![]() ![]() The Scandinavian setting is well realized, giving players a chance to visit a place that's rarely found in adventure games. You can chat up ogres, trees with eyes, and other characters that we won't spoil here. Some of the fairy-tale creatures you meet on the adventure at least have a number of interesting and optional things to say. There are long breaks between story bits, which really subdues the feeling of urgency or danger, and the big reveals are all stacked up in the final hour or two. You can see from early on that there are multiple sections of this fantasy world you'll need to explore, and there are many occasions where you spend a while exploring the same section of this fantasy forest just to open up all the available paths. So while the game offers good bang for your buck in terms of sheer content, it comes with a lot of pacing issues. While most puzzle titles of this nature wrap up their narratives within 4-5 hours, Roki is a 10+ hour escapade, and possibly longer depending on how much time you need with the puzzles. Much of the drama is lost due to the game's length. It's everything you've seen before in adventure/puzzle games that try to tug at the player's heartstrings. Eventually it becomes a fairly typical "dark story" about accepting your past, complete with shadow forms of the characters taunting you about past mistakes. And so as the adventure continues, we learn that there are dark underpinnings to Tove's family, and the events that surround their mother's death. In fact, at times the interactions between Tove and other creatures seem fairly surreal, and not the way that a normal teenager would react. The narrative beats are straightforward and the dialog quite basic. Roki can almost be considered a game of two halves as a narrative, it presents itself as a fairly lighthearted and perhaps even kid-friendly adventure that wants to show the players Scandinavian lore and mythology. Tove follows and arrives in a magical world, where she must explore, solve puzzles, and meet various Scandinavian fairy-tale creatures, all in hopes of finding her sibling. However, the creature soon catches up and grabs Tove's brother, and takes him through a portal into another world. The two kids manage to escape, but their father is trapped and left behind in the collapsing home. ![]() During one night, their home is suddenly attacked by a large monster. We get hints that the family lost their mother in a tragic event. She takes care of herself and her brother, Lars, as their father seems to be having difficulties and spends his time drinking and sleeping. Roki follows the story of Tove, a young girl who lives in an isolated and snow covered home in Scandinavian wilderness, with her brother and their father. ![]()
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