Posted on: January 2, 2024
thundergod9
Verified ownerGames: 276 Reviews: 9
A fun idea, executed extremely poorly
I feel like most of the reviews are wearing thick nostalgia goggles. As someone with no nostalgic memories of this game, I feel pretty confident in saying that after about 8 hours it is *awful.* The visuals are nice enough, the voice acting is fun, and the idea is a good one, but it's executed horrendously. When it isn't mostly just kind of dull, you're dealing with missions that have one acceptable and extremely limited strategy that can often depend completely on RNG. Take for example, the mission Quest for the Crown. Essentially you have to survive a massive wave of minotaurs but your heroes aren't going to live long enough to do any real damage, so you have to cast spells, which cost gold just like building and hiring heroes. Except sometimes the game tells you in no uncertain terms to piss off. Sometimes, the game straight up doesn't register clicks. Sometimes the game will decide that spell damage will be essentially 0. Sometimes the game will decide that you *didn't* cast a spell on what you were targeting for no reason. Sometimes the dumb AI decides that your few precious heroes are going to run directly up to the nearest big monster and refuse to run away, dying instantly. Sometimes heroes with minions will decide that they don't need them and will wander away from them and immediately die. Flags, your one means of directing heroes, only seems to work some of the time, and it feels completely random when heroes will bother with them at all. Constant issues like this will waste precious resources until you run out and die, then you reload and hope that maybe, *just maybe* it will be less crap this time. And sometimes you'll be right. But it's bad design. These things will mean that *sometimes* you might succeed because the game has allowed it, and many times you will fail because one too many spells just didn't work or one to many heroes decided life wasn't worth living. It is indicative of the basic problems with the entire game.
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