In isolation, judged only on the questing and combat, Greedfall is a remarkably playable bit of pulp. If all of this sounds fine, that’s because it is. If the fight’s moving too fast for you, you’re able to pause the game and select your next action in an impromptu turn-based manner that makes it easier to plan your next move or micromanage teammates. You dodge, you attack, you maybe use a magic spell to trap an enemy in stasis. Fighting usually plays out like other action-RPGs such as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. You can also use guns or specialise in magic. You can fight with sabres or heavy weapons like larger swords and hammers. Combat is often avoidable, but in the rare moments that you’re forced to take a stand, the fighting works fine, even if your companions repeat the same combat barks over and over and over again. Teer Fradee is packed with magical creatures that will attack you, and there are also plenty of ways to end up on a faction’s wrong side and end up having to face them. It makes questing a genuinely enjoyable process no matter where you drop your skill points.Ĭombat is less enjoyable but has a certain degree of clumsy panache. You are a diplomat first and a fighter second, and there’s plenty of ways to avoid combat even in the hairiest situations. Greedfall delights in offering multiple solutions to quests, be it dialog options or other creative avenues. I could use my Science skill (if I’d had it) to brew a sleeping potion to knock them out after a round of drinks. Alternately, I could locate one of their uniforms to explore without worry. I could simply sneak through their compound if I wanted to. To avoid conflict, I had numerous options at my disposal. Intruding into their territory would draw their ire and cause me to lose precious reputation points with them. This meant entering territory belonging to the Nauts, a sailor’s guild whose members join at a young age, Jedi-style. In an early quest, my master at arms Kurt asked me to doctor the contents of a shipping manifest so that important cargo could be smuggled onto a ship. With points in the science trait, you can make keen medical deductions or else craft potions that can be used in questlines and on the battlefield. High charisma makes it easy to charm your way out of tricky situations, while points in the intuition trait will unlock unique dialog that leads to alternate solutions.
Quests offer a variety of solutions based upon the items you have and the skills in which you’ve invested.
In its best moments, Greedfall provides a solid mixture of role-playing elements and combat. Along the way, you’ll have the option for plenty of companion romances, arena battles, boss fights with magical creatures, persuasion checks, and complicated questlines. In addition to searching for a cure, your job as a diplomat is to liase with these factions and resolve disputes. When you arrive on Teer Fradee, you learn about a burgeoning conflict between multiple factions: a confederation founded by a progressive researchers and naturalists, a zealous church, and the local native population. Alongside your cousin, a jovial but clueless governor, you sail across the sea to the land of Teer Fradee in the hopes of locating the cure to a plague that is ravaging society in the old continent. You play as De Sardet, the newly appointed diplomat of a merchant’s guild.
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There are nobles and sailors, newly founded colonies, and dialogue trees full of characters engaging in courtly intrigue. Greedfall is set in a fictional universe that appears to be modelled after 18th century Europe and America. In the nearly 10 hours that I have played it so far, it fails to pull its disparate threads into a cohesive whole. Greedfall frustrates me because it’s a game of half-measures. Greedfall offers a BioWare-esque adventure with branching quests, companion characters, and exploration. That’s not because it is a poor experience in terms of how it plays. I have not enjoyed playing Greedfall, the latest role-playing game by Spiders.
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