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Review: I haven't gotten back into my Dungeon Seige game yet since I started Throne of Darkness. Although it is not quite as easy to play as Dungeon Seige I enjoy it much more. As I am learning kenjutsu at my local dojo, I find the feudal Japanese setting and weapons much more interesting. It is even annoying in its realism - your weapons and armor have a durability factor and must be repaired or replaced frequently after battles. This rates near the top of my list of favorite video games of all time: along with Chrono Cross, Chrono Trigger, Dungeon Seige and Vanguard!
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Summary: I Enjoy Throne of Darkness more than Dungeon Seige
Review: I haven't gotten back into my Dungeon Seige game yet since I started Throne of Darkness. Although it is not quite as easy to play as Dungeon Seige I enjoy it much more. As I am learning kenjutsu at my local dojo, I find the feudal Japanese setting and weapons much more interesting. It is even annoying in its realism - your weapons and armor have a durability factor and must be repaired or replaced frequently after battles. This rates near the top of my list of favorite video games of all time: along with Chrono Cross, Chrono Trigger, Dungeon Seige and Vanguard!
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Summary: Fun, but very little replayability.
Review: I highly enjoyed this game, but found that little changed if you choose a different Dimayo to play after finishing the first game. Still, I had fun and for the price I paid for the game, you can't beat it.
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Summary: THIS GAME KICKS
Review: I just spend a lot of time with the demo version of this game and i am very impressed. at first i thought this was just a diablo clone set in feudal japan with a bunch of people following you around (not that that's bad), but this game is very ORIGINAL. the concept (story-wise) is at least. the gameplay is also very fun. you use tactical play calling to make "plays" basically setting formations that your people will loosley follow (meaning they chase people down and run away when theyre gonna die). the AI, music, and difficulty are good. The graphics are a little sub-diablo, but have a different art-type. the only knock with the demo is its very short and there are no saves. there will be saves in the final game. also, did anyone but me notice a bug where the portal in the shrine room wouldn't register?
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Summary: Throne of Darkness Rules!
Review: I love Throne of Darkness. Everything from the multiple tactical plays to the Japanese mythology setting makes this game the best of its kind. The single player options have tons of quests and amazing creatures I've never seen before. Once you find your Blacksmith and Priest this game takes on a whole other dimension. You donate items and weapons along the way to your Blacksmith and he will make even better weapons with the materials. The Blacksmith can also make hundreds of customizable weapons with different magical items you get along the way. The Priest on the other hand will grant you spells as you gain experience or donate magical items to him. Combat is very thought out where you control four of your seven possible samurai at once with very smart AI. Playing calling or tactic calling controls your non-active samurai. There is a tactic interface where set plays are also fully customizable. For instance you can set a character as a spell caster, ranged, aggressive, defensive, melee, and so on. Multiplayer is probably my favorite part about ToD. It's basically your king of the hill type of game play where you fight to kill the Dark Warlord first and then actually become him. You can also co-op with other castles to fight your way to the top or take over their castles and kill their Daimyo, which kicks them out of the game. I must warn you, this game is very addictive. The graphics and sounds are very well done in great detail and the game play is very fast paced. There is not a dull moment in this game. I highly suggest buying this game.
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Summary: Beta Tester that loves this Game!!!!!
Review: I was one of the lucky few that had the chance to Beta test the multiplayer the last couple of days, and this game is amazing, as I can't stop playing it. It is definately going to be a hit. The world is huge and rich with Japanese mythology, and the monsters come at you with realistic AI. Throne of Darkness is best game Sierra has put out since Half Life and I am buying it for sure.
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Summary: Captivating and unique character play - Visually stunning
Review: I've been playing role-playing computer games on and off for over twenty years - from the early days of Rogue up to the graphically intense dungeons of Diablo - and I'm very excited about the debut of Throne of Darkness. I've had the good fortune to spend some time with a prerelease version of the game and found it to be very captivating. They've created a wonderfully elaborate and rich visual world to explore, and the interface controlling a band of samurai adds an element of strategy that is very unique and creates a whole new way of thinking about the possibilities of battle and survival. Definitely looking forward to many, many hours of exploring the universe of Throne of Darkness and ultimately (hopefully) vanquishing the Dark Warlord.
