Re: Thinking about A blind legend and guiding in games
I didn't actually mind the frequency of battles or random enemies myself, since the King's guards were actively chasing you, or you were going to wild lands where there were nasty creatures to slay, since after all any action game will naturally have a larger proportion of combat in its plot, though I fully agree more chance to explore the world, both in micro terms of the locations your in for each goal, and in larger terms of actually finding out a bit of the history and geography of the kingdom would've been nice.
What I minded a bit more was as I said the relationship between Edward and Louise, and the fact that both your journey had few to no subgoals or extra bits of information to find out, and the only information you got about the world was basically King Thork was eeeeeevil!
I thought there would be a generalised reason for why the king attacked and kidnapped Edward's wife, especially since Edward apparently lived such a long way away.
This is actually one area where Echoes of Livia did a better job since while its blatantly obvious the demon guiding you is up to no good, at the same time, at least you get a lot of information about the world and its factions and something of an ongoing story, even if a predictable one (and one cut short by bad audio design in the marsh).
Again, this is one area where The Vale appears to already be doing better, particularly since the vale has generally higher quality acting.
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