It ran well on multiple modern machines, with stable framerates and fast loading times. Instead, a relatively simple skill system dictates how you use might, speed and intellect points to achieve your character's goals-from climbing a wall to convincing someone to see things your way.Īs a game that consciously evokes the isometric RPGs of the late nineties, Torment: Tides of Numenera's technical demands are low.
This isn't your RPG if you want to spend a lot of time thinking about item stats and party strategy: that's Pillars of Eternity's domain, not Torment's. Things improve with both fluency and progress: by the time the plot really kicks into gear, you'll have all the knowledge you need. Tides of Numenera has the unenviable task of introducing the Ninth World alongside its own complex interpretation of it, and this means a lot of picking through unfamiliar terminology for a new player. I had an advantage-I've got a big pile of Numenera corebooks next to my desk and I've run multiple campaigns. The pace of the game does struggle a little during its initial hours, however, particularly if the setting is new to you. This isn't your RPG if you want to spend a lot of time thinking about item stats and party strategy The tides you align yourself with change how characters respond to you, and they form a crucial part of the Last Castoff's journey. The red tide represents passion, for example, while selflessness is gold. Your actions also influence the titular Tides, an abstract expression of different aspects of the human psyche as colours. If you pick a trait like mind reading for your Last Castoff, you can trust that this'll be incorporated thoughtfully throughout the entirety of the campaign. Your choices really do matter, too: an early roleplaying decision that I expected to result in a 'game over' screen meaningfully changed the way my adventure began. There are multiple ways to encounter each storyline, with the way you happen to discover a quest often proving as important as the decisions you make at its conclusion. Sagus Cliffs is relatively compact by RPG city standards, but the game gets a lot of use out of each character and location.
The term fits less well here, because Tides of Numenera is cleverly designed to thread a diverse array of different plotlines together. Quickly however Tides of Numenera becomes more about discovering this new world and the people who inhabit it, with your own story intertwining closely with what would be considered sidequests in any other game. Tides of Numenera is cleverly designed to thread a diverse array of different plotlines togetherĬastoffs like you are being hunted by a mysterious killer called the Sorrow, and finding a way to escape this seemingly-inevitable fate motivates your first steps into the Ninth World. And after that you awaken, miraculously healed, in the city of Sagus Cliffs. After death you enter the Castoff's Labyrinth, a dimension within your own mind where your character's class and key traits are determined by a memory-probing personality test. His discarded former selves-the castoffs-spontaneously form their own consciousnesses when they're abandoned.
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