A full hour of "Smuta" with Alina Rin
The most intriguing Russian development today is a role-playing action game created by Siberia Nova employees with the active support of the state. Until recently, the developers did not show live gameplay and even banned persistent users who pestered them with questions about this part of the game. But suddenly they provided an early build to streamer Alina Rin, allowing her to publicly demonstrate an hour of the hero's adventures - with all the fights, dialog, quests and scenery inspection.
What has become known about "Smuta" from this broadcast?
The action takes place in 1611-1612. In the main role - the young Prince Yuri Dmitrievich, borrowed from Mikhail Zagoskin's novel "Yuri Miloslavsky, or the Russians in 1612". Having barely sworn allegiance to the Polish queen Vladislav, who claims the throne of Moscow, the hero must go on a reconnaissance trip to Nizhny Novgorod, where Kuzma Minin is gathering a people's militia to drive the foreign invaders out of the capital. On the way he gets caught in a terrible blizzard, meets a Cossack whom he protects from wolves, and then fights with a Polish detachment. The combat system is somewhat reminiscent of Dark Souls and the third Witcher: there are lunges, blocks, parries and dodges, and you can also use a pistol and a shield.
The terrain map is designed in the same style as in another historical action game - Kingdom Come: Deliverance. At the same time dialogs only sometimes offer a choice of lines. But the role-playing system is interesting. Previously, the authors said that the protagonist will be able to act in one of four roles, from prince to skomoroch. Judging by the broadcast, the game has a full-fledged pumping - with the use of amulets, which must be earned on missions and placed in the boxes. Interestingly designed treatment for wounds: to replenish health, the prince must drink water from any well nearby. Viewers of the stream especially praise the design of locations and architecture, but noted a lot of bugs. The game is scheduled for release on April 4, although, according to the majority of stream commentators, it is almost unrealistic to fix all the flaws in such a short period of time.
The terrain map is designed in the same style as in another historical action game - Kingdom Come: Deliverance. At the same time dialogs only sometimes offer a choice of lines. But the role-playing system is interesting. Previously, the authors said that the protagonist will be able to act in one of four roles, from prince to skomoroch. Judging by the broadcast, the game has a full-fledged pumping - with the use of amulets, which must be earned on missions and placed in the boxes. Interestingly designed treatment for wounds: to replenish health, the prince must drink water from any well nearby. Viewers of the stream especially praise the design of locations and architecture, but noted a lot of bugs. The game is scheduled for release on April 4, although, according to the majority of stream commentators, it is almost unrealistic to fix all the flaws in such a short period of time.
17 February 2024