Who made the stupid decision to radically change the art of the game after a few hours?

[Uhtred son of Uhtred]

The setting and the graphic style is what I bought the game for, I don't understand how someone could have thought it was a good decision to change to a generic 2d style in the second act, making everything absolutely monotonous. They ruined what had seemed like genius to me.

[ITR]

You can play the first act again or just play kaycee's mod if you want that specific artstyle. The artstyle also changes every act.

[Devil's Advocate]

What a weird complaint. You will eventually get back to that art style if that's what you care about. If you bought the game for the art, though, I suggest you just take screenshots for your wallpaper and then refund the game. Seems like a weird reason to buy a card game though.

[Uhtred son of Uhtred]

Originally posted by Devil's Advocate:

What a weird complaint. You will eventually get back to that art style if that's what you care about. If you bought the game for the art, though, I suggest you just take screenshots for your wallpaper and then refund the game. Seems like a weird reason to buy a card game though.

"The SETTING and the graphic style is what I bought" . Can you reed boi?

[StayPuftMM]

I'm not sure why you think that person misread something.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

I have a few questions for OP

Did you think this was a pure roguelike?

Do you think this has no story?

You need to play through to understand.

[StayPuftMM]

Considering that the trailers had pixel art and the first thing you see when you start up the game is pixel art, I think it's pretty clear that they had a very different idea of what the game is.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Originally posted by Garent:

Considering that the trailers had pixel art and the first thing you see when you start up the game is pixel art, I think it's pretty clear that they had a very different idea of what the game is.

But then the last trailer shows different and it shows footage from act II however, I am merely trying to point to OP that he shouldnt judge a book because of its covers (This being the pictures). Its infact better to not to because then you will be surprised and people whom play games like to not be be spoiled. Its better to just show pictures of the first act.

You should read description. If he gets that 'view' because he judges a book by its cover then he misses out on alot of stuff.

[StayPuftMM]

Yeah, I'd say this is pretty similar to someone liking how the art on the cover of a book made it look and bought it without looking at the description or anything like that.

[Tricky McBomb]

You bought it for the art style and setting, I bought it expecting drastic changes like previous games. Our purchases canceled eachother out.

[Uhtred son of Uhtred]

In the demo they only show the first act, I couldn't imagine that there was going to be an entire section where the setting and style of the game would be totally changed. I already ask a refund, maybe one day I'll finish it for free.

[StayPuftMM]

Sorry you didn't like it. I thought the change was cool and caught the hints that something like it was going to happen.

[Uhtred son of Uhtred]

Originally posted by Garent:

Considering that the trailers had pixel art and the first thing you see when you start up the game is pixel art, I think it's pretty clear that they had a very different idea of what the game is.

Yes, the trailer has like 3 seconds of pixel art.

[Haohmaru]

It’s actually a pretty common complaint if you look through this forum and reviews. In my opinion act 2 was the weakest part of the game. The art style didn’t bother me too much, what was annoying though was the sigil descriptions were hard to read, and the ancient looking interface was too fiddly. Anyways Kaycee’s mod allows you to play an expanded version of act 1 which should cater to what you are looking for.

[Uhtred son of Uhtred]

Originally posted by Haohmaru:

It’s actually a pretty common complaint if you look through this forum and reviews. In my opinion act 2 was the weakest part of the game. The art style didn’t bother me too much, what was annoying though was the sigil descriptions were hard to read, and the ancient looking interface was too fiddly. Anyways Kaycee’s mod allows you to play an expanded version of act 1 which should cater to what you are looking for.

I don't mind pixel art, a lot of my favorite games have that style. But the game loses all the sinister theme that made me love it in the first part. Also the difficulty is ridiculously low in this part.

[Haohmaru]

Originally posted by Uhtred son of Uhtred:

I don't mind pixel art, a lot of my favorite games have that style. But the game loses all the sinister theme that made me love it in the first part. Also the difficulty is ridiculously low in this part.

Yeah agreed. The first part has such a creepy atmosphere that draws you into the game, then that atmosphere completely vanishes in act 2. Also they try to cram in way too many card mechanics in one go in act 2 that are overly complicated. I completely ignored the wizard gem stuff and got through just fine.

I think what would have been much better is have 4 acts with each one having you face off against each of the 4 scribes, with an escape room setting fitting their personality. Instead what we got was two scribes in detail and then some weird retro video game in the middle.