Nox™

I played this game A LOT as a child, and have finished it so many times with each class. I highly recommend it. The movement and combat is smooth and different than other RPGs, and each class plays out differently.

A 2D top-down action game with some RPG elements and with the TrueVision system, but the gameplay was not so likeable like in Diablo or Torchlight. There are three character classes which are very locked to their roles. Warrior cannot cast spells and Wizard cannot equip swords and so on. When you level up, there are no point distribution to your attributes and no skill trees with unlockable skills. So there are no character builds at all so the character progress will be always the same with each class. There are many spells for conjurer and wizard classes, but just a couple of spells are enough to drain all mana, and this wont change in later game no matter how many EXP levels gained. There are mana potions but they are not always so common and you can carry only 10 of them. There are mana pillars for mana recharging but they are not always available in all game areas. The user interface has one good thing and many bad things. You can define different spell sets for the spell hotkeys and you can easily switch them with the mouse wheel. But inventory is clumsy, you cannot arrange your items and examining items is made difficult with a magnifying glass icon. Buying, selling and repairing stuff is also pain with so many mouse clicks. Equipments will wear down and they will break eventually, and the only way to repair them is to meet a shopkeeper. You cannot always return to the previous shopkeeper and the next one may be very far away. Besides, repairing and especially buying items are so expensive. Other minor annoyances are picking up items and the fast-moving enemies with little hit rectangles making difficult to hit them with arrows. There should be some replay value with three character classes, but the abovementioned issues don't really make worth it for me.

There are a lot of reviews prazing this game. Too bad it crashes after the opening cinematic.

in the long distant past of the early 2000s i got a burned disk with Nox on it. i would start to play it for a while, get stuck doing something, usually school related, and forget about it until my computer died. wound up doing this twice before i lost the disk. but noww i can finally finish the darn thing and enjoy it. it does have some issues, mostly being as old as it is there are some graphical problems that need modded to work right but are fairly easy fix.

You start as an average dude living in a trailer park and get sucked into a world where you become a hero. The isekai before isekais. There were the typical 3 classes, wizard, ranger, and warrior. You got to pick your t-shirt color, pants, and shoes. While pointless it was so cool back when it came out. The game is a bit hard but worth it. you get so many powerful spells and abilities and it did a good job making it feel that way. You could end up blasting yourself pretty easily. As a wizard you were basically scared of your own strength and it taught me patience for sure. Warrior would just demolish everything. The ranger could summon and make traps and such. The pvp in multiplayer was always a blast too. If you like older rpgs that kinda just throw the game at you, you will probly enjoy it.