The First Templar - Special Edition

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What a dull, repetetive game. Very linear and all you do is slash the same enemies in sucsession.

The First Templar. Stuck and outdated gameplay, the controls are old and limited. With rough graphics, the proposal aged poorly. Despite being cool 3D, it is very linear in pre-defined phases, with established primary objectives interspersed with optional secondary ones. What saves is the story part, despite it being weak. The scenarios fit well into the environment where they are well represented. The songs suffer from little variety as there was a lack of depth on this issue. The voice actors lack personality and life, even with bad lip sync, it was well recorded while the volume is high and in good tone. Skill progression system is interesting but not very deep. You can buy all skills before the end of the game. With few extras it shows that at the time of release it was a relevant proposal but the limitations of the hardware at the time, not forgetting the DVD DL media, meant that the project lost polish and a little extra resources. They could have thought better about how to execute it. Recommended more for achievements and history than other factors. It's not worth how much they charge even on an 85% promotion, I wait for 90% or more to buy something that will get boring quickly.

Buggy game with terribly clunky controls (calling it clunky is an insult to actually clunky games). Atrocious writing even by video game standards, highly repetitive core gameplay loop and generally awful brain-dead design. Combat feature only minimum amount of variation, there are some combos available, most of them fairly useless - combat is basically using standard attack with some power attacks thrown in to destroy shield or knock down enemies with occasional block or roll-dodge. Enemies are quite spongy with elite enemies ignoring you attack and simply hitting you through your combos, which may not be so terrible, however you are always outnumbered and controls are way too unresponsive for such an enemy design to be engaging. If you get knocked-down mid movement and do not immediately release movement button you start rolling on the floor and that cannot be cancelled and enemies will hit you. TO get you have to button-mash LBM. Some move or combinations are not cancellable in certain situations and cancellable in others, combine that with need to be able to play three characters with reasonable skill and it becomes very tedious with no payoff. Now encounter design is basically non existent, you are almost always outnumbered, which sadly leads to prioritizing any skill that help you attack multiple enemies at once, as they are simply better further reducing any player choice in building a character you way (unless you like pointlessly gimping yourself). Level design does not exist, everything is a corridor with occasional fork in the road. Story telling is insulting and horrible even by already low video game standards. Like tortured prisoner allowed to keep her weapons and by immediately ready to kick ass despite being 50kg woman. Yeah I know it's cliche present in many games, it's still terrible. Game's also quite historically inaccurate, what a shock. This game is not worth you time even for free. You should be payed to play this junk.

Thoroughly linear CLOSED world Witcher clone. I never like any of the Witcher series either. And well done "nabetsedeauirs", "urgotbikini" and "rosieposie" for some of the crassest examples of "Steam quality bullshit trash reviews" I've seen on GOG yet. FO back to Steam retards!