Blade of Darkness

This game is master peace of it’s time, thou it aged pretty badly. If you are willing to accept controls and aged graphic there is allot to love in this game. - DIFFICULTY - 🔲 My 90 year old grandma could play it 🔲 Easy 🔲 Normal 🔲 Hard ☑️ "Dark Souls" - GRAPHICS - 🔲 "MS Paint" 🔲 Bad 🔲 Meh ☑️ Graphics don't matter in this game 🔲 Good 🔲 Beautiful 🔲 Masterpiece - MUSIC - 🔲 Bad ☑️ Not special 🔲 Good 🔲 Beautiful - STORY - 🔲 This game has no story 🔲 Like playing "Temple Runners" for the story ☑️ It's there for the people who want it 🔲 Well written 🔲 Epic story - PRICE - 🔲 Underpriced ☑️ Perfect price 🔲 Could be cheaper 🔲 Overpriced 🔲 Complete waste of money - REQUIREMENTS - ☑️ You can run it on a microwave 🔲 Average 🔲 High end 🔲 "NASA" computer - LENGTH - 🔲 Very short (0 - 3 hours) ☑️ Short (5 - 10 hours) 🔲 Average (15 - 50 hours) 🔲 Long (50 - 90 hours) 🔲 Extremely long (90 - 110 hours) 🔲 No Ending - FUN - 🔲 I'd rather watch paint dry 🔲 Hard to enjoy 🔲 Repetitive ☑️ Actually pretty amusing 🔲 Ride of your life - REPLAYABILITY - 🔲 It's a one - time experience 🔲 Only for achievements ☑️ If you want experience all classes 🔲 Definitely 🔲 Infinitely repayable - WORTH BUYING - 🔲 No 🔲 Wait for sale ☑️ Yes Pro's : [✔] Requirements average [✔] Performance runs without frame drops [✔] Didn't encounter any bugs so far [✔] Gameplay intuitive [✔] Story told trough gameplay [✔] Music gives a game great atmosphere [✔] Pricing full game for one price no micro transitions, no DRM, no DLC. [✔] Replay vale High, if you want experience all classes [✔] Game length long (5 - 10 hours) with each class [✔] Grind is non existent just pure gameplay Con's : [✖] Graphic aged pretty badly. [✖] Controls are clunky but you can get use to it.

I remember following the development of this game through Spanish videogame magazines, specifically Hobby Consolas and always thought this would be an amazing game. When it finally came out, all my expectations were exceeded. Graphics: some of the tech in this was ahead of its time. This was doing shadow-casting dynamic lights before Doom 3, although Doom 3's method ended up being far superior to this one. Water looked amazing too and, afaik, didn't even use pixel shaders. Fire effects were quite impressive and this was the first game that I can think of that had blood splatters that ran down walls. Gameplay: a proto Dark Souls before even Demon's Souls was a thing. Difficult combat focused on 1v1 encounters, with a lock-on system and weapon durability. Although clunky and outdated for today's standards, it played rather well at the time, providing many hours of entertainment for those willing to become proficient at the combat mechanics. Characters had pretty decent freedom of movement, were well animated and had quite responsive movement. Sound: nothing special here, to be honest. Sound design is very serviceable and makes generous use of stock libraries. Sound quality is not the best, as it had to be compressed using the low-quality codecs of the time, so even in high-quality mode it sound nowhere near as good as modern games or even higher budgeted games of the time. Music: some memorable tracks here and there. During gameplay it provides you with a dynamic soundtrack. Not great, not terrible. Does its job. Level design: in my opinion, this is the star of the show. Game features some really well designed levels with fairly intricate architecture and well planned layouts. Although the Soulsborne games would eventually crush this game in that regard, it's still impressive how well designed these levels were. Top of my head, at the time, I think only Rune and Die by the Sword were providing direct competition to this game. Do not sleep on this gem, buy it!

The first epic-fantasy game I've ever played, back in 2001. The first game I know that you actually had to raise your shield in order to block an incoming attack. You also had to be always alert of your surroundings and walk slowly and carefully. 4 characters to choose from, with different prowess in weapons and different starting region for each of them (but the following regions are the same). No difficulty levels, there is only the default difficulty. No NPCs, no merchants, no money. Plain simply, just killing (but slowly and carefully). Also, you can quicksave everywhere. Keep in mind that the purpose of the game (before the boss battle) is to find a certain sword, but in order to unlock it there are certain items hidden in certain regions. The first time you pass from all the regions there will be no enemy respawn as you clear the enemies. If you don't find the items the first time you pass from all the regions, then (after you pass from all of them) you will be give another chance to pass from the certain regions that house each item, but at this second time the enemies will be much harder (as you will also be at a higher level). This second time you will be obliged to find the items, as you won't be able to leave without them. I can't remember whether there is enemy respawn at you second visit or not, but the enemies will surely be more difficult. That's what I remember from the game. THE REAL TEACHER OF THE SOULS GAMES.

Dark Souls before Dark Souls. Go play it