There are five stories set in the same world, presenting different points of conflict between two powerful organizations. I could feel that it’s a vast world with deep lore. And each story had great potential to stand on its own.

However, the decision to only have a set-up, one choice, the consequence of the choice and then move on to the next story didn’t work for me. It prevented immersion and left me regretful that I couldn’t stay longer in each setting.

I understand that the idea was probably to show the vastness and diversity of the world, but I think it should have either been a series with each story given the time it deserves to unfold, or one story to focus on with a potential to hint at the other settings through the narrative.

It got me curious about the game it promotes, but as an interactive audiostory, it left me unsatisfied.

In several parts of the story, I struggled to understand what the narrator was saying. However, I did feel that the voices were distinct between the different characters. I also wish there had been more sound effects to pull me further into the story.

I’m giving it four stars because I still think the story is interesting. I just wish I had more control over how it unfolded too.

As a big fan of RPG’s, the promise of encountering a new setting that I had never heard of was very interesting to me. Sadly, I ended up somewhat disappointed.

As a positive, I want to highlight that the story is split into five isolated, short scenarios, which makes a lot of sense for a story that wants to show the range of its setting. Sadly, the stories provide very little context information about the setting, making the action feel somewhat unmotivated.

Furthermore, the interactive elements were very underused, especially for a story that promotes an RPG. I had so little control of the story that I would have honestly preferred a regular audio book.

Still, the setting itself sounds interesting enough that I will give it a closer look at some point.

I find it very weird that this story actually consists of five seperate stories and that you could only make one decision in each of them. I find it very weird, because each of these stories had the potentiel to be its own 20 min story spanning multiple choices. Not to mention, that due to the fact that each story is only about 4 minutes long (with just one choice) you can’t really get invested in them.

The only thing that is keeping me away from giving this story just one star is the fact, that concept of the setting with spear and ares is genuinely not bad IMO opinion.