The visual evolution of your armory and weaponry is so incremental as to be rather unnoticeable, but that's a distinct price of "realism" in this turn-of-the-19th-century adventure. While there is that general sense of classless advancement, the arms and armament befitting your chosen path lacks presence and luster. And your monk can follow suit, if it no longer behooves you to follow the straight and narrow path of the magi. Your hunter can swing a broadsword with the best of them, if you forgo dexterity for strength. Through experience points and leveling up, you can equip your warrior with magical staves if you divert enough development points toward knowledge. And each one is rather capable of stepping outside of their class boundaries to pick up and swing around a weapon atypical of their upbringing. Each has a favored form of ranged, martial, or magical attacks.
Each has a mid-depth and only vaguely-relevant backstory celebrating each one's ability to put the hurt on unruly demons. You are one of three character classes in this familiarly-positioned isometric roleplaying game: Frater the Monk, Elena the Hunter, and Khan the Warrior. The army of Satan has swiped this Emerald Tablet, which possesses the Secrets of Hermes - power over life and death - and decided to open up a couple Wells of Souls which, you guessed it, are spreading the Lord of the Underworld's blight over the Earth. You're also in Kamieniec because there's an Emerald Tablet and a guardian Chosen One, both of which have been taken by demonic forces, and both of which afford no ransom note in their stead.
Revealed to you in a montage-spinning prologue, you only know that you're in the town of Kamieniec because you must seek out the Society of Alchemists - a think tank of military strategists, undead lore masters, blacksmiths, and chemists, all lead by the engineer extraordinaire, Paul Renault.
Not after his particular night of the living dead.Ī more chemically-balanced citizen stops the village idiot, talking him down from his startled rant, and urging you to join their Diablo-esque nightmare. The village idiot has already lost scores of friends and neighbors tonight, and your makeshift club isn't necessarily scaring him off. It's understandable why he's rattled - an occult scourge is bleeding through the Earth's skin, spreading itself like oily acne across the Gothic cityscape, even manifesting itself in Satanic abscesses across the picaresque countryside. This tale begins with the village idiot shoving a rifle in your face, stuttering about how you just might be a demon and why it's definitely a good idea for him to put some buckshot through your brainpan. There are more than a dozen quests filled with role-playing action, and each character's attributes can be modified and enhanced with more than 200 weapons, armor, and magic upgrades. The Mystery Guard Fraternities train hunters to combat these demons, and players can choose Frater Simon, Elena, or Tong Wong to do the dirty work. Ingens eliminated every powerful alchemist in the world, only to trap their souls and command them to unleash creatures like werewolves, vampires, and zombies across the land. Set at the turn of the 19th century, gamers have to deal with a world cast into chaos by the evil sorcerer Marcus Dominus Ingens. Players must square off against armies of demons, devils, and other horrific creatures in The Chosen: Well of Souls.