Industrial guitars, sinister synths, sparse use of vocals to lend certain tracks a little more importance, and entirely in service of the visual style of the game. Othercide's soundtrack is best described as sounding like a mid-2000s vampire movie. Bosses, though sadly infrequent, rarely disappoint in this regard too. Enemies, too, are well-designed, with the minions you'll be going up against taking inspiration from inherently frightening concepts like insects or plague doctors, and sprucing them up with blades and tentacles and other such grotesqueries. that recalls graphic novels like Sin City. The art direction here is really quite striking, with the entire game being played in black and white, accentuated by splashes of red - blood, the scarves of the Daughters, etc. Speaking of style, Othercide's got it to spare. It's interesting enough in the same way that the narrative of a game like Silent Hill or Bloodborne is, in that you never really know what's going on, but it's stylish and unintrusive.
The Red Mother creates warriors known as Daughters to do battle for her, with the aim of driving back the denizens of evil, and ultimately stopping the collapse of the real world. This being and their cohorts are trying to enter our reality, while another being called the Red Mother stands in their way. It seemingly takes place in both 18 at what appears to be a convergence point of time and space, brought about by a being of immense power.
Told through vague cut-scenes in-between important battles, and with extra information hidden in codices you'll unlock as you progress through the campaign, the narrative is rarely clear-cut and leaves much up to your interpretation. The story of Othercide is way above our paygrade. There are some issues here which we'll get to in due course, but on the whole, this is a fantastic strategy game with a gorgeous art style. While that description is broadly accurate, it should also be noted that the game does differentiate itself from other tactical turn-based games with some interesting ideas that mostly work. The easiest way to describe Othercide to somebody who hasn't played it is that it's goth XCOM.
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