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Been wanting to talk about this game for a while now, but never got around to it. Finally got my legit copy in the mail yesterday since I used to run a cracked shady PC version for a long time.
Basically it's a medival action game, but with a twist - namely that (outside of the demonic element from time to time) it's pretty realistic. Combat is more about tanking than dodging, since dodging barely existed back then. You had tons and tons of armor, and if that cracked you were basically dead. Your only way of survival is blocking, parry and tanking - which means taking a hit to your armor. Your armor protects you from harm and has three 'layers'. Namely head, body and legs. If they take too much damage, it will break and your HP can be nuked at that part. Lose all your HP, and you die.
The great thing is that this works in reverse too, and you have a ton of weapon combinations with a huge moveset with low, mid and high attacks to open up armor. Swords for instance are bad against armor, but great against skin - maces the other way around. So you're constantly switching, looking for that opening. Really great.
The game got a lot of flack for looking bad, running bad (30fps), having a weird story etc and the gameplay not being explained at all (I found out all the above by myself). But once you get the ball rolling, it is really great. It even support complete local and online co-op!
Basically it's a medival action game, but with a twist - namely that (outside of the demonic element from time to time) it's pretty realistic. Combat is more about tanking than dodging, since dodging barely existed back then. You had tons and tons of armor, and if that cracked you were basically dead. Your only way of survival is blocking, parry and tanking - which means taking a hit to your armor. Your armor protects you from harm and has three 'layers'. Namely head, body and legs. If they take too much damage, it will break and your HP can be nuked at that part. Lose all your HP, and you die.
The great thing is that this works in reverse too, and you have a ton of weapon combinations with a huge moveset with low, mid and high attacks to open up armor. Swords for instance are bad against armor, but great against skin - maces the other way around. So you're constantly switching, looking for that opening. Really great.
The game got a lot of flack for looking bad, running bad (30fps), having a weird story etc and the gameplay not being explained at all (I found out all the above by myself). But once you get the ball rolling, it is really great. It even support complete local and online co-op!
