Hazen: The Dark Whispers

Game starts with no story, no reason why you are there, just begins with you holding an axe outside of town with skeletons coming to attack you. Click to attack, the character swings his arm instead of the axe. Skeletons dont seem to mind, they die anyway. Go into town, no story at all, just asked to get some keys to lock a gate. The skeletons wont be able to get in if the door is locked. As I walk around, scenery pops in everywhere. Graphical glitches are frequent. Ambient sound loops for abour 4 seconds before it repeats. I spec to be a mage as I usually do in these Diablo clones. Find a basic staff, and start shooting ice bolts at skeletons. 45-50 dmg. I upgrade my INT and skill level, and start to do 65 dmg. I run out of mana, and start swinging my staff. 250 damage per hit, one shotting everything. Find a donkey which gives you a quest. Nothing appears on the screen, I have to go into the quest log to find it. Apparently the town in which I came not only has a locked doors issue, but now needs flour. This donkey has flour. Time to save the day via bread. Then it crashed. Best part of the game in my opinion.

Почитал чужие отзывы, но всё же купил сию игру (а отзывов преимущественно больше отрицательных). Игра мне очень понравилась, хотя некоторых нововведений сделать всё же не мешало бы. Например, более привычную систему управления, выбор и кастомизацию персонажей, более понятную карту местности и цели квестов на карте. В остальном игра хороша. Не знаю, почему многие жаловались на графику, ведь она для игры и так отличная. В общем, игра стоит своих денег. Для тех, кому нравится жанр РПГ, игра придётся в самый раз.

So many bugs that if it doesnt insta crash on you, its unplayable either way! not worth a penny.

Okay, I initially classified this game in my "This Game Sucks"-category (only after spending a few hours on it). I actually reloaded this game and forced myself to learn and play the game. Objectively, it's pretty sound - as most hack-n-slash follow similar key-binding layouts and mouse-behaviours of well-known games of this genre (i.e. Diablo). I think the majority of the negative reviews come from those that have played Diablo or similar hack-n-slash games as Hazen introduces a differing layout for control movement and attack. I played this game with the notion - "this is not Diablo, don't expect it to be Diablo". Looking beyond that, the game does quench the hack-n-slash thirst for those willing to overlook it's unique default control layout.

* [i]Sigh[/i] * Me and the dark side of [b]Steam[/b] again... But well, if you know me at least a little, you know how much I like [b]ARPG[/b]s. Well, I like pretty much all genres (yes, I'm one of those people who like [i]everything[/i] as long as it wants you to press buttons), but there's something about [b]ARPG[/b]s I find especially pleasant. Not as pleasant as point-and-click adventures, but what matters here – I love the genre and I played tons and tons of games in it. Even those barely known by human beings in our part of the Galaxy. Naturally, I didn't want to miss this one. Just because it's an [b]ARPG[/b]. But as long as you're not like me and don't aim for beating each and every [b]ARPG[/b] out there? You shouldn't play this one. Seriously, you consider buying it? Just stop reading and remove it from your cart. It sucks. End of the story. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's take some time and go into some details. First of all – this game is bad. Wait, did I already say that? OK, I did. And still, this game is [i]bad[/i]. But no matter how bad it is, it's not a scam. In other words, it isn't [b]Grind Zones[/b]. Isn't one of those games that were supposed to look OK on screens but were never supposed to be a real deal, to provide you any real gameplay. [b]HAZEN[/b]? It was supposed to be played. You pay for a game – you get a game. Well... sort of. See, there are two things about [b]HAZEN[/b] (the game is called after its main villain, exactly the same way with [b]Diablo[/b]). And the first thing is – it was supposed to be episodic. We have only five small maps here and the story (if we can call this bunch of cheap nonsense a story) ends with a cliffhanger. You know how it is... They planned an episodic game, the first one failed, there were no more episodes ever made. And that's the first thing about [b]HAZEN[/b]. It's only a first episode of the series that was never made. And as for the second thing... Well, let's just say it was made by noobs. And it shows. The last time I saw something this noobish was in Ukrainian [b]ARPG[/b] called [b]Dark Tower Conspiracy[/b] (AKA [b]Dungeon Quest[/b], AKA [b]Заговор Тёмной Башни[/b]), back in [b]2006[/b]. And even though [b]HAZEN[/b] is Bulgarian game, it really does feel the same. But you can clearly see that it wasn't because the developers were scammers. It was just because some noobs with no experience decided that they are cool developers and can make their own [b]Torchlight[/b]. Here's a hint – they aren't and they can't. But OK, what exactly is so bad about [b]HAZEN[/b]? Well, everything. Everything about it is bad. Looking at core gameplay here you'll thank God for this game being too short. Things like balance, tactics and stuff like that? Forget about them. I mean, I know that the genre is all about them. Just... forget about them here. [b]HAZEN[/b] is not a game where you count numbers and make builds. It's a game, in which you run through some small maps by using the only character you can use, click on some generic enemies, die, respawn right under your enemies' feet, finish your job and continue. That's pretty much it. Painfully cheap and painfully random experience. So... yeah. [b]HAZEN[/b] is yet another disaster. The one where final product suffered from its makers having way too much ambitions without enough skill and talent to support them. You want a good game? Run as fast from here as you can. You don't mind something meh in the genre either? Nope, keep running. No matter how you look at [b]HAZEN[/b], it's a no-no product. But at least it wasn't supposed to be a scam, I can give it that.

Starting the game, you will go into an area with no plot. Just you standing there, 'corpsewalkers' swinging at you. Then jarring popups tell you basic controls then guide you to a town across a bridge. The graphics are not that great, the interface is a mishmashed diablo, and quite honestly I had no idea what was going on. Play this on a bet, while drunk, or when you need to feel confused. You can't even alt+f4 out of it. Pros: Honestly cannot think of any. There are many more games out there that are dungeon splunks that do this better, for cheaper. Cons: To many to list.

Don't.

糟糕的ARPG 作为对比，游戏的发行时间 2010年；Diablo 2的发布时间：2000年 当然我觉得这个游戏去和暗黑做对比，那简直就是一种侮辱

Well I mostly bought this game because i played an early demo of it as a kid, now years later with a job and remembering the name I seen on the demo screen, I was able to get this cheaper than when it was released plus now it's good enough for low end spec pc, which for now i have a stinking all in 1 pc and the cpu kinda sucks since it's .60 less than 2.0 ghz but yet it has 2 cpu proccessors and 1 core on each... but anyways coming back to it and seeing harsh reviews, I thought to give it my honest and truthful opinion about this game. This game's graphic aren't too bad it's more slightly updated than Fate series graphic (but the Fate series is still a childhood good classic to me), and the mouse controls i had to get used to again but after 2 hours you'll get used to it and doing pretty darn good... but warning if you go to the big picture mode it'll shift the save game folder directory from c:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/Steamapps/common/Hazen: The Dark Whispers/Profiles (where it originally saves at) to c:/Users/(your user)/Documents/Hazen for who knows what reason it took me hours to figure it out because i'm not used to games saving in documents it's alsoways in appdata roaming, appdata local, or where the game is installed and stored at. Also there is a story mode if your iq is high enough to figure out at the start of the game... the story just starts when you talk to the first villager (small story but a story).

Win7 64bit start problem solution: Start menu > Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Sound > Double-click on primary playback device > Advanced tab > Set format to 24-bit 44.1khz or 48khz