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Summary: Multiplayer Mayhem
Review: If you enjoyed Diablo and Diablo II, then you're bound to love Throne of Darkness, an action/RPG with a backdrop in Japanese mythos. In the single-player game you control a party of up to 4 characters of different classes and rotate up to 7 different characters in and out of the party as you complete a series of linear quests. Controlling the four different characters can be challenging, but it's made easier by an interface that enables customization of the characters' behaviors in combat. Throne of Darkness shows marked similarities to the Diablo series (no wonder, since the designer also created the original Diablo), but the progression in the game is more quest based, and the action is often more hectic. One of the things I've noticed about the game is that, unlike Diablo, you don't spend a lot of your time hacking up easy opponents for profit and experience. The enemies you fight are all formidable. Sure, you can usually get past the low-level monsters with little difficulty, but unlike Diablo, you face a very real threat every time you enter combat. The gameplay is also challenging because you have to balance your party's experience acquisition. You have to give each member of the whole party some time in the action; otherwise, they do not level up and remain too weak to help out with the bosses and quest completion. The biggest challenge, I've found, is keeping characters alive and out of the Daimyo, where characters are sent to recover when they've died in combat. Active characters gain experience and progress in levels; others fall behind. The game boasts a hectic and exciting multiplayer component. You can play with up to 8 other people cooperating in the same house or competing against each other. When I played with one other person sharing one of the houses, our 7 characters were split between the two of us. You have the option of starting wherever you choose, and the game helpfully tells what level your characters should be to venture into the various game locations. If you and your partners work together, you can tackle much more difficult areas than recommended for your character levels, but if you stick with the game's recommendations, you'll find a nice progression. This game offers a fun single-player campaign and an exciting multiplayer component. I highly recommend it for any Diablo fans looking for something similar yet new. At its current price, Throne of Darkness is a real bargain.
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Summary: sweet 10 dollar game.
Review: not a lot of one-year old games that are 10 dollars are really any good. however Throne of Darkness is obviously an exception. graphics: my computer is an AMD K6-2 350 MHz with 184 megs of RAM and an integrated graphics chipset that uses 8 mb of my system memory. if that makes you sick, believe it or not, ToD runs on it, so the system requirements are quite low, thus resulting in some "OK" graphics, but from that overhead view, no one really is paying attention that the Swordsman's arm. and the 800x600 resolution is only OK. gameplay: gameplay is good after you find the priest and blacksmith. after you actually understand the system and all of the abbreviations of the item stats, then these guys are pretty cool. customizing armor and weapons with found items (usually from higher level enemies) is pretty cool and sacrificing old items for spell points lightens your load. you really gotta keep all of your characters (7 of them) on the same level. I have a level 25 ninja, and a level 2 wizard. and the spell system is a bit weird. my ninja has a level 15 spell that supposedly does i think like 175-200 earth damage but does nothing to some of the "bosses" of the mountain citadel (the last "level" i think) and also it gets really difficult in the last citadel, and because of my slow computer i keep crapping up in the place, but i can go to other places to level up. Sound: music is pretty good and the japanese yells are a bit funny. overall, buy it! its ten bucks, and if you don't like it, big deal. are you going to buy 10 candy bars instead? you will probably enjoy ToD much more!
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Summary: This game is damn cool...
Review: Okay, not only did they get me by the japanese setting alone, but once I got my Beta test CD in the mail and installed this game i was instantly blown away by the beautiful artwork that was put into this game... I still can't get over how pretty it is... Anyway, eye candy aside, the game plays pretty quickly and most battles are just a bloody mess... It took me a little while to get used to switching through all my Samurai during a battle to make sure they all cast the right defensive or offensive spells, and then it's a clicking i go!!! I love the death animations in this game... definitely lots of blood... The thing that really got me though, is once I had enough money I could take all of these monster parts and gems and such that I had been collecting, and totally customize all my weapons and armor!!! I can't believe how hardcore some of these things can be!!! Can you make a weapon in diablo that inflicts 4 kinds of elemental damage while draining health and mana from your enemies as well as boosting your character stats?!?!! And that's stuff I made before I was even 10th level!!!! Tons of monsters, more spells than I could ever use, plus the spell effects and sounds are great! I'm so stoked I'm helping out to make this a better game, but I tell you now this game's gonna rock!!!
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