Environments run from rural villages to a teeming city. Other Eastern philosophies like reincarnation and the spiritual and mental qualities surrounding the practice of martial arts appear in dialogue and convenient little signs posted throughout the empire. Karma is a big deal in 'Jade Empire.' Your character can choose the path of good, 'Way of the Open Palm,' or evil, the 'Way of the Closed Fist,' and there are repercussions. In one early scene, the player has the choice of either saving a fishing village's livelihood by releasing an upstream dam or keeping the dam up to avoid any bad karma from spirits whose grave lies near the dam. The quests your orphan undertakes shape how the story unfolds. It needs to be with colorfully named empire inhabitants such as Sagacious Zu and Gao the Lesser.

There's often a sense of humor in the give and take between characters. They may prattle off a story about the land or, perhaps, request assistance in fending off thieves or rescuing a lost object.ДЇortunately, 'Jade Empire's' writers have avoided the creaky role-playing game dialogue boilerplate - a pox on 'Lord of the Rings' and their 'thees' and 'thous' - for natural sounding and evocative dialogue. In typical role-playing fashion, encounters with these non-playing-characters, or NPCs, drive the story. This sets the stage for a journey through a large setting of villages and cities populated by a typical array of farmers, townspeople and more nefarious folk and spirits.

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