The only reason I wanted this game was for FREE TRADING CARDS.

Very nice game

In a world where unacceptable games pass Steam Greenlight, is Unforgiving Trials: The Darkest Crusade. A dreadful game that needs a complete remake. It’s horrible.

Unforgiving Trials is developed by Amaterasu Software, and it sure is amateur… On their Twitter bio they state that their company is a 4-man team, while on the Steam store it’s a 5-man team. Already starting well, huh? They are set in the Republic of Croatia, so we’ll cut them some slack.

In the game, you start off in an inn with a broad selection of characters which have unique abilities and skills. Obviously, they include archer, wizard, paladin, knight and a whole host of interesting ones such as a thief, or a blood mage. Each character has their advantages and disadvantages and you’ll need to play around to create a balanced team.

The goal of Unforgiving Trials is to clear the world of an eternal darkness full of monstrosity. Like the game. It’s a monstrosity. You’ll continually head east after fighting multiple waves of enemies, then you’ll get time to heal and buy potions and you’ll repeat the process. That is the entire game.

It’s rinse and repeat. There’s probably a story at the end of it somewhere, but no one will make it with the repetitive battles, boring gameplay and a story which doesn’t grab you.

In terms of playing the game, I came across so many errors which just completely ruined the experience, while others just made me laugh at Amaterasu Software.

While in the inn, I spoke to everyone and came across way too many spelling mistakes and sentences that didn’t make sense as they missed words out. Although this isn’t usually a primary problem, but due to the lack of gameplay they should probably proof read the base of the game.

The combat is not interesting as it doesn’t add anything fun, it’s just the standard RPG combat where you’ll select the attack, then the enemy and wait for it. This is what you’ll be doing for the entire game aside from picking new party members and buying potions. I was personally bored after the 3rd battle but urged myself through the game to find out it’s still the same old useless junk.

While playing, the music will decide it wants to mute itself and the game will go completely dead silent, and then you’ll hear attack sound effects for five minutes straight before the music remembers that it’s not playing and decides to kick in again. It really dulled the experience because the music isn’t bad, and sort of fits the RPG theme, but the game does not play well in silence.

In terms of graphics, it looks like a simple RPG Maker job, and that’s fine if you want to make a game in that, but when going into battle the monsters fought will look entirely different to the rest of the game as-if they’ve ripped them out of a nicer-looking game and plonked them into this.

Sometimes the controls like to play up and not do what you want, you may sometimes find yourself alternating between mouse and keyboard to achieve what you want. But it’s fairly smooth.

Overall, this game is extremely repetitive, full of errors and it’s in no way fun. After 2 battles you’ll realise the entire game is a grind for achieving nothing. The only decent thing about the game is the nice selection of characters you can choose from.

2/10

Unforgiving Trials: The Darkest Crusade is a very imbalanced game from the very beginning.

Unforgiving Trials: The Darkest Crusade is a RPGMaker designed game that does not deviate from typical RPGMaker design. The game's premise is that there is some evil in the east, and you need to just keep moving east and fighting battles. However, this game is different from others in that you have to partake in 4 battles in a row, with the 4th battle being a boss battle every time. After the 4 battles, you can rest and buy stuff in a town/outpost/camp, and then you continue east. Although this may sound not terrible, the game has horrible scaling. The first battles were already extremely hard, and there is no option of grinding to level up. This game is brutally unforgiving like the title says, but in a bad way.

Overall, not a great game and just has awful scaling and unexcellent gameplay.

Rating: 3.8/10
Recommend Price: $0.14 or below

I will try to express how i felt in the game in long story short.
The games rating is i have to say 6/10 and i RECCOMEND the game on sale probs becouse this game doesnt have a huge story and it gets quite booring.

Pros:
+Its fun to play.
+Reminds the old day games somehow.
+Select 4 of your choice guys.
+Cool design.

Cons:
-There isnt any choices you can make.
-After a while everything starts to repeat.
-When you die you rage quit becouse you get that its getting booring.

Overall: I really dont like rpg games but for some reason i really liked this one

With no irony this is a great game! Loved the adventure; harsh battles were like puzzles. The idea that you need to constantly go in one direction to meet your goal is great!

P.S. I finished the game around 14h. My party was: Chaos Knight, Wizard, Blood Mage, Bishop.

I was really thinking this game would be fun. It started out good when you got to pick your party of 4 in inn where there was many different type to choose from. It looked good and interesting story to start but then that is where it just ended. Game enters automode when you start journey and your party auto walk from one battle to next. All you can do is pick their attack and then later buy new items for them but that is all. It is very repetive and dissapointing. Graphics are very nice but I have to give thumb down because there was no story at all.

