![]() ![]() This does create its own set of problems, however.Įventually, you will find yourself engulfed in the routine of everyday medieval life as you labor to build up your settlement. The good news is that eventually you can recruit non-playable characters from nearby villages to join your settlement, which will allow you to automate tasks if their skills match the job. Items break, food spoils, and buildings require repairs, so you’ll find yourself repeating a lot of tasks and processes. Oh, and those wooden planks? You’re going to need to chop down some trees with an axe that also requires crafting in order to get logs. Need to craft a bucket to fetch water? You’ll need two wooden planks to craft that. Nearly everything in Medieval Dynasty requires crafting, and not to sound redundant, but a lot of times your crafting requires crafting. Patience and a willingness to learn these systems will directly affect your enjoyment of the game. There are deep systems at play here, and even some systems within systems. Hunting a couple of rabbits with a spear or a trap is a good start in the early days. You’ve got to eat – this is a survival game after all. You’ll learn to craft a wooden spear, perhaps a knife, and then set out to find a meal. With that said, from the beginning there is a series of quests called “chapters” which serve as a prolonged tutorial, and they mostly do a good job of introducing the game’s systems to you in a general sense.Īfter some initial hurdles, things do begin to open up. Eventually, you’ll complete your house and perhaps feel a sense of accomplishment akin to Tom Hanks in the film Cast Away, when he is finally able to make fire for the first time. ![]() It’s nothing a quick Google search can’t fix, but it shouldn’t be necessary this early on in a game (if at all). The problem is, the game continues to do a poor job of explaining what resources look like and where to find them in the world. Once the location is set, it is time to begin the construction process. That wasn’t possible either, so I started walking away from the village until eventually the on-screen blueprint of my house went from red to green – indicating that I had finally found an acceptable spot within the game’s hidden parameters to place my home. Once I realized that wasn’t possible, I attempted to move outside the village’s fence. My first attempt to build my house was in the middle of the village you start out in, a rural town named Gostovia. This very first quest is where I suspect many players unfamiliar to the genre will bow out. The game picks up here, and your first task as Racimir is to build yourself a home, with a list of smaller tasks instructing you to gather the materials you need to construct it. His uncle had told him stories of a beautiful, peaceful valley to which Racimir travels in hopes of beginning a new life. Medieval Dynasty begins by introducing the game’s mostly forgettable story of a young man named Racimir, who is on the run from war and the chaos that follows. Newcomers, however, are likely to be shell-shocked from the start. If you are a fan of survival role-playing games, you have likely been here before and know enough to understand that some early perseverance is a prerequisite to the genre. Small hooks, but hooks nonetheless, and it’s at this point that the minutes began to turn to hours with a quickness. After hour two, things began to click, and at hour four the game began to set some hooks in me. After my first hour with Medieval Dynasty, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep playing. ![]()
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