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I will not give a whole walkthrough, just some key points, but I will try to give some hints about the skills for reasons which make sense as I describe the game, that might help you if you wish to check out yourself.This first post will like be longer, since I will give not just a general description of the game, but also it ruleset and some minor details, in later parts I will cover what changed between games.Also, I not feel like buying the said games. Now, I won’t talk the remake (developed by Crafty Studios and published by United Independent Entertainment), because despite the low metacritic score, the myriad of bugs and issues, I confess not begin much a fan of cheap shots and from what I could understand, the developers did what they could (there were several patches), but a game like this is trick to remake or remaster, because, for reasons which I cover in this blog, this a deceptively simple looking game, but unfold itself in rather complex ways, like requiring way more resources and time that they could have.

SHADOW BLADE RELOAD METACRITIC SERIES

Now I guess a lot of readers might already read about the series from Hardcore Gamer 101 articles about it, I will try to not repeat points, so I recommend also checking that out. So, this blog is going to be the first part of three, covering the Realms of Arkania trilogy, the “Northlands Trilogy”, I will cover the original games, released in 92/93 (Blade of Destiny), 94 (Star Trail) and 96/97 (Shadow of Riva) and developed by Attic.

To make it very clear, I don’t thing Realms of Arkania or the setting is some kind of work of genius without faults, but I do finding it fascinating with a lot of things, for good and bad, that it made stand out. I say this because it is easy to hyper fixate in a handful of (or one) game (in the either past or present) and disregard the entire genre past and future (and sometimes anything which isn’t a wcrpg). Now while sometimes is tempting to think that there is only one “right” type of crpg, to where everything should converge, I prefer to think in different types crpgs (or sub-genres) with different emphasis, that sometimes run side by side, or they can converge or diverge ways (sometimes very subtle ways), like vines. To make a point very clear, while I find some old school rpgs fascinating, as some might remember my post about Might and Magic, I am not over nostalgic or anything, per example, while I enjoy dungeon crawlers, my favorites ones lately tend to be the Wizardry successors, which came (and still coming) much later. Also while looking in the game file, in the gog version, the first two games come with a cluebook, which was fascinating reading, while you might expect it to just be a walkthrough, it features a lot more, from some interviews and even commentary of the beta testers as they give some hints, this was a very curious peak behind the curtains that help me make my mind. Since the Realm of Arkania is a trilogy of old school crpgs, the kind where you can take your save to the next game, it meant I had to replay if I ever want to tackle the other two games.Īnd that is what I decided, let’s do it again, and turn out there was a lot of things I did not remember to a point that the revisit proved to be really worth. So how I end up writing about Realms of Arkania? I played this a long time ago and finished it, but lost the save. The Elden Ring, which is a clearly one of my GOTY, the text itself exist only in the realm of ideas so far. After I write that review about Undernauts, there were two ideas which I had in mind, one was a blog about Cyberpunk 2077 and the other was Elden Ring, while the text of the first is already a pretty huge draft, between Edgerunners and the text itself become less about the game and more me rambling about different types of open world games, I decided to postpone as I might need to rethink some parts.

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