Some weird choices make it a weird RPG

by Zanthrax

In Group: Average

Worth to: Rent

A turn base strategy game with cartoonishly WOW graphics but very beautiful in some aspects

I didn’t have very high expectations about this game but was pleasantly surprized. It’s one of the pretties games artistically, at least where menus are concerned. A lot of beautiful art, shiny details, loads of contrast and colors. The game reminds me of World of Warcraft in terms of graphics.

Music is very nice. Really sets the hero/adventure theme very well. Nice orchestral score. You get the feeling you are in classic RPG, and you are. Everything has a magical, colorful look to it. But in a very cartoohish way, unfortunately. The towns are small caricatures of the actual thing. It all looks so childish. When you enter a town you’re like giant compared to the buildings.

The overworld map shows where enemies are. Again, the smallness of the world around you is very cartoonish. You can see where enemies are standing, usually protecting a treasure. Fighting occurs when you approach them and come in contact with them. When that happens the screen changes and you have a battle plane view of the battle. Your characters are on one side, the enemy is on the other. You have a team of 4-5, mage, archer, fighter and peasant (??). Each one has a limited amount of walking distance on the battle plane, which is composed of octogonal tiles. Once you are in striking range to take a swing and inflict damage. The weird thing about the fighting is you don’t just have one set of mage/archer/fighter, etc, but a group of dozens of them. They don’t all appear on the plane, but they are there. What sucks is it doesn’t give you an good idea of how much damage you are taking and how many fighters you have left. Would have been better if you would simply have one set of each, like in all NORMAL RPG games.
In towns you can add more men to your mages/archers/fighter/peasants (I know it sounds weird, and it plays just as weird too). You main character can be one of 3 classes: warrior, paladin or mage. Each one has specific traits (wouldn’t you know it).

The game is nice, if you can get into the whole feel. They took some strange decisions designing the fighting. Not everyones cup of tea. It look very nice, in a childish kind of way (what’s with all the Dysney graphics lately??? Is WOW THAT popular?). Anyway, I’d give it a try just to hear the cool music and feel. Some of the game’s aspects look real nice.