[namad]

buy your friend legends or crossworlds, they're both AMAZING GAMES and cheaper anyways!



now here's the question though... on island 5 does it open up? island 4 stops being all about vikings but in my first playthrough at least island 4 only adds a couple new units and repeats the 1-4 non-vikings that existed across island 1-3 (wolves/bears/snakes/pirates)


if this game is just a LONGER game, with a boring opener ... then it might not be so bad? the boring nonrandom opener is better for a newbie because it's easier to balance? if the later areas fully randomize up maybe wotn will be the best game yet?



then again one beef I have.... you get the flying horse after like 1hour of play, instead of MANY... this means you never have to do dangerous dances around the island, killing what you can to access things you need, avoiding things... all that tension and overworld map puzzling is gone! that said I think they plan to make use of FREQUENT underground areas to prevent this from ruining the entire pace? and that said... flying horse early on? FREAKING AWESOME! the movement system was never that strong so the flying horse cuts down on some tedium, but it also means I never have to fight a strong enemy while weak enemies still exist!


this means I've been able to kill all the weak enemies first, and by the time I get to the strong ones they're only "equal" earlier flying horse means easier play...then again islands 5-x might have dastardly huge underground areas with highly random play


edit: BTW units in wotn are just flat out better than ever before, they've redone old units as well as added new ones and they've tweaked abilities and stats so that previously awful units have a few new tricks up their sleeves, if I could start wotn on island3 instead of island1 I might LOVE IT