positive charming surprise, when I had more fun than with some more expensive games certainly
Short points:
Pluses:
+ gore, decapitating heads - neck gushing blood, amputating limbs, splashing blood, deep cuts, visible internals
+ addictive fight, fast attacks, blocking, tomatoes, traps
+ many various weapons to choose up from after steps
+ enemies fight well, in more challenging waves, surviving days in colosseum , quite good physics, AI blocks, evades, rolls on other side often kills each other
+ enemies friendly fire own units, often stabbing dodge rolling to own units weapons might be seen as undesired and bit funny too, but you can use it a bit as a tactics getting enemies close together to hit each other
+ enemies can get killed merely by running at your sword, is entertaining might look a bit negative but its partially realistic
+ you seem to take some damage sometimes even when blocking to heavy attacks its also a bit - though
+ a few naked people in colosseum audience
minuses:
- not clear interactive actions (also interactive area detection) inside jail freeze progression or puzzle lock you out playing - clicking on bench to sleep to continue no hint, similarly choosing a weapon
- not clever controls, hot swapping to B block, F key kick, G evade, instead of blocking , parrying eg with a right mouse click, not any tutorial regards fighting might mean a player leaves the game cause he didnt know how to fight
- sometimes blocking with weapons seems to be temporal especially with sword, as opposed to shield might look like it not working
- if you see blood you are not sure if you was hit or you hit the enemy
- enemies accidentally hit and kill own unit too often
- new waves do not always look harder and I dont know if there is end to them
- the story seems to be infinite, perhaps also a bug with no enemy coming happened once
- always rewarding with woman is bit repetitive and annoying, but you can go sleep prior her coming
- you can exploit enemies just by running close to them to stab at your weapon
- cutscenes not skippable though not long
- dodging looks to be much less effective than just stepping running backwards
- stamina not slowing your walking speed, not sound alert breathing, no ability to press hit key longer for a heavier attack
- no rpg levelling up system
Lenthier descriptions:
Looks promising and few nice areas, but.. But cutscenes are not skippable, loading screens look sort of big lengthier also annoying, sometimes sort of freezes progression, since first when I won 1st fight, i was thrown to jail, interaction detection is poor, you can hardly take any weapon there was a key in jail on table I could not take , nobody came to let me out of prison. It continued after I exited and reloaded the game, it continued with a woman and area but it didn help when I lost area, if its some puzzle I could not get out of jail no keyboard keys helped - jail guy didnt return. It says in jail you have already equipped some weapon in jail, but you have no weapon equipped in hands, and still weapons available in jail while you are still locked and can not get out. So i am locked, frozen in progression. Ok I found one has to click on a bench to continue, If I did not I would give it a bad review. Sometimes even reading key bindings the game continues if you press the esc key. Collision detection is not best, often enemy does not seem to try attack when you block at all, if you kick your block is disabled, there is not even short tutorial regards fighting in the beginning. There is no health bar could be mistaken for stamina. Dodge is interesting but not intuitive like double tap, but you have to fast swap to letter G, maybe it works only with connection with side step arrow key asdf, the gore cut effect is very nice, nice traps, enemies mistakenly friendly fire kill own units, and tomatoes throwing. Otherwise enemies fight and evade nicely and fight is addicting. Not much hitting sound, when you see blood, you are not certain if you hit enemy or if he hit you, seems like you can be sometimes hurt even when blocking, or enemy moaning or hearing being hit aside of weapon slash which is present also when you miss. All in all nice game many people would not realize and overlook due to those issues. Guarding B is interesting, but maybe would be more with mouse right click and I am not sure if it works also with weapons as parry or only with a shield. You must hold key to keep crouching not press.
if I did not give it more chances I felt like calling it one of the most unfinished pre-alpha ea games which is simply not true,
