Risen is at its best when you’re breaking it
6The Risen re-release for consoles (renamed “Risen 1”) is a reminder that Piranha Bytes excel at consistency. Irrespective of whether your first experience was 2001’s Gothic or 2021’s ELEX II, you’ll be familiar with their long-running RPG template that has seen incremental improvements to the mechanical depth, storytelling, and visuals over time. For some, Piranha Bytes means mechanically clunky, dated-looking, and outright anachronistic RPGs. For others – myself included – it means dense RPGs with competing factions, unexpected consequences to your actions, and a game world ripe with opportunities for exploitation.
0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Something about temples and titans?
2:24 - Is this a role-playing or survival game?
4:37 - Break it until you make it
8:15 - If it looks like a piranha, plays like a piranha, and breaks like a piranha…
Written retrospective: https://gameblur.net/editorial/risen-is-at-its-best-when-youre-breaking-it/
Risen 1 is available on PS4/PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and Nintendo Switch.
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