Posted on: May 14, 2025
Bonesinger
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Would've been bad even in their day
TLDR: Unless you're planning on doing some video content with these games, avoid them. These games aged terribly, and I doubt they were considered good back in the day (1988-1991). * The first, Heroes of the Lance, is a side scroller with unresponsive controls and an obscure method of combat: you have to hold Enter, then press a direction to attack. This only works if "Combat" is shown on the bottom left of the screen. Running is done by holding up together with the intended direction. During a run, pressing Enter will make you jump - Raistlin is the only character that doesn't run, but he kinda levitates when you try to jump, which is crucial for jumping over one specific gap, so you need him alive at least until that part. I don't know which configuration could make the game run faster, as simply increasing the CPU Cycles (CTRL + F12) in DOSBox makes no difference. The game can also crash if there's too much stuff on the screen. * Dragons of Flame builds on HotL's questionable foundations, but with a manual that DOES NOT LIST THE CONTROLS. Combat still maintains the Hold Enter + arrow to attack, only working when enemies are nearby. It also has a more menu options, opened with Space, but most keyboard keys will instantly open one of the listed options, such as [U]se, [T]ake, [G]ive, [D]rop, [H]ero. One important key that isn't listed anywhere is numpad 0, which is used to go back from the side scroller to the overworld map view. I had to search around the internet to discover that. You also can't get back to the overworld if there are enemies nearby, like 5 squares away, you'll be put back into the side scroll view. I didn't take much time with the other two games, but, from roughly 10 minutes with Shadow Sorcerer, the last in the series, it still fails hard at having controls that make any sense, plus the mouse cursor movement isn't exactly precise. Not that I'd have enough room to go into detail here, due to character limitation of reviews.
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