Posted on: December 11, 2016
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Over-promised and ultimately average
This game was heralded in magazines as not only an RPG, but an RPG written by R.A. Salvatore of Drizzt fame— and therefore should be amazing by default. What came out was by no definition an RPG— it had a lackluster story and offered only played-out and oddly angled completely linear sidescrolling with a healthy does of button mashing. Suffice it to say, the game fell flat on its face at retail. This game suffers heavily from it's PS2 co-development: Tiny levels that are barely rendered with washed out graphics— most things are 2D in the background. The PS2 was an under-powered console and this game is the worse for it. It's a straight port. Let me reiterate: This is not an RPG. It's a hack 'n slash game that gives you some points to spend on making moves more powerful at the end of every mission, but ultimately gives you enough that you can power up every move in the game, even the ones that aren't worth using. Any RPG elements feel like they're tacked on merely because this game is set in the Forgotten Realms. In the end, this game has more in common with Contra than anything else. Let me reiterate again: It's an extremely average and ultimately forgettable story. R.A. Salvatore has never proven himself to be a particularly talented writer and in that regard, this game doesn't disappoint. Let me reiterate for a third time: This is just a sidescroller button masher. Some of the angles are weird ala Resident Evil 1 and 2 where you are running toward the camera while enemies you can't see charge at you making for frustrating fights. There are very brief moments of isometric views to make you feel like it's a real game and you can actually see what you're doing, but then it goes back to being Contra sidescrolling or being annoying. There are almost no secrets or anything to mix it up. You just run down a 10' wide path from start to finish. Why did I buy this again? It was part of a D&D pack and I thought "maybe I was too hard on it back then..." I was not.
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