Recent reviews by Astrakista

10/10 fishing simulator.

The aspect where this game really shines are its design and art. Gameplay and story aren't exactly bad but more like pretty underwhelming. The first playthrough could use some slight rebalancing because after a certain point the difficulty was really more of a joke (not only the dungeons but also the final boss battle which was a bummer. We played it in 2 players mode with my wife and we really didn't expect he will go down that easily). The story, despite it feeling a little bit bland, looked promising but it ended on not so great note (I would even say it sent kind of a harmful message).

Even though we had some objections to the story and balancing, we would definitely recommend this game. Especially for people who like good local coop games which are still quite rare these days.

A worthy successor to the first Thea game. It has the same vibes and atmosphere with all new combat system, which is in my opinion a little harder to get used to than the one in the first Thea but not bad in any way. New (optional) seasonal effects system is also a big plus.

I'll keep this short.
Listen to your heart's advices while playing this game and have a good time laughing to bad puns and such.
Play it like every normal RPG out there and geeetttttt dunked on!

At first I was looking forward to some good old Disciples after the years, thinking there will be some innovative touch here and there. What awaited me, though, was one big unbalanced mess.

For one, interface and new approach to castles we already know and love were steps in the right direction. Also the new approach to the character upgrades with some minor boosts to troops pleasantly surprised me.
On the other hand, the battle-system is maybe the most broken one I've encountered to date. I don't know if I somehow played it wrong (but considering I've read through tutorials and such, I think it wasn't my fault after all), but battles were just lenghty, repetitive chore. In every and each one of them you need to have one hell of luck on your side, because enemies are "tough". And the reason for quation marks is simple. I thought maybe I just chose bad enemies for the beginning of a map. Then I realized it's the same story with every enemy unit I attack, not only you have to pray so your troops actually hit something every now and then, but also you have to deal with the illusion of some strategy on that little Heroes rip-off action map. I understand that change is very important part in everything, but for the God's sake don't change that one kind of unique thing, which was perfectly functional, simple yet fun to play with.

To summarize it, I wouldn't recommend this to anybody, especially not to the Disciples fans. Good idea killed by totally non-functional battle-system.

Challenging and hard in a good way. If you like classic old arcade games, this one is for you.