![]() ![]() I'd like, for instance, the new half dozen-odd Viking units to be real game-changers rather than slightly more melodramatic variants of existing units. They're my annual pair of new slippers for Christmas.īut I would love to see them strive as well as maintain that cuddly, compulsive formula. I'm a creature who craves calm and comfort, and by God King's Bounty games give me that. Then again I do quite enjoy the Great British Bake-Off and entirely expect to watch it again next year, which probably says a frightening amount about just how easily I take to cosy, unambitious, inoffensive things. D'aww, how could I ever be angry at that face?Ī future in which I played a new and not particularly changed King's Bounty game ever year is not a bad future. But somehow, its robust turn-based-strategy/real-time roleplaying/overland exploring systems, comparable to an infinitely cheerier and more streamlined Heroes of Might & Magic, and its semi-incoherent, consistently enthusiastic absurdist babble makes me warm to it despite myself. Although it does have a HEROIC FANTASY soundtrack so subtletly-free and overblown that I came to love it even though it's indefensible. It looks the same, it feels the same, it plays the same, and as such I pretty can only say the same things about it as before. There are any number of longboats Warriors of the North should and could have pushed out, but instead it settles for adding Nordic units and fine-tuning existing mechanics and not a whole lot more. I'm not in the business of kicking puppies even if one did wee all over my carpet. Like Armoured Princess and Crossworlds before it, Warriors of the North seems somehow so happy to exist. If I'm moved to shake my fist at the uncaring heavens about identikit military shooters year after year, I should certainly be similarly resentful that the initially super-fresh King's Bounty series is now on its fourth near-indistinguishable game.Īnd yet. More of the cheerful same or a new take on what's become somewhat routine? Here's what I think. Warriors Of The North requires no knowledge of the earlier games, involving a new storyline and a new hero, and a whole lot of Norse mythology-inspired beasts and magic. ![]() The fourth game in Katauri Interactive's reboot of olden strategy/RPG hybrid King's Bounty is out now. ![]()
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