Dark Side Forum

[Elwin]

Game has little annoyiing bugs but nothing game breaking

[sonhot]

Originally Posted by Elwin

Game has little annoyiing bugs but nothing game breaking

Yeh i'm playing it now,the rage description still say "rage of the valkiries amulet" from wotn lol.

[ShadowTek]

What I don't get is that IMO this is the funnest version of KB. But its like they don't even care enough to support it.

I'm having a blast playing Dark Side.

[Shadowcran]

Maybe they're waiting for enough to demand it?

Anyways, I can see why there are people who are not giving it good reviews:

1. It's the 4th(Yeah, I know about the original and it's PS2 copy) in the series so reviewers can be lazy and just use the same old "not as good as" references they use every single time instead of actually playing the game.

2. It's harder, at least with the vampire. Some people want their games spoon fed to them constantly.

3. Bug, blah, blah, blah. EVERY game has bugs nowadays and the ones for DS I've seen are nothing compared to those. The bugs I've seen have been easily gotten around.

*Playing the Vampire has been hard as hell(I'm playing all 3 at the moment) due to two simple things. Quality of opening creatures(Boy, could I have used a couple more vampires to buy) and lack of spells. I've lost count the number of times I've cast Poison Skull due to simply not having anything else. And this one is randomized as to damage! What's worse, I'm eagerly getting to the next store and finding almost nothing spell wise that helps. At least after Whitehill you can get quality troops from near the Shelter. I lost count the number of spiders and snakes(

[sonhot]

I also playing as vampire on impossible,and i literally mop the floor with invincible enemies ,no loss of course

[BB Shockwave]

Actually, the majority of reviews have been good. Read a few and I understood why - the reviewers, with a few exceptions only played the previous game for a few hours and not more, hence they don't see how little Dark Side adds and how many more things it gets totally wrong. Many reviewers were not even aware that this game uses the same engine, models, sounds, everything as the previous ones.

So why no separate forum?
Maybe because this is the fourth "fox-skin" (as the Hungarian saying goes, you can only skin ONE fox so many times before it gets useless) of the same game?
Maybe because they re-made the SAME mistakes they did in WotN, and ignored things Armored Princess corrected?
Maybe because of the ridiculous imbalance of the units and skills, like Death Knights with rechargeable Drain Soul, a Warrior skill that lets you Halve enemy units (no leadership requirement like with the Archdemon in CW), or overpowered spells like Gift making a return?
Or maybe because of the cookie-cutter "bad people are good, good people are bad" story that has been translated via Google Translate?
Or possibly because 80% of the new units are minor shade-changes (not even reskins) of existing units with "Of the Dark" / "of the Light" (prime example of bad translation) added. And half of these skin mods are actually taken from a FAN-MADE MOD, like they did with the Undead Lizardmen in WotN...

I played this game for a week and uninstalled it, uninspiring empty maps, bad story, munchkin units like Dragon Riders that summon Black Dragons (why not have them cast Armaggedon too every turn, eh?) - sorry, already WotN was bad enough. I have been replaying CW with different army setups since then, and enjoying it far more than these last two games. The change in programming team is sorely showing.

Originally Posted by sonhot

I also playing as vampire on impossible,and i literally mop the floor with invincible enemies ,no loss of course

Seriously? How the heck did you beat the three impossible armies at the first castle? I went with Demoness and on Hard, and it was not doeable no-loss, simply put.

[sonhot]

Originally Posted by BB Shockwave

Seriously? How the heck did you beat the three impossible armies at the first castle? I went with Demoness and on Hard, and it was not doeable no-loss, simply put.

Well,i mean all the enemies after those three.Those three are truly impossible for no loss