Success is measured in blood - yours or your enemies
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We are great, great nation, and these pesky invaders will not take our gold, out timber, nor our women. e are a nation living on a truly tremendous, a magnificent island, and we will build a wall. A wall so high that everyone around will stare in awe and wonder how we managed to reach outerspace with just stone and timber. Our balistas will have range so high that they will shoot anyone even before they reach our beaches. And beaches are ours and we need to grab them to build a wall. And some windmills! Because apparently these great, great windmills increase output of sweet, sweet wheat farms! And do not forget about forestry which cannot plant trees on barren plains but is completely fine with expanding forests which are taking our precious living space... but it is fine because you can give these trees some hot, hot love and turn them into charcoal. A charcoal which you will burn in your houses, because you are so stupid, so, so stupid that you cannot warm yourself up with just lumber. And there are those beautiful boys, boys and girls whom decided to protect our great, great island nation and joined our military. You are serving us well by blindly following your generals and fiercely protecting square of land on which you are standing because it is to hard to move a foot to attack passing-by enemy. Tremendous, tremendous job you are doing here. It is great, great game for like 2-3 hours. But when you expand to the point where you can build walls and towers there is not really much to do... just to build higher towers to repeal enemies quicker and peacefully grab all island resources. Not much about survival or any challenge after securing basic needs of your people - first couple minutes of gameplay are great but then it got more boring with every passing year and random events like fire, plagues, vikings or dragon attacks are not really that much a fun but a chore which comes and goes not doing much damage before dying (if you have towers build).
It is not a perfect game. It never was a perfect game... Even when it came out there were better point&click games, but this one gave us mood which was not seen back then. Real actors (with not best acting), interesting (to some degree) location, story (which could have been better) and music (which is really good). This game is like a trip to museum of game design. You will not come here for great graphics, acting, long or demanding gameplay... but it shows how games were done back then and how very long road we have traveled in past years. And yet when you deal with all these imperfections after several minutes you want to go deeper with this story and see its end.
Maybe not newest but still very playable and enjoyable... who would not like to slash monsters and drink blood of nazis? An yet 4/5 because enemies pathing in this game is terrible. They move onto trees, walls and ceilings. For the most of the time it is not that bad but there are few levels when you either need to kill all enemies or follow them - and when they glitch themselves in tree or unreachable ceiling then you can only restart level. Game is fun, some moments are not ;)
