Yaga Reviews

Wonderful flavor! Using slavic folklore and european fairy tales to tell a story in the way one would experience one of such tales as told by a book or a parental figure! The artstyle actually matches that vibe, with it being kind of a dark gritty whimsical and looking like a fairy tale book's artstyle. It is creative enough and gives plenty to do as to experience such themes! As for the negatives, I'm afraid it is rather hard to ignore them. The animation is stilted so it doesn't bring things to life too much, but that's fine. The most issues actually come from the gameplay, which forces you into plenty and plenty of combat and walking, which gets stale and repetitive very fast even with all the tools and hammers one can use, due to the fact the differences are too slight. Some hammers fly farther, the shovel stuns and makes you invincible for a bit, the shield makes you invincible for a bit, the chain stuns and manipulates...all these effects are hardly different in how one acquires the result, which is the battle victory. At the end of the day it is plenty easy to just go in with whichever hammer into these fast paced battles and whichever tool, change none of them at any point, and beat everything in similar manners. One has no reason to change around their gear. The game's focus is on the story and path forging, the cool thing about it is one's own decisions writing the main character's Hero's Journey and giving you upgrades depending on the path, so I don't know why one would go with an active fast paced battle gameplay for this. Wouldn't a choice making card-like gameplay fit better? Worse still, the enemies and allies, part of slavic folklore, yet they are barely explained in any way, thus, one will walk away knowing nothing about said folklore and culture and feeling alienated. :( Still, if you happen to still be familiar enough with such old culture, it will scratch that itch well enough! If you uh have the patience for all the running around and kind of senseless battling. So I still recommend it, preferably on a sale, but even without the sale, it will still offer maaaany hours of fascination and I believe you won't feel like you didn't get your money's worth. Good job altogether!