Defend Khorinis hard v1.2

[Moderator]

19:39, 23rd Mar 2015
Orcnet: Shadow Fury's review

 

[Remixer]

I think it is not professional that you do not mention Gothic and Gothic 2 as your inspiration/source/credits.

 

[San_Melon]

It´s based on Gothic 2 ya, but it´s a german game so i guess the majority have no idea about gothic though...

 

[Remixer]

It´s based on Gothic 2 ya, but it´s a german game so i guess the majority have no idea about gothic though...

Exactly why you should mention it.

 

[Shadow Fury]

TERRAIN The terrain is catastrophic. It is completely flat and since the map is really large, I find this really terrible. You should have used the Raise/Lower tools in the Terrain Palette to get a more decent terrain. The tiles weren't used efficiently at all. Most of the map is just made of Dirt, Grass and Dark Grass. Besides, as a great part of the map is just Blizzard's tedious cliffs, the Dirt tile prevails and the rest just have to succumb. A similar issue appears with the doodads. The prevailing doodads are the damn trees and unfortunately large areas of the map are left empty. HEROES

The heroes didn't seem to be suitable to an RPG map. Only two skills for each of the three factions? That's really not entertaining at all because of course I won't keep spamming the 1 or 2 same skills for all the game. Considering that 2/3 factions have one passive and one active skill, I'll just have one skill to spam all game for such factions. Then, it's disappointing to see that all 3 heroes have the same model. It ruins the uniqueness of each hero like that. GAMEPLAY This is the most important category. The music you've put is pretty cool and the creeps you've put all around the map give me the feeling of a hostile land, which is actually good. Seeing individual yet powerful creeps was a great feature. However, I must say that the gameplay didn't develop. It was all the time me wandering around and killing any creep I crossed + collecting loads of items, most of the time worthless for my journey in the forests (Pelt, Claws etc...). It was like Fight Creeps ---> Collect the millions of items they dropped ---> Use Meat ---> Restart the whole thing over. This gets repeatative and you don't persuade players to go on playing. Talking about the waves, I was just useless. One Orc Warrior could've destroyed me if I hadn't spammed my single skill and used my items. Imagine then if I fight a horde of Orc Warriors what's going to happen... MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES Let's start with the Novice not producing any sound when attacking. If he is a melee attacker, then he must be making some sound otherwise you should've made him ranged. Then, why didn't you mention in the quest log that the Universal Teleport Stone can be bought from Neoras? I kept searching for the seller of the stone for ages before going to Neoras when I wanted to try the Novice and finally resolve this mystery. OVERALL RESULT The map is really deluding and it needs plenty of extra work. I'll have to give it 2/5 and vote for REJECTION!