Think Oregon Trail meets Final Fantasy Tactics (as a side note I meticulously tracked Final Fantasy Tactics story to try to piece the story together and finally came up bored).
The artwork is stellar. The brights colors against the drab, snow ridden background comes across as quite beautiful. The sounds and old viking war songs will stir up something deep inside your anglo-saxon heart.
You drag a caravan across a wartorn land doing your best not to run into the dredge. The dredge are heavily armored robots that also have wives and babies somehow (never got explained). Man teams up with Varl in this world where all the old gods are dead and there is little hope. Varl are these giant man beasts with huge horns protruding from there scalps that live for hundreds of years. Since the gods made the varl and all the gods are dead then soon all the varl will die out and so on and such.
You gain renown for killing enemies and your various choices as caravan manager. With renown you can either level up characters or buy supplies. I made the mistake a couple of times of leveling up and then running out of supplies. When that happens people start dying.
There are a couple of plot twists along the way that keep it interesting but ultimately the battles and the caravan ride became monotonous and doesn't quite prepare you for the final battle.
It isn't a long game, you could probably leisurely beat it in a couple of nights. I imagine there will be an add-on or a sequel considering the story and when the credits started rolling.
Well worth the play and you know, buy the thing and whatnot.
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