You can bring food to the starving peasants. Or, you can smite them where they stand and take their life force. Sure, you can help the sniveling villagers if you like. To wit, you'll be given hard choices as Overlord - choices that force you to plumb your dark side. The game puts this question to you: "Are you evil? Or really evil?" Meanwhile, just how wicked you are also is a matter of choice. So…just how "evil" are you for taking them down? They've all been corrupted and now represent each of the seven deadly sins. The seven "heroes" you have to vanquish aren't exactly heroic anymore. You see, in this game, "evil" is largely a matter of perspective. And yes, sending a marauding band of malicious Minions to ransack what looks a lot like Bilbo Baggins' Hobbit hole is awfully satisfying in this setting. You're encouraged to torch them with your fireball spell and send your underlings to slaughter them in their sleep. Meanwhile, "Overlord" has a lot of fun taking sly jabs at "The Lord of Rings." For example, in this game - and from your Overlordish perspective - the Halflings (read: Hobbits) are a plague of fat, nasty thieves who kidnap humans, steal food and have kitchens overrun with rats. Send them through a patch of pumpkins and they'll wear the pumpkins on their heads. Send them swarming over a table full of beer mugs and they'll get drunk and relieve themselves in public. As dastardly as they are, the Minions are hilarious to watch as they tear across hill and dale, wreaking havoc everywhere they go. But that's what makes "Overlord" so much fun - the Pikmin have been possessed by Satan and Satan has a really good sense of humor.
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