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Avowed - Shroom For Improvement (Review) (Patreon)

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2025-02-27 20:11:26
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A very disappointing game, this. It gives me no joy to talk about what a limited, hollow RPG this is, and that's to say nothing of the toothless story. Combat's nice though. Hope you like the review!

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Avowed - Shroom For Improvement (Review)

AvowedReleased: February 18th, 2024Developer: Obsidian EntertainmentPublisher: Xbox Game StudiosSystems: PC, Xbox X/S (reviewed)"I don't know how, but if anyone can, it's you," confidently claims the Pikaman Furby who's spent thirty minutes in your company, wholly convinced after fighting a few lizards that you're capable of stopping an epidemic nobody knows anything about.

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James Rule

A pity how Avowed turned out. But it was to be expected. Any plans of reviewing Kingdom: Come Deliverance II ?

Pandacidal maniac

The most disappointing thing about this game based all the reviews I've read is that the tropes it dully treads in the story, characters and world building are all things that the outer worlds lampoons so hilariously, it's shocking the games came from the same creator

Creator Supporter

I'm really surprised how they went from Deadfire to this story, writing, and choice wise. Do we know if the writers were different between the two games? Seems like a really shallow RPG.

Andrew L Butula
>>166168641

Deadfire was written by Carrie Patel and Josh Sawyer. Carrie Patel was the director for Avowed, Josh Sawyer was the director for Pentiment. Make of that what you will.

Creator Supporter
>>166168641

I don't think we can realistically say that Josh Sawyer "wrote" Deadfire along with Carrie Patel. When I look at his entry on wikipedia it says "Narrative Designer". I'm not too familiar with that term in the industry but some quick googling shows that it's someone who works with the story team and the systems team to figure out how the story is going to fit in with the gameplay. I also don't think them being the director means they had total control over the narrative and story of the game. Based on what I've seen with Avowed and what Stephanie has said in her (Stephanie please let me know if you prefer a pronoun of their instead of her if that aligns better with the she/them pronouns listed on your bsky account as I wasn't sure but am always happy to be educated) review the game seems like everything around the combat is just a wrapper and list of checkboxes to sell to the masses without rocking the boat or challenging anyone.