There's just an amazing sense of B-movie heft to everything I saw about Avowed that turns it from a pleasing homage to Skyrim to an entire comedic overhaul of the entire RPG genre. I still can't get over those fantasy pistols. Another is charged with a huge shield bash.
One enemy goes down to two swipes of a huge, flaming sword. Enemies shatter into ice, have their heads caved in while rooted to the spot, or are flung into the air by swirling black holes. Our hero weaves spells that seem, frankly, to border on the edge of ridiculous, throwing together hand movements and rituals that wouldn't look out of place in a Doctor Strange film to send hordes of cartoonish skeletons flying. A decade on from Skyrim, you'd hope that the art and animation would be capable of a little more than Bethesda could manage in 2011, but Avowed is also more colorful, more explosive. What really captured me about Avowed, though, was the bombast. I don't remember Pillars of Eternity, the CRPG series that gave life to (and shares a world with) Avowed, being all that light-hearted, but there's certainly a comedy pedigree at the studio. Obsidian's The Outer Worlds had its tongue lodged so firmly in its cheek that it almost gained a second mouth, and it's not as though Fallout: New Vegas was particularly serious.
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