Here the story is patently window dressing and it will easily annoy anyone that picks it up and wants a story to go with their RPG. On occasion you’ll get a note on the ground that simply says, “You can’t access this yet.” It seems Gameloft forgot that titles like Diablo and Dark Alliance were popular because of the story and characterizations, not just the mindless button mashing. The story is so agonizingly bad, that it attempts to explain why you can’t go into various areas just yet are shockingly lazy. At least here the Bandit King actually comes into town to set up your fight against him. Then you are told it is because of a Bandit King. Which makes no sense as they are living in the tomb and they don’t venture out. At first you are told it’s because of the goblins in the tomb. You have only the one city and the game has it sectioned off into districts, the gates of which will one per act with no plot continuity. At this point you are subjected to the most linear hack and slash game you will ever encounter in your life. Of course the game never says how or why you learned necromancy (especially if you chose a warrior or rogue) and why you can’t use it now, but trust me when I say this is just the start of the story’s nonsensical ramblings.įrom there you have to fight your way out of a goblin infested tomb that somehow the fairy didn’t encounter when she made her way down to you, help a female knight kill some stuff (but then after you do, she just sits in your town, gives you a single quest that she doesn’t help with, and then never speaks again) and see the light of day once more. So really, the past twenty years of horror that your subjects have been plagued with is all your fault. ![]() Then when she was resurrected, she went all evil like and murdered you dead. Then you reveal she’s actually undead herself and when she died you went insane and used necromancy yourself to bring her back. You look great for having been dead for so long and after the fairy revives you, she reveals that you were brought back to life to stop your wife who has become a psychotic evil tyrant since you died. You have been restored to life after being dead for roughly two decades by a fairy who specializes in lightning magic…and apparently necromancy. Regardless of what you choose you are the reanimated corpse of the King of some generic kingdom. The class doesn’t matter in terms of the story however. The game begins with you choosing between three classes of characters: Warrior, Mage and Rogue. ![]() Still, it’s pretty hard to mess up a Diablo clone, so how bad could it be, right? Still, I was well aware that I was giving money to a company that provided us with such “Worst Game of the Year” nominees as Miami Nights when I purchased this. ![]() ![]() That doesn’t mean that Gameloft has reached the level of awful that say, Zoo Games, has “achieved.” Aaron Sirois enjoyed their remake of Earthworm Jim and Mark loved Midnight Play Pack, so they’re not all bad. has skewered releases like American Popstar: Road to Celebrity for the DS and their recent 3DS launch title Asphalt 3D. Hero of Sparta, a popular God of War wannabe cell phone game fell flat on its face as one of the first PSP Minis. Of course, this is Gameloft and they don’t have the best track record for porting their cell phone games over to consoles. With the Playstation Plus discount, the game was less than ten dollars for a full length RPG, so I decided to bit the bullet and download the game, especially since it was described as a Diablo clone, and I’m big fan of that series. We’ll leave whether that is a positive or negative up to you, the readers, and instead focus on a game that received a day one 25% price cut for Playstation Plus subscribers – Dungeon Hunter: Alliance. That is, you pay money to get a discount on various games. One of the aspects of Playstation Plus that both fans and critic alike point to when making their points about it is that PS+ is mostly a coupon service.
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