Luthier Game Review

Opening Overture

I recently took a holiday in Salzburg, Austria, where my wife and I roamed the historic streets nestled in the Alps. Everywhere we looked was the pride of Salzburg, Wolfgang Mozart. We saw his birthplace, his residence and, to the delight of my ears, even attended a string quintet concert at the Fortress Hohensalzburg. It was quite warm sitting in a nearly millennium-old building with no air conditioning, but I digress. Weeks later, Luthier hits the table, and I smile as memories of concertos, operettas, and sonatas come rushing back.

[caption id="attachment_325266" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Hohensalzburg Fortress, Salzburg, Austria[/caption]

I’ve always kept classical music as the zen-encompassing soundscape for my apartment, especially during working hours. My Google automation has me saying “Good morning,” to which the crescendos of chamber music from Chicago’s 90.9 WFMT fill the air (who could also use your support as a public broadcast station). My favorite classical track of all time is The Planets – II. Venus, The Bringer of Peace by Gustav Holst, and I’m listening to the opening adagio as I write this.

Luthier is the second, highly thematic game from Dave Beck. His freshman title, Distilled, while charming on the macro level, didn’t stick with me on the micro level. I…

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