IT’S HERE, FATE FANS! FATE - The Traitor Soul has arrived on GOG! This one has more loot, more spells, more heroes and, most importantly, more pets. You’re probably clicking “add to cart” and have stopped reading this by now, haven’t you?
Only the most dedicated of champions will survive the Templ...
IT’S HERE, FATE FANS! FATE - The Traitor Soul has arrived on GOG! This one has more loot, more spells, more heroes and, most importantly, more pets. You’re probably clicking “add to cart” and have stopped reading this by now, haven’t you?
Only the most dedicated of champions will survive the Temple of Fate. Are you brave enough to seek fortune and glory by battling the evil within? The ultimate challenge awaits!
Even More Stuff (than the first two games) –
You get more fat loots, magical spells and character classes. On top of that you can choose from five (FIVE!!!) different pets.
Procedurally Generated Levels –
As always, each journey is different from the last.
Economy –
Buy, sell and gamble for loot because it’s fun!
Classic –
FATE - The Traitor Soul is nostalgic gameplay for classic gamers. Replay your memories or make new ones!
I'm not sure why, but this game is more enjoyable than Torchlight. There is more of a straightforward Diablo feeling in FATE. This is an excellent action RPG. Quite smooth and nervous gameplay at the same time. And it still look good, in a blocky vintage kind of way.
(Note: FATE 3 The Traitor Soul features an improved version of FATE 1 and 2. You can start any of the three games from the starting hub in-game, with all the enhancements of the third applied to the former chapters.)
FATE: The Traitor Soul (TS) is best summarised as:
"Yo Dawg, I herd you like FATE, so I put an FATE in your FATE so you can deep delve while you deep delve."
The title of this review is not hyperbole: TS contains the two realms in FATE: Undiscovered Realms (UR), but with improvements to NPC voice lines (they may actually say something now, instead of coughing or clearing their throat) on top of improvements to the overall game formula, such as a complete removal of the level cap (it was 199 in UR), the ability to use two weapon setups on the fly, and the addition of the species system that gives your character some starting handicaps based on which species you decide to play as.
By now, many players of the WildTangent or Steam release should be aware that Grove, the realm in the first FATE, is locked behind an integer in its realms.dat file. In this GOG.com release, however, Grove is already unlocked, so fiddling with that file in a text editor is a thing of the past.
All of the above is this game's supplementary content. TS adds a new, fourth dungeon, called the Chamber of Trials, whose monster levels will always scale with your character's (as opposed to the dungeons in Grove, Druantia, and Typhon, where monster levels stop scaling once your character reaches a high enough level), so you just can't cheese it through level grinding - you need to master the mechanics of the game to do more than just survive, especially on Legend difficulty.
TS also retains the same QoL improvement seen in the GOG.com release of the other FATE games - common widescreen resolutions are immediately selectable from the Options menu, so you don't need to fiddle with config.dat.
If you must choose only one of the FATE games to buy, it's a toss-up between this and The Cursed King. The latter takes place in a different realm and features its own spread of dungeons along with minor improvements over TS, although only one dungeon is available at the start.
Only grab on sale tho. Used to play this as a kid via Wild Tangent Launcher. Good times. I have still not been able to find a better Dungeon Crawler out there in modern times.
