Brány Skeldalu

My childhood classic. Can't give thumbs down on this one. The game doesn't really hold your hand or tell you what to do except for clues that you can collect by reading clues in the world and text carefully. I spent way too many of my childhood computer time on this one, and it's one of the first games I ever finished. Fun thing is after all these years I still remember the exact paths in Caredbar to get from one merchant to the next. When creating characters, you can drag the golden ball on the screen to favour some stats over others. Save often and don't overwrite. Be sure to use the "True Sight" and "Automapping" combo to find hidden paths. Characters can hold two weapons at once, giving them two swings and effectively doubling their actions. Don't spend stat points until you trained your characters to have 30 at the trainers in town (You can easily clear Orc Caves without spending stats and save up). You can train "Basic training" for 20 in all skills except magic and then specialize train at the combat trainer up to 30. Make sure to separate your group in difficult situations (you can also do this outside of combat to solve puzzles by ctrl clicking the characters).

Game of my childhood. I would never dreamed of that I will ca 27 years later play it in Linux through command line. :D On hardware several times powerful than available at that time!

Asi takhle: Hrál jsem a dohrál v době, kdy to vyšlo. Paráda. V té době byly krokovací dungeony v kurzu a bylo to super. Brány Skeldalu byly taky super a strávil jsem na tom tehdy hodně času. Nyní jsem to z nostalgie opět pustil a kouzelná atmosféra devadesátek byla zpět. Tedy na chvíli. Pamatuji si dlouhé hodiny grindění monster, sbírání dropu, prodej, nákup, cvičení postav a podobné chuťovky, co od nepaměti patřily k tomuto typu her. Nyní si zřejmě někdo nacpal hlavu do pr... a rozhodl se, že se monstra jaksi nebudou respawnovat a tak pro mě hru definitivně zabil. Tudíž, pokud je nekdo nostalgický grinder a nemá náladu na to se klepat před každým rohem, na co narazí a co mu ve dvou kolech pošle družinu do pekla, tak ruce pryč. Nechte si v blahé paměti, jaká to tehdy byla skvělá hra ;o) PS: Stačí si z kraje vybílit pratury či co to je, prodat kožešiny a v jeskyních prostě zmrznu, protože tuři jaksi došli.

Nádherný návrat do mládí. Děkuji všem, co se přičinili za tuto reinkarnaci. ;-)

back to the childhood :-) Amazing dungeon crawler. As the game is hand painted, it is still very enjoyable and nice even today.

Bon jeu de RPG à l'ancienne !