PopeDragunov
October 20th, 2008, 09:39 AM
WARNING WALL OF FUCKING Text.
Has anyone else played it? I picked it up from a $5 bin at gamestop cause I always wanted an action-strategy-RPG and this kind of fits the bill.
Its pretty neat. You control this mage-guy, who pretty much fucks over his world and universe, and finds a new universe which is kind of like, a nexus to 6 gods.
The gods are all pretty predictable, there's a earth god who is friendly and for some reason looks like earthworm jim and is named James, the evil death god Charnel, Pyro the bitchy industrialist fire god, Persephone, the healy-natureslut, and Stratos, the windy guy who is an even bigger dick than Charnel.
Anyway, you work as a mercenary for the gods, and you immediately choose one to fight under. They give you a basic spell of attack, a speed spell, and a heal spell, and plop you down in a mission, which usually opposes one of the other gods. The camera is third person zoomed behind you, and you can zoom it out a bit but not a lot...
Anyway, you control this mage fellow. And he can summon creatures to fight. Your god gives you a melee unit, a flying unit, and a ranged unit. You have two things to make units: mana, and souls.
Mana regens in a fashion similar to TA:Kingdoms. You can grab manafonts around the map, build buildings on them, and tap into that mana and deny it to the enemy. Easy enough. To store the mana and increase your regen, you need these little humpty-dumpty lookin creatures. I usually keep 4 of them following me at any given time, and they make mana regen sexy. Unfortunately, they die rather easily, so keep them behind you at all times.
Now souls on the other hand are the most interesting mechanic. Every map in the game has a set amount of souls. If you start off with 8 souls, and you spend all 8, thats all you're gonna get. When a friendly unit dies, you have to run over and snag his soul back up and add it back into your soul pool or you can lose it. Blue souls are allies, and can be picked up. Red souls are enemy souls, and the enemy wizard can grab them and reuse them too. To deny them their souls, you need to cast a spell that summons a little crazy soul-stealer who takes his sweet ass time picking up the soul and running it back to your altar, which is your "base". Lose the altar, you die and thats it, fuck you, game over.
SO the game is this very liquid total-annihilations flow of "build units, rush enemy wizard, deny him his units, try and cap some souls, cast spells to fend them off, oh shit he's winning run away, oh shit im down to 2 souls, god damnit what the fuck time for alightning raid" kind of thing.
Each level you play after the first one gives you another tier of unit, another spell, etc. I dont know how many levels are in the game, but you can change gods each level. First level, I chose Charnel, and got some skeleton things, some spinny blade things, and an evil flying thing, along with some bug swarm dot. The level after than, I chose James, and got some big petra-stun bug thing, and an earth shield type spell. Then I switched to Pyro and got some sort of big fat dwarf fellow with a rifle as my tier II unit. All while keeping the other units.
If your wizard dies you are in spirit form and can still give orders and stuff, you just can't cast spells. You run back to your altar and rez up. Winning the map generally means doing a frenetic rush to the other dudes altar, killing him and his defending forces off, sacrificing a familiar at his altar and desecratin' the shit outta it, and killing him again to crumble it. Even if the bitch is across the map, once you start desecrating, they are hit with lightning and all sorts of nasty shit, so they're kinda forced to deal with the problem or they'd die anyway. Good times. Multiplayer is a blast, I bought another copy for a friend to play and we've just been destroying each other all night in a totally heterosexual manner.
It's a neat game, its fun to see how the game flows playing as another race, and I strongly urge anyone who is a fan of the strategy, or a fan of having fun, to pick the game up.
It's 2000, so its dated graphically, but the game is fucking rad.
Has anyone else played it? I picked it up from a $5 bin at gamestop cause I always wanted an action-strategy-RPG and this kind of fits the bill.
Its pretty neat. You control this mage-guy, who pretty much fucks over his world and universe, and finds a new universe which is kind of like, a nexus to 6 gods.
The gods are all pretty predictable, there's a earth god who is friendly and for some reason looks like earthworm jim and is named James, the evil death god Charnel, Pyro the bitchy industrialist fire god, Persephone, the healy-natureslut, and Stratos, the windy guy who is an even bigger dick than Charnel.
Anyway, you work as a mercenary for the gods, and you immediately choose one to fight under. They give you a basic spell of attack, a speed spell, and a heal spell, and plop you down in a mission, which usually opposes one of the other gods. The camera is third person zoomed behind you, and you can zoom it out a bit but not a lot...
Anyway, you control this mage fellow. And he can summon creatures to fight. Your god gives you a melee unit, a flying unit, and a ranged unit. You have two things to make units: mana, and souls.
Mana regens in a fashion similar to TA:Kingdoms. You can grab manafonts around the map, build buildings on them, and tap into that mana and deny it to the enemy. Easy enough. To store the mana and increase your regen, you need these little humpty-dumpty lookin creatures. I usually keep 4 of them following me at any given time, and they make mana regen sexy. Unfortunately, they die rather easily, so keep them behind you at all times.
Now souls on the other hand are the most interesting mechanic. Every map in the game has a set amount of souls. If you start off with 8 souls, and you spend all 8, thats all you're gonna get. When a friendly unit dies, you have to run over and snag his soul back up and add it back into your soul pool or you can lose it. Blue souls are allies, and can be picked up. Red souls are enemy souls, and the enemy wizard can grab them and reuse them too. To deny them their souls, you need to cast a spell that summons a little crazy soul-stealer who takes his sweet ass time picking up the soul and running it back to your altar, which is your "base". Lose the altar, you die and thats it, fuck you, game over.
SO the game is this very liquid total-annihilations flow of "build units, rush enemy wizard, deny him his units, try and cap some souls, cast spells to fend them off, oh shit he's winning run away, oh shit im down to 2 souls, god damnit what the fuck time for alightning raid" kind of thing.
Each level you play after the first one gives you another tier of unit, another spell, etc. I dont know how many levels are in the game, but you can change gods each level. First level, I chose Charnel, and got some skeleton things, some spinny blade things, and an evil flying thing, along with some bug swarm dot. The level after than, I chose James, and got some big petra-stun bug thing, and an earth shield type spell. Then I switched to Pyro and got some sort of big fat dwarf fellow with a rifle as my tier II unit. All while keeping the other units.
If your wizard dies you are in spirit form and can still give orders and stuff, you just can't cast spells. You run back to your altar and rez up. Winning the map generally means doing a frenetic rush to the other dudes altar, killing him and his defending forces off, sacrificing a familiar at his altar and desecratin' the shit outta it, and killing him again to crumble it. Even if the bitch is across the map, once you start desecrating, they are hit with lightning and all sorts of nasty shit, so they're kinda forced to deal with the problem or they'd die anyway. Good times. Multiplayer is a blast, I bought another copy for a friend to play and we've just been destroying each other all night in a totally heterosexual manner.
It's a neat game, its fun to see how the game flows playing as another race, and I strongly urge anyone who is a fan of the strategy, or a fan of having fun, to pick the game up.
It's 2000, so its dated graphically, but the game is fucking rad.