i do deep digs into the shovelware sections of steam, it’s filled with overpriced rpgmaker shit and forgettable unity projects with overly grand ambitions that probably shouldn’t have even made itch.io and most of it’s priced ~$5-$10 in freedom funds with the occasional outlier at $30 where our subject Athereon: Advent I lies. i dug up this game and when i found it, had 31 followers and 2 players at its all-time peak.
after jerking off on my face for about a week, i wiped the goo off and bought this ugly bastard and now you're going to live vicariously through me, my terrible documentation, and my shitty screenshots.
whenever i encounter a new game and a new rule system i typically roll fighter since it's some basic shit and it's hard to fuck up a fighter in most games nowadays.
the graphics are super basic unity stuff that you'll forget ten minutes after you stop playing.
no stat alteration options at character gen, so you're gonna get what you're given
classes are fighters, mages, psionite, scouts
this was the first load in, then tabbed out to begin this post, returned to visual bug that results from alt-tabbing. wonderful. bonertastic.
start a new game again, load in, and having played the demo, i knew there was some foggy weather elements.
also, i windowed it so i don't get that alt-tab bug, and this is the overworld with the fog.
quick shot of the overworld without the fog with bonus 'skills needed for scanning'
the city ahead of me in the overworld typically look like this
trying to suss some fucking information from some stupid bitch who don't know anything
about to be the star in an amateur gay porn
the masterful design of the 'castle town' with hidden second floor
typical midnight without torch lit
for the last image for this op, a fight i escaped from but all battles start this far out so far, but look at that size difference!
70 minutes in and i have no fucking clue what is going on, what to do, where to go, nothing other than a vague mission of "seeking enlightenment" a la Ultima IV.
It is definitely something for sure. Maybe it'll get better?
before anyone should suggest me to rtfm, this is the fucking manual provided