I'm not a fan of tower defense games (this one is the first one I have played in a very long time), but I gave this one a shot because I tried it very briefly on DS, is pretty much what I expected and had some fun. That said, there are some things about this game that I did not enjoy at all like the timer to build, which limits you greatly since before building you should be able to analyze the terrain (you cann cheese the system though, just start the battle phase and go back to the title screen and select continue, you'll start in the buildiong phase with whatever you alredy constructed) Also, the support for gamepad is pretty meh, sometimes it doesn't work on menus and every time I booted the game I had to go to the settings to enable the gamepad And that's pretty much it, I'm guessing this game will be too easy for hardcore TD fans, but for me it was alright, I won't lose sleep if we never get a sequel
The game looks pretty so I gave it a shot, but oh boy, this combat is broken, the enemies telegraph the attacks poorly and they change the direction of their attacks mid animation, which renders the dodge highly unreliable, there's a difference between difficulty and the game outright cheating on you, avoid yourself the frustration, don't play this one
I've been playing for 12 hours and I think I have seen enough of this magic shooter with simple level design and enjoyable combat. The good: - Graphics and sound design are nice - Great variety of spells to mix and match - There is no mana or colldowns for most spells, so spam away - Crafting mechanics to make your spells even more powerful and serve different purposes, you can craft some nice combos like an Ice pool + a lifting bolt + a fire cluster -Synergy spells are incredibly powerful, you can't spam them like the others, but they are worthy investments - The game is at its best in the arena segments, when you activate obelisks and fend off waves of increasingly difficult enemies The bad: - in order to craft really good spells you are gonna have to revisit chapters and grind - you can't repeat the arena fights which makes the grinding ever so boring - shields only affect damage taken, but not other effects like knock down or freeze, and that's a fatal flaw - Trap spells are utterly useless, I understand enemies avoiding pool spells, but traps should be invisible to them - Ray spells are also useless for the most part, sure they have high damage outpput but you cannot charge them and their range is piss poor, I would gladly have a freezing ray if only there was a kick button to shatter enemies, but... - There's not a Kick button -The lack of an arena to grind for materials, like the crucible in darksiders The ugly: -I was blinking but suddenly got stuck under the ground and had to restart from the last checkpoint, something similar happened when I was entering a new zone but it didn't load properly so I was stuck- And the game crashes often when I try to boot it, it loads fine the second time, which is pretty weird Overall the game is mediocre for the most part, but sometimes its greatness shines through. I'd like to see more of this spell system in the future, but with improved level design and even more enemies to grind away in blissful chaos
This game is bad, really bad, I'd heard it was the worst of the series, but I didn't imagine it was this bad First of all, if you want to submit yourself to this torture you'll need Xidi's patch to make the game compatible with modern gamepads and Pexioto's patch to fix everything else (yes, even to make it run on win10) But now let me tell you why you should avoid this one: - The story is a mess, it takes a leap in time that leaves it hanging in the middle of nowhere - The graphics are bad, it looks like a ps1 game with a coat of cheap paint in order to release it on ps2, it looks worse than soul reaver 2 which launched a year prior, the same goes for the animations - And the gameplay, let me tell you, soul reaver 1 had better mechanics, the combat feels like trying to steer a car with your buttocks, as an example, enemies can do things that you can't like jumping backwards and duck to avoid attacks, do heavy attacks and unblockable attack. And good luck avoiding attacks, dodging is so broken that when you try to do it enemies always get a free hit on you, soul reaver 1 was clunky to control, but it was a ps1 game, back when dualshock was just a fever dream of some japanese engineer, the fact that this game controls even worse is unexcusable I had to struggle with myself in order to play this one, "Do it for Defiance, Defiance is good" If you want to play this one for the story, just read the plot summary on wikipedia or something, not even the sweet voice acting of Simon Templeman could save this game
Warning: Install Xidi patch for modern gamepad support and use Dgvoodoo (v 2.73 as I write this) to avoid crashes and improve the graphics of this game, and run it directly from the exe in win95 compatibility mode for good measure Yes! I'm a sucker for this game, all the things I loved from the first one are back, great atmosphere, great voice acting, great music, great story, the puzzles are a little more complex than before, but nothing that will frustrate you (probably) The only thing that was kind of a let down was the lack of boss battles and the size of the map, it reeks of rushed developement since there's no need to shift between realms constantly to hunt for shorcuts or collectables But overall the game is great, the plot thickens with each step you take and as the first SR it ends in a cliff hanger that promises even more twists and turns I've heard blood omen 2 was kind of a mess plotwise, but it doesn't matter, here I go to finally experience the goth adventures of Kain and Raziel to their full extent
Alright, The game had me hooked, but at some points it was frustrating, but I made it to the end so I guess the game is not bad, the puzzles are not hard to figure out, but they take some trial and error, the boss battles are nice, but sometimes I felt their attacks weren't well telegraphed, or maybe I'm just dumb, the story is interesting and gets really dark by the end I would rate it higher, but there were times that I was seriously considering dropping it, specially during the segments where you control Mina, they are short, but I hated them so much. Also, I would have liked to save "you know who" (I'm trying to avoid spoilers here), but after reasearching apparently there's no way to make significant changes to the ending
I got the second mirror shard and went back to the town just to find out all the things I had stored in "my room" disappeared, since this game has no stash or any other way to safely store items all those rare mats and gear were lost forever the bigger things I got from the game until I got frustrated : + the combat is fun, and the first spell you learn is probably the most useful of them all since is a hit skin spell instead of a projectile - Inventory has limited space which is a problem during some of the longer parts where you find lots of loot with no easy way to go back to town, and ultimately is the bane of the game since there's no safe place to store extra items, this is a big issue
Alright, I started the first mission on normal, everything was going well, then after taking care of the chef and the security chief I decided to start from my last saved checkpoint to try and do things differently, and what in the world do I find? all the npcs had reset, including the chef. But here is the catch, I already was wearing the chef disguise because I "saved" after taking care of him, so now we have 2 chefs, and all my progress was wasted, I'm out, it seemed fun while it lasted tho
ok, I decided to give this one a try out of curiosity, started the first mission, taking my time, learning the ropes and all that, then 40 minutes in I died because of some weird bug while I was climbing a ladder and I had not saved because you only get so many save slots, even on normal so no, f this game, a total disrepect to my time, if you have the courage to gamble your time. go ahead, it loked promising
