Witchaven II: Blood Vengeance

Primeiramente, eu recomendo jogar usando o sourceport BuilldGDX que funciona com a maioria dos jogos da Build Engine que é o motor deste jogo. Ignore a contagem de tempo porque como usei o sourceport não contou tempo para a Steam. Como consequência eu não me lembro quanto tempo eu levei para completar o jogo porque joguei de maneira espaçada, durante vários dias. Esse jogo é melhor que o primeiro, principalmente em dois sentidos. + Maior variedade de inimigos. + Os mapas são muito mais intuitivos. A jogabilidade continua simples: utilize as diferentes poções e magias conforme a situação e massacre os inimigos trocando de armas quando elas vão degradando. Assim, como o primeiro é para quem gosta de jogos em primeira pessoa antigos. Compre os dois jogos em uma promoção, que irá se divertir.

Such a guilty pleasure! Such a clunky, clumsy, forgettable 90s farce! My favorite thing about this beloved nostalgic nightmare of mine is the sound effects. They will always deliver to my ears, especially the coughing death and the murmuring floating-Demon-Old-Hag rumblings. So glad to find it on Steam! This unfortunate attempt at a high-fantasy-melee-first-person-Doom-clone has the distinction of being released too early and being over-matched by Quake and Duke Nukem. In a strange way this game was a way I could make "Dungeons and Dragons" cool to so many of my more "popular" friends back in mid-adolescence. Discovering Witch Haven 2 in Electronics Boutique at Baybrook Mall back in the day was like finding Conan the Barbarian in the discount rack at a local Stop'n Go. This Game was 2nd tier back in the day and remains the bastard-child-Doom-wannabe of the Dungeons and Dragons variety with a touch of Robert E. Howard and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The horned helmets, the bizarre "Old Hag" animated mini-bosses, the bloody and graphic traps you could fall in. Don't bother with the Bow and Arrow, go for the two-handed sword whenever you can, because the physics SUCK! The gory sound effects are some of my favs in any post-Doom FPS. This game is a relic, a time capsule into an age of desperate software developers trying to replicate the success of those guys in Texas....

Can't believe this finally got a steam release! I used to play these two games endlessly when I was younger. Nostalgia overload!

昔のアクションRPGは、本当にアクションだったな。

Сразу скажу что игра с багами, порт хоть и неплохой, но с ощутимыми косяками - вылеты, зависания, не возможность открыть двери, которые должны открываться либо сами, либо под воздействием заклинания...это сильно портит ощущения. Но сама игра и вправду хороша - слэшер с заклятиями, которые стали кастоваться быстрее чем в первой части, и теперь они более востребованы. Игра стала напряженней и интенсивней, а также запутанней-карта уровня может быть небольшой, но вертикальная и с кучей ловушек и запутанных лазов. Игра напоминает Хэксен и Херетик на PS1-вообщем классика. Чтоб не потерять опыт и продвинуться по уровню, а портал на другой этап заблокирован багом, жми бэкспейс и вводи level(и номер раунда)1-15...Опыт и все вещи переносятся. Погружайся.

Way more difficult than the first game. I had the biggest difficulties in the first map and getting used to the new enemies, died a few times to find the needed power-ups. There are not many levels and this feels like an expansion pack to the first game with tougher enemies. Play only if you thought the first game was ok.

It’s ok, but it should’ve just been an expansion for the first game; same enemies, same weapons, same spells, same mechanics, same UI, same everything. Some enemies have been removed to make room for new ones, and aside from a new set of maps, the game also has a brand new soundtrack (Which is much worse than the previous one). Weapons can now be enchanted using special pools found throughout each map, adding increased damage and special effects, [strike]and Grondoval now drinks potions automatically upon taking lethal damage, which is a nice addition[/strike] (*This seems to be a BuildGDX feature). They’ve added gold and silver as item pickups, which originally gave me hope for some kind of in-game economy, but all they do is provide varying levels of XP. The indicators for poison and fire resistance have been removed, and although there is a text pop-up when active, this gets overwritten whenever you pick up an item, break a weapon, or use a long-lasting spell, so you won’t always be able to see it. Those are really all the changes there are. You start off with all of the upgrades you should’ve accrued by the end of the first game (No save-reading, cool as that would’ve been), and the minimal amount of character progression provided by XP gain only results in a minor health/damage boost. There is no tangible difference and you will likely hit max level before you’re even halfway through the story. Much like the first game, there are also five multiplayer maps which can be explored freely using BME’s Witchaven II Map Browser. The ISO file included in this release contains a promotional video for the cancelled game V For Victory 2: Pacific Campaign, which I can find literally no information about online, as well as a demo for Chronomaster. Once again, DOSBOX is installed twice, along with four seperate copies of the game, resulting in a program double the size of the first despite being significantly shorter and sharing many of the same assets. I also found this game to be much buggier than the first. It constantly drops frames, which often leads to inputs being eaten, and it crashed to desktop after almost every level transition. Some maps use a new kind of reflective water texture, which is a mirrored representation of everything on the screen including text overlays, and map thirteen in particular seems super broken, with sprites/textures getting more and more corrupt over time and bits of geometry randomly appearing within themselves like a non-euclidian nightmare. The final cutscene was also extremely choppy and seemed to be playing at half of the intended speed. That said, none of these issues are present when using BuildGDX, which brings me to my next point; This is NOT a source port. Like the first game, it runs in DOSBOX with an optional codebase enhancement and modern amenities. You can use the files included to run the game via BuildGDX, however there is no JF port for this entry to the series. I didn’t see the transparent surface issue that the first game had using this port, but my testing was minimal, so it may still be present. As pointed out in the discussions tab, it also does not seem to support text chat, which means that certain cheats are unavailable. Like the first game, you’ll need to extract the SMK files from the ISO if you want cutscenes, and save files will be incompatible between the two versions as BuildGDX uses the .sav format rather than the .dat/.map combination that the base game uses. I would recommend playing this way in order to avoid the aforementioned bugs.