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In Ravensword, the books are there, but they’re not interactive. Take the books as an example – in real Elder Scrolls games, there are books everywhere, and each of those books tells stories to help build the world’s lore and character.

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Worldbuilding is an art form, but unfortunately, the developers learned how to do that, and even with the little things this game manages to be a consistent disappointment to anyone looking for a memorable experience. Additionally, the world feels empty, bland, and limited. There aren’t that many side-quests, and none of them are exactly of the quality of The Witcher 3 as small narrative experiences in their own right. The world might be expansive, but there’s a dearth of things to do in it, besides to make the trip between the limited number of objectives you’re given. It just doesn’t take long for the weaknesses in the game to show themselves. There are skills to earn and use to customise your character, and while the aesthetics look a little primitive, it’s still wondrous in the same way something like Morrowind is, with a soundtrack that surely veers close to plagiarism for that series (which is fine, in the sense that that is excellent music to plagiarise). The world is expansive, there are plenty of enemies to fight and exotic locations to visit, and the action is very Elder Scrolls in approach and style. That’s not to say it isn’t fun in the abstract, because it has its moments. You’d sit back and wonder “how did they make this work on mobile?!?” However, anything that makes a game a classic is entirely absent from Ravensword, and with every year the game becomes less and less relevant. Ravensword highlights the kind of game that “ages poorly,” in that what made it so impressive initially were all technical features.

A console with which we already have Skyrim, Kingdoms of Amalur, The Witcher 3, and any number of other excellent western RPGs in the same vein as this.

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Back then mobile gaming was still fairly new and full of promise (free-to-play and gacha games weren’t a thing yet), and Ravensword was a vision for that future.įast forward the better part of a decade, and now Ravensword is on Nintendo Switch. Back in 2012, which it first launched on iPhone and iPad, it was hailed as something amazing, as an effort to do the Elder Scrolls aesthetic on mobile. Ravensword: Shadowlands is a good lesson that I hope developers learn.