Posted on: October 12, 2024
undeadAlic3
Verified ownerGames: 15 Reviews: 4
Poor combat mechanics
This game lives or dies based on its combat as that´s all it has, and unfortunately it sucks. Attacks are unreactable for the most part so you deal with all attacks the same way. Strafe, then punish. When the attack is too fast to strafe, there is no answer. You merely have to cheese the enemy with magic. THAT´S IT. That´s the gameplay loop. There´s high and low attacks but they are just color coded versions of regular attacks with no differentiating properties aside from what guards they bypass. Not that it matters much, since for the most part guarding is less useful than strafing. The concept for this game is amazing, a punchout style game but with sword combat and multiple opponents rather than a boss rush game but the game underdelivers. I heard that the 2nd game in the series is much better but I doubt it will come to GOG. Do not buy
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