Mine a mound or two, bake a cake, try to figure out why the carpenter doesn't accept the wood he requested and then think about how the pines actually look like, burn your precious bear steaks because you left them in the cauldron for too long, pick up some weird mushrooms and experiment in yielding a poison or a sleeping potion, go mayhem and shoot everything in sight, NPCs included, or maybe just go to explore a dungeon—but only after you've meticulously wattered and manured your mellon crops—with your trusty Jax the Sheppard Dog happily trodding by your side or dodging the heck out of skelleton's attacks while you stun them from behind and then hack them to pieces... that and MUCH MUCH MORE. Some say that there's not much to be had in the story's department, that it's grindy and slow. Yeah, that's all true. But in the best possible way. Eshalon and Terraria had a baby, and it grew, and grew, and grew, and ate everything. Fantasy life simulator by an absolute Chad the Madlad developer.
I sincerely hope my five stars means that there is a treasure behind the waterfall. Otherwise, give it a star less.
Contrary to what people tell here I found this game pretty slowpaced, sluggish and allways restricting something. Also way too much MMORPG styled and allways painfully reminding the player there is some stupid rule that the game environment sets for no apparent reason baning you from any invention you'd like to do. And what grieved me the most, there was a total lack of anything resembling the good RPG phenomenon: There is allways a treasure behind the waterfall. I mean there was like literally nothing to discover. Everything is plain and stupidly MMORPGish in a great-but-vain-graphics. At first I was so keen on playing this. Great graphics and AD&D again... I've tried it three times. Allways dissapointed. The only thing good for me was a faithfull implementation of the AD&D rules. But in a game, where you don't get to use them much for anything more then combat it's a poor excuse. Go for Temple of Elemental Evil with CO8 mod or earlier Bioware games. If you ask me.
One of the best if not the best at all in it's category. It starts as an easy going piece but atmosphere is slowly thickening as you play and as the game fluidly draggs you inside it's world you find yourself being flamberghasted by a marvellous experience and superior climax.
