When the time comes to commit to those choices you can make some alterations if you prefer but I found that the game’s initial selection to work well enough for how I wanted to play.

As you try to make sense of the world, decisions are made through flashbacks which help to define who you are. It is from there that your character begins to take shape too. The story begins with you knowing nothing about who you are or why you’re stuck in a rather unfortunate situation but the game quickly makes it clear to you that choices can have lasting (perhaps fatal) consequences. It is somewhat appropriate then that the opening does push the player to reading because little else is revealed at that stage. I’m not saying that there aren’t other modern games that have a comparable amount of reading but it seems by the game’s own design you will rely more on the text window at the bottom of the screen than the graphical view above it. The opening of the game is going to be confronting to many players simply through the sheer amount of text that you are going to read. After a VERY successful Kickstarter campaign back in April of 2013, the game finally arrived in February of this year and gives players an old school RPG with a mountain of text and an impressive knack for giving you nonviolent options. What becomes of a God’s waste is the challenge facing you in Torment: Tides of Numenera: the latest game from inXile Entertainment and billed as the spiritual successor to the classic Planescape: Torment.

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