Frayed Knights: The Skull of S’makh-Daon Impressions

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Written by BuckGB on September 28th, 2011

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The game's drama star sys­tem has also had its intended effect on my play style. Drama stars are a sys­tem of points you receive for per­form­ing a vari­ety of tasks. The more points you build up, the cooler the pay off when you cash in. Only, the points start over when you load a game, thus encour­ag­ing the player to not use the age old method of sav­ing and load­ing until they get the best result from any giver sit­u­a­tion. And it really works! I actu­ally find myself sav­ing less, and not sweat­ing the details I tend to usu­ally worry about. In other words, I'm play­ing an RPG the way I assume they were always meant to be played, accept­ing things as they hap­pen, and not try­ing to cheat the system.

Other lit­tle fea­tures I liked were the lock pick­ing and trap mini-games. They're pretty sim­ple, and require a com­bi­na­tion of skill and luck, but have proven to be excit­ing when they come up. The music is also very nice, in some ways tra­di­tional sound­track music, with ele­ments of clas­sic PC gam­ing music, and occa­sion­ally going places you wouldn't expect in video games with more quirky (in a good way) bits here and there.

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