The Village Story by Cold Dingo
(I would like to thank Spearpoint Reviews for allowing me to review this title. As such, it was given to me free of charge.) The Village Story is a brief RPG where you play as a character named Jorah, an up-and-coming adventurer with humble beginnings as a farm boy. The game was created utilizing one of the RPG Maker suites, so gameplay and visuals are somewhat straightforward: the perspective of the camera is of a third-person over-the-head view with a simple control scheme consisting of the directional keys on the keyboard for movement, the zero (0) and escape keys to bring up the game menu, and the spacebar is used as the “action” and “select” key. Now, I want to get into the story briefly before touching on the writing itself later in the review. As I had stated earlier, you play as a young would-be adventure named Jorah who is trying to live out his “Destiny.” I regret to say it but the concept is far better than the execution. For a large majority of the game I found myself talki...