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Skald: Against the Black Priory review - a robust but inessential throwback to the RPG's primordial era
Eurogamer's review of Skald: Against the Black Priory, a propulsive throwback RPG with grisly character but a little too much adherance to tradition.
As you drift down into the abyss, the story flashes back to the journey's inciting event; an aristocratic former friend of your father's asks you to find his daughter – a woman named Embla – who has absconded to the Outer Isles for reasons unknown. As your bedraggled character hops across the pebbly coast, you battle ship rats and scuttling crabs horribly mutated by some unseen force, and pass the smashed corpses of sailors pulped by the roiling tide. | Image credit: Raw Fury / Eurogamer Mechanically, Skald is an unapologetically traditional RPG, mixing top-down exploration of both a larger overworld and more specific locations, with some text adventure-style dungeon crawling and turn-based combat.
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