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Based on the Estonian national epic “Kalevipoeg”, this is a graphical adventure title with humor, beast slaying and grunting, muscular heroes. You play as the eponymous and legendary Sohni and control him using the familiar point and click mechanics. You’ll start off in a very dark camp with a cause to make a magical cabbage soup, preparation of which is made more complex than the actual mundane nature of the task due to the pointing around in the dark and finding out which items to use where and when. Mind you, there is a beast to slay on your way to getting logs and one would imagine that to be a slight hindrance to your daily chores. Presuming you do win battles against enemies, you’ll then gain motivation points, which can also be earned by performing other tasks in the game, such as desecrating your opponent’s corpse and making the aforementioned cabbage soup. Communication in the game will no doubt prove divisive as it is realised through grunts from the burly warriors (as if doing a bad Stallone impression) and sighs and other simple noises from the other characters – witches, dwarves and other fantastical persons. At times you get some dialogue options, which mostly boil down to being a typical alpha male bastard, being generous or something in between. The results from your actions can be genuinely quite funny, as long as you’re into dark humor as these Estonians seem to be. |
