I can't stress enough that I do not recommend Raiden Legacy at all. Besides taking a minute to load anything you click on in the menu like options the music sounds awful. For reference: I'm used to playing Raiden 1 & 2 on my PSX. I know that's not something everyone can do. But the music is perfect, the gameplay is on point. So if you're nostalgic for the arcade days you're in for a disappointment with raiden in this. Also Raiden 2 is missing. I'm not sure why. Also the input is a bit delayed, but that might be my keyboard. It feels off. The one thing I cannot get around is the fact that clicking on anything causes the whole menu to freeze - not the games though, just the menu. I have yet to exit the game in a natural way, since it just crashed whenever I wanted to leave a game and return to the HUB menu.
All in all an enjoyable game. But the first 30 minutes made me mad as hell. before you get the lifebar you die the instant a monster touches you. The whole concepts of the evolution being in chests also seems way off. Why can't the player buy new features as the player playing the main character? You would buy enemies and most other things, because let's face it, an rpg without enemies is plain boring. Also, that would be a completely different experienence than just forcing the player to evolve the game. Plus I wonder why the hell this game needs to be a flash powerd game and not at least java powered. This kind of game should not require 1.7 GHz CPU or 1GB ram. All in all: Good Idea, poorly realized, yet fun to play, even if it's jsut for a short episode of nostalgia.
First off the things I really liked about this game: - There are no elves, gnomes or other typically good cratures in this game. There a Minotaurs, Humans, Insectoids and Lizardmen, which I find more suiting for the typical prison situation. - The maps of the dungeons are well designed, keeping secrets and hidden items in sometimes unexpected places. - The enemy design is really good, from the ai to the models and their sound and textures. - The looks of the dungeon is as realistic as it could get. - The difficulty steep is pretty good balanced. - The magic system is great and also one of the only ways to actually break the game, as the character can cast any spell as long as you know the rune combination. Now to the things I didn't like that much: - There are poisonous enemies, ones that set you on fire and then there are holes everywhere in the floor. In the end you fight them all. I've rarely had a final boss fight this tedious and frustrating in a long time. - Who built this dungeon? The deeper you descend the weirder the surroundings get. There are no transitions between the areas. - The ending is kind of weird too. Why did we fight that cube? To get free? - Some of the puzzles are just plain annoying. All in all I wish for more games like this, because after all it is fun to play it.
