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3: For The King

First up, For the King is on sale for like $10 right now. Look up some videos. If you like how it looks, get it. I'm gonna do my best to do this game justice, but I'll probably fall short.

For the King is a turn-based roleplaying game in the style of a tabletop RPG. Each playthrough is randomly generated on hexagonal tiles, with a handful of different campaigns to play through. The main campaign sees you confront an evil chancellor who has assassinated the king of Fahrul, taking you from the small town of Woodsmoke all the way to his evil lair out in the middle of the ocean. Other campaigns involve slaying a monster at the top of an icy mountain and slaying a Kraken that's disrupting sea travel for everyone.

You have three character slots, and you have about 12 classes to choose from to make your ideal adventuring party from scratch. You have performing minstrels who fight using their talent skill, playing lutes to attack and to buff the party, you have woodcutters who use the strength stat, boasting high damage numbers and moves that cripple the opponent and inflict bleed, and you have the herbalist class which starts with an innate ability to party-heal. Then there's the hobo, which is a joke class that's mediocre at everything and starts with a pointy stick that can break, leaving them without a weapon. You name them, modify their appearance and send them out into the campaign.

I had a friend, and one night I was dicking around in his Xbox and downloaded the game. I played a little bit, then I was like "dude you've gotta try this". The game is couch co-op - one player can control multiple characters, meaning that you can play between one and three characters by yourself, but you can also have up to three players controlling one character each. We would play with one of us controlling two characters and the other one controlling one.

The first time we played For the King was at 8pm. My friend had to work in the morning, so we were just gonna chill until like 11pm or something.

The next time we checked the time, it was 5am.

For the King is great for roleplaying your own little characters. I used to play an aggressive character who'd drink rum for a damage boost, but it fucked up my hit chance. I used to say that I was going into a Rum Rage. You really get lost in it, because the stakes are so high and you want to level up and do a good job.

The way that most of the campaigns work is that there's an oncoming cataclysm. You have to do objectives like clearing caves to stop the oncoming cataclysm, but you're only delaying the next cataclysm until you finally face the final boss. You need to level up, take risks and make progress before you get three cataclysm tokens. To that end, you have three life tokens - if your character/s die, you can revive them with those tokens. But once you run out of tokens, that's it. You're dead. The campaign is over, you lose your equipment and you have to start from scratch.

When you complete objectives or finish a campaign, you get Lore - this is a currency that unlocks different random overworld events, new clothing options and new classes for your characters. The store is packed - you can buy a seafaring casino ship event, you can buy siren events, you can buy statue events that give you a ton of XP and a boon to your stats. You can buy new loot to add to the drop table too - it's very robust.

For the King is designed to be played over and over again. The sense of progress and roleplaying is fantastic, and the characters are well and truly yours. I cannot overstate how much I love this game, and it's an unbeatable couch co-op experience; if you like this game, share it with a friend. It's so much fun that I can't even describe it. I'm not friends with that guy any more, but I still play For the King on my Switch because it's a great game with a lot of fond memories behind it. Out of every game in this last stretch of three games, I need to champion this one the most - it's an indie game, and it has a sequel coming out very soon. Look into it, see if you like it, and for the love of fuck, play this game. It's an absolute pearl of an RPG.