![]() ![]() See, there’s an empire that’s on the cusp of launching a full-scale invasion into another nation. You play as one of Carlyle’s leaders, and while, mechanically, you’re drawing and playing “cards”, the narrative goes to great lengths to make it clear that this is a cruel game and the “cards” are people, so what you’re doing is not benign and rather you’re standing back as the “commander” and sending hordes to their deaths.Īt the same time, you’re not necessarily evil for doing so. ![]() The point that I’m making is that this quote fundamentally opposes war, by highlighting that the people that fight in wars are not the ones that cause them.Īsh of Gods: The Way, likewise makes that observation, and can itself be read as stridently anti-war. You could delve deep into what Carlyle meant by this, given his lectures and thoughts on the value of great men as leaders. “War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.” However, there is one Carlyle quote that is very relevant to The Way. I know I shouldn’t quote Thomas Carlyle, given the “intellectuals” that have latched on to him in our time. The developers have found a way to deliver an intense narrative through The Way and, while Redemption was a small fish in a pool filled with big golden carp, this monumental shift in gameplay has given the team the opportunity to establish themselves a noteworthy leader now. The plot in these kinds of titles is rarely more than functional, and it was the plot, not the gameplay, that had the potential in the original Redemption. I thought that would be a big step backwards. ![]() Ash of Gods: The Way, meanwhile, is a deckbuilding card game. Clearly inspired by The Banner Saga, it never eclipsed that masterpiece, but it still stood in the same ballpark. The original Ash of Gods (subtitled Redemption) was a gritty little tactics RPG with rich, albeit dark storytelling. At first I was disappointed with the concept of Ash of Gods: The Way. ![]()
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