It’s been a golden time for fantasy lately and having inhaled Dragon’s Dogma 2, Metaphor: ReFantazio, both seasons of House of the Dragon and all of Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing novels in less than a year, I’m starting to blur the finer details of one kingdom with another.
I remember precious few names or historical details, but I will remember several of my experiences in this game – the view from the rickety path hugging the walls of an underground cavern big enough for a mad priest to have built as gigantic automaton inside, and the skin-crawling secret I discovered in the basement of a companion’s family home.
Xbox, PC; Obsidian Entertainment/MicrosoftObsidian’s huge, heavily detailed fantasy world has a lot of variety and texture, and interesting people to meet - but the combat and exploration wear thin.
The lore is dense, the in-game text plentiful and characters verbose, but thankfully The Lands Between is fascinating to look at and the realm of Eora full of political tension and cool monsters.
Every time I have to switch between fantasy realms I feel a little like the workers in Severance.
