The Knacks, Relics, Guides, and antagonists are good and are welcome additions to Scion. However the lore and Creatures are overall bad. The Creatures are not built in any way like how the rules for building one is described in Hero, the lore in general with the exceptions of the Kami, Orisha, and Deva are often poorly written, nonsensical and often arbitarly ignore mythology for conflict that is often more boring or lesser then the conflict already present in the source mytholog. The biggest example being Nidhogg who for some unfathomable reason has himself but spelled properly(Nidhoggr) as his rival when he already had a clear cut rival in the mythology: the eagle at the top Yggdrasil, a rivalry forged on constant insults they send to each other. Which is replaced by a riverly with his properly spelled self over who's the real Nidhoggr? Worst of all Nidhogg's write up contradicts the devaloper's assurance that Scion Dragon would not be treated as canon by the rest of the gameline, except Nidhoggr is a full Dragon in the Scion Dragon sense. In general the lore feels like the worst parts of 1e's lore, nonsensical changes that add nothing at best and at worst are activly worse then the conflict already present in the source material which is the worst kind of change
Rating: [2 of 5 Stars!] |