Kingdom of Night

There's a lot here that initially really grabbed my interest. The storyline is weird but good and engaging as far as the typical "save the girl, save the world," style quests go. The characters have some personality, and the world building is pretty good. Even the large maps are compelling at first, but the game wastes no time in becoming this mindless slog of monotonous combat and maze like locations that take forever to navigate. Sure, you can do quasi-fast travel via certain places.. But navigating the game just feels like this incredibly long and boring process where you go from point A to point B doing absolutely nothing but run in a direction. If you don't have stat boosts to movement it's absurdly slow going. Combat is really cool in the beginning. I went with the Sorcerer class, and initially I loved it. You cast magic based on combo button presses, which rewards you for memorizing spells and their cooldown times. But everything is unlocked as soon as you choose it. So there's there's nothing to learn aside from the combos. You level up and get one stat point which you can use to increase the various attributes of Wit, Grit, and the other one. Strength maybe. Anyway, they don't go up otherwise unless you find trinkets that do it. I guess it is almost a strategic choice because it makes the process of improving your character pretty slow overall. And, then progress just starts to slow down. You earn experience by killing enemies, and completing quests. Quests are pretty rewarding, but combat is just this slow incremental process that just becomes a boring chore. So, once the combat starts to become this tiresome drag you're relying on the story to keep things afloat. But that's told with such large gaps that the only thing trying to keep things going is the combat. So unless you really love the combat here, the game just starts down this decline of unenjoyable shenanigans that doesn't let up. The boss fights feel a bit imbalanced. Nothing like encountering an enemy that has some quick ranged attacks that home to you and travel through walls. Winning that battle should have made me feel that special Battlefront 2 style of achievement or accomplishment. Whatever it was they said about that absurd battle pass nonsense. Point is, instead of feeling like I'd just accomplished something great I just didn't.. Not even a feeling where I was just glad to see that fight over. It felt more like a stroke of luck than any matter of skill. And it felt unfulfilling. The last thing I have to say is the sewer is monstrously large. It's enormous, it's boring, and you spend so much of the first hours in your game going through it that I just stopped caring about what might come after. Whatever lies at the end of the labyrinth of the sewer no longer has my interest, because I'm so tired of being in the sewer that I don't want to be in Miami, AZ ever again.

[h1]🤘Незабутня нічка🤘 [/h1] [b]Kingdom of Night[/b] - це буквально суміш [b]Stranger Things[/b] та олдскульного RPG-вайбу, яка залетіла мені максимально кайфово. Пройшов майже на одному диханні! По сюжету тут класика: настав кінець світу, і вся ця пекельна каша має розрулитися буквально за одну ніч. Наш головний герой опиняється в епіцентрі з купою демонів і тонною квестів [b]Що прям дуже порадувало:[/b] [list] [*]Бойовка - це топ. Коли починаєш комбінувати скіли, чисто ловиш флешбеки і відчуваєш себе Інвокером з Доти [u] (рекомендую брати саме чаклуна, бо я грав за некроманта, що теж ок, але чаклун може перетворятись у орла і швидко відкривати мапу)[/u] [*]Однокласники!! Реально порадували - всі абсолютно різні, живі, і кожен має свою унікальну особливість (дехто супер адеватний, а дехто галімий лох) [*]Повага до часу геймера. У гри купа різних кінцівок, але розробники не змушують тебе перепроходити все це діло 6 разів. Спокійно завантажуєш попередній сейв і дивишся інші фінали [/list] [b]Але без душноти не обійшлося:[/b] [list] [*]Напівпорожня мапа. Світ реально величезний, але деякі шматки локацій тупо порожні. Там немає жодних квестів чи цікавих NPC - просто бігаєш і зачищаєш пачки монстрів... [*]Деякі квести відверто душили і буквально форсили тебе робити речі, яких у реалі гг міг би спокійно уникнути, враховуючи весь арсенал його здібностей [/list] Загалом - гра мені дуже зайшла. Концентрований мікс ностальгії, крутої магії та демонів

Fun pixel action rpg adventure game with Stranger Things vibe. This is one of those games that once you pick it up, you have to try really hard to put it down. Only problem i had with this game is playing with a friend, the loot is not shared. Just whomever picks it up first.

This game looks like a no brainer to me : Diablo, Weird 80s Horror John Carpenter / Stranger Things vibe... But really, it's awful. I can't deny it is a work of love, but everything but the setting sucks. Combat is awful, boring and repetitive. UI is bad and nothing makes sense. Builds and Loot are unexciting... and worse of all, the game is EXTREMELY chatty. Like a lot. SO MUCH unskippable stuff I don't care about. Ho and you'll spend an awful amount of time running around empty maps trying to figure out what to do next, which I HATE in Hack'n Slash games. A large open world is only interesting if there are things to do in it. Not running around aimlessly. This game is a mess that doesn't know what it tries to achieve and sucks at everything. That's a real shame.

This game is the unholy lovechild of Baldur’s Gate 3 and Diablo that snuck out the back while Stranger Things was babysitting. Combat’s real-time, not turn-based, so quit clutching your dice. Tiny heads up on the controls: there’s a separate button to flip into Attack Mode and the targeting could use a touch of polish, but honestly after 20 minutes you’re used to it and you stop caring because the rest is just that good. Smashed the entire game in splitscreen co-op and got so hooked it should be a controlled substance. The graphics, music and levels are dripping with love, and this absolute banger from a small studio deserves way more eyes on it. Devs: make a DLC. Or let me build on this thing myself, I am begging you ;)

Really fun game! I ran through it on Easy and got all the achievements in under 20 hours. Would LOVE a New Game+ mode and the ability to get more keychains.

its okay, Iwas hoping for more story and less running around giant maps trying to figure out what to do. I think some people may like it a lot but I felt it was missing something and got bored.

好玩 全部任务完成 90探索，大概需要22小时左右 游戏就是一个中规中矩的开放世界动作角色扮演类游戏，游戏里面动作元素最大，其次是世界探索。包含了一点点的制作元素，一点点的剧情，能重置技能点，不过不同职业之间难度差别太大。 没有传统意义上的多结局，也没有暗线，地图有战争迷雾，但是可互动的物品和任务坐标什么的都有，不需要查攻略 如果你看中的是开放世界，探索，动作类的，可以考虑入手。如果你看中的是80年代，兄弟会，爱情这些，你要重新考虑一下了

Neat action-RPG game with pixel graphics, 80's suburban America setting with demons and zombies. Overall, I enjoyed the game in general. Positives: - Good and interesting characters - Good dialogue - Interesting story (starts cliched, then goes deeper than expected) - Good graphics and fine music - Also, nice length Negatives: - Most of the combat is pretty repetitive. Only played as a Paladin, had a very straightforward combat mechanics. - Some bosses are good, some are pretty easy and boring - A lot of backtracking - A lot of quality-of-life improvements are missing, weak inventory management, no comparison of items, difficult to track some quests. - Very few save slots (why there are save slot limits to start with)

Combat can be a bit repetitive but story, setting, and sound design are all awesome. Really enjoyed my time. Later 'bater.