The Chosen: Well of Souls Reviews

A couple more reviews take note of Rebelmind’s The Chosen: Well of Souls and neither is impressed. Gaming Nexus deems it worth a 6.8.

With brazenly low system requirements, The Chosen: Well of Souls will fit snugly into the palm of your hand at 600 MB, lend you a healthy allotment of diversionary hours at less than the cost for an expansion pack, and bequeath a straight-forward, no-nonsense roleplaying experience. The Chosen doesn’t reinvent the wheel — but it’s not the most crooked spoke adjacent either. If you pardon some questionable voice acting from the narrator, and some stiff-jointed character modeling, there’s a feasible amount of material here to zone out on, and some pretty paintings to walk through. Especially as you approach one of the Wells of Souls, and the thickening horde numbers deepen into the triple digits, your mind and your mouse can enter a zen-like plane of point-and-click existence.

AceGamez isn’t impressed either, with a 6.

The Chosen is lots of fun – so it’s too bad the game is laden with problems that get in the way of that fun. The story is very clichéd, but honestly this wouldn’t be so bothersome if the writers hadn’t gone out of their way to shove it in your face every time you talk to someone. The dialogs that accompany every NPC chat is stilted and boring to read – if you choose to read them at all. I found myself skimming for details by the time I had closed my first soul well. But they are better than the voiced dialogue, for which there is no description I can summon other than just plain awful. The first time I heard the hero I thought someone was doing a bad impersonation of Peter Lorre. Here you have already destroyed hundreds of monsters and proven to the people of the countryside that you are a one person wrecking-crew – but you might have been asking for more gruel, the way your character sounds. It is true that they the cut scenes come that often, but I dreaded them anyway.