Posted on: December 3, 2016
Savior42
Spiele: 449 Rezensionen: 7
Could have been much better
(Disclaimer: I played the original, not the version here.) This game had great promise, but unfortunately it did not quite fulfil it. The artwork is unique and very nice, in places beautiful. The 3D dungeons are very ugly in 2016 (or indeed 2 years after the game came out), but have a certain charm to them. The problem lies elsewhere. First, the story starts out great, but soon becomes very scarce. Also, there is this sense of urgency, but there is no timer in the game. Which is good on one side, namely, one can explore the world; on the other, it completely takes the tension out of the game. On second thought though, so far so good, because the game's timekeeping is bugged: while the party can traverse great distances on the world map in an hour, inside buildings it is hardly enough to walk down a corridor. :) The rule system could have been improved as well. Skills / abilities don't seem to improve much, however many skill points are thrown at them, and mana is painfully scarce, forcing one to run out of some dungeons every half a level or so. All in all, it feels as if the game was released too early. It wouldn't have taken much to make it actually good. On the plus side: I don't know how GOG packaged the game, but the original definitely works under DosBox, so Mac/Linux users can play it as well.
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