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A Celtic-centered retelling of the legend of King Arthur, August 7, 2020This story had me in the beginning and slowly lost me over time. I was pleased with the overall result, but it didn't have staying power for me.
To begin with, this game was all the Arthurian characters, but with Welsh names, like Bedwyr for Bedivere and Emrys for Merlin.
Also, for the first half of the game, it seems like a non-fantasy, more realistic version of King Arthur, with Merlin being basically just a Roman-educated scholar and troublemaker and the Sword in the Stone just being a symbolic trophy laid on a table.
It offers you romance early on, and has some good stat variability (I put all my stats in Violence, Bravado, and Christianity/Rome).
But all of that changes in the later part of the game. I encountered only a few romance options, and the realism took a sharp left turn into (Spoiler - click to show)wolf-demons and spirits, and somehow all of my stats got cancelled out into one big neutral mess, all almost exactly in the middle. I've never had that happen in a Choicescript game before; I'm certain it was from my own actions, but it was very odd.
The game has a lot of good features, such as the distinctive Celtic feel and a habit of doing omniscient narrator sections in italics.
I received a review copy of this game.