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Summary: Lots of fun
Review: A bit like Diablo II, but you have control of four characters at once. The controls (using the space bar to change from character to character) take some getting used to, but the action is fun and there are endless items that you can build using the items that you find (mostly parts of the monsters that you kill). Well worth the cost. A good RPG.
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Summary: It shouild be better than Diablo II
Review: Actually, I never play Diablo II. But I viewed the developer's preview video. They sounded like studying the Diablo's very well.
However, the manual did not describe how to use those items to upgrade samurai's weapons/armors that the samurais pickup after killing. I just tried around. The graphics are pretty detailed and I like the audio as well.It is almost like AOL 2 that I loved it so much. It is worth of your money and time, even your sleeping time.
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Summary: So so.....
Review: Decent game but gets tedious at times. The large maps make it near impossible to keep track of where you need to go next. I suggest finding a website or something to help you along your quests unless you have a lot of time and patience. This game is more for people with lots of patience and nack for finding stuff. All of the maps progress and become some sort of maze. The action is actually challenging in this one compared to diablo. Pros: unique plot and characters
Cons: Mage is near worthless and is hard to keep him alive
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Summary: Decent game.
Review: Decent game but gets tedious at times. The large maps make it near impossible to keep track of where you need to go next. I suggest finding a website or something to help you along your quests unless you have a lot of time and patience. This game is more for people with lots of patience and nack for finding stuff. All of the maps progress and become some sort of maze. The action is actually challenging in this one compared to diablo. Pros: unique plot and characters
Cons: Mage is near worthless and is hard to keep him alive
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Summary: Fun, involved, expansive, and just better than DII, single p
Review: Diablo II fans will love Throne of Darkness. The designer of Diablo moved onto work on ToD in San Francisco based Click in order to move some of his ideas along, I suppose. The game plays very similar to Diablo II, but makes the game more customizable and gives the user more power to take different paths. My biggest problem with Diablo II was that players basically were forced along in their quests, and that there simply was a "best character." However, ToD will not have this problem since there will be four out of seven characters playing. This creates *infinite* possibilities. An important note: the demo is quite fun, but does NO JUSTICE to the real game! There are many things missing in the demo that make it seem like a weaker game than it is. In terms of graphics, ToD represents the samurai age quite well, considering the game is a fantasy game. The style is very fitting and look right. There could be some more detail in characters, but I'm not complaining :) Listening to the game was pleasuresome to my ears. The music is generally good, and the fighting and speech sounds are also strong. The tactics system really comes through, though it is a little bit annoying when your wizard runs out of ki (MP) and runs up trying to kill that massive elder kappa (a turtle?). However, death is by no means permanent, and really isn't that big of a deal, unless everyone dies. :) The magic system doesn't really look that special, but I haven't really gotten far enough to tell for sure. My wizard has been weak, but he's definitely getting stronger with each level. I expect him to be a powerhouse pretty soon! As for an item system, this is where ToD shines. There is so much customizability that its ridiculous. It's like Diablo II with up to 24 gem slots, but with a larger variety of gems :) I can't wait to have a 24 slot 75-150 damage sword with whatever customizing items in it... Also, no item is wasted. Junk is not junk anymore. These can be given or offered to the blacksmith or priest of your temple which then are put into a material point system which can be used in junction with gold to build up better items with more customizing slots. It makes you want to pick up EVERYTHING! :) Well, I believe ToD is one of the most innovative games in it's genre since the original itself. I haven't anticipated a game this much since Diablo II! And I'm not disappointed either.
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Summary: HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE GAME!
Review: I cannot describe how boring this game is. I played it for 30 mins and uninstalled it immediately. The idea is good, the graphics are great, but the gameplay [isn't good]. In comparison to Diablo II, its annoying enough to manage the equipment and health/mana for one character, much less for four at a time, then having to worry about "teleporting" your other characters to the healing area and then teleporting them back. I picked up this game hoping it would be a mix between Diablo II and Baldur's Gate II, but its nothing near that. I obviously recommend staying away from this pitiful pitiful game, where you "control four characters", but can only truly control one at a time while the AI takes control of the others, and they go running off at a monster unless you change the stance, although that doesn't always help.
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Summary: Fun game...for a while
Review: I did not know what to expect when i first tried out Throne of Darkness. At first I was impressed by the animations and the the good interface of the game. When I started to play i noticed the graphics where bright and colorful but as i kept playing they did get a little repetitive. The 4 castles in the game are pretty similar as are the caves and outside areas. The sound and the music are not great, but not annoying either. The coolest thing about the game imo are the animations. These are just plain awesome. There are 4 clans to pick from, but they are all basically the same except having different starting locations and having a couple different 'personal' quests. This game borrows _heavily_ from Diablo and Diablo 2 up to the inventory and character screens. The fact that you can customize weapons and armor is really cool, although all-in-all those customizations can be expensive and are not all that powerful. There is an assortment of powerful unique items which really do kick much butt. Now the complaints. First of all the wizard in this game is pretty useless. It will be really hard to get him to go up in levels and also unless you control him personally, he pretty much doesnt do anything when being ai-controlled. Another annoyance is that if you want to trade items between your 7 characters you constantly have to send them back and forth to the daimyo to cycle through them to see who needs what..very annoying. These were my biggest two complaints, so if that's all I could come up with, the game aint that bad. The replay value here is pretty low as you prolly won't wanna go through the game more than twice, there isnt much new or different the second time you play. Overall I enjoyed TOD and would recommend it to fans of this genre.
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Summary: ToD Worth Playing
Review: I found ToD to be an excellent game that had some very good features to it's credit. It loaded very fast, had good graphics, no bugs (that I experienced), and exceptional playability. While it is, indeed, Diablo-esque in it's format, it was still different enough to make playing it a pleasing change from Diablo. The spell graphics were not as visually stunning, but the melee combat was just as enjoyable. The only detrimental part of the whole game was in making, purifying, and repairing magic items, weapons and armor. Some armor, when customizing it by puting found magic items into it's slots, took up to 4 minutes to create. If you had a lot of things to make, you could, seriously, go get a cup of coffee and a sandwich before it was done. That being said, it was sometimes a welcome respite from the game and made me take breaks from it that I, otherwise, might not have taken. The game world was graphically beautiful and the creatures were well done, both in form and animation. Although you had up to 7 characters to choose from (with a party of 4 being max) I found that I rarely needed to play more than 4. I normally chose the wizard, berserker, archer, and swordsman and was able to cut through all adversaries like butter. I also enjoyed the fact that you can play the game with 4 different clans, each having different quests (depending on who was in your party). I would highly recommend this game if you enjoyed playing Diablo/Diablo LoD. In this day and age, it's hard to find a game that isn't fraught with bugs. It was nice to play something that was graphically beautiful, interesting, challenging, fun, AND stable.
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Summary: ratings
Review: I have NEVER played this game, but if you like your characters played by a computer and not have the ability to plan your battles, by all means get this game. I hated Dark Stone and Vampire because of this horrible feature and died repeatedly.
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Summary: Throne of Darkness is one really cool game!
Review: I have to admit,when I first read some reviews about Throne of Darkness I was a little hesitant about purchasing this game.But since I liked DIABLO so much I figured I would give it a try...and it was well worth it,and more.If you enjoyed DIABLO,you will get into this game as well.I would highly recommend Throne of Darkness to anyone.
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