Dropped a few hours into Queen's Wish and am really digging it so far.
You may have noticed above that it's my first Spiderweb Software game and after my brief hands-on introduction to the dev, I can see myself being a regular with their release schedule.
I mentioned in the
Controversial Opinions thread that I find myself gravitating more and more to titles with a clean & simple presentation, away from the visual noise of hyper detail. Queen's Wish is a good example of this in motion. It looks like a 90s-era cRPG, but it's still pleasant to look at and reads really well visually. Oddly, the abstracted nature of the graphics kinda makes Queen's feel like a board game or a D&D PnP session. It's hard to explain.
Writing is pretty ace with a wry sense of humor as you play a layabout member of the royal family charged with unifying a lost vassilized territory. Seems like there's pretty meaningful dialogue options in conversation trees where you can shape the tone & alignment of your character. Do you want to actually help these people or do you want to be an entitled uber-brat? Maybe something in between? Clementine will remember that.
TB-Combat seems cool so far. Has a tactics-lite feel. And the Mana-refresh system feels novel in that it replenishes based on kill-count, making use feel strategic.
So all and all I'm quite enjoying myself so far. I'm an absolute sucker for basement/home-brew game design (
cough) and frankly am pretty shocked that I'm only now discovering the husband/wife team behind Spiderweb Soft. Digging into their backstory really enhances the game experience. Or at least gives a greater appreciation for the lane their cruising in.
