Nox™

After setting compatibilty options in Windows 10, I got as far as chapter 5 as the warrior and my saved game became corrupted. It just won't load now. Up until then it was a fun time-waster.

I bought this game shortly after release while at university. I loved the real time lightning effect and the game felt so easy & fun to control but for some reason I never played it beyond the first hour ... until this week. I decided I'd finally give it a proper go and so I did. The first hour was very enjoyable but after that, the cracks started to show. Weapons degrade fast and mana is sometimes very limited so combat is balancing not destroying your only weapon and not running out mana (which replenishes INCREDIBLY slowly!). It feels as if the game doesn't want you to have fun! Yes you can repair your weapon & gear but either it's a long trek back to the town (no teleportation points) or you're cut off from shopkeepers completely and if your weapon breaks it disappears for good. Very few new weapons drop and those that do drop are usually for the fighter. While there's lots of cool spells and combat is quite fun as long as there's mana recharge areas you can get quite creative. It's just a shame that it feels as if the game was rushed because there's quite a few unbalanced areas and some very odd design choices on the whole. For example you only have 5 active spells and you're supposed to rotate through spell bars but this doesn't quite work. Why not allow 10 spells? The game would have been a lot more fun if it had a bit more polish & the annoyances were ironed out. All in all I'd give it a 7 out of 10 but I'll round up to 4 stars. Be aware it's a very short game though - you can complete it in 5-6 hours. It's definitely still worth playing as long as you keep in mind the negatives.

WONT LOAD

Try multiple times to make it run on Windows 10 and can't find a way to do it.

ancient game. requires computer literacy to tweak in order to work and run in Windows 98 compatibility mode.