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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FREE GAME: The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:50:45 +0100
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On 12/27/2024 4:15 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> 
> GOG can't compete with Epic on the frequency of their free offerings,
> but that's not for lack of trying. They may not give games as
> frequently, and the games they offer are usually a lot older and less
> desirable, but... um.... look, it's a free game; you want it or not?
> 
> 
> * The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav
> https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_dark_eye_chains_of_satinav
>       This is another of those games I /know/ that I have
>       played in the past, and yet I remember nothing about
>       it. It's a side-scrolling adventure game in the
>       classic style; it's based on the "Dark Eye" fantasy
>       RPG setting (also used in the old Arkania games, if
>       you remember those) and it generally reviewed well...
>       but beyond that? A total blank. That it left so
>       little impression implies it wasn't completely
>       terrible (those are always memorable!), but it
>       doesn't speak highly of the game otherwise. Oh well;
>       adventure fans might want it.
> 
> Like all GOG give-aways, you have 72 hours to claim the game before
> the offer expires. Three days to increment The Number; that's more
> than enough time. Click-click!
> 


I have it on Steam already, now I have it on Gog as well. I played it 
before and I definitely meant to get further into it, but it suffers 
from what I sometimes call the melancholy disease: the life of the 
protagonist is so miserable from the beginning it gets you down in real 
life. Everybody hates him because of a prophecy, nobody likes him, and 
fitting for the adventure genre everyone treats him kind of shitty. That 
works well if the character is some self-obsessed dunce like Roger Wilco 
or Guybrush, it doesn't work that well if the character is an ultimately 
decent, if a bit downtrodden guy.

Anyway, yes, it's based on the Aventuria setting. It seems they wanted 
to branch out into adventure games for a while, but the lack of further 
games in the vein (outside of one sequel) tells me it was not as 
successful as they wanted it to be.