Posted on: January 3, 2015

gingetsune

Games: 342 Reviews: 2

Die By the Bloody sword.

This Game is awesome. Not only a great game with incredible, But clumsy controls that make sense. you have to learn how to fight rather than point and click. They damage where you hit and the damage will be lighter or heavyer depending on how you swing your sword with the 1-9 numbers on the keyboard. This will be frustrating to new players who are used to not need to learn controls since most games use the same. When i first got this it was one of the first games i got on computer, not counting the old Amiga computer games. I recommend it and hope you like a good action adventure game. Limbs will be lost, Blood will be spilt and you will Twist in unnatural positions that would kill a normal man before mastering the control... But you will definitely enjoy it. It have great graphics for its age and still provides a challenge and good time. Play the game and enjoy the story. Good luck.

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Posted on: January 13, 2024

erbello

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Games: 3071 Reviews: 50

Difficulty went out of my gauge.

If you are an experienced nettles slayer, you can try to survive this game ;) P.S.1) I chose DirectX at the first launch and the game ran on vertical resolution with broken pink colors. I couldn't switch it back to other options (different settings was ignored). Fortunately I was able to fix this issue using the Xtended mod. P.S.2) Mukor mode doesn't work.

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Posted on: August 12, 2025

metalcored1234

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Games: 235 Reviews: 1

Works on Win 11 w/multiplayer (Aug 2025)

I played this a lot in the 90s and love this game. I still had the original install disc, and tried a million things to try and get it working in Win 11 but nothing worked. I googled and found a post where someone said this GOG version comes with the needed patches to make it work on Win 11 and I bought it b/c GOG had a 30 day return policy. Well I bought it and was not disappointed. It actually works! Yes, it's janky with the menus, and yes it's full of bugs, but 8 out of 10 times it will work. Some of my friends got it too and we actually had a 4 player multiplayer match. We laughed so hard while chopping each other to pieces and batting each other clear across the map with the ogre. I hope one day there is a remaster. No other game has ever replicated this experience.

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Posted on: December 26, 2008

Itlodeo

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Games: 1031 Reviews: 11

A game for fans of action

The spirit of “Die by the sword” lies on his control system. Any other side of the game is a bit poor. The story is just simple: hero's girlfriend is kidnapped, and taken into a great dungeon under the control of a powerful sorcerer. Our avatar has to follow the great quest to find, liberate her and defeat the evil sorcerer. Also his inventory is just poor, along his way the hero will find some power up and potions of healing. He can also take some part of his victims and use them as a weapon, but nothing will be as useful as his sword. So the core of the game lies in the fighting system and in particular in the complex system of using the sword. The one who will dominate this control system of the sword, will prove great satisfactions for realism of fighting and the spectacular duels that will be granted. Novices of action games will find this one difficult and a bit frustrating.

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Posted on: January 1, 2009

GregorusPrime

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Games: 91 Reviews: 2

The most fun you can have with a numpad!

This is a great game and a must-buy for anyone who really loves swordplay or action games in general. The only gripes I have about it are that it really hasn't aged well and can get kind of buggy. Being able to crank up the resolution would have been great, as would being able to enable 3d acceleration without an external program (Glide Wrapper) and putting it into Windows 98 compatibility mode, which of course causes problems with detecting save games. All in all, though, it's worth it, especially if you can find a friend to play online with. This is a steal at six bucks.

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