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"Ved" is beautiful and very odd, but not at all boring! by Mischief Maker 11/15/2024, 9:20pm PST It's not the roguelite I was expecting at all. It's an intricate choose-your-own-adventure story crossed with a moderately complex blobber combat system. You play Cyrus, a half-blind college graduate who arrives at a tiny mining town being gentrified by a tech company looking for a job. But his work search is complicated by a suddenly awakened ability to teleport to a parallel dimension of magic. The segments in the "real world" are presented as fully voice-acted cutscenes punctuated by decision trees, but since Cyrus is nearly blind characters in the real world are presented as abstract impressions. When Cyrus enters the magic realm where he has his full vision, the art style becomes sharp and detailed. In the magic realm story beats take a backseat to a gauntlet of fantasy creatures to fight through in turn-based battles, with the ability to return to your central hub village and spend the enemy's spirit orbs to construct new buildings that unlock more powerful moves to use in combat. The game is simultaneously gorgeous and offputting. There's a Twin Peaks-esque weirdness to the presentation that I can't tell if it's intentional or the result of the game's shaky English translation from the original I don't have a thumbs up or down to give at the moment. But it sure is pretty!

"Ved" is beautiful and very odd, but not at all boring! by Mischief Maker 11/15/2024, 9:20pm PST