The years of peace are over. From the borderlands of the Kingdom of Rivaan, horror stories are continuing to spread. Morghul, an old enemy, has regained power and the old alliance with a mysterious order has been shaken. A hero is needed! But who is willing to take on this dangerous mission?
AUTHOR
Chris Warman
VOICE ACTOR
Matthew Mercer
SUITED FOR
Teens, Adults
PLAYING TIME
70 min
CHOICES
70
ENDINGS
2
Game Flow
Medium
ATTENTION LEVEL
Medium
In this interactive story, you play the mercenary Sardak, who is suddenly caught up in the ancient war between the Kingdoms of Rivaan and Morghul. The future of the kingdom depends on your courage, your wisdom, and above all, on your choices!
Your mission will first take you to the tranquil village of Stoneville, near a monastery of the mysterious order that is plagued by bandits. You soon discover that not everything is as simple as it seems, and that some answers lie hidden deep in the past. And so begins a long journey of adventure and unexpected hilarity.
Play this story if you like Matt Mercer, The Lone Wolf series, the fantasy genre, and Donkey from Shrek! Weird combination? Absolutely!
This story includes the MOST unusual sidekick, various random events, role-playing elements, puzzles and a maze.
Play on a relaxing afternoon or evening, on a long car ride, or while you wait for the next Critical Role stream!
3.4 out of 5 stars (based on 5 reviews)
The voice acting was phenomenal, it truly elevated the story. I also liked the worldbuilding — there was a lot of potential there. But the story itself left me with a subtle feeling of disappointment. There seemed to be so much to discover and experience, but it ended abruptly, and I didn’t know what I did wrong.
The decision to include the “personal assistant” voice didn’t work for me at all. It seems like it was meant as comic relief, but it never made me laugh. Instead, it annoyed me and took me out of the story. Its robotic voice broke the magic and immersion carefully crafted by the narrator and undermined his work. It was out of place and made my experience much less enjoyable.
Although I personally didn’t enjoy this story as much as many of the other 1 hour+ long stories on TWIST Tales, I still really liked and I am glad, that I checked it out. I really enjoyed the choices and the characters, not to mention, it is greatly voice acted.
My only real criticism is that it ended to abruptly IMO and I think the AI Alexa voice, is really unnecessary and breaks immersion.
I clicked the story because I saw it was voiced by Matt Mercer and that was one heck of a sell. And he does a very great job narrating the story, giving every character a distinct voice that gives them a lot of personality.
However, for some reason, this adventure also has a computer voice that keeps chiming in at every given opportunity and I am sorry to say that it just really breaks immersion. It acts as this bathos-heavy comic relief that absolutely does not fit into the general tone and keeps undermining moments that would otherwise have felt meaningful and epic.
As it is, I simply was not able to enjoy this story and I can not, for the life of me, understand why they included this one element that breaks the whole experience.
I’ll be honest, I chose Iron Falcon as my first story to experience on Twist Tales because I saw Matt Mercer as the voice actor. As a long time fan of both Dungeons and Dragons, along with his amazing campaigns of Critical Roll, I was truly excited to see what was in store. I can honestly say I wasn’t let down in any regard! It did a phenomenal job of scratching my fantasy itch while preparing my next personal D&D campaign. I will be playing through another time or two just to see how the different choices change the outcomes, though I fear the ranger main in me will always choose the bow as my weapon of choice.
I love the voice of Matthew and the story was great, however the interruptions of the alexa voice in-between the story was very off-putting
