Thank you SO much for the amazing review❤ It truly means a lot to me!

Your voice, tone, debit and straightforwardness makes this a must-subscribe channel. No fluff, no cringey jokes, just the facts. Thank you for your review!

ran into this video while looking for reviews for this game, and I subscribed after the first five minutes. Great stuff man! You focus on all the right details, and your opinions are both objective, and clearly from the point of view of someone who is open-minded. Looking forward to poking through your other videos as a huge RPG/CRPG fan 🙏🏾

I've been hyped for this since the first demo came out. Very happy to see you were provided a review copy and even more happy that it seems to deliver!

Damn, you beat Mortismal to a full review 😆 he’s only got a first impressions up. Those who follow his channel will get why I’m laughing. Usually by the time others have an initial impressions vid up of a new release, he’s 100%ed the game with 937 hours into it, released the full review.

WOW! This was arguably the most thorough game review I have seen in a long while - covering topics that are genuinely relevant to a buy, wait or skip decision. Well done!

Just randomly saw Skald on Twitch this morning, immediately on my radar. This review format is excellent, nice work.

I'm so jealous of you right now lol. I've been counting down the days to this. I'm glad you enjoyed it and now I'm more hyped.

Excellent review. I'll be purchasing this game, if not for anything else but to support such a developer. Here is the hopes of more games like this one, from more talented developers like this game has.

Holy crap! It finally came out! Thanks for the review and notice that this gem is finally here!

Love the massive amount of Detail in your reviews.. Will Subscribe to check out more. Excellent Job!

Very thourough in your review, especially going over the stats. It's like a mini guide on the game. Looking forward to trying this game.

slandered!! thank you so much for this review; i have been curious about this game for a little while now- the roleplaying exploration affinities are right up my alley, not to mention the art is gorgeous- and i am very excited to finally give it a try! and especially so now, since it has officially earned your seal of approval ^^

This review was extremely in-depth and informative! Incredible.

Excellent review! Didn’t know anything about this game before this video, I’ll definitely get it when released.

Another banger Slandered, thanks for the recommendation. Picked it up a couple days ago and been having a blast

Great review!

Boom! Right out of the gate, you give the viewers information they need. This is so refreshing!

Can't wait to play!!

Great review! I picked this up thanks to your recommendation 😁

Thank u for introducing this game to me. And will def be subscribing. I love crpgs and their aren’t many channels out there that focus on them

Thanks for such a thorough review.

Luxurious review, thank you so much! I´m still pondering whether to get it or not, but I eventually will :D

Thanks for the review! I'm thinking of going Champion, since I love melee and I can go heavy into lore/diplomacy and also be a melee class and a dash of healing on the side. Although my usual playstyle is that of an officer, I think having main stat as presence is probably way more important for the things I wanna do with my character.

Hey, they even have character portrait options that look like you! That's always fun to see.

This looks amazing Slandered! Going to get this right now mate! Thanks for the heads up slandered. The movement seems similar to stoneshard.

Clear, concise explanation on otherwise overwhelming mechanics! Excellent review!

Amazing review very well explained. I subscribed

Great vid Slandered. The game is a gem.

Great review! Got it last night right after watching it and I dont regret a single bit! Hope you get to play its release version soon in the channel!

Thanks for the review - nice touch letting us know if companions already have certain classes or not. Have you ever done any voice acting, by the way?

Great review, thank you!

Excellent review! I am a new fan

Wait… why weren’t you allowed to play video games? I’m pretty sure you’re a little younger than my mom and they used to have an Atari 2600 back in Chicago. Was it’s a religious thing or a strict household? Happy to see you enjoying things you missed out on in your adulthood like tabletop rpg’s and story/narrative driven video games.

The visuals actually reminded me of an old Sega game called The Immortal. And thats a huge positive for me

Hype! :)

This isnt a review, this is a guide.

well thought and well scripted, i was already on board with this game but you done sealed the deal.

Looks awesome. I played Legends of Amberland 1-2 last year and had fun (another old school inspired game series which I'd recommend.) Will try this one for sure!

High appreciation for the breakdown of the primary attributes and skills stats, that got a sub and a like outa me.

No video games?? Gah! I would have died. I dug more garden for my mom every year to get video game time. Great video, as usual Slandered.

This game really surprised me with its depth. Definitely going to be looking for similar stuff.

Quite high praise. I wasn't interested in it prior since it's a love letter to really old school RPG design and I haven't been able to get into those. I might have to change my tune for this one, this is also just a great review in general.

Interested in this, thanks!

This does look good. I never played any of the early Ultima games, but I think it's fun that Skald is directly drawing on games from even before Baldur's Gate.

This was a great review, will give the game a try. Thank you.

The demo ends at the end of the flashback, so I was left with a question. I would think that unread skill books from the skill library are lost afterward, which has huge implications for your level 1 build. Basically, you want to one-point all the relevant magic schools for any skill you wish to learn, as you will never get the chance again. Or maybe I speculated wrong, and your boat inventory and your flashback inventory merge later. No idea.

