) as innovative as 1993s all-around masterpiece Betrayal at Krondor (those who know, know, and it's criminally 🃏underappreciated and unknown to the masses). If you like rpgs, and an emphasis on plot, dialogue and setting (as well as musical score) it's imo the all-time RPG GOAT.

You, just like the author, are entitled to your opinion. Personally,💧 games w👍here there is no challenge are completely sull and unfulfilling to me. As the author says, a balance is generally desirable (it's usually not fun to have impossibly hard enemies, just as being pseudo-invincible is a tried and true way to lose interest very, very quickly in a game, particularly and endlessly long game with repetitive combat like AC). I suspect your opinion, at least according to all of gaming history, is in the extreme minority. Glad you can enjoy this game though.

Being comically OP in games ruins the fun for A LOT of people, fast. So I see the author's point, and agree. But I've always found the combat in AC to be boring and unfulfilling, so I'm not surprised. At least there's another character for (marginally) more balanced c🧸ombat and stealth.

Fair enough, although adding non-histor🐭ical options is fine in a videogame (or movie, e.g., Braveheart). It's an option. It's a video game. Unless they made it completely linear, to the point of being a film (and even then...), it wouldn't be canon nor resemble the actual history of these peoples at all. Honestly, it's funny, harmless, and totally worth seeing snowflakes get triggered over.

Gamer's have *online* friends now more than ever. I think couch co op is definitely rules by couples and parents/kids these days. I play (literal) couch co op with only a handful of friends, and not nearly frequently enough, these days. While mo𝕴st young people I know never play couch co op anymore.

So speaketh The Higher: Who dares to ignore Skald: Against the B꧂lack Priory!?!

10/10 indie game, and a solo de🌟v to boot! (we'll, plus the help of one other with a GREAT OST)

**EASILY** Skald: Againꦡst the Black Priory. Best indie soundtrack, as wꦇell. I don't see it mentioned nor praised nearly enough. Fight me.

Bonus points for 1-man dev for the ꦛgame, plus 1-man for sou༒nd. Exceptional.