The Ballad Singer is a successful Kickstarter game from the Italian developer Curtel Games. Inspired by RPGs, visual novels, gamebooks and classic “choose your own adventure” experiences, I had a chance to try out this game, a ‘narrated graphic experience.’ It's currently available via Steam “early access” with the final version being made available in February 2019.
I was excited to try a "choose your own adventure" game, since I used to love that kind of book as a kid. I also love fantasy stories, so this was a perfect blend. There are apparently 1,700 different stories with 40 different endings, so it can be a new game nearly every time you play. That's a lot of mileage for a game that's just over $20.
Features:
- Four heroes with different narrative developments;
- Asymmetric stories intertwining one to the other;
- During a single run with a character you will never face two fights alike;
- Your choices really matter, you can completely change the fate of the heroes through your decisions;
- Three degrees of challenge: deceive death and repeat mortal choices through powerful artifacts;
- Replayability: only by replaying The Ballad Singer you will be able to discover the different decisional paths of each hero;
- Domino System: a choice in the first minutes of play could have strong repercussions throughout the course of the adventure;
- Fully narrated story, over 400,000 words and 40 hours of narration;
- More than 700 HD illustrations;
- Over 40 musical tracks;
- 400 different detailed deaths.
- Dying is part of the story, so there is no "Game Over." When a character you're playing as dies, you will play as a new hero, within the same story, in a different narrative path.
About Curtel Games:
Curtel Games was born in June 2017, after the success of the Kickstarter campaign the team has expanded to include 25 members, based in Milan, Italy. The main objective of Curtel Games is to create games with a high artistic content and innovative dynamics.
Curtel Games will use The Ballad Singer's Early Access to receive feedback from users and progressively improve the gaming experience and release lots of new content
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_BalladSinger
Website (newsletter): https://www.theballadsinger.com/
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