So after playing this game for a good little bit, I have found that this game could easily be one of those games that you could play to kill time, ALOT of time.

One of my friends sent me the game and expansion as a gift through Steam, and I tell you what, It's quite an amazing game especially for use old heads that like our RPGs and video games in general with a more retro feel to them. The graphics, by today's standards, aren't the super realistic HD sculptures that a lot of people have come to expect from video games. Instead, the graphics are more of a 16-bit sprites with beautiful choices of color palettes throughout the game. It is very easy to tell when you traverse through different environments, desolate deserts, cold artic tundra, lush beautiful forests and plains. The guards, townsfolk, and inhabitants of the world are just as carefully designed and all look unique.

Probably one of the biggest things that makes this game so great is the gameplay. Imagine a Japanese Style Action RPG with a lot of Rogue like aspects that do nothing, but add to replay value of the game. Everything can be randomized, and like most Rogue Likes perma death is a real thing. About the only thing that you can save, aside from the game, is your character's inventory, or rather a select few items to continue playing with. You get a super awesome sword that when roots your enemies and burns them to death, and you don't really want to let it go? Well there's something called a deminisonal vault that you can use to keep that sword through multiple playthroughs.

Speaking of that deminisonal vault, the way you get it, and use it is through things called Hero Points. You acquire Hero Points by either completing a full run of the game, or dying. If you die, by some random Dragon Knight in a structure you were checking for loot, drowning in water, or trying to climb to the point of exhaustion and just collapsing. There's also one other very unique way of dying. In this game, you visit a town and you can't revist it, you can't go back the way you came at all. This is because the Dark Lord (boss of the game) is spreading darkness throughout the realm, you touch the darkness and you die. Well the screen scrolls to the right, just like an old school platformer, but instead of being able to go back you can't because of the darkness, if you try, you die. This adds for a significant amount of challenge, you can easily get stuck in areas of the game because of mountains, walls, or whatever other obstacle that impedes your travel, and the darkness catches up and you die. Actually, every action you take, wether it's attacking an enemy, moving, using an item, casting a spell, or whatever moves the darkness closer towards you.

The Plot is a throw a way plot you are X hero out to slay the Dark Lord and stop the spread of the darkness throughout the world. There's other campaigns that you can do that are fixed maps that have their own story as well, but it follows the same formula.

Probably one of the coolest things about the game is Character Creation. At the beginning of the game you start with two classes, a Swordmaster Class and a Knight Class. You can chose what your sprite looks like, and also give your character perks to help with his stats, or whatever skills you have for the class. You start with three perk slots, but as you play you can unlock up to five perks. This alone gives the game that massive replay value, just to see how every other class works, in a completely different world every single time.

As you play through the game, and earn Hero Points, you also gain new classes to run through the game with, each class, plays very differently from the other. You unlock these classes by either spending those Hero Points you've been hoarding, or by completing specific tasks in game. Aside from the Deminsional Vault, and new Classes, the Hero Points also unlock new perks for character creation.

For us retro gaming fans, especially those who are fans of RPGs that came out before everything looked "pretty" and realistic, this game is a must own. This will probably end up replacing solitare for those people.

[h1] A Great Time killing game, hold on Solitare, Chip's Challenge, or whatever you play to kill time, here's [b]ONE WAY HEROICS[/b][/h1] So after playing this game for a good little bit, I have found that this game could easily be one of those games that you could play to kill time, ALOT of time. One of my friends sent me the game and expansion as a gift through Steam, and I tell you what, It's quite an amazing game especially for use old heads that like our RPGs and video games in general with a more retro feel to them. The graphics, by today's standards, aren't the super realistic HD sculptures that a lot of people have come to expect from video games. Instead, the graphics are more of a 16-bit sprites with beautiful choices of color palettes throughout the game. It is very easy to tell when you traverse through different environments, desolate deserts, cold artic tundra, lush beautiful forests and plains. The guards, townsfolk, and inhabitants of the world are just as carefully designed and all look unique. Probably one of the biggest things that makes this game so great is the gameplay. Imagine a Japanese Style Action RPG with a lot of Rogue like aspects that do nothing, but add to replay value of the game. Everything can be randomized, and like most Rogue Likes perma death is a real thing. About the only thing that you can save, aside from the game, is your character's inventory, or rather a select few items to continue playing with. You get a super awesome sword that when roots your enemies and burns them to death, and you don't really want to let it go? Well there's something called a deminisonal vault that you can use to keep that sword through multiple playthroughs. Speaking of that deminisonal vault, the way you get it, and use it is through things called Hero Points. You acquire Hero Points by either completing a full run of the game, or dying. If you die, by some random Dragon Knight in a structure you were checking for loot, drowning in water, or trying to climb to the point of exhaustion and just collapsing. There's also one other very unique way of dying. In this game, you visit a town and you can't revist it, you can't go back the way you came at all. This is because the Dark Lord (boss of the game) is spreading darkness throughout the realm, you touch the darkness and you die. Well the screen scrolls to the right, just like an old school platformer, but instead of being able to go back you can't because of the darkness, if you try, you die. This adds for a significant amount of challenge, you can easily get stuck in areas of the game because of mountains, walls, or whatever other obstacle that impedes your travel, and the darkness catches up and you die. Actually, every action you take, wether it's attacking an enemy, moving, using an item, casting a spell, or whatever moves the darkness closer towards you. The Plot is a throw a way plot you are X hero out to slay the Dark Lord and stop the spread of the darkness throughout the world. There's other campaigns that you can do that are fixed maps that have their own story as well, but it follows the same formula. Probably one of the coolest things about the game is Character Creation. At the beginning of the game you start with two classes, a Swordmaster Class and a Knight Class. You can chose what your sprite looks like, and also give your character perks to help with his stats, or whatever skills you have for the class. You start with three perk slots, but as you play you can unlock up to five perks. This alone gives the game that massive replay value, just to see how every other class works, in a completely different world every single time. As you play through the game, and earn Hero Points, you also gain new classes to run through the game with, each class, plays very differently from the other. You unlock these classes by either spending those Hero Points you've been hoarding, or by completing specific tasks in game. Aside from the Deminsional Vault, and new Classes, the Hero Points also unlock new perks for character creation. For us retro gaming fans, especially those who are fans of RPGs that came out before everything looked "pretty" and realistic, this game is a must own. This will probably end up replacing solitare for those people.