Shieldwall Chronicles: Swords of the North

I love this game and the play style. I would have liked to see more campaigns added.

very fun

Los gráficos son buenos, pero estaría bien poder disponer de las unidades de los juegos de "Demons rise", que tenia personajes mas chulos, vistosos y más sexy. Por lo demás el juego es entretenido. Podría ser interesante que se pudiera jugar en mapas aleatorios con personajes y enemigos escogidos.

Good game. Played a little in normal then pretty much all in extreme. Fun to pass the time Finished the run today and it was ok.

its a solid RPG turn based game, simple and fun to play. I wish there was a little more to it. But for what it is. Its really not bad. So i am happy i purchased it.

I much prefered Demon's Rise - War for the Deep, one of the previous games of the developer. That one had literally twice as many classes (no, making a male and female declination with minor stats differences for each of the 15 classes does not count as making 30 classes total) and it let you go ham with your characters, with every single stat able to be increased through equipment. Shieldwall, probably in an balancing attempt, removed the ability to increase your number of attacks, your ability points and AP regen, and your movement range with equipment. I can understand the logic, but the end result is a really constrained-feeling character management where all I can do is make minor incremental upgrades to my stats to make my mediocre characters slightly less mediocre. The early game is incredibly tedious, because your characters' accuracy range from mediocre to pathetic, so you are constantly missing again and again. Also, hit chance cap at 95%, so even if you stack up accuracy increasing equipement, you can never guarantee a hit (it can also never go lower than 5%, so even speccing in defense doesn't mean you're safe from all harm). Really, it's just a slog. And once you get through that and finally manage to get your team to a somewhat-competent level... Well, you're left with a mediocre story and repetitive battles. No thank you.

It's a decent game but basic things were left out like being able to inventory with characters outside of the shop, not being able to train with different weapons, getting xp seems wierd as I can play a mission in extreme difficulty and kill three waves of monsters that take 2 hours or more to complete, then one that takes twenty minutes and you get nearly the same xp. No xp when you kill a mob only after end of mission. magic users seem very weak, and mobs keep items on battle field hidden to much, especially in bottleneck areas. Would be nice to see graphics of characters change when they get new gear/weapons. On the positive side,, The graphics are not cartoony, Game is fun, replayability.

You like turn based combat? You like a decent narrative? You like building a group and being able to change out members without losing gear/exp? You like to see your slain enemies bleeding out on the ground? You like to shop for the right combo of gear for max stats? Then look no further that SC: SotN!! Go 9 hours in thus far and I am enjoying the game very much. The graphics, the simple yet "can make you lose if not thought out correctly" strategy, the RPG aspects, and different group combinations are all addictive and fun to play! My 9 hours of play has been fun and enjoyable. Have I died? Yes! Total group wipes because I did some thing dumb like splitting up my group or some idiotic thing like that. But, it has been a blast so far. The one con I would say right now for me is that the NPC that is following me doesn't seem to level up or gain any gear that helps keep him alive past the first round! He charges in and gets one or two shot and he is toast! Moron! :) I would love to see him keep at least a similar pace of gear/level with my group so he doesn't end up being cannon fodder. Other than that, I cannot say I have found any other cons other than those stated in other reviews like spelling mistakes or the inability to read some of the popup tips when hovering over something. Would I recommend? YES! Yes, I would!

How not to make a good first impression: "ambiant" (ambient), "at any times" (time), "remainging" (remaining), "quiting" (quitting), "grants" (grant). That's from the options screen and the initial tutorial text. How not to make a good second impression: have a tutorial that explains what's on the screen, pointing occasionally to blank space instead of a UI element, but doesn't actually tell you how to move units or attack. This would be less of an issue if the mouse cursor changed to reflect which action would be performed when you click, e.g. most games change the cursor to a sword or an arrow when clicking results in a melee or ranged attack. I've played enough games like this to be able to guess what to do, but the tutorial told me about a bunch of things that aren't yet relevant (command points, complex game mode) instead of telling me how to play. (If somebody asks to do the tutorial, assume they need it.) Rounding third: when the tutorial tells you that there's a "quit" button in the pause menu, but it's not actually there during the tutorial. (That one's actually just sort of funny.) Bringing it on home: right-click to bring up info on a unit and get a poorly-formatted info dump that feels like debugger output. The only way I found to determine the range of the basic attack of my units is to pop that open and scan down the unevenly-spaced lines to find the number. Then I get to count hexes. Again, changing the mouse cursor could help with some of that. (I'm guessing this was a straight port from a mobile platform.) There are other weird things. I was mouse-hovering over the skill buttons to see what they did, and moved the camera position (WASD). The mouse cursor vanished and then reappeared in the middle of the screen. Every time I shift the camera I have to find the mouse again afterward. Sometimes when I click on one of my units it doesn't change focus. The game selection screen presents a collection of 24 buttons that say "in use" or "empty" with no other information (and they're all the same color, so in-use and empty sort of blend together visually); you have to click on them to get more information. Throughout the UI, the color and framing for buttons and panel headers is nearly identical, so I found myself trying to click on things that weren't actually buttons. Part of my problem here may be that I just finished playing King Arthur: Knight's Tale. It's not a AAA game or a contender for GotY, but the controls and UI presentation are so much cleaner than this. I played through the tutorial and tried the first couple of missions. The UI issues annoyed me enough that I gave up on it. I may come back to it someday, but I would recommend against it unless you have a high tolerance for poorly-executed UI.