
keep up!) tells me that a wizard called Lamil lives in the Great Forest, and that he'll help me out. It has become my one and only mission in life to expose Silas as a lying, treacherous berk. Maybe, I can earn some dosh to buy some lock picks. Oh, yeah, I just remembered that Perdis had another mission for me. What is this? Costco? Now what? 23 minutes A pack of 50 lock picks is 300 gold, and the general store won't sell them separately.

The shop called General Goods sounds promising (though I've made a note of the store next door called Bows and More. I'm gonna go all Phoenix Wright on his Unity-powered butt.īut, his house is locked, so first I'll need a lock pick. He's probably got an "I love White Hand" T-shirt hanging up in his closet. Now, Silas is saying he isn't involved with the White Hand, and I've no proof otherwise. Now, Layna's sending me off to Silas Brown (no relation) over at the Strongarm Tavern to find out more about some nasty-sounding sorts called the White Hand.

These people are giving me the right runaround. I went back to Perdis, who told me that Layna has got some work for me. I'm more of a noble warrior (and, besides, IAPs are turned off in this preview build), so I need to work for my cash. I should note that you can buy more gold with in-app purchases if you're that way inclined. Everything in the shop is just outside my measly 200 gold budget, so I walk out empty-handed. 16 minutesĪ quick trip across town, and I'm in Dunner's Smithy. I'm feeling a little exposed, so I'm gonna buy myself a shield. With those doubloons rattling around in my long johns, I'm told by Perdis to head to the blacksmith. Not sure I trust that pointy goatee, but he has just given me a nice sword, a hardy leather vest, and 200 gold coins. This Perdis fella seems like a nice chap. That's going to make things a bit tricky. There's no marker on your world map, no Skyrim-style compass, and no giant arrow pointing out your destination. When you're tracking a quest, the destination appears on your mini-map, but only when you're quite close. This gives me a good chance to fiddle around with the 'quest' menu. Once I've chosen a new visage, I'm told to go meet a bloke called Perdis at the Guild Hall. A woman called Layna has attended to my wounds, and helps me choose a new face. I wake up, bloodied and bruised from my prologue-tutorial battle, in a modest house in a tiny town. I've killed a few elves, and my crew knocked out a massive great troll when I wasn't looking. There's also a camera button if you prefer playing in first person.Īnyway. There are buttons for jump and attack, the latter of which doubles up as a shield block when you hold it. You've got run and look on the left and right sides of the screen, and you can start your hero off on a continuous run with a quick double-tap. Those controls seem pretty easy to get to grips with. So, we'll set up the story (something and elves, I think) and learn the controls. We kick off our epic adventure with a prologue, which handily doubles up as a tutorial.


So, instead, we decided to turn on our iPhone 5, launch Ravensword: Shadowlands, commit a good hour to the game, and find out how much of its world we can see in 60 minutes.įollow along for our journey into the Shadowlands… One minute That's way too much for us to cover in one preview, though. It's got hundreds of items to find, loads of different baddies to splat, over 40 hours of gameplay, and, according to Crescent Moon, " the biggest 3D world to date" on iOS. Ravensword: Shadowlands is shaping up to be a truly enormous game.
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