Now, however, I am not so sure.
Theres bugger all you’ve got the option to really do to customise your Roman.
And then, just as youre losing the spark of it all, the game just… lets rip.
Some dialogue options at the battles outset offered two significantly different ways to approach the encounter.
It was another cracking bit of level design, and the hits kept coming.
It is a wide, wide set.
A young Julius Caesar is there, being a sort of bullied nerd.
Theres also a lot of politics to get stuck into, via good old branching dialogue sequences.
So, just… take my word for it, basically.
What is getting old fast, however, is all the bloody mooching about.
ER has taken some commendable steps in abstracting some traditional RPG bullshit.
And I know this might seem like a petty thing to complain about, but Im dead serious.
Or when theyre taking it in turns to clamber over said traversal point like a herd of frightened granddads.
Thats honestly just about all thats getting me down, though.
But then, like I said at the start, character customisation is overrated.
