Got this yesterday and played it for around 2hrs, my impressions of it so far is it's a pretty decent action RPG with gameplay that reminds me a little of the PSO series.
The story seems like it could be interesting, the intro basically involves an Emperor called Balor who is advised of a prophecy seen by his Chancellor Zofor that he will die at the hands of a Grandson, Balor then orders his heavily pregnant Daughter and his son Prince Lugh and his child (Areus) to be killed.
Theres a bit more that happens after that but you basically play the game as Prince Lugh's half human half elf son Areus. The game doesn't give much away after that, the early part of the game involves Areus taking part in an arena as a Gladiator with not much explanation of why he's ended up there.
Gameplay as mentioned is an action RPG which involves the usual levelling up, upgrading weapons and skills, spells armour, finding rare item drops etc. You eventually get to control 3 characters and can switch between each one, they all have their advantages/disadvantages and certain characters are needed to tackle different sections of the game as certain parts of dungeons, forests etc are out of reach until you have the necessary skills or characters in your party.
The world is an overhead map and you navigate between towns and areas, each town has a Guild, Bar, Shop, Mages Shop and it's presented in a similar way to games like Wizardry and some of the Shining series in that you don't actually walk round a town, your just given menus to navigate. You can visit the Bar's to pick up tips from the locals and hear about quests and the Guild is where you pick up your various jobs ranging from simple fetch quest to defeating bosses.
Combat is an hack and slash affair, again not too dissimilar to PSO. It does have some good ideas though being able to effect your environment like smashing rocks and pillars down onto enemies, setting tumbleweeds on fire and rolling them into a crowd of enemies and freezing lakes, you can also team up to perform Trinity attacks at certain points.
From the few bosses and larger enemies i've fought, at certain points they are open to more damage, usually when you've dodged an attack, you then get an indicator giving a small amount of time to give out more damage, you can also stun them if you do enough, giving you more opportunity to deal out some extra which adds to the strategy element.
Graphically it's nothing amazing but is otherwise decent with some nice lighting effects and a canvas filter which gives a nice painting look to it, music has also been really good so far and it has a decent amount of humour. So yeah quite liking what i've played so far, barely scratched the surface but what i've played feels like a good old fashioned action rpg so looking forward to playing some more.
The story seems like it could be interesting, the intro basically involves an Emperor called Balor who is advised of a prophecy seen by his Chancellor Zofor that he will die at the hands of a Grandson, Balor then orders his heavily pregnant Daughter and his son Prince Lugh and his child (Areus) to be killed.
Theres a bit more that happens after that but you basically play the game as Prince Lugh's half human half elf son Areus. The game doesn't give much away after that, the early part of the game involves Areus taking part in an arena as a Gladiator with not much explanation of why he's ended up there.
Gameplay as mentioned is an action RPG which involves the usual levelling up, upgrading weapons and skills, spells armour, finding rare item drops etc. You eventually get to control 3 characters and can switch between each one, they all have their advantages/disadvantages and certain characters are needed to tackle different sections of the game as certain parts of dungeons, forests etc are out of reach until you have the necessary skills or characters in your party.
The world is an overhead map and you navigate between towns and areas, each town has a Guild, Bar, Shop, Mages Shop and it's presented in a similar way to games like Wizardry and some of the Shining series in that you don't actually walk round a town, your just given menus to navigate. You can visit the Bar's to pick up tips from the locals and hear about quests and the Guild is where you pick up your various jobs ranging from simple fetch quest to defeating bosses.
Combat is an hack and slash affair, again not too dissimilar to PSO. It does have some good ideas though being able to effect your environment like smashing rocks and pillars down onto enemies, setting tumbleweeds on fire and rolling them into a crowd of enemies and freezing lakes, you can also team up to perform Trinity attacks at certain points.
From the few bosses and larger enemies i've fought, at certain points they are open to more damage, usually when you've dodged an attack, you then get an indicator giving a small amount of time to give out more damage, you can also stun them if you do enough, giving you more opportunity to deal out some extra which adds to the strategy element.
Graphically it's nothing amazing but is otherwise decent with some nice lighting effects and a canvas filter which gives a nice painting look to it, music has also been really good so far and it has a decent amount of humour. So yeah quite liking what i've played so far, barely scratched the surface but what i've played feels like a good old fashioned action rpg so looking forward to playing some more.
, only just managed to complete the first chapter, took almost 10hrs, judging by the trophy list i've another 4 to go so it's definately got some longevity. 
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