SKALD: Against The Black Priory – First Impressions
Talking about my initial experiences with SKALD, a retro rpg that sees us investigating lovecraftian horrors in search of a missing …
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October 7, 2024
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As someone who played CGA and EGA games a lot, this one is a really hard sell for me because the washed out color palette makes it so actually seeing, following and interacting with units and terrain is excruciatingly difficult.
Thanks for the video. Now I'm kind of curious how the audio is. Do they pull of some unnerving 8-bit melodies? Onward to 400k. All glory to the algorithm.
Sounds cool, just wish it was a bit easier on the eyes and didn’t look like a deep fried meme.
Reminds me of the old gold box AD&D. It looks very interesting.
Great first impressions, looking forward to the full review.
The presentation for me is too pixelated. And I am not against pixelart games, since I played a lot of SNES jrpgs, and I even like/love a lot of modern pixelart games like Children of Morta, Hero Siege, Chronicon, Sea of Stars and Chained Echoes. But this one, like the dungeon and world map exploration, they are too pixelated for my taste. But anyway, just my taste, but good luck to the game, and thanks for the preview.
Thank you for this review! I've been waiting for this game since EA. Do you plan on reviewing Dread Delusion?
There will be blood! Looks awesome.
Having watched Majuular's videos on Ultima, this piques my interest as an old school take on the genre with modern sensibilities behind it. There's definitely something to be gained from matching the two up.
Gronk!
oh that gives big eye of the beholder vibes
This looks like downright my alley. Thanks for covering it! Wishlisting it now
Was so into this from the demo. Really hoping it lives up to the vibes.
seeing one of the dialogue lines as "Magi's Ball's" cracked me up pretty good
I've been waiting for this one for years. It's almost here!
This game would be great on Evercade.
Nope, not for me .
I really enjoyed my time with the demo and I can't wait to dive into this one tomorrow. I've been trying to semi rush Ghosts of Tsushima to finish it before then, but I still have half of Act 3 and IKI island to do so it's not gonna be close. I will still give Skald a few hours of my time and try to juggle in between that and Ghosts.
Awesome review as always, the only thing I dind't quite like was the texture kinda hurt my eyes trying to decipher what is what during combat in certain instances.
The 8-bit visuals are part of the appeal for me. I’d much rather a creative game with retro visuals, than an uncreative AAA thing that puts all its money into graphics.
I usually love retro looking games, but for some reason this was one doesn't appeal to me. The game sound cool, maybe I'll check a demo out and see if it grows on me.
Cant wait to play this :3
Mad respect for even considering playing a new game with graphics from the 80s after getting used to games with the latest graphics.
Good show sir
Is there a way to look at potential spells etc you can get so you can plan out your build?
I grew up with the Amstrad cpc 6128 and then the Amiga. I LOVE how this game looks.
So do you have any idea how long the game will be? Or how many hours have you spent on it so far?
It looks beautiful. I played the demo which is the prologue of the game and it does a great job of introducing each element of the UI one by one. If you think it’s too overwhelming from this video, just try the free demo for five minutes and I bet you’ll change your mind.
Game looks very cool, I look forward to the full review.
Thank you so much for covering Skald! It really means so much to me ❤ The game has seen a massive amount of polish in the last two weeks so I can promise you that the game we're dropping tomorrow is a retro-CRPG fan's dream! As always, much love from Norway!