Thanks for the rundown! Gonna buy this game. FYI The Battlemagos can wear light armor

hey thank for pointing me in the direction of this game. looks good brother.

Music reminds of warriors of the eternal sun for sega megadrive.

nice review! and also very useful for a current player with the overview of all the classes and their skills. about spell casters not having a feat that gives them the option to do serveral attacks every turn: it is there - in a way. there is the straght up awesome "cascade" mechanic! every time your magoes or spellcasters cast a spell they do a dice roll. If the roll is high enough, they will be able to cast another spell in the same turn! its super powerful! as you level up, you can increase your max cascade you can do per turn. in other words if you roll high enough you can blast out spells to consume the enemy with fireballs from your eyes and bolts of lightning from your arse... in a figure of speaking :D the cascade feature is something that i would love to see in other roleplaying games as it just tickels my power fantasy a mighty mage :D - if anyone do know about other roleplaying systems that do use it, let me know in the comments :-)

Wow looks amazing

Reminds me of playing on my Mega Drive back in the early 90s. 😊

Thank you for introduce me this game. Man... i felt myself so old and yet so young again. Who cares about graphic, i mean dont get me wrong, the whole game for me is like exotic kind of beauty.

I hadn't even heard of this game, and now it's an instant purchase.

Great vid. Buy this game. Play this game.

Great channel i have new entertainment thank you

Know what game did the leader skills thing mostly right? Rogue Trader. Automatically uses the person with the highest skill. My only complaint there was the speech skills. It would have made more sense for the character with the higher speech skill than the rogue trader to be the one who speaks.

Been waiting for this game since it was revealed! I really hope they do fix the thing with the skill-check and leader thing ,though. That sounds really frustrating, and also immersion breaking.

Officer is pretty bonkers once you get the extra attack for every companion. I hope the dev makes a sequel.

“Unlocks in 17 hours” Grr hurry up!

I miss this style of old school RPG ❤

if a game developers favorite game is Ultima V , you know they are going to make something awesome =]

Good video, good game

Aye aye,you and Warlockracy should collaborate

One thing wrong with the review and it tells you this at the tutorial: You can always change characters during conversations to use the one with the best skill/roll You press Q to cycle between the character during a conversation or skillcheck.

i love combat in rpgs i always crave a good dungeon crawl party banter i dont care about for me baldurs gate 3 without all that romance stuff would be a better game

Looks like a fun game! My only criticism is the text. It's hard to read imho. The text during combat should maybe have a dark boarder to give better contrast. The text in the menu should have the drop shadow removed, that too is hard to read at first glance.

Now that I have beat it, I really enjoyed the gameplay and music. But after seeing the ending, it makes me want to stay away from cosmic horror games from now on. I guess I was unfamiliar with Lovecraftian type of endings (I have at least watched In the Mouth of Madness), but the ending for this game was such a let down after all hours of effort I put in. It's not as much the ending outcome, but the abruptness and bad execution of it imo. It's not that you can't have 'Lovecraftian' endings, but you still have to do it well with lead up that makes sense.

ayo guys i've found CRPG Bro's favourite game !

any chance you check out colony ship , its like fallout 1 in space.

Looks Amazing

How does this run on the Steam Deck? If it runs good I’m buying it

Do mercenaries "steal" XP from a total share? Otherwise is there any reason not to run mercenaries until you get a full roster?

So they changed the classes from the early versions...... a shame. I preferred it when there were archetypes and classes, and when there were classes who's main attribute was fortitude. Such a unique system it was . Along with the rule system, it made this a perfect game for me. Now it's just ok. I mean definitely something on my radar, and something i will eventually get to, but i'm no longer that enthusiastic about it or in a a hurry. Missed opportunities here by going the conventional route IMO. No the least of which is the namesake class being absent, where is the Scald!?

Is it possible to play the game unarmed? Because nothing is better than punching a dragon to death

Wow, looks like something I played when I was 10. Hmmmm

I would instantly buy it ,but cant see anything in that graphic

I floundered around the beginning part of the game until the albino leeches dropped me. I'll return to the game once Maps & Guides are available. Also, spells are really weak. They need buffing.

sometimes its tough to listen to you at all but now you want me to pay.... bless you sir good luck I like most of the games you cover and its why I watch but your delivery and content are not worth a influx of cash. just my opinion

I like the mechanics in this game, but the graphics are just bad, and bad in a way the interferes with the game itself. Even the original Wizardry had a mini map, and in this game having no map is just awful.

Come on man the game is good but masterpiece is a little far fetched. Everyone's so starved for a game like this it is getting way over inflated praise. Like your channel though and just subscribed to it.

im sorry but i dont get the appeal of 8 bit. im old af and that's how pretty games looked like when i was a kid. this is fugly. 16 bit i can get behind but this is just uhg

I just hate graphics of this game and the yellow text on orange background. Ain't no way I'm playing it

It's a pity that the game doesn't have the great and mighty Russian language.

No it ain't

I just absolutely cannot stand this art style. I don’t find it nostalgic, I just find its lack of fidelity ugly.

Great review!

Great review!