Posted on: August 16, 2020
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Classic,polished, interesting, surpassed
Lands of Lore is an old-school, polished and graphical pleasing game with square based dancing and clicking on weapon sprites like Eye of the Beholder, Grimrock and Vaporum. The music reminds of Dune 2, a classic RTS from the same studio, Westwood. The old-school elements are not the best. You get choices like stepping into one of three portals and no clues given. The first leads to instant death (reload), the second transports the party to an already explored map (reload), and the third portal is the way forward. You try every option, of course, because you might miss a key or quest objects if you don’t. Often you forward the story by using a certain object, presenting an object to a NPC or opening a secret door by finding a hidden switch. Back in the days, when I was still a young kid and learning English at school, I missed some subtle hints and got stuck. These days there are online manuals to get you going, but I never liked these kind of puzzles. They are more frustrating blockages, rather than make you feel smart. The game starts with a choice of a pre-made protagonist and an interesting story about a shapeshifting witch and a kingdom of mages and four-arm monster-sized heroes in jeopardy. You fight many orcs and find some interesting loot. The further you progress, the stranger monster become and the more battles are played out by picking up items from the ground or using items from your inventory. I didn’t like levels where you have to remove your armor less they are dissolved by the first connecting hit from a monster, or ghosts that are near-impossible to kill unless you use a cube that does huge damage and you can spam regardless of the condition of your party. In 1993, I would have rated this game higher, but with better games of similar style today and the later levels that seem almost void of anything interesting, except for some weird monsters with rather nasty skills and many annoying traps, it seems only fair to lower my rating somewhat.
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