7/30/2023 0 Comments Vagrus companions locationsIn addition to Vagrus: The Riven Realms I’ve been playing The Good Life for review, it’s a game where you idly wander around a sleepy magical village filled with rats, rabbits, birds and – as you’ll know if you know anything about the game – a lot of cats and dogs. I’ve had trouble writing up this article because I can’t stop playing it, even though I’m on my third or fourth caravan now. Formerly glistening woodlands are now scorched wastes, and great lakes are deadly deserts, rivers of lava flow where cities used to stand, and the whole world is on edge, willing to bite you if you reach too far. The reason why humanity has thrived is that, unlike animals, we learned to change our environment rather than let it change us, but in Vagrus: The Riven Realms humans are more like cockroaches scratching through the rubble, and its difficulty reflects that too. The humans shifted to worshipping new sinister, dark gods, perfectly fitting for the broken world that remained. The biggest human nation was smashed into crumbs, many who crawled out from the ruins were turned into wraiths, tainted, mutants or worse. But, the Cataclysm of Vagrus wasn’t, it was a collapse. The Great Deluge, in many Western-born religions, was a reset. The tale of people surviving in the ruins of a collapsed empire isn’t anything new, but Vagrus‘ world, Xeryn, is one that inverted itself when benevolent gods became belligerent gods, turning on the Empire for what it had become Cursing, destroying, mutating, warping, perverting and crushing everything they could in a blind rage, all before they disappeared off, never to be seen again. It’s a game that basks in and matches, its setting’s own complexities and harshness. I’ve had a lot of trouble pulling myself away from Vagrus: The Riven Realms over the last couple of weeks.
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