Venetica was the first role-playing game development on deck 13. As a descendant of death, it goes to corrupted Venice.
Venice
Scarlett comes to a damned Italian mountain village as a foundling. One night this is haunted by assassins who razed the village to the ground. Her fiancé is among them. Then it turns out that she is a descendant of death and is currently on her way to Venice to stop the evil.
The game offers some possibilities to steer different directions in dialogues by means of multiple choice treatments. Some decisions about who to work with or how to achieve your goal are up to you. Despite this, the plot is kept linear. The main action takes place in Venice, where you have to choose the appropriate guild. You can explore some areas and districts of Venice in, but you only have limited freedom. There is also the opportunity to develop and improve skills.
There is a physical and a mental skill tree in which you can choose the different directions. This affects the weapons you use, special talents and psychic powers. After your death you can return to this world. If you come back from the beyond, you have the opportunity to stab your opponents in the back. With your German, the moon is ringing, you charge shadow energy that you gain from the souls of the victims. With this shadow energy it is possible for you to revive yourself. When the shadow energy draws to a close, it is game over.
Later it is not even possible to go on excursions into the realm of the dead on your own. So it is possible to deceive or bypass opponents or to solve puzzles. She can talk to the deceased, discover portals and obtain objects. The disengagement is possible in this and the hereafter.
That you can use 4 types of weapons. These include the sounds of the moon, sword, hammer and spear. Of course there is also the possibility to use combos in combat. The defensive is a little more difficult.
The graphics of Venetica have turned out very nice. The game looks a bit washed out and it lacks a bit of detail. The synchronization is well done and there are voice actors such as Angelina Jolie, Samuel L. Jackson and Johnny Depp. The music is also good.
Conclusion
As Scarlett you have the opportunity to influence the development of Venice. In the game you can take a few turns with your decisions and the reason for this is up to you. Venetica invites you to explore old Venice, but does not offer a game world that is too big. The combat system is kept simple, but bugs have crept in at one point or another. Overall, the game is very well done and definitely recommended for RPG fans.
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Originally posted on 2019-06-19 18:46:03.