The Dwarves

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Posted on: May 17, 2023

NoClass77

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Gry: 614 Opinie: 2

A good story let down by poor gameplay.

The Dwarves is a mixed bag. The storyline is good and follows the book pretty closely with a few slight changes. Events that don't feature Tungdil are absent as are a few characters like Mallen and Sverd. There's a character in the game, Giralda who isn't in the first book, she's cool but could've been fleshed out a little more. The way the game is narrated feels nice and cosy, although it is mostly done through voice over and text boxes on the world map. The voice acting and writing are good and the games greatest strengths. Big events are shown in cut scenes, which mostly look nice and show off the character design, which is a bit cartoonish but charming. Other storytelling is done through point and click adventure style levels. These work pretty well and you can tell King Art's team have some experience with that genre. Unfortunately, the combat engine is really disappointing. The quasi tactical battles feel awkard on both a mouse and keyboard and with an Xbox controller. The way commands are issued feels sloppy. The companion AI is awful, ai characters either stand still or run to their deaths. Archers fight like melee characters. The power ups are bland. Enemies mostly just swarm, it's too chaotic for RTWP. The battles are repetitive with objectives mostly consisting of killing dozens of orcs or bringing your party to one end of the map. The boss fights aren't so much challenging as they are frustrating and time consuming, the bosses frequently teleport or heal in a way that extends the fights but doesn't make them more fun. The camera gets in the way a lot. It's somewhat easier to deal with using a controller, but it's still requires frequent adjusting. The menus on the character selection and equipment screen on the other hand, are easy with a mouse and keyboard but really hard to navigate with a controller. Hopefully they'll make a better sequel. The story is great, and there's a lot of potential but it needs a lot of the kinks ironed out.

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Posted on: December 10, 2016

cjmizanin

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Gry: 85 Opinie: 7

More RTS than RPG

The combat feels very chaotic - more like an RTS rather than an RPG. Not at all what I was expecting.

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Posted on: March 15, 2019

pearnon

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Gry: 205 Opinie: 50

A satisfying experience

At first, the "storybook with battle set pieces and occasional point & click" feels amateurish, as did the at times choppy transitions between game and cutscenes, as well as a few audio issues and repeated lines of dialogue (played the game in German). But The Dwarves slowly grows on you, based as it is on a quality fantasy series with a fairly refreshing concept centred on that eternal understudy of fantasy - the dwarf - and it does a pretty good job of conveying the epic atmosphere of the few battling against many. Also, while you might be frustrated at first at the characters' erratic movement in battle, and how it hinders strategic positioning, it actually feels very realistic - as it were - and different from most other games, and you learn to compensate with their special abilities. Great soundtrack by Benny Oschmann, as usual, and, speaking about the music, props to the devs for making sure there was a way around an immersion-breaking part of the game involving music and a certain German power metal band. The Dwarves isn't a deep game, and also rather short, which, if you haven't read the novels, might make you feel like you barely got to know many of the characters. But it's solid, has good production values, is well written and vivid, and makes for a bite-sized satisfying experience.

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Posted on: January 5, 2017

nosider

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Gry: Opinie: 3

Great short game, fun combat and story

Having backed this game on Kickstarter, I must say I was awaiting it eagerly, and after playing it, on most fronts, I was not disappointed. If you like Hero Offence style games, then this game is sure to bring you much entertainment. The game is fun, but short, with content and hero customisation lacking. The Good: + The game is all I hoped it to be, with massive hordes of enemies getting smashed up by a few powerful heroes with nicely tuned crowd-control skills (Hero Offence style gameplay). + Graphics are great and the environments are varied and interesting. + Game mechanics and hero skills are fun to play with (throwing enemies off cliffs and knockdowns for insta-kills). + Interesting story that is not cheesy, and even has some gruesome parts. + Very few bugs that I encountered (but there were some nonetheless). + Missions are varied and some can be quite challenging (requiring frequent use of the 'pause' function to issue commands to the heroes, so as not to get overwhelmed) . + Decent selection of characters to play with, most having varying skills hence requiring differing tactics. The Not So Good: - Variety of enemies is very small, which makes battles go a similar way every time once you figure out a winning formula. - Very limited loot system, with virtually no customisation of characters. - There are very few side quests, where the player can get to know the history and lore of the world. - The game is far too short for the effort that was put in to make it as beautiful as it is (I am a slow player, and like to experience the whole of the game, but I managed to finish it in just 16 hours).

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Posted on: October 25, 2017

Nervensaegen

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Gry: Opinie: 102

Strong start, weak ending

While the game feels great and the story is strong the first couple of chapters, the last chapters unfortunately feel very rushed, which is why I won't give five stars. There are errors in the text, lines get repeated after they have already been said, cut-scenes end in blank screens. The finale - though well written - feels unsatisfying. Plus, the credits are... a good idea with very poor execution. With that said: this is an acquired taste that you will either love or hate. It is a story told by a narrator and short cut-scenes. In between them, you are moving your switching between three game-modes. First is a tabletop board-game, in which you move your character like a figure across the board. If something happens, the narrator will explain what is going on and you may jump to a 3D view of the local environment. Here you either (mode A) are required to select your heroes and battle enemies in a tactical action sequence. You can pause the battle at any time to give orders to your various (up to four) heroes. However, they will carry out your orders by themselves and you have no direct control. Or (mode B) you explore the 3D area to examine the surrounding in a point&click sequence. Finding and clicking the right objects will start short dialogues and/or award extra experience. The successful end to a sequence will drop you back to the main board - Except for the ending of the game, where the board and the point&click was skipped entirely and replaced by a number of scripted action sequences, which end up being a bit too much of the same in a row (for my taste) and might wear you motivation down quite a bit. What makes or breaks the whole game is the story, which binds it all together. Which is why this is a polarizing game: either you love the story, in which case you will enjoy the game - or you do not, in which case the game may simply not have enough gameplay meat on its bones for you to care. Recommendation - wait for a sale: then instant buy.

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