Avaliações de Tales Of Aravorn: An Elven Marriage

Great spin-off is really faithfull to Loren: The Warrior Princess in both RPG battle dinamic and romancing characters. I miss the other characters though, especially Loren and Karen. Lydia and Nathyr are very layred and intriguing characters that go well with the world of Aravorn rich story telling, and Gruff is really funny (and nonbinary, yay!. It isn't as epic, sorroful, moving or deep as Loren: The Amazon Princess but it has great and beautiful moments and is a really fun play. But did not placate my longing for Loren: The Amazon Princess though, and I hope there are more spin-offs to come (hopefully with Loren, Karen and the other characters as well.) I think part of the yearning is because you play again as Elenor (or Saren) and leaving the others romances behind— and my end game that would be either LorenxElenor or KarenxEIenor— to romance Lydia or Nathyr is hard to do. On the other hand not persuing romance, my favorite part of Winter Wolves games (although I love the RPG aspects as well) is not doable either, so I found myself on a tought spot. There are some brief nostalgic mentions of Loren, Karen and other characters though. I missed the epic classic battle songs of the original game too. But play it, really fun game and the new romantic interests are sweet. It discusses some of Loren: The Amazon Princess main concerns, as prejudice, war, otherness, fredoom and choice, as well as the concept of evil. The game has an enphasis on the problem of ethics vs. politics— the main plot is about a political marriage, after all— and the question of faith vs. reason (embodied in the two love interests, Nathyr and Lydia, respectively). Lydia is a hero worthy of inheriting Loren's proeminet whole in Loren: The Amazon Princess, but unlike Loren, her strenght is more of the mind and sense of justice and equality than that of the body and the heart— but equally (or almost equally— Loren is a tough match!) of the will. Her strenght and determination to overcome any kind of bigotry, encompassing not only all ethnic groups, but transceding them (theme of the game best illustrated by Ellisar egualitarian community, that echoes similar concerns in other Winter Wolves's games, such as Kraken's story in The Curse of Mantras). At first I liked better Loren The Amazon Princess's art style (perhaps the millenial in me sees it as more reminiscent of older games style), and still do, but Aravorn Tales: A Elven Marriage style has grown on me as I played. The same happened to the soundtrack. I still prefer Loren The Amazon Princess's ost but the tunes, specially the battle ones (that are epic and catchy), put us in the mood to beat the "villain of the week" as in 90's animes— have grown on me. The positive take on miscegenation, already present in Loren The Amazon Primcess, is here taken an step further, and voiced through Lydia, who makes it her political project to emancipation of all populations and ending of wars.