‘1348 Ex Voto’, the ideal of a medieval knight on a medium-sized ‘queer’ road

It’s been a long time since the video game industry went through a new era and the trend of accelerated progress started again. He has anti-awakening horns ringing on his sides and a whole mountain of oregano for his inquisitors, so from the same time of your presentation to the company last year, 1348 Ex Voto he met Diana sitting in a suit. Does Sedle’s original work, even outside the controversies of the time, have enough support to convince conscientious objectors of the culture wars?

Aeta is a young man who learns the noble martial art of the sword in an invincible wayfollowing the lessons of his erring father, like many others, within the throes of the great epidemic that swept Europe in the mid-14th century. Bianca, her best friend, laments her fate as a postulant in a convent in the area just before her last hours of freedom. Later, when you finish your training day and go on your way, you will see a pillar of red hum rising from the village.

When you get to your street, you find yourself in a Dantesque scenario. A group of bandits descended on the village like a devastating plague, handing over its inhabitants to their cuchillo and ransacking their homes. Not encountering Bianca’s body, Aeta assumes she has been kidnapped and sets out on an adventure to find her.along the path of the jauría through hundreds of kilometers of fields destroyed by war, storm and pestilence.

The most immediate video game contact 1348 Ex Voto without any doubt e.g. Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (2019), Ninja Theory’s emotional title. They say, a visceral narrative adventure, linear and scaled down, but with increased aesthetic ambitions and a high intensity combat system. The main difference between the two projects is the premise. And as I might say, it ends by erecting a short, narrow arc of the Italian title, derived from a game that never ends in form, and breaks down in the crucial area of ​​harmonizing its various aspects in a coherent connection.

On the one hand, we have a visually impressive game with stunning prints of bucolic fields, limestone mountains, magnificent Roman villas and lush expanses of vineyards. By the way, a combat system that is more effective than the holiday rifle and that creates the frustration that comes from a title with these characteristics.

On the PlayStation 5, performance is fairly decent until the end of Chapter Six, when fighting one of the game’s few kings in an amphitheater in llamas. Fee from frames It was chosen so that the game took the form of a mere slide show and brought back the concept that is so excruciating in the exercise of extreme masochism. If I was able to overcome it, it was through a fierce voluntarism that encouraged me to persevere throughout more than three intentionssomething that no possible player can want.

During the third act, though the return did not return to be given in the same manner, the difficulty was so sustained, with crowds of soldiers clad in plate armor, that it exposed all shame medium hacer systemwhere neither detours nor feints work as they should, they track me down at the most crucial moments.

The explanation for the scarce stage of the primer and probably the only title by Sedle is very simple. If you have withdrawn money ahead of timewhich forces them to play a game that was not listed for consumption by the masses. With another two months of training to improve our understanding of our combat mechanics and technical performance, we encountered a different story.

However, it is most likely that he has reduced himself to a band more in the band of those who sing hateful chants of “wake up, go broke” with disgusting glee, signaling the commercial nonsense of everything that comes from his extreme worldview. Maybe you don’t have an audience and grow it enough for a story odd of the medieval caballeros, but he demands all respect for the intentonAll in all, taking into account that this is the work of a decent team of only 15 people.