Posted on: November 4, 2016
morolf
Verified ownerGames: 185 Reviews: 14
Excessively hard on standard difficulty
I've played through Age of Decadence several times before, so I understand the combat system and thought I could play this one on "muderous psychopath" difficulty (which is the pre-selected difficulty and applies AoD standard rules). Might have been a mistake...I'm currently on the mine's 2nd level and the game's becoming ridiculously difficult. My party of 3 is now facing an unavoidable fight against some guy (Reinard) with a two-handed axe, a spearman (whose spear is poisoned), a bowman sniper - and two other guys coming from behind, an alchemist who has at least three black powder bombs and some thug with a poisoned club. Sorry, but this is overkill, I like a challenge but this is perverse and I hope they'll tone down the difficulty of some fights in future updates. Apart from that gameplay seems fine, just very, very hard (you're constantly low on healing resources) and fairly restricted - this really is a pure combat dungeon crawler, there are no quests whatsoever. If you like that type of game, this might be for you (but you should probably have played Age of Decadence before...if you don't know the combat system, Dungeon rats' learning curve is probably rather steep).
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