The player controls only one character throughout the game, which is chosen at the beginning from 5 different heroes. It was released on CD and features fully spoken dialogue and several pre-rendered cutscenes. The game presents a real-time, three-dimensional view from the character's perspective. * There is no fast rest option to restore your HP/MP faster (in real time) hence, to recover, it's sometimes necessary to just let the game run.The game was released 1995 for MS-DOS and was one of the last dungeon crawl RPGs with blockstep movements and semi-3D environment. * There's the fatigue mechanic, where some stats decrease if you fight while encumbered, but eventually return to normal. * Some healing items require you to find an altar to use this doesn't make much sense when enemies don't respawn, as you can just go back to the altar without encountering any new enemies, provided you have found one. (Due to enemies not respawning, any area that's cleared of enemies is a place you can just wait.) * HP and MP regenerate, albeit slowly, on their own this makes those resources theoretically infinite. In particular, unlike in Dungeon Master, there's no need to eat or drink in this game. * There does not appear to be anything that resembles any sort of time limit. * Items that restore HP/MP (or whatever the game calls these stats) are in finite supply balanced due to the finite number of enemies as well. Once you've killed all the enemies, there are no more to fight. I still have a playthrough of Final Fantasy V, with the Project Demi mod, planned.Īnyway, from reading about it and watching videos, I gather that the mechanics don't all fit well together. I ended up getting the game, but I'm not going to try it just yet. Strength controls your maximum carry weight, so that again limits build types.Īll in all, it's a fun older first person dungeon crawler that may be a bit niche but is worth looking over.
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On the plus side though the enemy animations are great to behold. edit: Also the power stat controls magic regneration, so more of that would likely help.Ĭombat is a bit of a chore, in that the encounters are numerous and take awhile to finish. I would assume this would make a spell caster build a bit more tiring, but to be fair, I haven't tried that build myself.
While healing items are fairly plentiful you do have to wait a fair bit of real time for your magic to recover (As in you have time to get up and grab food/water etc).
You can also customize your character's stats at the beginning so you're really only choosing the appearance and voice of your character. There's also some very unique characters you run into that really add to the charm of the game. (Remember: I play games for gameplay, not story.) I haven't finished the game but I did make it quite a few hours in.įor me the pluses were the unique environments, puzzles (excellent dungeon crawler style ones with plenty of secrets), well done in game mapping that compliments all the puzzles, fun midi music and the animations of the game in general. I like that it apparently has a system where your skills improve by use, but are there any negative aspects of the game I should be aware of? Dtgreene: I noticed that a game called Anvil of Dawn is currently on sale, and am wondering if I should get it.
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