The first Risen is somewhat similar to Gothics in presentation – it keeps somewhat sinister atmosphere. Each Risen had different writers and their work affected overall game experience a lot. The aspect that distinctively separates every Risen is writing. They exist simply to perform evil deeds until getting beaten or shot by the player. The entire plot is full of cartoon-like vicious villains that appear to have no real reason to perform their actions, and nothing really is elaborated from their point of view. The whole storyline is extremely generic and silly in the first Risen, and each iteration it only gets worse. Basically, performing a genocide on an ancient race to avoid the same being done to humans. Eventually we do fight a titan, and in the following Risens we continue the story to kill even more of them. Bare the latter, for quite a while we can do quests for both factions until finally we have to choose who do we support – the rebels or the Inquisition. We have a choice whether first we go to Don’s camp, a town which is under Inquisition’s control or… get dragged to monastery – also Inquisition’s - by force if we break the law. One being the Don Esteban’s bandits and another being the Inquisition under the leadership of Mendoza. Nonetheless, soon we find out that there are two factions on the island unfriendly to each other. With us there is also a lady… that is completely irrelevant beyond the first hour of the game. Once it sinks, we wake up on the island that has *that magical thing* which protects everything from titans. Meanwhile, the protagonist is a stowaway on a ship that is attacked by a titan. Without gods, the old race known as titans has arisen and they are not friendly to the human race, wrecking havoc to world around without anything able to stop them. Now that gods have been ridden of, it turns out that they weren’t just simply keeping humans subjugated but also protected them. In fact, you could almost think that the story of the first Risen starts soon after Gothic 3. The story seems oddly connected to Gothic for what is supposed to be a completely different setting.
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