Unforgiving Trials: The Darkest Crusade follows the adventure of a young lord and 4 recruited mercenaries to head off on a quest to “reclaim the lands of man”. An RPG with a story that involves Saving The World. I’ve played dozens of similar games like this to know what the conclusion will be, so the plot is nothing closely unique or different. The game includes a cast of flat characters, repetitive battles and seldom cut scenes that hardly indicate any progress which makes for an underdeveloped plot.

As for the gameplay, it is pretty much grind from here on out. You are auto-assigned to the next battle after the next, with no breaks in between (with the exception of cut scenes). This is forcing players to follow the plot and complete the objective: with its limited function, it takes away the player’s right to explore with free will. It’s another con with the generic plot line.

The only choice we’re given are the members of your party. During the pre-phase, I had chosen Wizard, Archer, Paladin and Healer/Fighter.

A pro in this game was the nice design. The graphics, character designs and formatting of dialogues all looked too familiar. The developers really knew their stuff with RPGMaker, and thus, created another classic from the program. This also includes the atmospheric music and audio in battle. Different characters, with different actions will trigger unique SFX. This applied to the enemies as well.

But overall, my experience playing the game was dull. There are far better, more developed RPGs such as Crystal Story, The Enchanted Caves 2 and of course, the Epic Battle Fantasy series. I do not recommend playing this game.

My playtime: 04:02:18 (based on in game clock, before the final boss)
Developer Response: No (last response is in 21 Oct, 2016).

Unforgiving Trials: The Darkest Crusade is a RPG Maker game where you have to fight 5 consecutive battles in a row 30 times. You can form a party of four from 20+ candidates at the beginning and you can't change your party members after you start.

The mappings are simple. Most of the maps in the game is just a room where the party is resting and the large area where the party is walking (and doing the consecutive battles).

The game doesn't have much story in it but the NPC gives you some sort of side quest story across several rounds when you talk to them. However, since they're not meant for the main story, it's usually doesn't last long.

As for the main story itself, i like the plot twist at the end of the story. The dialogue is good enough if you can ignore the typos too.

The game will let you to form a party member of four right after you're able to control your character. There are a lot to choose from, and there is even some party member that can be unlocked only if you do something. Each party member has their own unique traits and skills and you must form a party with the right setup in order to finish the game.

Most party member will have a skill or two in the beginning and you can learn more by spending gold. The learnable skills can only be unlocked after you reach a certain level and sometimes you need to learn a skill before you can learn another. Skills are divided into 5 categories: one where you have to spend MP to cast, one where you have to spend TP (the one that is generated when you attack or being attacked by enemy) to cast, one where you have to spend HP to cast, one where you don't have to spend anything to cast, and a passive skill. However, sometimes the skill description isn't written properly (there is even one skill that has no description) and this also happen to an item (King's Ring; it doesn't state that you can immune from special effects upon wearing it)

After you form your party and ready to proceed, you'll have to fight 5 consecutive battles before you can reach a checkpoint. The first 3 battles are usually quite easy, the fourth one is usually harder and the last one is usually a boss fight. There are some occasions where the fourth battle is harder than the fifth one though. Some battles might have the same enemies as the previous round, but they still prove to be quite challenging in general (especially the boss battles). There are even times where i have to redo my run because my party is wiped out.

You need to conserve your gold. Since there are no random encounters, your gold is limited. You can use gold for learning skills, buying potions, buying bombs (item that can inflict damage and special effect to enemies), and buying equipments. However, everything except the first one can't be bought all the time; you can only buy them from a specific merchant that will only show up after you battle for certain rounds. However, i find that the merchant only sell the best weapon for Archer, Paladin, Thief, and Lancer jobs; it's as if the dev is forcing us to use those classes.

Speaking of special effects, there are a lot of special effects in the game. Both special effects and buff/debuffs play a lot of role in this game. However, i don't really know what most special effect means except for the basic ones (poison, blind, etc) and even with all that, there are some special effect like confusion and stun that looks too similar.

After you finish your round, you'll arrive at a checkpoint place where you can rest, explore the area, or buy supplies. Sometimes you'll be prompted to choose an option and i think your choice will affect the story. Note that there is no way it'll affect the main story at all; it'll be just a slight change in the story that is not related to the main story.

Pros:
- 30 rounds
- 20+ characters to select
- Challenging boss fights

Cons:
- Lots of typos
- Some special effects look too similar
- The best weapon only sold for specific class

This is a game where you have to fight 5 consecutive battles in a row 30 times.

Yes.
To be honest, i'm not sure if i should recommend this or not. The game might be too repetitive (fight 5 times, rest, repeat) but if you enjoy them, you'll like this game. I guess you can buy it on discount if you want to support the developer.

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