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Posted on: November 18, 2017
Echoic
Игр: 90 Отзывов: 1
Bland RPG with rare engine features
It's a fair example of a turn based RPG that is made worthwhile by the inclusion of unusual features such as multiplayer, modding integration and a DM client. The story is an emphatic and expressive retelling of familiar Fantasy tropes. It definitely won't be remembered as a "genre defining masterpiece" like Lord of the Rings but it couldn't be considered a bad story by fantasy game standards either. The combat sytem is something of a complicated mess that mostly works. You spend action points to move or use abilities and most abilities have WoW style cooldowns. This tried and true formula is greatly complicated by terrain effects and regular teleportation. Each encounter also tends to have a unique gimmick whereby the typical combat mechanics take the back seat to scripted stuff. One enemy might have a special evasion aura for instance which completely changes the tactics for that battle, etc. All the complications can keep things from getting stale but also mean that often you'll be ambushed by a 1 off mechanic that will require you to reload or, ordinarily, the teleporting and terrain effects will render tactical decisions like positioning pointless. The look and feel of the product is fairly good. Can't say I prefer the art style to many others but it does the job of communicating the action clearly enough when there is a lot of mess on the screen (with terrain effects etc). The climbing animations in particular seem wierdly good. Music is fine. Quite liked the voice acting, too. Not much here to give it a really strongly recommendation. However this product does stand out for including multiplayer, mod integration and a DMing feature. I think these features could represent extremely good value to some people. So this has to be considered a noteworthy game despite being fairly ordinary in other respects.
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