![]() Once your business has been dealt with in Serene, you are sent to the colony of New Serene, and, surprise: more plots and intrigue await. You soon find yourself entangled with inquisitors from the Kingdom of Theleme and uncovering scientific frauds for the Bridge Alliance, and very little is as it initially seems. You start out as a rather capable young man or woman and your first mission is to engage in diplomacy with the ambassadors of the other major factions in GreedFall. While the introduction is lengthy, I never felt that it was holding my hand. Moreover, the characters you bring with you and your relationship(s) with them play a large part in how things play out.Īfter a lengthy prologue (I spent around 8 hours here) in the city of Serene, you are sent to a newly founded colony on the island Teer Fradee to help out governing and dealing with the diplomatic relations that exist on the island together with your cousin Constantin. Spiders didn’t just replace orcs and broadswords for muskets and rapiers, they took time to make a world that is very politically intriguing - there are a ton of factions with hidden plots and machinations to consider as you make your way through the world. What’s intriguing about the setting and the way GreedFall handles it is that it’s not just a cosmetic change. Your family, De Sarde, much like De Medici, navigates the world through diplomatic treaties and use trade agreements to stay in power and influence the outcomes of wars. It all feels very much like Spiders took a long look at how the Medici family operated out of Florence throughout European history. ![]() These merchant families make up one of the more powerful factions on the Continent and often mediate between the Kingdom of Theleme and the Bridge Alliance: the two other major powers. Not only that, it casts the player as a member of a high-ranking family who heads the Congregation of Merchants, so not an orphaned farmer’s boy or a soldier with a mysterious past. ![]() While we have no shortage of galaxy-spanning action RPGs or games set in alternate Middle-earths, Spiders chose to stage GreedFall in a renaissance era fantasy world. This largely holds true with their latest title, GreedFall, as well, and were it not for some rather big blemishes, this game could have reached very far indeed.Ī good example of the game’s originality is the setting itself. Developers Spiders have slowly started to make a name for themselves as the kings of the quirky and interesting, but ultimately somewhat flawed RPGs.
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