Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms

too difficult

Oof, no. Combat feels awful, everything else feels sort of clunky and slow. Add to that the fact that the devs use AI for translation, a fact that had I known in advance I never would've bought the game, I really can't recommend it. No thanks. Edit: Okay, so I decided it's not fair to give no detail on exactly why I think the combat feels bad. So, here we go. The game is tagged with Souls-like, so let's compare the start of the game with Dark Souls. In Dark Souls, you start the game with a hallway with a couple of non-aggressive enemies, just to get a feel for what swinging your weapon feels like. You get your first bonfire, then likely your first death against the Asylum Demon. After a bit, you learn an important lesson: if something is too tough, sometimes you should escape and come back later. Then you get your proper starting gear and a few aggressive enemies, one at a time, and learn that enemies can have both ranged and melee attacks. In the next room, you learn that the game can have traps, but the trap leads you to your healing item, so you can heal from the damage you most likely took from the trap. You then get another solo enemy fight, and only then do you fight multi…

Alaloth is a sandbox souls-like isometric dungeon crawler—a combination you don't see every day. It runs on Unity in pseudo-2D to emulate Infinity Engine–era games, but since it is Unity, expect FPS drops, stutters, and memory leaks. I personally suffer from time to time severe FPS drops when some fountain effect, snow, lighting, and vegetation are in sight—things that a game like this has no right to have. The 3D models, albeit not needing to be highly detailed in an isometric environment, are atrocious. On the character creation screen, you are greeted with such monstrosities that you can put them in the same row as Solasta and Oblivion. But the 2D backgrounds are all gorgeously drawn, just like the ability effects—firestorms, holy strikes, and arcane lightnings. While some could use a bit of work in the visual department and some balancing in terms of particles—yes, you, Meteor Swarm, spewing all of this blue dust over my screen—they are a joy to look at. And you will be looking at them constantly, because they are not restricted by casts per dungeon. I will play casters here just for the special effects, even if it means disengaging from the melee combat system completely. Afte…

Really cool idea for a game, I want to like it more but I just cant. I think this is a gem for a certain kind of person. For me is just feels like for every cool thing it has there are a handful of things over tuned or annoyingly restricting(like you cant even unequip armor? so no armor less playthrough) and really janky combat. I don't recommend this at this time but I urge you to read both positive and negative reviews and make a decision because it could be right down your alley, just not mine.

*Disclaimer* - To start off, PLEASE ignore all the trolls playing the game for less than an hour and giving the game a negative review. This is a MASSIVE game and it's very difficult, so I hope you prefer the opinion of someone who has put enough time in to leave a valid review. ------------ Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms is a wonderful yet imperfect gem. Underneath an incredibly difficult first few hours, a strange yet intriguing leveling system and some overall questionable design choices is a very really special amalgamation of RPG genres that oozes passion and is unlike anything else I've played before. Plamen is a beautifully realized high-fantasy landscape with a touch of Italian influence. I can't help but connect the games world to that of a Simon toy from the mid 90's: Each race (Dwarves, Orcs, Elves and Humans) holds a quarter piece of the pie, with a central area held by that of Alaloth, the evil demon hellbent on taking over Plamen for his own. A lot of the usual fantasy tropes are present and the main story is very narrow in it's delivery, yet the atmosphere and art direction really helps sell a world of waring factions fighting to stave off the oncoming th…

As of writing this I played 68 hours and finish the game twice. Things I liked: -rich world and story -tones of distinct enemies -general map is great -lots of melee gear Things I did not like: -zoom. We do not play this game because of the graphics. So let us zoom in FASTER. -in cities you do not autorun, you have to press run after every interaction -why cannot all materials be bought from vendors? Looking at animal fat here. -why can I not have a world map to open in cities? -Radiance pool questline is broken. You do it as the first questline to see if it is worth playing the character. During my first playthrough I got an OP ring, during my second one I got a book work 6k.Sorry what? -Why after finishing Benith the Broodmother (both times i finished her last), she gives you an Axe that has +15% Dragon DMG. There were no more dragons afterwards. Why is the point of that Axe? Either start with her or give that stat bonus to something else that might be helpful. -Why is starting as a Orc so hard? I think The Neverwoods is the 1 skull FA for for that region yet compared to other 1 skull FA, this one is doable, or maybe not as normal start without bonuses. Let's not talk about if …