Posted on: February 22, 2014

terodil

Games: 183 Reviews: 8

Laudable, but failed attempt.

'Review too long' - sigh. + Interesting new skill concept. Skills are randomly found in the form of runes. Increasing skill levels are a strategic choice, so be careful. + Colourful, vibrant world. + You can ride a horse. No joking, that was novel at the time, you can even give it different harnesses to boost specific stats. - Absolutely terrible story. Yes, Diablo does not tell a novel, mesmerising story either, but at least it comes with some lore and gfx 'oomph'. Sacred has neither of these and delivers a bland, utterly repetitive and boring narrative. - Incredible amount of worthless filler sidequests -- completely randomised on the outside, mind-numbingly repetitive on the inside. - Only maybe 6? 7? different monster types. Overall. In the whole game. Yes, the world is huge, but damn - is even a palette shift too much to ask for? - Horrible itemisation: 99.9% is vendor crap. The only notable exception are the beautiful sets, but a few deplorable design decisions (no muling, static item levels etc.) mar their usefulness, and thus the excitement. - Tons of game-breaking bugs. TL;DR: I wish I had the time back that I sunk into this game. It is/was advertised as an aRPG, but it fails at providing (a somewhat engaging) both the A - action and the RP - roleplaying, leaving only a mediocre time-eating G - game that will inevitably make your eyes bleed before you uninstall it.

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Posted on: November 18, 2018

JoeMD

Verified owner

Games: 103 Reviews: 6

Maybe I've Just Come In Too Late...

I was quite enjoying this old school RPG...until around hour 30 when it started to become incredibly repetitive. All this mission consisted of go here, collect that or go here, get person, come back. And the distances you had to travel were insane. It'd be OK if it was only a few minutes, but it would take 15 or more just to get from the mission giver-er to where you had to go. Perhaps because it's on old game on a modern(ish) system - I'm playing the GoG version - I had many instances of spells not activating or characters attacking in the wrong direction. I had two spells that didn't seem to work at all no matter how often I tried. This made things incredibly infuriating when I got to a mission that had me swarmed with enemies. I can see how people would have loved this game when it originally came out and have fond memories of it. There is heaps of replay value with all the different characters available to play as. However, I ended up just becoming extremely frustrated to the point of not wanting to continue on. I may come back to it one day, but I've a serious backlog of games and I'd rather explore more of those than push on with something I'm really not enjoying all that much.

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Posted on: January 31, 2020

Bloodrunsclear

Verified owner

Games: 1219 Reviews: 143

This Could Be the Best ARG Ever

I was reluctant to get this game at first because games like Titan's Quest and Diablo 3 look pretty but get boring quick. Sacred sidesteps this problem by having some brilliant animations, charming graphics, an insane level of customization and replay value, and a frankly wonderful level of care and detail. Your character has different vocal responses to different kinds of enemies! My dwarf was wandering around and remarked on human buildings with disgust. You can go to areas without enemies but tons of books about the backstory. You can go through forests with just wildlife to admire or towns of furtive peasants going about their business. There must be hundreds of enemies types and unlike a lot of other ARGs which have them different colored flavors of a base type they all seem to have a purpose. I ran into multiple classes of bandits, named enemies that weren't bosses, massively over leveled enemies I could still kite and fight on my terms. It doesn't seem to be randomly generated either: the whole map is custom made with fixed encounters not all directly related to a quest. I came across a group of deserting soldiers summoning demons just because I wandered into a cave. You can practically go anywhere at any time and you start dirt poor and wielding a stick so it really does feel like a rise to power using skill choices by level to refine a play style. It still looks great, the tutorial is helpful (and you can skip it) you can do more quest types than collecting things or killing people...it feels like an isometric open world game instead of just spamming area of effect spells. I hope the sequel is half as good!

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Posted on: October 3, 2018

wildmint

Verified owner

Games: 189 Reviews: 1

i remembered it better

i had tons of fun with this title when i was little. Hell, even demo stole my hearth and few hours of life. But now when i'm older, i can't find any fun in Ancaria, most of the classes and spells are boring, playing the game as a melee fighter (like Vampire) wiht only one AoE skill is damn annoying, enemies with 'earthbind' spell and only few portals slow the gameplay. Easter eggs and whole map is nice piece of work, but overall experience lost it charm after these 14 years.

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Posted on: February 6, 2009

xenon001

Verified owner

Games: 36 Reviews: 2

Very nice hack'n'slay

Always good for a quick game. If you like this kind of games - buy it. Its real fun and a huge world keeps you busy. Easy to play and much fun. The Bad? Bugs, Still bugs. Bad manual ( you will need external Guides ). I am one of these impudent guys who expect working software. For the gameplay you dont realy need to save very often... But the bugs. Dont get me wrong - The game is very good playable. But cast the wrong spell in combination with the wrong weapon glow effect and you may stall/crash the game.

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