An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire

Bethesda attempt at dipping their toes in the Doom and Quake market, using Tamriel setting and expanding the lore. Born as a Daggerfall expansion, it became a stand-alone game that had an interesting idea behind it, but suffers from a terrible technical state and a clearly rushed development. Some interesting NPCs, good voice acting (considering the times) and a fine soundtrack. Sadly, the severe bugs and some design choices (like the lack of resources, the game restarting everytime you die, the item degradation, etc.) drag everything down.

Better than arena, worse than every other scroll game

I liked this spin-off. It would have been difficult for me if I had come from playing Skyrim. But coming from Arena to this, I can see how The elder scrolls franchise evolved.

It seems that Bethesda took inspiration from the Ultima: Underworld series, which I can respect. However I can only recommend this to hardcore Elder Scrolls fans only because this game is absolutely brutal and will punish you if you create an insufficient character at the start of the game. The voice acting is cheesy but I can't knock on it too much because it was a product of its time. I personally would advise getting this on a sale because paying full price seems a bit much for this game.

I fear this game made me feel things I do not want to feel again.

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I'm glad Bethesda allowed modern players to experience this and Redguard, but man... this is absolute (as the Brits say) ♥♥♥♥♥!

Actually one of the most baffling and hot garbage experiences I've had in a long time. 10/10 would get jump scared by full frontal nudity on stream again.

Battlespire is a rough around the edges gem for the Elder Scrolls Series, It's a smaller in scope dungeon crawler as compared to Arena or Daggerfall but it "Just Works", The smaller scope really helps it focus on one thing; The Daedra and the Daedric Planes of Oblivion (Although most are actually pocket realms) This is without a doubt the hardest Elder Scrolls Game for me personally likely a skill issue on my part but the controls don't help, The combat is clunky at best and absolutely punishing at worst, You can and likely will soft lock yourself in some level due to entering a level unprepared, Fun for Elder Scrolls Lore Fiends probably awful for everyone else. Enjoy the Scamps Voice Acting, Its Peak.

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