Saga of the North Wind

(Mild spoilers may follow - if concerned, simply read the TLDR.) I did not like the wispy, trailing sensation I got from playing through the story. For a game with such an onerous main plot, where you play a central role in the fate of your entire people under the volition of the gods, you meander far too much and far too distractedly on your journey to the plot's destination. An example: On your way to the game's pilgrimage site, which involves the traversement of a tedious marshland (this is not to be confused with the journey which came before, involving the traversement of a tedious highland), you can be captured by slavers. who bring you to a random city utterly unrelated to your quest, an event which the gods bewilderingly allow to happen despite their propensity for intervening in more trivial pursuits. You spend far too great a portion of the game in an arena where slaves are made to fight each other to the death, isolated from your oblivious tribespeople. Imagine the angst ...

I have just finished the game and I believe have only scratched the surface of the different paths to take to achieve the multiple endings. The beginning of the saga had some choices you could not change but from then on the choices are in your hands. I greatly enjoyed the variation of characters you can meet, befriend, betray, pursue relationships with and so on. I encountered one error towards the end of the game where I could ask a certain friend for aid but this person had died a few chapters beforehand so it threw the story off a bit. Besides all these things I recommend this for anyone interested in Slavic mythos and very well written story telling.

Ending depends on the choices you made, and some endings are unlocked only if you have the right stat, the problem is that what choices raise what stats is not clear at all, after so many plays I still cannot get the ending that I want. warning for those that hate this type of sea eternal ending, though this one is less extreme.

Although a bit short, this story carry the sense of adventure and leadership that i love in a game. 6/10

Nice! I never expected to actually finish this one! Although the "game" started kinda slow, at some point I became really hooked and just couldn't stop playing the game. So the game as a game is interesting. The story structure itself is okay, with no obvious problems. Most of the time the mechanics of the game work intuitively, with the stats page being a good hint. Oh, and one more thing: mixing the Slavic pantheon with a nomadic setting was... Unexpected. Slavic peoples and nomads from the Great Steppe were fighthing for literally for centuries.

I haven't played much, but I am uploading my playthrough to my youtube channel. If you'd like to check the game out as a taste before you buy, check out the first part here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0tRZbX0N5Q So far I think I will enjoy the game, as I usually enjoy all of the Choice of Games. I will post updates as I get to them.

This has to be, by far one of my favorite Choice of Games stories that I've come across. The story building and details involved were thrilling. My one and only complaint is that I feel the ending was a bit rushed. I would still give this a 8.5 out of 10.

Good story, though it kinda feels like there is more to it when you reach the end, but I only finished it once, so maybe if I made other choices I would get more satisfiyng end.

This little story is guud. Simple and wrap everything.

After a fairly promising beginning, the 2nd encounter you have, despite having any number of possible paths to choose from, inevitably and invariably (I tried *every* permutation of choices) results in your being captured by enemies.Once I was sure that was the case, I closed the game, never to restart it. A healthy "Fuck you" to the author for that. If you want to start things off with the main character getting captured, don't give us a bunch of different options and the illusion that we might be able to get away if we make the right decisions. Have the decency to just tell us "I have contempt for you, and am placing you in an unwinnable situation right now because I want to start this story off by having the bad guy swagger around and gloat, so as to motivate you or whatever, because I don't give enough of a shit to just write a better start to the story."If you really were so desperate to start us off being captured, then that's Page One, asshole.