If you are looking for your next gaming fix,
people do spend hundreds of hours playing Wartales , if you come from more mainstream titles
and you want to develop a taste for more niche games, welcome, it was about time, you realized
that Jessica from highschool was not good for you, I knew you could do the same here and find
out what true love in life, really is, George RR Martin, I would have said Brandon
Sanderson, but sadly not everyone knows about him so I will have to keep him in the fetish
list. Where the books are actually finished. If you stayed after that joke, thank you, if you actually liked it I wouldn't recommend
you my therapist, I ‘ve booked all the hours. I love to follow popular trends so
let's start comparing Wartales to popular games you may know, my grandma
used to say “ Comparison is the killer of all joy” but she also used to say that
I could become a doctor, and here I am. When someone starts telling you about
a game they usually reference the most popular game that is somewhat close, it is
like Battlefield, it is like Counter Strike, or everyone’s favorite “it’s Dark Souls
like” – Dad how is highschool- Well son, Highschool is like dark souls, but we still
haven’t figured out the respawn mechanic” So Wartales is like when you tried to play Darkest
Dungeon but you don’t want to open the emotional scars left from fustigating yourself over
dozens of hours and still not beating the game, you have some Xcom nostalgia but you
can't dig Battlebrothers graphics, said in another way, if you draw
a 6 and 4 , you have the drawing of a two years old, but if then you add
three circles, boom, you have Wartales. But what will hook you is the sense of progression
from turning a group of homeless wannabes into a group of mercenaries worth their salt, it will not
be easy. You start by giving them some ridiculous name and you take them into an adventure into
an unforgiving world. You find the first town and get your first bounty mission, it says
it's easy but you find out that easy has a different meaning in this game, god forgive you
if you actually picked a medium or hard mission. You spend some days camping, and finally meet
your target, you barely make it to town alive, ah, healing potions, if I had just bought some before
getting herpes . You buy some meat and camp, no one knows how to cook yet so raw meat is
in the menu tonight, you meet knew people, quite a few will want to kill you, some,
you will hire in the tavern others you convince in the battellefield, and wait
for the stockolholm syndrome to kick in. You become more vagrants than mercenaries for
a while, should have listened to mom’s wisdom, stick to the plow avoid the bow, but eventually
things start working out, someone makes a pot, now you can cook, you have a tent , you still
have to share and the ants can and will still climb through you ass crack but at least you have
something over your head. Now we have a pony and a wolf, you learnt to craft some gear and now
this guy thinks he is carrying the party after giving him the best armor, it is these little
adventures that make you grow attached to them, until you pick the wrong fight and
it's time to make some sacrifices, or maybe you stole a bit too much
and someone has to pay for the team, don’t hate the player, hate the game, I
will bring you back soon sir williams. This will not be the only thing to hook you,
but this is not sandbox, I know you still fancy ruling your own kingdom but you attempted that
in Rimworld and it turned into “Dinner with the Cannibals” so you will not be ruling lands
in this game and it is not a medieval sim, this is a strategy game where you masterfully
plot how to shield your warband from getting massacred , it is a more mainstream version
of Battlebrothers where the combat doesn’t feel like an intense game of chess where you can
kickstart the French revolution at every moment. The combat is one of the Crown Jewels of this
game, you know, turn based games for people not into the niche feels like picking up the
wrong queue at the supermarket , should have not picked the one with the ancient citizens,
they always pay with loot from the 1800s, cash, as a bonus you won a 15 minute journey
into your Hall of Questionable life choices. Only a few games master the formula of blending
action with strategy allowing them to transcend the niche appeal, XCOM or Baldurs did,
they brought many more elements, but lets be real very few beat tossing midgets at your
enemies, I’ve also learned that in highschool. Wartales has that fluid feel and keeps
the combat fresh by allowing you to choose between many set ups and combinations to
massacre your enemies, having lots of classes, subclasses and types of weapons you can try , and
while you will not be blowing aliens like in xcom, the amount of enemies, tactics and the smooth
flow of the battles keep the game fresh, although some people complain that it gets eventually
tedious, but look at the hours of these guys. But strap in, because sadly this game
for me is like a burger, a solid burger, has cheese and the essentials down, but where
is the zing? That extra kick, the final mojo, the mod support, the community would
have rocketed this game and sadly I wouldn't bet on mod support happening,
the game was finished like my jokes, missing the punchline. But Jokes aside it stands
at 90% on steam, a hard achievement but in reality is far from perfect, yet it is a damn awesome
game that will hook you for dozens of hours, if you want to know more I did a 25 days
in Wartales video. Thank you for watching.
