{"id":11812,"date":"2024-10-17T10:01:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T10:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=11812"},"modified":"2024-10-17T10:01:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T10:01:45","slug":"chained-echoes-gloomhaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/chained-echoes-gloomhaven\/","title":{"rendered":"CHAINED ECHOES &#038; GLOOMHAVEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gog.com\/en\/game\/chained_echoes\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chained Echoes<\/a> is an RPG-Maker styled kind of game with fun gameplay and exploration aspects alongside an absolutely terrible storyline. If I wasn&#8217;t so fond of both collecting things (the reward board is a nice touch) and the combat system which restores all resources at the end of each fight (highly encouraging ability usage) I likely never would&#8217;ve made it past the point your party members first join up. Just cleared the Flower Fields and Monastery area now and the plot has reached a new low&#8230; but collecting treasure chests and enemy drops remains engaging.<\/p>\n<p>As for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gog.com\/en\/game\/gloomhaven\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gloomhaven<\/a>, which is the digital adaptation of a board game, I didn&#8217;t get very far at all. It reminded me of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/darkest-dungeon-first-impressions\/\" title=\"Darkest Dungeon \u2013 First Impressions\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darkest Dungeon<\/a>, except with questionable balancing and even worse resource management aspects. And I hate resource management. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chained Echoes is an RPG-Maker styled kind of game with fun gameplay and exploration aspects alongside an absolutely terrible storyline. If I wasn&#8217;t so fond of both collecting things (the reward board is a nice touch) and the combat system which restores all resources at the end of each fight (highly encouraging ability usage) I likely never would&#8217;ve made it past the point your party members first join up. Just cleared the Flower Fields and Monastery area now and the plot has reached a new low&#8230; but collecting treasure chests and enemy drops remains engaging. As for Gloomhaven, which is the digital adaptation of a board game, I didn&#8217;t get very far at all. It reminded me of Darkest Dungeon, except with questionable balancing and even worse resource management aspects. And I hate resource management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[28,121,120,473],"class_list":["post-11812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-related","tag-fantasy","tag-rpg","tag-tactical-rpg","tag-third-person-perspective"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}