Full game first impressions thread

[Zhuangzi]

Thanks Amamake.

I played for about an hour this morning and found things to be much easier. I saw the guy in the observatory and realised that I could do quite a lot in Arlania without actually fighting anyone. I was able to get the dirigible's black box, dragon's tooth and shipwrecked cargo quests by running away from enemies. In fact there is so much bounty lying around in Arlania that I was able to rack up about 20,000 with no trouble.

The problem, as I said before, that as a Paladin you don't have any offensive spells or ragebox early in the game. Chaos Magic is quite hard to get to as a Paladin, which means I am relying on Pain Mirror to inflict damage from a distance. But it's all good now, off I go to get the ragebox.


I found that the Scouting skill is VERY important on Hard. And it needs upgrading too. It's not enough to say that there are 'lots' of enemies.

[KingImp]

Has anyone else found the full game to be easier than the demo? I don't know if it's just because I got used to it and learned how to fight better, but in the demo I was losing units in almost every fight. Now, I have yet to lose a single unit.

[Imperial Dane]

I have kinda found it to be the opposite, many mobs have been boosted generally and of course there is the fact that you don't get the ragebox right away.

But all in all, i am having great fun I just wonder once in awhile if certain areas are meant to be that hard ..

[phoenixreborn]

Well I found the demo to be a cakewalk. In the full game which I got today I've lost my full army twice. I just bought it back and some armor so hopefully that will help.

It's good that mobs stay in the state which you left them when they killed you.

[sinava]

I am finding most of the game almost as difficult as the dem , except the fact that not having the rage boxes makes the game a bit difficult. anyways i think some people are finding the demo more difficult mostly due to the fact that after familiarizing themselves with the game using the demo, the full version seems a bit easy

[phoenixreborn]

After playing a little more it's definitely fun. The quests are interesting enough and there are little story tidbits about the realm scattered around through npc's and obelisks.

There's also the ever present rpg thrill, just one more level up...

I wish my guys would get criticals more. Is 45 too low or something?

[SoulDrinker]

As a gamer from Belgium I had only one option to get this game and that's online purchasing through gamersgate (which went very smoothly).

Now, to be honest : this game exceeds everything. It's so great. I even take holidays to play this game. I'm not that far yet, got my rage box. It's different from what we've seen in the demo but oh my god.

There are a lot of choices to be made during the quests. Sometimes I even wondered about 5 minutes about what to do.

It's even on the cover of our local Belgian magazine (PCGameplay). They are also fond of TBS games and I'm sure they'll give it a great score.

This is : One game to rule them all

[Zhuangzi]

Originally Posted by SoulDrinker

As a gamer from Belgium I had only one option to get this game and that's online purchasing through gamersgate (which went very smoothly).

Now, to be honest : this game exceeds everything. It's so great. I even take holidays to play this game. I'm not that far yet, got my rage box. It's different from what we've seen in the demo but oh my god.

There are a lot of choices to be made during the quests. Sometimes I even wondered about 5 minutes about what to do.

It's even on the cover of our local Belgian magazine (PCGameplay). They are also fond of TBS games and I'm sure they'll give it a great score.

This is : One game to rule them all

Bolded part is exactly how I feel about this game at the moment.

The only thing reviewers will be able to criticize is the story and the translation. Other 'issues' such as the game not knowing when you would like it to save for you is just retarded. That's what quicksave is for, and the game even records your last three quicksaves so you can go back if YOU make a mistake.

I want to talk about the fact that level design is more important than story or even the translation in this game. To be honest with you the story bores me. Yeah, yeah - routine fantasy tale. Basically boils down to - "go here and do this." I find myself clicking through a lot of the dialogue, only skimming it to find out what the job is. Because it's text not speech you can do this easily, and besides, the quest log tells you what to do anyway. This also negates the translation issue. The story just isn't very important in this game.

What this game does have is fantastic level design. It's truly awesome and supremely fun. This game should have a sticker on the box saying 'Guaranteed to be INSANELY fun.' What do you guys think?

[jake21]

Yea. This is the first game in a very long time I payed full price ($40). Usually I wait till they are no more than $20. I do have one question and one comment:


What exactly do obelisk do? for example I click on Obelisk of fandor:
Which gives a message [left out in case it is spoiler]. But does having click on it actually change anything about the game? Does it open a new area that is otherwise not open until you click on it ?

Also - I purchased the box version and while it has a few of the basic commands (like H to open hero) it does not have all the commands (like alt to enable turn in combat). Is there any document that list every command/short cut in the game ?

[Amamake]

Originally Posted by jake21

But does having click on it actually change anything about the game?

Yep. It does.