Stray Gods: A Roleplaying musical
Checked this out because I wanted a short game to play. Basically the idea is that the main character, Grace, has a run in with a woman named Calliope who dies in graces arms and gives her her "soul" so to speak. She then finds out Calliope was actually the last of the Greek muses and now Grace is the last muse. But more important, the Greek Gods, at least some of them, are both real and still alive and think Grace killed the last muse for her power/soul. She's given a week to Prove her innocence or be executed.
With the plot out of the way, the game is particularly interesting in that it's really linear in story(leading to an average playthrough of about 6-7 hours per playthrough, shorter if you're mainlining the critical path) but where it shines is that it's a musical where your choices affect how the songs go and there's a LOT of replay value because you can't see/do everything on a given playthrough. For example, you might have to choose between helping two different people and thus get a different version of song helping one person then another, if not an entirely different song.
Now to be fair, I'd say almost none of the songs are really bangers but they're generally pretty well done overall, especially since it's voice talent like Troy Baker and Laura Baily who aren't normally known for singing(but can sing pretty well ngl).
I also kinda like how they depict the gods they do feature(a lot of the gods are background and some of the major ones are dead or not accounted for), so the big characters are: Athena, Aphrodite, Eros, Persephone, Pan and Apollo, with some minor roles by Hecate, Medusa, Orpheus and the Minotaur. Mostly how a lot of them are struggling to deal with the modern world in understandable ways and there's a lot of character drama because of that. Notably Apollo who is overall a sad boy who refuses to do prophecy anymore because if he tells someone what their prophecy is it becomes locked in for them, so he's basically so strangled by the idea of determinism so he just refuses to deal with it.
So overall a fun game/musical take on greek mythology with some obvious nods to ideas from American Gods and Fables as well.
And with that, I decided to keep the Mythos train going with: God of War: Ragnarök.
I will say that unlike the original GoW2018, GOW:R seriously just goes all in pretty quickly. WIthin the first hour I've fought two different gods, one of them a multi-phase boss fight with Thunder Boy Thor and of course Freya just being overall still angry over that whole killing Baldur thing. It slows down a little after that with the journey to the dwarf realm, which is still linear, but I'm fine with that because I'm getting back into the "swing" of things. (I'm sorry, stop throwing things).
While a lot of the stuff was lost, at least some of the big tools from GOW 2018(such as the Blades of Chaos) are still available so I'm not starting totally from Square one this time.
Checked this out because I wanted a short game to play. Basically the idea is that the main character, Grace, has a run in with a woman named Calliope who dies in graces arms and gives her her "soul" so to speak. She then finds out Calliope was actually the last of the Greek muses and now Grace is the last muse. But more important, the Greek Gods, at least some of them, are both real and still alive and think Grace killed the last muse for her power/soul. She's given a week to Prove her innocence or be executed.
With the plot out of the way, the game is particularly interesting in that it's really linear in story(leading to an average playthrough of about 6-7 hours per playthrough, shorter if you're mainlining the critical path) but where it shines is that it's a musical where your choices affect how the songs go and there's a LOT of replay value because you can't see/do everything on a given playthrough. For example, you might have to choose between helping two different people and thus get a different version of song helping one person then another, if not an entirely different song.
Now to be fair, I'd say almost none of the songs are really bangers but they're generally pretty well done overall, especially since it's voice talent like Troy Baker and Laura Baily who aren't normally known for singing(but can sing pretty well ngl).
I also kinda like how they depict the gods they do feature(a lot of the gods are background and some of the major ones are dead or not accounted for), so the big characters are: Athena, Aphrodite, Eros, Persephone, Pan and Apollo, with some minor roles by Hecate, Medusa, Orpheus and the Minotaur. Mostly how a lot of them are struggling to deal with the modern world in understandable ways and there's a lot of character drama because of that. Notably Apollo who is overall a sad boy who refuses to do prophecy anymore because if he tells someone what their prophecy is it becomes locked in for them, so he's basically so strangled by the idea of determinism so he just refuses to deal with it.
So overall a fun game/musical take on greek mythology with some obvious nods to ideas from American Gods and Fables as well.
And with that, I decided to keep the Mythos train going with: God of War: Ragnarök.
I will say that unlike the original GoW2018, GOW:R seriously just goes all in pretty quickly. WIthin the first hour I've fought two different gods, one of them a multi-phase boss fight with Thunder Boy Thor and of course Freya just being overall still angry over that whole killing Baldur thing. It slows down a little after that with the journey to the dwarf realm, which is still linear, but I'm fine with that because I'm getting back into the "swing" of things. (I'm sorry, stop throwing things).
While a lot of the stuff was lost, at least some of the big tools from GOW 2018(such as the Blades of Chaos) are still available so I'm not starting totally from Square one this time.
