Choices with a profound impact on the destinies of the group will likewise have a major impact on the story. For the player to assert their own opinion, they must convince their allies.
Important decisions that will decide the fate of the protagonist and his allies will be determined through a vote using the Scales of Conviction. This will affect your path through the story and which allied units will join your cause.
Various actions and choices within the game will build up to form your conviction, based on three sets of values – Utility, Morality, and Liberty. However, a certain incident shakes the balance between these three powers, which then begins to crumble away… The player’s sense of justice will be tested in the face of convictions. A balance of power has been achieved between the Holy State of Hyzante, which controls the salt, the Grand Dutchy of Aesfrost, a land of iron clad in frost and snow, and the forested Kingdom of Glenbook, which lies nestled between the other two powers. This land bears a long and scarred history that includes the Saltiron War, a war that erupted over control of salt and iron resources. This improves significantly past this point though, so I implore you not to be put off if you played the demo and found it a little slow.Three mighty powers have long waged war on the great continent of Norzelia. It feels like such a long time between the first chapter’s battle section and the second’s, and at this point, you’re not really invested in the story or characters enough to have the patience for it to exposition-dump on you for so long. The story sections here felt particularly drawn out, and don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot of dialogue throughout the other chapters too, but here specifically I feel like it’d be so easy for someone to be put off. The only problem I had with this was in the first couple of chapters - the game pulls no punches at all when it comes to slam dunking you with the details of fictional politics, a plethora of locations, and a cast of characters big enough to rival Game of Thrones, and it frankly teeters on being overwhelming. For the most part, these different sections are all divided up really well, and the variation in what you’re doing personally really helped keep me hooked, and not burnt out on any specific part of the gameplay.
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