laker
Martin   Trnava, Trnava, Slovakia
 
 
http://www.onegameamonth.com/laker_faker

I love RPGs. And Turn based games.
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Rarest Achievement Showcase
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Review Showcase
50 Hours played
Do you like turn based games with focus on positioning? Go play it!
Do you like viking theme? Go play it!
Do you like turn based games with viking theme? What are you waiting for? Go play it!

It's a great game with a lot of strong features. But it has some problems.

Pros:
+ A lot of skills you can use. Many of them are weapon specific.
+ Positioning is important. Arrows fly in straight line, not on curve, so you can block whole line of companions with shield or protect yourself by using environment as a cover.
+ Character progression is satisfactory, even though I would like to manage characters in more ways than just by attaining new skills.
+ Item progression is good. There is a lot of weapons to choose from. The number of armors could be better, but still, it's pretty good. There is a lot of miscellaneous items for de/buffing, blocking the path, traps...
+ Some of the guests are really good. Far better than anything in Skyrim or other "full–fledged RPGs".
+ Your companions have distinct personalities. They are well written.
+ Crafting is pretty robust.
+ Managing the party and camping is nice change of pace.
+ Great soundtrack.
+ Graphics are really good for this type of game.
+ Animations are good.
+ Atmosphere is great. The feeling that life is hard is palpable. You can see that people die because of weather, or nature or by crossing the path of a wrong person.

Cons:
- Some of the skills are useless. You'll be using the same set of few skills most of the time. Patch focused on balance could help.
- Game is trying too hard to show that everything is not black and white. Some quests don't have a good ending. That would be fine, if it was achieved in a logical way. This is unfortunately not the case. Game artificially limits the options to deal with the quests. You can't even abort a quest if you can't role play it properly because of artificial limitations.
- UI is bad. Managing the camp is a chore. Entering an area is a chore - why do you always have to select companions if in most cases they will always be the same? Why aren't they pre-selected? Why aren't they at least ordered right next to each other for easier selection? Why is their order changed randomly? There is a lot of UI problems, which will get on your nerves the more you play it.
- A lot of bugs. Game crashing. Quests which cannot be finished. Characters falling under the terrain. Half of the area inaccessible due to invisible walls, etc. They tried hard, I can tell. First few hours are basically bug free. But they evidently didn't have enough time/resources and majority of the later game is full of bugs.
- There is only four or five different camp maps, and if you'll set out to clear all of the camps, it will get tiresome pretty fast.
laker 2 Apr, 2017 @ 12:40pm 
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noz 30 Mar, 2017 @ 11:43am 
+rep stole my dog
Arakir 29 Jun, 2016 @ 12:52pm 
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laker 24 Dec, 2014 @ 7:00am 
Dakujem laska, aj ja ta lubim :*
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~Merry Christmas!!~
laker 22 Jun, 2014 @ 1:11am 
:P to sa ti ako podarilo? :D