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I haven't gotten far in this yet, due to various RL issues, but... I could see myself pushing through to clear it if I had the motivation to.
When I got it from a bundle, I thought it was purely a semi-randomized dungeon hack ala Diablo or Titan Quest or Torchlight - after all, that's what all the screenshots make it look like. Instead, it's in a similar but slightly different vein, more of a hybrid of those style of hack-and-slash games and a character action. In essence it's sort of like one of the sleeper hits of the old PS2/brick X-Box days, Hunter: The Reckoning, or in more recognizable terms, sort of like the Gauntlet reboots. The difference, mainly, is that you only have a single character to run around with, the titular Victor.
The story is a generic pseudo-apocalyptic middle-ages monsterstomper. This cursed kingdom has become a den of evil and satans, nobody has come out alive, and you, the protagonist, have a Long Thought Dead buddy calling you to hang out for a while. The main thing that sets Vran apart setting-wise is that it's very snide with its humor - it knows it's not gonna win any awards, so it goes so over-the-top and self-depreciating with its melodrama that you can't really take it seriously. You get tutorialized by a smug British disembodied voice that calls you "Vicky", and it's all incredibly PSX-Era-Spider-Man.
All in all, the combat is pretty punchy, the writing isn't openly offensive and actually gets a smile or two out of me (and an occasional groan - your Interdimensional Safebox keeper is a low-ranked military man named Stash... in other words your private stash is managed by Private Stash) and honestly the whole thing seems like a solid romp, if a bit unpolished.
Definitely better than I usually expect to get out of an IndieGala pustule.
When I got it from a bundle, I thought it was purely a semi-randomized dungeon hack ala Diablo or Titan Quest or Torchlight - after all, that's what all the screenshots make it look like. Instead, it's in a similar but slightly different vein, more of a hybrid of those style of hack-and-slash games and a character action. In essence it's sort of like one of the sleeper hits of the old PS2/brick X-Box days, Hunter: The Reckoning, or in more recognizable terms, sort of like the Gauntlet reboots. The difference, mainly, is that you only have a single character to run around with, the titular Victor.
The story is a generic pseudo-apocalyptic middle-ages monsterstomper. This cursed kingdom has become a den of evil and satans, nobody has come out alive, and you, the protagonist, have a Long Thought Dead buddy calling you to hang out for a while. The main thing that sets Vran apart setting-wise is that it's very snide with its humor - it knows it's not gonna win any awards, so it goes so over-the-top and self-depreciating with its melodrama that you can't really take it seriously. You get tutorialized by a smug British disembodied voice that calls you "Vicky", and it's all incredibly PSX-Era-Spider-Man.
All in all, the combat is pretty punchy, the writing isn't openly offensive and actually gets a smile or two out of me (and an occasional groan - your Interdimensional Safebox keeper is a low-ranked military man named Stash... in other words your private stash is managed by Private Stash) and honestly the whole thing seems like a solid romp, if a bit unpolished.
Definitely better than I usually expect to get out of an IndieGala pustule.
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ugggggh whose dad wrote this game