Die By The Sword + Limb From Limb

The game is barely functional. While the actual gameplay is fairly true to when it was new, the menus freeze and move in slow motion. Making any kind of configuration change is agony and reloading after dying is downright torture. And believe me... you will be dying a lot. The default controls are also set to the arcade controls, making the game even more cumbersome to use without configuration. Give this one a pass, it is not well maintained or truly playable.

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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.

This game has just the right surreal quality and atmosphere to make an unforgettable heroes journey through a Nordic rpg underworld landscape, just as you might have envisioned it back playing pencil and paper in the 90s and 80s. Although you may find the sword play clumsy, dont fret, the linear gameplay, atmosphere and monsters along with traps, underground streams, treasures, mazes, and strange environs makes the effort totally worth it. There is nothing phony here, its as good as it gets.

I remember playing this as a kid on a Pentium machine with a Voodoo Banshee, and what a glorious riot it was trying to do literally anything with the wretched combat controls. Occasionally, a friend would come over, and one of us would maneuver the character, and the other would swing the sword. I'd be surprised if we ever got past the first level, but I remember it being a ridiculous amount of fun. I mean it turns out it hasn't aged well graphically, and it feels just as clunky as ever, but nothing from that era looks even remotely decent anymore, and the gameplay hasn't gotten any WORSE, so honestly? It's still fun. I wasn't expecting that, but here we are. This is a hilarious amount of content for $10, and it's absolutely worth the price just to die laughing while you try to fight a skeleton the way you do in this game. Bennett Foddy would be proud.