Disciples: Liberation - GOG Edition

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Posted on: September 14, 2022

BlueBangkok

Games: 192 Reviews: 31

Good gameplay, flawed story telling

Don't get fooled by the store description, this game's not mature and it's definitely not Disciples. It's an emotional roller coaster with an edgy teen in the main role - our girl Avyanna is constantly shifting among cheery, dark, inappropriately horny, and crazily bloodthirsty attitudes, depending on which button you pressed on the "dialogue wheel" implemented with the intelligence and grace of Dragon Age II. The game is trying to be woke by having a "strong" female main character and ridiculing male characters, but since Avyanna is totally psychotic and absolutely unbelievable as a character, it falls flat on its face - to the point that it's actually funny how the game's own presentation of her neuterized any chance of spreading "the message", and the male characters are in reality the only sane ones in the entire game. You might be worried that unless you played the abortion called Disciples III to the very end (which I presume 99.99% of you didn't), the world will make zero sense. Well, don't worry because it will make no sense even if you did play that. The world building is non-existent and frankly, it doesn't have to exist in this kind of game. The story telling has the eloquence of a five year old and the game allegedly presents you with choices, but it ultimately amounts to nothing, as the only difference to anything whatsoever is what flavor text you will have in a few dialogues and which faction units you will be mainly using. Which brings us to the only saving grace of this game - the gameplay. The combat, creatures, abilities, are well designed, albeit generic, and if you are looking for a temporary kick from a Kings Bounty clone, this RPG/strategy hybrid will provide. All in all, if you want to play this, you have to approach it as a B-movie - it has clunky dialogue, writing so stupid to the point of being funny, and all is saved by TB combat galore (action scenes). If you can live with that, go ahead. It's a good parody of better games.

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Posted on: September 29, 2022

Elkor_Alish

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Games: 299 Reviews: 56

Sorry

There are some things about this game I really like, like the way you can toggle quests with the arrow key. I hate flipping through menus in a game and this was thoughtful and effective. I dig it. Mostly I just hate the game though. In a game meant to attract people who enjoy choice and consequence, what is the point in making every choice distasteful. When everyone is an asshole, noone is going to care what happens to any of them. When the player isn't invested the game gets stale quick. Probably just as well since its a rigged experience anyway. Want to save some Elves in a cave with a level 30 Dragon you can't beat at level 9? Come back later. . .And find the Dragon has levelled too! The same twenty levels you invested a few hours attaining that dude gets napping. Because you know, you can't have any experience in the game which hasn't been precisely measured and thoroughly dictated by the developers. You are still using mostly the same units, skills and abilities. . .But he isn't. That's great! It is also a game of extremes. There is no balance anywhere. You either go first, or last. Your hero goes first consistently, but mostly your units are going last. Especially when trying to punch above your weight class. Well, fine, I like a challenge, I can deal with that. . .Except the AI is ridiculous. They always know who to target. Have one knight without a shard, they will know exactly who he is. And all eight of them will focus on him and kill him before he gets to move. Nothing says fun like losing units first turn before you get to do anything with them. Oh, and don't get attached to your units. When they say RPG elements, it does not apply to these. You want to carefully select who you bring and try and keep them to the end? No no, friend. Your tier one soldiers will be killed in a single AoE attacks by the time you get to level thirty. No room for sentiment here, you always have the best! I just never got to a point where I could actually enjoy playing

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Posted on: October 9, 2022

tyresia2

Games: 2 Reviews: 1

Just another unsufferable Mary Sue

This game is frankly a shame to the whole Disciples franchise. Do you remember the gloomy, dark, eerie world with so much depth and uniqueness that characterized past Disciples games? Well, just trash it for the umpteenth wokish bs with an unsufferable strong, independent girl boss that fights her way through the sorriest excuse for a plot you can imagine. I mean if you feared that her shaved head was there to mean something... you were totally right about that. All secondary male characters are either evil members of the patriarchy, or plain idiots who praise her all the time for being so gread, so good, so powerful. Except she's nothing but an hysterical psychotic killer shoehorned in a childish narrative that is written by a bunch of incompetent writers. And that's not something you can avoid either, since the whole game mechanics are just so bland and boring, that everything is centered about this supposed "RPG" that no matter what, you have to play this pain in the *** Mary Sue for most of the time. And, no, don't fool yourself - this is no Mass Effect or Dragon Age where your dialogue choices do *really* matter. They're nearly inconsequential, and put there just for the "flavor". Except there's no flavor in watching this Karen bash all her male counterparts just because she's sooo better than them at everything she does. Bleargh.

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Posted on: December 13, 2022

Hakunamatata1982

Games: 460 Reviews: 31

It shouldn't name "Disciples"

I have just finished this game on the brutal difficulty. This game is a mix of Disciples III & Mobile Game & Feminism. So, It is not a strategy like previous games. You have a castle, and you can return to it at almost any moment and buy units. There is no problem with resources because you need only spend time in the game. So, there are no challenges in this game. The best part of this game is the battle mechanics and units (good work). However, if you like the Disciples series, it would be best if you kept far away from this game.

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Posted on: January 13, 2024

MaciejKrok

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 47

30% game + 70% bloat.

Disciples: Liberation is a good tactical RPG, which reminds me of King's Bounty series. It has very good voiceacting, good music and graphics, nice combat system, OK story and characters. Their builds and itemization are unimpressive. Those feats would normally sum up into a good experience if the game was 20 hours long. But it isn't. It's a 60-hours slugfest, and those 20 hours of gameplay are forcefully stretched into 60 hours of repetition galore, to the point where a couple of times you are fighting exactly the same combats all over again (same enemies with same levels, same composition, same starting positions and same terrain), only rewards are random (though still highly mundane). After about one third of the game you feel your time is seriously wasted with Disciples: Liberation. Overall, I would rate it 6,5/10. It's a good game before it gets boring, and when you finally finish it, you have no desire to replay it at all.

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