Blade of Darkness

A straightforward action-adventure game with simple RPG elements which looks pretty promising in the beginning but everything happen in clunky and slow way. The game controls are very clumsy and annoying. You cannot even move sideways unless you are locked onto an enemy. Switching between weapons and equipping them is slow and very problematic in the heat of combat. Most of your melee strikes won't hit anything because of short reach and poor hitboxes. After two or three melee hits your character is out of all stamina, and when that happens you are totally frozen and it takes a long time to recover. Enemies don't have that problem at all so they can spam their attacks. You can block attacks only by using a shield which will break very soon. You can also throw your equpped weapon at your enemies but most of the time it just flies over the enemy without causing any damage. Item pickup and object interaction is made unneccessary difficult. You have to manually browse through nearby items with a button press and after that you can pick up or interact. Sometimes you automatically drink a healing potion right away after picking it up, sometimes you store it in your inventory. Other annoying problems: campfires won't hurt enemies, archery is very inaccurate, there are not much methods to heal your character, there is no mouse cursor in the game menus and you have to make "are you sure" confirmation every single time you save and load. Not much good things to mention. The game has pretty good looking light and shadow effects, there are physical objects to interact with and enemies get sliced into peaces. And there are some nice little details, like the character turns his head towards a nearby item and wounds appear all over your body. And that's pretty much it.

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Every time I eat an object the game crash :( . I don't know if there is any way to fix this, but i hope so because the game seems very good :) .

It is about the combat and the leveling. And the fighing system. This is an mizing game. I started my thitd charachter and will probably finish the game with all four. By the way the Radish is in the first Amazon lovel, if somebody whant to know where exactly please contact me.

At the time of publication it was really special. A bit too hard for the game market at the time, it has the DNA of what would become Dark Souls later. But, what really makes it interesting even today is the Heavy Metal atmosphere of the world. A gritty low fantasy setting with 4 unique characters each with a different play style (well ok, the knight is just a lightweight dwarf, but still.) Things which really ruing parts of the game are the slightly dated graphics and the clumsy platforming. This game deserves a 2, with a bigger world, no platforming and a better control system.