Medieval Dynasty (PS5)

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Sound is good, the music is mostly tranquil and well done for a long, mostly relaxing session of city-building from the ground. I have been gaming since the ’80s my first console was the Atari 800XL and I have not looked back since. The developer has designed these quests that will help you get a decent grasp on the game and its many mechanics, but the quality of the writing and the dialogues fall short to make you actually care about any of these characters.

Doing so will help you level up faster and it is a decent way to tutorialize the mechanics, but the game won’t force you to follow the story. With the exception of the skill trees implementation, the rest of the RPG/Adventure elements fall flat. For instance, when assigning work to your villagers, you have a slider for the different activities they can do based on their profession so you can move the slider to indicate how much of an specific product or service you want them to focus on. Watch the villagers go about their daily routines and experience realistic interactions with the abundant wildlife, such as wolves, wild boar, deer and rabbits. Interactive environment with trees to fell, various fruit to pluck, stones to collect, caves to explore and many more.

In general, talking to characters was my least favorite part of the game, and in big part due to this. Another thing that came up while I was playing the game is that you can’t close all of the radial menus using the Circle button on the PS5. The implementation of the radial menus into the console version of the game is, in my opinion, a successful one. The character models were also a bit uninspired, with only a handful of designs repeating over and over again.

Currently, I would go as far as to say Medieval Dynasty is the best graphics for its genre on the PlayStation 5. The survival elements (Temperature, hunger, thirst) are a constant pressure but they are not punishing, as long as you prepare ahead of time for longer trips and whatnot. Live and learn – Develop your character by specialising or becoming a true jack-of-all-trades as you interact with NPCs. If you do decide to dig into the story, you will find out details about the people that live in the valley, although this is not tremendously interesting.Even though the constant backtracking might be a pain, I personally found the game’s slow pace relaxing rather than annoying and enjoyed my time with it.