Excerpt: "Once the first battle happened, everything is a close, in-your-face type of fight. There are three bars to watch over when in active combat. The red bar is your health, or as they call it: vitality. The green bar is for stamina, which controls how much you can run or throw daggers/knives and will regenerate over time. Lastly, the blue bar is your essence for casting spells known as blood magic. Essence can be earned back from combat, spells, or medicine (which is a talent).
When in combat, combos are essential to earning essence back as a way to keep the momentum going during combat, if you can pull it off. Hotkeys are available for quick spells and inventory items it looks like. Spells allow you to buff yourself to resist damage. When casting spells, there’s a spotlight that shows, giving you an idea of the AOE and where it’s being placed at any given time."
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Demonicon – The Dark Eye takes you back to the dark, gritty universe of The Dark Eye. It plunges you into a foreboding tale where every decision you make has a major impact on the world and the people around you. You are given full control over every conversation, allowing you to shape your own destiny anyway you see fit.
Having played the game I have to disagree with this review strongly, especially scoring it a 5/5 for graphics! Did you not see the facial animations? The combat animations? The lack of detail? The empty, lifeless environments?
"multiple endings." It has two.
The review says choices can effect the outcome of the game. Again, not really. There's two endings, and the majority of your choices just amount to a few different lines of dialogue.
Combat is clumsy and revolves almost entirely around button mashing.
In most cases I respect opinions, but in this instance I'm finding it hard to see how anyone could award the game a 4 out of 5 when it has so many glaring flaws and problems.
Demonicon is a frustrating beast. Some great and innovative RPG customisation and story arcs occur amongst very uninspired quests and combat dynamics. Very much giving with one hand and disappointing with another, Demonicon does well in presenting a competent RPG adventure but falls short on areas where it matters the most.
