Posted on: October 24, 2019
mrtobyb
Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: 170 Rezensionen: 2
Perfectly balanced game
Love this game. After reading some lukewarm reviews maybe my expectations were low, but I found this to be a really well-balanced and satisfying game. The core combat experience is indeed a HOMM3 clone (even stealing some of the units from that game), but the creature types have interesting and varied enough abilities to make it work well. The RPG elements I think are fantastic, with multiple ways of progressing your character, spells, dragon's abilities, items, etc. without it seeming bewildering at the beginning. You are able to explore each at your own pace whenever they seem relevant and necessary. And the best thing for me is the travel around the map. Other reviews have pointed out that you can wander across units that are impossibly difficult to beat, but that is clearly intentional - in fact hovering over any unit gives you a very reliable rating of their strength relative to you (including "invincible"). But they are ALWAYS avoidable by backtracking and going a different way, which means you end up tentatively working your way round each island, seeking out a safe path and seeking enemies weak enough to beat, while you gradually improve your abilities. You then return to areas you couldn't survive in earlier to beat those previously invincible enemies. I think this is really clever - rather than a linear progression like most games, you get to see what you will face later right away, and choose your own path to how you will get there. It gives you visual goals to work towards, and lets you choose which to target at any point. It also makes the difficulty curve more transparent, so you don' suspect game is just adjusting enemy strength to whatever level you are currently at - because you can see their army size at an point and that it doesn't change. The difficulty curve was perfect for me, with enemies just tough enough and resources just scarce enough that it is always a challenge to progress, and always rewarding when you do. A rare gem.
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