Testament: The Order of High Human Reviews
Testament: The Order of High Human is a bland, frustrating, and buggy fantasy adventure that would have been a bad four-hour Skyrim knockoff. At 40 hours, it’s hard to bear.
Simply put, Testament: The Order of High Human is a bad game that isn't fun to play and doesn't really offer anything meaningful to its players, who are better left if they simply avoid it.
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Testament: The Order of High Human is definitely an ambitious game. However, being ambitious didn't serve it well – it's obvious that the scope of this game was beyond what a small studio like Fairyship Games was capable of, and the result is a mediocre action RPG that fails to impress.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Testament The Order of High Human is an experience with ups and downs. The plot never really manages to intrigue but the game world offers several interesting environments and the exploration is kept pleasant thanks to the fun parkour sections. The
Review in Italian | Read full review
Testament is the type of game you play to learn what you should not do when you make a game. Everything about this game is either mediocre at best or absolute broken.
This video game is like a vacation by the sea, but in an average resort with modest food ' you'll fill up, at times you might feel unwell, but you're by the sea and have some leisure time!
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Rather than being outright terrible, the problem with Testament is that everything is mediocre to the point of being utterly boring. The ideas are there but it doesn’t quite stick the landing. At least, the game is perfectly playable from start to finish. Definitely not worth the asking price and as it currently stands, not worth your time either. Hopefully, the developer can come up with a more cohesive product the second time around.
Testament: The Order of High Human was a rather ambitious attempt to combine action and puzzle gameplay, but in the end, it has proven to be too ambitious for the developers. The game is long, but unfortunately also bland and repetitive.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Testament: The Order of High Human is just a bit dull, with the game’s combat and puzzling proving repetitive and uninspired throughout. Nothing about the game is awful, but it was rare that I found myself buzzing when facing a challenging encounter or satisfied after solving a drawn-out enigma. It’s just all a bit meh, with nothing about the game feeling interesting enough to make it stand out when compared to all of the other (and far better) first-person fantasy adventures out there.
Every minute I played this game was just a reminder that I still need to play through the updated classic, Metroid Prime Remastered (I’ve just been too busy!). While I simply can’t recommend this game even to the most forgiving fans of the genre it so badly wants to be a part of, if you want to put “metroidvania” and “first-person” together, there really is nothing better than the Metroid Prime series. Go play those instead of this.
With its mind-numbingly tedious combat, clumsy dialogue and a storyline which sounds like it's still an early draft, Testament’s greatest crime is that it severely outstayed its welcome.
Testament: Order of High Human shows the studio has a lot of ambition, but without channelling that energy, the result is this game
Testament: The Order of High Human is one hell of an achievement of a game made by a team of 15 people. It has all the best parts of the RPG genre with some new features that just keep you coming back for more. This combined with a gripping story and inspired world design, you’ll have a hard time putting the game down. Things just get better with the odd puzzles you’ll find and the literal mountains of lore to be discovered. This is one of those games that you just have to take your hat off when you consider the detail and the developer team size but also, The Elder Scrolls has some serious competition now.
I ended up enjoying Testament: The Order of High-Human quite a bit, despite being a game suffering from a myriad of design issues. Thankfully, it didn’t suffer from a lot of technical issues. What we ended up getting was a decent first-person action adventure game with good controls, an interesting combat system, and a big emphasis on puzzle-solving, even if those sections go on for way too long at times. The overall game feel was just good enough to make me ignore the pointless story, poor voice acting (kudos for the effort, though) and loathsome boss battles.
While Testament does some really fun stuff with puzzles, it doesn't really get interesting until you're several hours in. Whether it be the bland combat or seemingly endless lore the game wanted me to learn, I just never felt engaged by the world that Fairyship Games was trying to build around me. Testament is trying to do too much and falls short of an engaging experience because of that.
Testament: Order of High Human is an ambitious RPG that tries to do a lot but doesn't succeed fully in any particular aspect. Its world, characters, and storytelling are engaging to follow, but the sluggish combat and lack of polish keep it from reaching its full potential.