Driftmoon Enchanted Edition

If you are looking for something complex/challenging in term of fight, story, puzzle or crafting, do not buy it. To put in short, this is a light RPG, for beginner people, or for people who just want to have a easy game. Considering I have seen the review, I have set the setting to hard or very hard, and there is no big challenge. But, I enjoyed it anyway, Because: - The ambiance is good (remind me of LBA2 in some way) - Gameplay is easy to master - Story is ok and easy to follow (no "wait who is is this guy?"), even some few originality - It is light hearted - Puzzle never requested to go and check on internet, managed to find alone the solution - There is a bit of crafting (potions or arrows) but it is not too invasive - it is 10-12h long - you can pause anytime I will not recommend this if you are looking for diablo 12 or divinity OS 5, but if you look for something easy, or somewhat to recommend to some friends which are not nerds or new to video game, this is a good game.

[u]Driftmoon[/u] is a great adventure game with RPG elements that works as an introduction to longer, more involved RPGs, in much the same way that [u]Loom[/u] is an initiation into adventure games. Without this game as a transition, my kids might still be only playing Pokémon as their primary RPG. For myself, I also found [u]Driftmoon[/u] very satisfying due to its length: I am a completionist, and love to do everything and find everything in the games I play. With this game, you get a good story arc and can fully complete the game (including finding all the "secrets") in a relatively short amount of time: it took me about a week of playing an hour or two a day. In [u]Driftmoon[/u], you are given a series of tasks to perform; completing each task unlocks a new area and advances the story to that new area. This linearity is why I call it an adventure game even though in every other way it is an RPG: you can't choose the order in which to complete the quests and you're not free to wander around, exploring the whole game world. That might be tiresome if it went on for a long time, but as I wrote, it's a pretty short, tight little story, and each new story development kept me engaged in the plot. It's very well done..

A whimsical and somewhat amusing RPG that actually plays well, this review is based on the enhanced version of Driftmoon. You have a main protagonist and several party members that will change throughout the game. Character development is simple but not simplistic and does include choices that matter. Combat can range from a simple point to the enemy and let it play out, to more intense fights where you will have to leverage unique items and special abilities in order to persevere. Additionally, this game features several clever puzzles to solve in order to progress the story, it isn’t just slash and hack. There is also a good but simple crafting system and equipment is generally light and straightforward, just make sure you read the descriptions so you do not don a cursed item. The art is ok, nothing to brag about, but also certainly not a negative while the music is limited but upbeat without being annoying. Overall this is a straight forward good versus evil game that will make you feel nice without knowing the reason why. All over references to Christianity that were mentioned in other reviews have also been altered to more general spiritual connotations. The only drawback is that this is an extremely linear game and you will only get a couple of sessions out of it. Still, coming from someone that is considered a “harsh” reviewer, I can recommend this title.

I cannot understand why this game gets so good reviews (almost only 4 and 5 stars). There are good elements, but overall the experience is poor. The good: the story has very interesting elements. The game is very easy to pick up and play, and quite short. I finished it in about 8 hours. The combat is easy to learn. The graphics, if underwhelming, are pleasing and understandable for a 2 people team. There is a crafting system, it is easy and works fine. The bad: the combat is way too dull. It is too simple in my opinion. It basically consists on clicking once on one enemy and the rest is automatic if one wants. It is possible to use powers, but they are not that useful. One could finish the game without them by simply buying many potions (or crafting them) and just drinking them one at a time during combat. There is no character sheet, so the items are equiped from the inventory directly and it is hard to have an overview of what is equiped. The worst thing though is the writing. While the story is fine, and original, there is way too much text. I was constantly put through walls of text that repeated itself most of the time, but I needed to read to make sure I did not miss an important cue. The text itself is not so well written, ending up it boring minutes after boring minutes lost reading it. I play text heavy games a lot, but this time it was very annoring. I also had a crash within the 8 hours I played. This being said, the only negative reviews I saw on this game were talking about the game being Christian and trying to preach to the gamer. I'm an atheist and did not have any issue regarding that aspect of the game, so either it was changed by the dev since the reviews were made, or I'm not so sensitive as those reviewers are. I cannot recommend this game, except for people who do not except any masterpiece here.

Driftmoon ist ein wirklich schönes,lustiges und unkompliziertes Action-RPG. Es ist explizit etwas für Einsteiger und absolut gar nichts für Hardcorefans des Genres. Ich mag eigentlich Rollenspiele, habe aber keine Lust mehr, mich in komplexe Welten und Rollenspielsysteme sowie deren Regeln einzuarbeiten. Driftmoon ist sehr einfach, nimmt einen weitgehend an die Hand und macht eine Menge Spass. Es ist eine kleine eigene Welt, abseits von Tolkien-Kitsch-Fantasy und so. Das Spiel steuert sich sehr einfach per Maus, die kämpfe laufen (wenn man den Gegner einmal angeklickt hat, weitgehend alleine ab. Highlights für mich waren auf jeden Fall die Story, die stimmige Grafik und das ebensolche Ambiente sowie der Humor. Das Spiel nimmt sich nicht ernst und das ist gut so! Allerdings bin ich mir fast sicher, das man das Spiel als 20jähriger nicht so witzig findet. Ich bin 44 und verstehe daher die vielen vielen Anspielungen in der Story oder auch bei den Figuren. Die beiden finnischen Entwickler haben wirklich alles aufgefahren , was die Popkultur so hergibt...:-) Ich habe Anspielungen und Gags bzw. "geborgte" Ideen gefunden aus: Harry Potter, Monkey Island, Day of the Tenatacle, Zurück in die Zukunft etc. Auch eigene Gags sind sehr lustig, es lohnt sich z.B. die vielen Schilder in der Krypta zu lesen :-). Das Spiel will ein "Feel-Good-Rollenspiel" sein, und genau das ist es auch. Man fühlt sich einfach wohl in der Welt und mit seinen Charakteren. Ich wollte schon immer mal einen eigenen Panther haben :). Also... wer ein einfaches Rollenspiel sucht, für das man kein Regelwerk beherrschen muss, sondern einfach ein spaßiges Spiel zocken möchte.... hier ist es. Ich hatte in meiner Spielzeit (~14Std bis ich es durch hatte) Spaß wie lange nicht.