Posted on: October 26, 2013

ylebout

Игр: 256 Отзывов: 8

Good. Could have been better

As said a bit everywhere, tTaspects, but some negative ones too. The positive one is for sure the universe. The samurai/martial arts universe, and the east mythology, is attracting. The combats/characters mechanism reflects smartly some cliché about this universe, which makes it fun. The characters and dialog are interesting, the quests are well written. The graphic engine (the same as Knight of the Old Republic (KOTOR) is ok and the design is colourful. We're not at the level of Okami (on Wii) but it's still quite nice. So, what's wrong then... The biggest negative point is the scenario of the main quest. If you have a small video game culture, you'll know since the first paragraph how it's going to end. If you add to this the fact that the whole game is VERY linear, you end up with very nice character and quest dynamic but you can't get caught by the plot. Sad. The other negative points is the character-building that is a bit too simple, which makes every character look the same in the end. In short, nice universe and some good ideas in the fights, but poor scenario and character building.

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Posted on: June 30, 2014

Neolithicwolf

Владелец игры

Игр: Отзывов: 2

Incredible Story

The story is fantastic. If you're primarily playing for the story you will definitely be delighted. The combat, however, is somewhat lackluster. The 'rock paper scissors' model they attempted falls flat and gets incredibly boring after you've done it 3000 times. There are areas where monsters respawn over and over and all you want to do is pull your hair out and wish for a 'sneak' button. It was really really nice not to have an inventory to worry about and it worked out well. I've asked myself a hundred times why I'm finding rat spit and ogre dung instead of just coin, and why the bandit mercenaries that have robbed thousands of gold only have 12 silver a piece on them. That's all eliminated in this game and believe me, you will NOT miss it. Overall, my only disappointment was the repetitive and boring combat. Everything else, voice acting, inventory, story, quests, side quests, leveling mechanism, it all worked well. If they did a sequel, I'd only like better combat and a little more complexity in the statistic system. Everything else is five stars.

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Posted on: July 8, 2022

Drejzer

Владелец игры

Игр: 924 Отзывов: 13

Wuxia-themed Bioware RPG

Jade Empire is a fantasy RPG, with demons, ghosts, martial arts, magic, firework-propelled aircrafts and huge dose of "vaguely oriental" themes. It still looks and sounds beautifull, even if the graphics ar erather dated. The game runs on the same engine as kotor (And, from what I've heard still uses turns "under the hood"), but is more real-time action oriented. Theough it is much *much* lighter on the RPG elements, Uses 3 stats, which determine a buch of stuff, the equipment is "pick 3 items that grant me bonuses I want" (later on you can equip more of them) There are multiple "styles", each having a light attack chain. a heavy attack and an AoE attack. Styles are separated into: physical straight up damage dealing (they also finish "combnations"); Support - debuffs and opening "combinations"; Magical - ranged attacks using up chi (which also can be used to heal or deal more damage); Weapon - they use a weapon bigger damage, attacks use up Focus (bullet time you can use basically at will), as well as Transformations, which let you well, transform into one of several forms. The combinations can be used to spawn health/chi/focus pickups on killing the target, which is their only use. Also, now you have only one companion at a time, in one of 2 modes: attack or support, attack is rather straightforward, they will fight together with you (and they ar erather useless), support on the other hand makes them buff the player, some regenerate resources, some increase damage dealt with certain styles. It presents a unique moral framework, based on the martial arts philosophies described in the tutorial... but almost immediately shallows it into old "good" and "evil", which is a tremendous shame. The game is also linear, at few points allowing you to choose in which order to do the current selections of subgoals. It is a fresh breath of novelty between all the typical western fantasy settings. On a side note: I recommend using the "Jade Empire in Style" mod

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Posted on: May 22, 2025

Catootea

Владелец игры

Игр: 133 Отзывов: 2

Preserved by GOG

I'll edit the review once I've played more, just wanted to say I couldn't get this game to launch on the EA app (same with many other games tbh), but the GOG version easily works for me. Support GOG and get your old games on here.

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Posted on: June 14, 2013

Myiven

Игр: 197 Отзывов: 2

So short, so sad

The visuals, the direction, and the narrative made me feel like I was playing a martial arts epic. Not a cheesy one either, a really, *really* good one. Unfortunately it was painfully short. It begged for about twice as much material. I didn't find it had any replay value either. Would have been five stars otherwise.

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