To their credit, the varied camera angles do keep the flow of each scene going. At times, the characters have their mouths closed while their songs play, which served to take me out of the illusion that they were really singing. Maybe this is just a pet peeve, but it did bother me that the characters’ lips don’t move at all – and while that’s fairly typical for a visual novel, most visual novels aren’t musicals. The color schemes of the backdrops, whether it’s a lair or a luxury apartment, are also a feast for the eyes. A number of the gods have edgy piercings and other accessories that give them an extra layer of personality that matches their writing and voice performances. The hand-drawn characters look distinctive and vivid, in bold lines and fashion choices. The art, though, is absolutely fantastic. The few dialogue choices that do build out the lives of these characters are just optional lines that you can skip through as you complete the main quest. You can catch characters at a bar or party and briefly speak to them, but the overarching goal is always to find the murder suspect and clear your name. Part of that is due to the fact that a playthrough of Stray Gods takes only about three hours, so by necessity the writing (which was led by BioWare veteran David Gaider) sacrifices character development for plot acceleration, for the most part. Humble Bundle and IGN operate completely independently, and no special consideration is given to Humble Bundle announcements or promotions for coverage. But for the most part, this pantheon sticks a bit too comfortably close to the archetypes they’re traditionally presented as.ĭisclosure: Humble Bundle is owned by Ziff Davis, the parent company of IGN. There are a few of those surprises here: Baker’s Apollo, for instance, is far moodier than the way the God of the Sun is usually portrayed, and I did enjoy his surfer bro backstory. If you’re going to explore Greek mythology, I want to see something new done with characters like Athena, Pan, and Persephone I want to be enchanted by discovering new sides to these gods and to their established storylines. For such a fantastical story, though, I was a bit underwhelmed by the overly safe interpretation of the characters.
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