These guys have form when it comes to fantasy RPGs – even if Obsidian’s most recent games have been the delightfully bonkers Pentiment and the even more bonkers Grounded – and what it concocts here is a delicious fantasy offering that mostly satisfies, even if it doesn’t (to overstretch the culinary metaphor) leave the taste-buds tingling.
That means the combat is actually pretty customisable: swords, shields, wands, pistols or even big, meaty items like a war hammer, which takes longer to swing but does an indecent amount of damage when it lands.
Quite apart from being set in the universe of Pillars of Eternity, Avowed is packed to the gills with fantasy cliches, even if most of them are executed more enjoyably than they have any right to be.
Perhaps it has, but Obsidian Studios is finally serving us a long-awaited snack to tide us over until the next game: Avowed, the not-quite-spinoff set in the same universe.
Not only is the world absolutely gorgeous – and bursting with things to do, whether that’s killing lizard folk or poking around the bustling city of Paradis – there’s also a satisfying combat system to get stuck into.
