Slightly confused

[Thebluehulk900]

From what I gather, Eik is the same man as Ake from the first, the companion of our immortal protagonist. Am I wrong? And if not, why the name change? Completely separate, I'm also curious if even though obviously this game had no save import, if the sequel will consider this game's events canon or not, outside of things that would be imported from the first game, such as who is King, whereas in this game it is Hode.

Edit: Also noticing the King's name seems to be different as well?

[bijou]

Yes, Ake and Eik are the same character. The name changed because in our eternal wiki his name mentioned as Eik which translated as 'oak' from Norwegian language. Hence the confusion. Should probably fix it.

The Way is following the particular ending in Redemption which we believe is a canon. The god is imprisoned in Gleda, prince Ho has become king Ho, Eik / Ake spent 20 years to learn new skills and become a good father for Finn. As for a sequel, we were working on it for quite some time, and yes — that's the canon, and the most important thing is the one which I tagged as a spoiler.

King Ho is the correct name. Hoda is a nickname as prince Ho was pretending to be a simple soldier and used that name as a cover.

[Thebluehulk900]

Ah, I missed the Prince Ho thing. I understand the name change, though I'd reccomend changing it in the original, if possible, though I understand some of the tools to make the game have been inaccessible for your team, so it's not a huge deal. I get that this is the canon for The Way, because it's focus is more on the arena battles, but does that mean Ash of Gods 2 will not have a save import when it is released? Though I understand that there are many variables to go through, it would be fairly disappointing to see that the decisions I made in the first game won't affect the second. I could understand locking in Gleda as the person trapped, due to that being a major plot point, especially since I personally did not like the end making you split between your two main characters, and would have preferred them each getting their spotlight at the climax. Otherwise though, I would have liked if my decisions could carry over to the next game. Even if it wasn't a direct save import due to the old games bugginess, and more of a "what decisions did you make?" thing like Dragon Age Keep.

[bijou]

Originally posted by Thebluehulk900:

does that mean Ash of Gods 2 will not have a save import when it is released?

Yes, there will be no save import. The story in the first game is complete, the only cliffhangers are Childao's storyline and the imprisoned Goddess. That's what we are going to take into consideration.

If we are to develop AoG2, it will be significantly different from the original game. Redemption was written by a Russian fantasy book writer, and we won't work with him anymore. There were 56 (!) characters, dialogue and consequences logic is flawed in many ways, so we intend to explain a lot of stuff even for those who didn't play Redemption.

Actually, if you are to join our Discord and PM me (@asbijou), I can show you what we have.

[Thebluehulk900]

Originally posted by bijou:

Originally posted by Thebluehulk900:

does that mean Ash of Gods 2 will not have a save import when it is released?

Yes, there will be no save import. The story in the first game is complete, the only cliffhangers are Childao's storyline and the imprisoned Goddess. That's what we are going to take into consideration.

If we are to develop AoG2, it will be significantly different from the original game. Redemption was written by a Russian fantasy book writer, and we won't work with him anymore. There were 56 (!) characters, dialogue and consequences logic is flawed in many ways, so we intend to explain a lot of stuff even for those who didn't play Redemption.

Actually, if you are to join our Discord and PM me (@asbijou), I can show you what we have.

I'll message you!