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Finetuned females

Oh, how great games used to be. When a game was released and that was it. No microtransactions, no daily patches, no always on. You learned to live with the bugs, played it until your eyes dropped and were happy about every bit of new content - back then in the form of add-ons. At least that's my romanticized idea of the past, of a time before the bug infested Gothic III, which you could only enjoy at all with enough patches. Nowadays, the Quest of the Amazons would probably be a DLC, but it brings with it a whole new playable faction in the form of the warlike Amazons as well as its own campaign. To the best of my recollection, I never played it, because the main game belonged to my cousin, and that was the only time I was able to play it, if at all.

Musically, however, the expansion does nothing wrong. True to the main game, there are also three tracks for the female faction. However, as the aim here was to create background music based on gender rather than ethnicity, the songs are difficult to categorize into a musical trope. Consequently, the music of the Amazons is reminiscent of the Romans, but its waltz-like rhythm makes it more graceful. In general, the desired image of a forest people with whistling birds and a closeness to nature is created and when flutes meet percussion, the whole thing is vaguely reminiscent of Peter and the WolfThe highlight is Die Amazonen 2 (The Amazons 2), which skillfully balances between light-hearted happiness and seriousness and finds a middle ground worth listening to.

Games from the The Settlers-series