FIVE: Guardians of David

I decided to give FIVE:Guardians of David a try, simply because I somehow had it in my backlog(I think I picked it up in a bundle somewhere years ago). A budget diablo-clone based on weird christian mythos/fanfiction sounded like it could be good. And It's not [i]terrible[/i]- there's a game here, buried under some really poor decisions and budget constraints. FIVE is a diablo-light. Rather than make the player choose how to increase their stats, you just have a small party that you can switch between, and they level up in the areas they're good at(the first two for example are an archer and a dude with a hammer. Hammer dude gets more health and strength, archer dude gets ranged damage and speed, etc.). This part of the game works, and it's actually kinda neat having a CPU buddy to diablo hunt with you. Unfortunately FIVE suffers from severe lack of polish. Characters constantly get caught on level geometry, have trouble interacting with objects, and there's no QoL options like a loot highlight button. The first few cutscenes are quite lavish artwork with text, then later levels are capped with poorly placed comic-book style narration. Speaking of narration, FIVE's voice acting is somewhat...rough. It's not grating, but you'll find yourself dreading in-game cutscenes where you can't skip through the dialogue. There's also a definite tone shift between what are clearly biblical influences and the game's own writing. I can say that the game isn't 'preachy', and you don't need to know anything of the bible to play. It's not terrible, but it's just not polished enough to get a recommend from me, especially at it's current pricing.

Whatever the reviews were on... Personally I think they just don't like the Bible and gave it a bad review... But personally, if you can get passed some invisible walls and movement issues (at times) and keep in mind this is only made by a tiny team... It's a pretty GREAT game. I am loving it and on act 7. It's LONG AF, and when I thought it was almost over, I was only 1/3 or 1/4 of the way through the storyline.. It has a coherent comic style storyline, unlike most ARPG's, that tells the story of King David. The combat and skills you learn are all very cool, and not too flashy until you reach higher levels. But there is a lot of custimization in armor, and your ability kit. Overall, I'm having a blast and im biased because I love the bible, but i think even that aside it is one of my favorite ARPG's and has some interesting mechanics such as having a party of 5 like a 5 man dungeon in mmo's or the dragon age games. Get it, and support the folks who made this hidden gem.

This is one of my favorite Action RPGs! There are not many Action RPGs that you play a group.

[h1] Avoid or suffer immediate pain in the ***. [/h1]

一款俯视角的 融合了RPG元素的动作砍杀游戏 游戏的特色大概就是可以至多控制5人的小队进行游戏，通过F1~F5切换角色，每个角色都有自己擅长的武器以及技能树，合理搭配才能更加事半功倍 当然游戏的缺点也非常多： 1. 控制上有非常严重的bug，很容易就卡住（可能整个系统的寻路系统有问题），常常靠边走着走着就点不动，只能往后退几步绕开 2. AI比较弱智，完全不要指望AI控制的角色会释放技能配合你的行动，大多数的时候每个AI能正常攻击到敌人已经属于不错了 3. 线性的剧情，每张地图算是一章任务，中间无法存档，虽然你可以在菜单里选择save，但只是保存了身上的装备、人物等级什么，开启的地图、杀死的怪物，会在下一次重新进入时全部重置；而且你也不能回到之前的章节，如果想要杀怪升级只能放弃当前人物的进度然后重新载入 4. 画质有些塑料感，基本上都是零几年那段时间游戏的感觉 不过作为一个当前原价3、40的游戏，还算中上评价

The playability of this game is not great, mainly due to terrible pathfinding with characters getting stuck on every blade of grass, but in the end the story did draw me in and I did play it till the end, so I guess it's okay after all. As long as you've played good diablo clones already.

Em um mercado tão carente de games com temática cristã, este jogo é uma boa adição. Ele é inspirado em um período da vida de Davi, mas atenção: ele não segue totalmente o relato bíblico e faz questão de deixar isso claro dentro do próprio conteúdo do jogo, como a adição da personagem Ariella. Então, é importante estar atento a esse fato para não confundir tudo o que é apresentado no jogo com o relato bíblico. Os gráficos são bem feitos, com cenários bem detalhados e sem aquele aspecto genérico. Pelo contrário, a atenção a diversos detalhes nos ambientes é um ponto positivo, com um aspecto profissional. Os diálogos são narrados em inglês, acompanhados de legendas (também em inglês como idioma padrão, mas existem outros disponíveis para as legendas, porém, não o português). O fim e o começo dos níveis são contextualizados por histórias em quadrinhos (com as falas interpretadas enquanto os quadrinhos são mostrados, mas em inglês) desenhadas por Sergio Cariello, o mesmo ilustrador da Bíblia em Ação, e que também já ilustrou revistas de superheróis como Homem-Aranha, Batman, Superman, Homem de Ferro, dentre outros. Enfim, posso dizer que a produção me surpreendeu positivamente. A jogabilidade é boa, porém, o "pathfinding" dos personagens é falho. Sempre é necessário clicar em vários pontos do caminho quando seu personagem fica "preso" em algum ponto do cenário, a inteligência artificial não consegue desviar de obstáculos por conta própria. No entanto, se você puder conviver com isso, o jogo é bem agradável. O jogo já foi lançado há alguns anos. O preço atual é R$19,90 e, pelo que pesquisei, já faz alguns anos que não entra em promoção, então não acho muito provável que vá entrar.

I bought and played through Five: Guardians of David and then played again a second time half way through. It is a very nice attempt at building a third person Diablo style RPG based on the stories & history of sacred Biblical scripture. I was really excited about this because the story of King David and many other Biblical stories are such an untapped genre for game developers. It's artwork and comic book style story interludes were also very impressive. However, unfortunately, I must vote down this game because of the utterly shoddy and unprofessional development work and also for some of the story writing as well. This game is horrifically buggy. There were three instances where script sequences broke on three different levels and soft broke the game thus forcing me to restart the whole level. Also, in my second playthrough, a level soft broke so I later restarted but both the music and voice overs were broken, gone. I understand that the development team may have been on a tight budget with limited time but very obvious faults as mentioned above should have been fixed post release with patches/updates especially since people are paying for the game and it has been out for almost a decade now. No excuse. Another critique I have to make is the fact that the devs made up a token female feminist girl boss character Ariella for the game story to placate the modern woke feminist sensibilities because the Biblical story of King David has no such characters. The character Ariella does not feature nor is mentioned anywhere in the Bible and the game's narrator does mention that fact that she was made up for the game story. For people whom I'm assuming are supposed to be believing Christians, they really should know better than to pander to Godless woke feminist ideology because it is so beyond belief that we can have a story character caste that is all exclusively masculine, heterosexual & male. If the holy word of God (the Bible) does not have girl boss characters in it then that is His will and there must be a good reason for it. We can see those good reasons why in the woke feminist trash Hollywood and game devs are pumping out these days. I and many other gamers are dead set sick of it. If the game devs actually took the holy word of God seriously, they would not be pandering to woke garbage. The only female figure in the Bible that would become close to being a "girl boss" is the Blessed Virgin Mary mother of God who is foretold to crush the head of the serpent. But even she was still a humble & noble housewife who submitted to St. Joseph as head of the holy family. So to conclude, I quote the old saying: "if you're going to do something, do it properly or don't do it at all." Lastly, I very strangely was not able to purchase the game on Steam with Australian currency for some reason. It can still be purchased in the other currencies. So I ended up purchasing it on a third part website instead.

"For de king deivid"