The Lost Heir 3: Demon War

As the third game in the trilogy, the Demon War continued to have the same issues as it's predecessors: constant failure due to high skill checks, forced relationships, and choices largely not impacting the story. In this game, I felt like the failures were worse because despite having high points in a skill, checks were often failed regardless, often combining with another skill that is difficult to build or some story element forcing the failure for a reason that doesn't make sense. Additionally, there were a lot of points in the game that caused you to lose a lot of points in multiple stat fields, with multiple times you lose ten points in every category of a field. Even without losing points, skill checks would be very, very difficult to pass, and it felt like the game was making things harder for no reason constantly. There were often new stats for different sections of the game as well, such as boats and armies, which is frustrating because any time spent building up those stats is time wasted because it is soon obsolete. Outcomes of choices were very difficult to predict. It felt like failures were forced, and sometimes they happened without skill checks. The st…

Rules keep changing and its impossible to make the story work. i quit before the end.

A lot more meandering than the first 2 games. The whole first couple acts (Back to School and One Piece Light) felt kinda divorced from what I was interested about in this series. Last act is pretty cool tho, and I like seeing your allies joining you to finish the fight. Ah... could have been better. But I still enjoyed the game aspects of the gamebook, and I like that checks got harder and were often multi skill checks. A lot of the classes get some neat uses.

It's a tough game and way too long considering the lack of checkpoints... but I've gotta take my hat off to the sheer number of different paths you can take. If you've played the prequels you should obviously finish the trilogy

I really loved it

Got this in a bundle with the two other chapters, and you cannot simply play the story with one character from start to end. Instead, after each chapter it will spam you with ads and a survey, and demands you create an account with your email, so you have access to your progress in the next chapter, but only if you go through a manual process several times for each new play-through. If you do not create an account it will refuse you access to your progress for the later chapters, robbing your time. Each chapter must be started as a separate game, which is fairly disappointing. So then you have to start from scratch with a generic character & set of decisions, and missing content. Or cave in and bow to the publisher's whims. Playing from scratch in chapters 2 and 3 makes for an extremely lacking experience. - the game misleadingly advertises seamless game experience - the game contains hidden cost and hidden barriers apparently in violation with EU law - the store page fails to mention the mandatory account creation needed for this game to work - the games demands user email credentials to work without mentioning that anywhere - the game does not deliver the bought content As…