Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader

I played it knowing it’s often mentioned here and there as a game that had the potential to become one of the classic CRPGs. I don’t have any nostalgic attachment to it, but the game starts strong. Character customization is decent (basically like Fallout), with different builds to choose from. The first city, Barcelona (the second city is also okay), is quite fun, with many quests and various factions to join. I can really see the potential people often talk about. The first 10 hours or so are enjoyable, but after that the game falls flat. It was clearly rushed toward the end due to company troubles, and it turns into a poor man’s Diablo clone. It’s worth checking out for the first part, but finishing it to the end feels like busy work.

I bought the game because i played a little bit 20 years ago. The setting was very interesting, set in spain and france in alternate history timeline, diablo style combat, fallout stats and perk. The beginning was decent, but half way through the game it became a linear grind. Not a fan of diablo because the lack of story, and second half of this game is exactly that.

My fav game

The game is alright when you're in Barcelona, but once you head off to France the game becomes a slog. Gameplay will consist of you going through level-scaled dungeons with tons of enemies. The longest part of clearing out a location is waiting for either your health or mana to regenerate so you can continue fighting. You're going to see a lot of the same character models reused over and over again along with a repetitive battle track. Combined with lack of good equipment drops and you're going to feel underpowered and underleveled for almost the whole game. Exploration essentially comes to a halt after act one. The game becomes more of an ARPG, dungeon crawler with little dialogue. If you want a game where you're gonna explore and talk to the characters to flesh out the world and learn the lore, this ain't it. The story is alright, but doesn't carry the gameplay. Once you finish act two, it really just throws you into new locations with little explanation for why these locations are important. The story beats felt very forced. Music is bad to meh. The battle tracks seem to play just fine, but anytime I was in a town area there was either no background music or it would randoml…

So this game may have mixed reviews, a very old school game action RPG game. So before getting introcuded to games like Warcraft , Dota ,etc. This is a great game in its own way, has like combination of characters, story revolving around crusades. A bit challenging to clear without the Quick save and load combo to get better items from Chests. Even for the time had to give importance to various attributes, even Intelligence or charm would affect a particular place in the story line. A pretty Dark Themed game. Can choose factions like Kinghts, Wizards, etc. A well packaged product pretty ahead in terms of choices, attributes even elemental options. May be a bit slow and pretty tough to clear if a wrong character build or attributes is selected, but that is also where the fun lies, you can mix and match try things and complete the game.

Grew up with this game and I'm still here