The only black smiting game with slavery, hallucinogenic drug use, prostitution, and child abuse. 10/10

The experience that I had with this game is a pretty mix bag, but ultimately the dialogue, Illusion of Choice options, and lack of connectivity with the actual story that was applied to the game leaves me realizing that I should have just reinstalled Fantasy Blacksmith and played that again for hours.

I enjoyed portions of the actual bladecraft, the different parts and the intricate details was actually refreshing in being able to have creative freedom in terms of weapon variety and control over how the weapon could turn out. If more of the game was wrapped around this aspect then I would have highly recommended it. This is where my positive review stops.

Ultimately, if you wish to 'win' the game, you're locked into a loop of using gold as your primary actual profit due to the values of everything else being so abysmally low that it's genuinely a waste of time to progress the game any other way aside from 'gambling' in the arena. So you can either choose to be a whipped, sniveling dog struggling your way through as the developer intended according to the abysmal writing, shoddy choices, and the multitude of bad ends. Or! You can be a rich whipped, sniveling dog slogging your way through a game that has poor interactions with the haphazardly built world and lifeless people you encounter.

I genuinely liked only three characters in their writing, one of them was a hard sell to grow on me but it did happen. The rest are insufferable ♥♥♥♥♥, so if that was the aim then job well done there but it got to the point where I would just not want to progress past night time because I didn't want to deal with the writing. Sad fact is that it just got worse as the story progressed in terms of inconsistencies and just lack of quality editing.

The end of the 'main story' feels entirely empty, won't go too much into it because there's genuinely not much to go into. You're presented with one helluva curveball that you can chase down to get all the way the hell out of the place that treated you worse than the dirt beneath their feet on a regular only for...not a lot to be explained. You get an achievement though, huzzah?

All in all, you really don't even have to advance the story if you don't want to. Played purely as a craft similuator trying to produce a Godcraft item trying to get that perfect 100% across all aspects of the weapon with several hard to control variables in how the weapon comes together is an interesting challenge.

But I'd suggest for a major discount on this title to get into it.

Pretty Simple game, but very easy to lose track of time playing. I haven't gotten terribly far yet, but so far its been fun learning to improve my smithing.