D&D 5E is fully represented in Solasta 2, for better and worse

Solasta: Crown of the MagisterAn inspired D&D game that strictly warns the rules of the fifth edition of the table game, apparently published too early. RPG 2021 was issued for favorable reviews, but it did not break into the mainstream. But now we live in post-Batm Baldur 3 A world that shook the game industry (GameSpot called him our game of the year in 2023), and bone -based games get the light of headlights that they did not have before. Niesta II It begins in a much more favorable position than his predecessor and it seems that it can be a great game for people who liked Baldur’s Gate 3, but now they want a game that suits the experience of playing Dungeons & Dragons.

I played about an hour of Solasta II, and the most striking part of the demo version was how close the game is more closely adherent to the parameters D&D 5E compared to the game such as the Baldur’s Gate 3. You can’t, for example, drink an attack of the health mixture and struggle in close -cuts to the same turn. Baldur’s Gate 3 is widely adopting a home principle (and now the official principle in the latest edition of D&D), which believes that drinking a health mixture is a bonus action, not action, so you can reserve action for attack and then use bonus action to cure on the same turn. This is not how it works in D&D 5E rules, so this is not how it works in Solasta II. This parallelism seems to extend to Solasta II and although I appreciate the accuracy, it emphasizes some problems with D&D 5e that games such as Baldur’s Gate 3 already care, changing how they work.

Ignoring comparisons with the 3 Baldura gate, the fight otherwise seems great. I wonder when to use the unique cunning string capacity so that the Dash bonus action, in order to be able to save its main action to attack the enemy, which is flanked by a warrior (a scenario that allows me to add an attacking injury!). I have been rewarded many times for thinking about things before involved in the goal. Knowledge when and how to use resources is the most important, because Solasta II tracks ammunition (so I had to count, for example, how much shot, for example my short, wizarding arch), and even it seems that there is a risk- remuneration for remuneration related to remuneration with resting mechanics, because for the first time I tried to camp to regain health and charge the party’s skills, one of the members of the party crypthically warned that maybe it cause enough Pass time, which means that I would potentially miss future stories. This added a sense of urgency to something that seemed to be an optional task in a demo, but I am curious if the same feeling is also used to the main plot and how often rest can cause the player to miss in search.

The critical path sees that you take control of four adventurers-presses, the elf, man and gnome-where are adoptive siblings. These brothers and sisters travel together as part of a task related to their adopted name and heritage, which everyone inherited, which causes conflict with an ancient threat. All this seems to be your traditional fantasy romance, but in the demo I only saw a fragment of this story. The acting voice sounds great and although face models sometimes go down into an amazing valley, they are more often expressive and help add an emotion scene, which, as a player, you can pick up, even if four heroes have failed to inspect the check.

I am most curious how the full game will cope with the role of playing the role. Unlike other RPGs, in which you build a party of characters with different strengths and weaknesses, but only one team member talks during talks, all four members of the adventure party in Solasta II are fully expressed and contribute to each conversation. The game contains a list of all available dialogues for each party member and which bonuses each of them adds to the kick-you can see how high persuasion of paladin paladin makes him more expert in the conviction of someone to help you, while high insight The warrior lets a fighter insight is a better choice to say if the person you talk to is lying.

It’s really cool and it seems that this can repeat the essence of being a group, unlike a talented spokesman at the head of the team, such as Shepard Mass Effect or Tav Baldur’s Gate 3. Demo did not see the opportunity to see how the effects of conversations can evaporate in consequences , stopping me from the definitive proclamation that it is a kind of dialogue focused in the ward, Based on choosing in my fantastic RPGs. But I see a potential vision and I am excited, seeing how it happens in the full game.

Each of the four characters can also be controlled as a group or independently using a keyboard instead of clicking mouse outside the battle, which makes it easier to run them compared to similar RPGs. This means that hiding and a thief is a real strategy that is rare in such games, because more precise movements ensure that the cones of the enemy’s vision is not a frustrating test.

I am still undecided to Solasta II. On the one hand, it is in line with the original D&D 5E principles to the letter, a table system from 2014, which has been itered, extended and improved over the past 10 years. And maintaining rules without taking steps to change can be a game, which is ultimately frustrating for players who appreciated the efforts of other programmers in recent years. But the game is progressed in areas outside of the fight that seem extensive improvements, such as providing the player with more accurate control over how the characters move and introduce a full party to each conversation instead of having only one hero. This is definitely a game that I want to play more in, but I will need more time with it before I decide where I will land on it.

Solasta II is to be launched on PC. No release window has been announced, but it is Free demo on steam If you want to try it yourself.