![]() This would be a minor gripe if there aren’t so many cutscenes, mostly of characters talking whilst standing perfectly still.ĭuring casual dialogue these exact same boxes can be skipped with a button like in other RPGs, so I don’t know why the devs made the choice to not do so during cutscenes, because it would’ve greatly helped Astria Ascending’s poor pacing. In every voiced cutscene (and some unvoiced), you have to wait for each dialogue box to appear and disappear, one by one, often with several seconds between them. Too many cooks, and all.Īs a result, Astria Ascending’s story is extremely slow-paced, made even slower by the single worst part of the game: you can’t skip dialogue boxes. During the 16 hours of the game I played, the eight demi-gods were together almost all the time, which means most cutscenes had a minimum of eight characters in it. A large part of this overwhelm stems from being introduced to eight main characters at the very start of the game. It took me a long time to figure out that Eko (a character) is a Peyska (a race) from Vetira (a city) because the game doesn’t do enough to explain the difference between those three fantasy proper nouns, nor the dozens of other names and terms that get thrown around. It’s a lot to take in at once, and the game rarely stops to let you catch up. ![]() Our demi-gods have three months left to live, and find the world besieged by monsters known as Noises, and must travel the world to find out what the heck is going on.Īstria Ascending throws all this information at you, and more, in its first few minutes. ![]() All the fantasy races of Orcanon live in harmony in a big city called Harmony, and maintain said harmony by eating a magical fruit called Harmelon, delivered to them by a race of subservient imps known as Migmies (a name that never stopped making me uncomfortable). They are given powerful abilities, but die after three years on the job. Our heroes are a group of demi-gods: normal people conscripted by gods to protect the people. ![]() Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Astria Ascending takes place in the high fantasy world of Orcanon. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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