![]() ![]() There are some strong narrative directions and decisions that the characters make, and plenty of those directions are debatable.Įven with SpellForce 3: Soul Harvest releasing so close to SpellForce 3, it’s worth it. Yes some are the standard fetch quest variety, but then there are deeper quests with stronger storytelling elements – such as that time you need to track both a missing person, and the search party that went looking for them before also going missing. The RPG quests themselves are also more than top level fluff to fill in the space. There’s a careful enough blend between the RPG and RTS elements where you need to accumulate resources and build up a camp to either go to war or to dominate the local residents like giant ugly trolls. Thankfully, there’s always a God stone nearby in order to resurrect from if they should die.įrom there, SpellForce does what it’s good at. Generated troops are dispensable but your heroes are named and important, as they gain experience levels and skills as they continue on. By doing so, your adventuring across the map is eased somewhat as you generate troops from the barracks in order to go show your opponent who is who. Your protagonist, main party members and the mercenaries that you can hire and equip all level up and become customisable, allowing you to configure them as you see fit. The SpellForce series is an interesting one as it combines RTS elements alongside a top-down RPG adventure. This is pretty important storytelling, and allows the developers to get that stuff out of the way before the campaign proper starts – another smart decision. The other thing that this tutorial does is introduce you to your new protagonist as he’s essentially reliving the nightmare of what happened to disgrace him in the first place. The tutorial, which is important if you’ve never played, allows brand new players a chance to get comfortable with the systems before they truly get thrown from the frying pan into the oven. Now while I could “complain” about having to again go through a tutorial this soon in order to get acclimated with the basics, having the tutorial in a stand alone is not a bad thing. Ready or not, you head out to do her bidding. Soon finding out the reason of the Queen’s summons, you are told that the previous protagonist, and leader of this elite unit, was killed in battle and the Queen deems you the best replacement as she believes in second chances. Taking control of a disgraced general being summoned home, you are given the reigns of the elite Wolfguard. ![]() Soul Harvest, while being a stand alone, is actually a sequel to SpellForce 3 and starts up about two years later, after the end of the war that it portrayed. Answering outright probably one of the biggest questions, is SpellForce 3: Soul Harvest worth it? The answer is yes, but not just because it’s more SpellForce this quickly after the last run at it. ![]()
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