Life of a Mercenary

As a couch potato, I was curious about the life of a mercenary. With neither the physic nor guts to actually be a mercenary, this is as close as it gets for me. But I’m not disappointed, because this was a good read. [h1] Writing [/h1] The characters come across as nuanced individuals with their own motivations. This is amplified through many suspenseful situations. Action, romance, mystery it’s all there. Contrary to my expectations the story didn’t shine the most in the action scenes. They were above average. The same could be said of the world building. It was the character interactions which lifted the plot up from a little above average to truly enjoyable. I had only three gripes with the writing. If you want to play as a mercenary without morals you get shafted by the writer. Your best fighter will become disloyal and taking on shady contracts doesn’t pay enough to offset this. My second grievance is how new named fighters work. I could only occasionally take one optio...

Asked for a refund. - Choices feel too far apart. - When available, the choices are limited and lack a more in between/temperate option. So you just pick the lesser of two evils. - The wording and outcome of the option you picked can sometime come as a surprise à la Fall out 4 sarcastic dialogue options. - Lots of clicking "next" after reading a few lines, only to get presented with another page with very few lines again and no other choice than "next". Feels like *next* a japanese *next* visual novel *next* sometimes. Just let me read everything from a choice to another in one go, especially when there's so little to read on each no option pages.

Review update to modify the bad review below: basically, you can work through things and survive, but you for some reason will be the weakest of your team and will be the one without strength or endurance no matter how hard you train or spend money on yourself. You have to work around that and not get stuck in a position in which you are at risk, which is tough for a merc. If you realize this and work around it you can have a good experience. I was guardedly positive about Life of a Mercenary after the first run as a merc commander that led to my death. Though I could walk back through my choices and see how I might have avoided an early end, I had concerns about the decision tree, or lack of it. The dungeon scenario scotched the game for me and I have uninstalled it. The initial text frames for character setup were clear enough, but even on 'normal' difficulty you ran into too many cases where you had no choice, and your only choice clearly would end in your own demise. I k...

The game is a decent amount of fun, but at the same time it is a bit of a slog to play through. Nothing really sets this story apart from most of the others you'll run into on here, but its by no means a bad game either. 6/10

Honestly one of the best ones from them

I try to only write reviews if a game is really good or really bad, this game is the latter. Don't buy this game, extremely shoddy writing and generally bad. I would suggest fans of interactive novels to check out: Tin Star, Night Road, or Choice of the Deathless as each are significantly better.

Great game, is a little stretched out but if you play hosted games this is one of the good ones.

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this game like many of this is a medieval sim where you manege a company of fighters and fight in wars

Customize your own mercenary!!!