Shattered Lands was pretty good even though a couple of the quests were rather hard. Wake Of The Ravager has a bug in it that makes it close to unplayable. For example when I went down to the Veiled Alliance HQ in the game, I couldn’t leave the same way I got there. I got stuck. There were 2 portals in the HQ that take you outside of Athas and places where you can’t do anything to make the story go forward. I wish GOG could make an update to this game where they fix that problem.
Here are some things I like about Darklands 1. it’s set in medieval Germany. A type of setting which is rare for RPGs in my experience. 2. It’s very choice oriented, which is something I like in games generally. 3. It’s an old-fashioned RPG. Playing this would presumably give you a decent idea of how the first RPGs were originally designed. 4. It had my attention for a good few hours. 5. It’s different from the stereotypical RPG. Magic is narrowed down to what people believed in at the time. However, these are the things I dislike about Darklands 1. regaining strength takes a really long time, which you need in order to avoid dying in battle 2. Money is hard to come by 3. No quest log 4. you can get wanted by the city's guards for camping outside of their city enough times. Ridiculous, I know. 5. The game tricks you with calling upon a saint for aid. It’s not grayed out for some reason in spite of the fact that you can't do it, at least when I played the game. 6. Cannot equip quest items. 7. Cannot go back and edit appearance of characters. 8. While traveling from say, one town to another, you will sometimes get randomly stopped and urged to pay a small amount of money to avoid being religiously cursed. 9. Staying at an inn is somewhat expensive 10. It has a character editing option that doesn’t seem to work on some PCs. Unfortunately, My PC was one of them. 11. Early game seems to be hard as the loot you can sell from a battle is only enough for one piece of armor. Overall, I would not recommend buying and playing this game unless you had played it shortly after it came out. I certainly didn't because I was not alive at the time. This is an RPG of a type that I'm somehow not used to since previously I have played newer RPGs like Oblivion and Mount & Blade Warband.
This version of the game appears to be faulty. Either that or it doesnt work on computers like the one I have. for example some of the controls are faulty, In my case it was when I pressed F5 to turn night vision on, it wouldnt turn on. I had this same problem when I attempted to turn my light on in the game
