Cranioclast
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- Mar 5, 2010
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I was planning on playing an entirely different game but I can't find the vore fetish Diablo clone anymore. I know the refined tastebuds of fair Codexia would have loved that game.
Feel free to fling complaints and suggestions, and if something irritates you to a no end feel free to send me some furry smut. I'll take note and act appropriately.
Video of the intro:youtube
First thing to do is character creation.
As usual there are multiple races with differing stats. Humans are pretty much the same average race as always. Bionecrons are made of organic metal, good stats, but somewhat vulnerable to psi-powers. Cyberns have good physical stats but they are mental cripples. Symbions are a mix between humans and bionecrons. Khymeras are mixed humans who are statwise stronger in some areas. They also utilise special skills like night-sight and hypnotic gaze. (If only they had use outside of the manual)
Three mage, three fighter classes. Random codexers act as the chosen ones, ready to save the world.
Naturally the first character to be made is a white pedigree male with strenghtened bone structure.
Nomask takes care of armed combat as a cybern assasin.
ScottishMartialArts serves as the teams anchorite healing & damaging enemy forces.
When rolling characters you are asked about the characters morality. It affects stat rolls, mainly on classes which get to choose what entity they worship depending on their morality class. (Entity gives stat bonuses to certain stats.)
Mangoose is a bionecron knight.
The characters have plenty of different stats which could be nice if they saw more use.
Lockkaliber is a symbion psionic.
And the last one. A bionecron mercenary.
Moving around happens on the map screen and when you get to some point of interest, like the city of MidLight, the view switches to very barebones 3D-screen.
That round indicator on the left side of the UI tells if there's anything interesting nearby. Handy because items of interest pop up only when you are at the correct spot.
The first character I meet is this fellow here.
In the future everything related to talking happens through a computer with a bad interface. MS-DOS is user-friendly compared to this thing.
Asking about "NetCode" reveals more information.
It's not needed to log in to those two networks,INDIGO and GLOBAL but since I can show off the map I'll do so.
That is one of the readable files on Indigo network. Every action you take in networks, outside of personal, costs credits, be it using dir to see the available files or reading the files. Downloading costs the most so naturally it's best to use it sparely. Also some files are restricted so you can't view them.
This is the map. Might look decent, until you realize that the maps are absolutely empty except for a few phrases and points of interest. Added bonus is that you pretty much have to go through the points of interest in linear order. I don't think the man you will be seeing shortly is around until you speak to the cybern... Anyway the 3D-section is very badly done overall. It should have been either completely scrapped or done proberly. Now it's just dull walk from one empty corner to the next one.
Moving on to find that person that man mentioned. When you meet up with him this text displays:
Talking only makes us listen to some whining so let's ask about the netcode.
The manual gives a subtle hint about this netcode. It has this fill in the blank space and it reveals the code: "Norman Bates is a ____ "
Here are two reports available in the psycho network.
Time to move on through the empty streets. Eventually I see a girl with a baby and this text displays:
I select the pendant in the inventory and use it on the baby to get this message:
Soon it's time for the first fight so I'll be telling a little about the magic system.
The magic system is one of the more annoying copy protections I have seen in a older game. The manual gives you a precise list of runes you need to input to get a desired spell. Naturally it gives no mention of what a spell does or what class can use it.
I give all the mages some spells. Intelligence affects how many spells you can store in your characters memory. In every spell you input you can choose if the spell either a blast, cone, field, etc. That choice affects the range and casting cost of the spell among with the radius that the spell affects. Blast for example targets one character in longer distance. Cone is shorter range but three different characters can be aimed at, and a field is multiple grids.
Moving further I meet the first threat my party will face.
As can be seen the combat resembles goldbox games, although the window shows too little as the graphics are too large. It would be better if it showed a larger area instead of the miniscule one which makes simple tasks, like aiming, more strenuous. The other problem is that those statbars are a little unclear in combat, if you want more detailed information you need to go to another screen.
I thought I had better pictures of this encounter but I found out that was not the case.
The fight was for the most part uneventful. Nomask took the largest beating which suited me fine as then no character was in danger of dying.
There's no spell that can bring dead characters to live and wounds can quickly kill off characters if they are left untreated.
The game doesn't have any levels, instead the stats go up as they are used.
During the battle Dicksmoker couldn't take the heat and collapsed. Luckily the enemies that were still standing died shortly after and the party emerged victorious.
The enemies dropped a key that let me progress further and open a locked door.
I log in to the Asylum network and find this message:
Since I was a lazy bastard the full file is continued in these images.
I download the permission.
Now the city is meaningless and the party can safely forget it ever existed and go on to the next location.
Feel free to fling complaints and suggestions, and if something irritates you to a no end feel free to send me some furry smut. I'll take note and act appropriately.
Video of the intro:youtube
First thing to do is character creation.
As usual there are multiple races with differing stats. Humans are pretty much the same average race as always. Bionecrons are made of organic metal, good stats, but somewhat vulnerable to psi-powers. Cyberns have good physical stats but they are mental cripples. Symbions are a mix between humans and bionecrons. Khymeras are mixed humans who are statwise stronger in some areas. They also utilise special skills like night-sight and hypnotic gaze. (If only they had use outside of the manual)
Three mage, three fighter classes. Random codexers act as the chosen ones, ready to save the world.
Naturally the first character to be made is a white pedigree male with strenghtened bone structure.
Nomask takes care of armed combat as a cybern assasin.
ScottishMartialArts serves as the teams anchorite healing & damaging enemy forces.
When rolling characters you are asked about the characters morality. It affects stat rolls, mainly on classes which get to choose what entity they worship depending on their morality class. (Entity gives stat bonuses to certain stats.)
Mangoose is a bionecron knight.
The characters have plenty of different stats which could be nice if they saw more use.
Lockkaliber is a symbion psionic.
And the last one. A bionecron mercenary.
Using the computer network and typing in "dir", I find out that I have a file named .farewell. Reading it reveals this message:
Moving around happens on the map screen and when you get to some point of interest, like the city of MidLight, the view switches to very barebones 3D-screen.
That round indicator on the left side of the UI tells if there's anything interesting nearby. Handy because items of interest pop up only when you are at the correct spot.
The first character I meet is this fellow here.
In the future everything related to talking happens through a computer with a bad interface. MS-DOS is user-friendly compared to this thing.
Asking about "NetCode" reveals more information.
It's not needed to log in to those two networks,INDIGO and GLOBAL but since I can show off the map I'll do so.
That is one of the readable files on Indigo network. Every action you take in networks, outside of personal, costs credits, be it using dir to see the available files or reading the files. Downloading costs the most so naturally it's best to use it sparely. Also some files are restricted so you can't view them.
This is the map. Might look decent, until you realize that the maps are absolutely empty except for a few phrases and points of interest. Added bonus is that you pretty much have to go through the points of interest in linear order. I don't think the man you will be seeing shortly is around until you speak to the cybern... Anyway the 3D-section is very badly done overall. It should have been either completely scrapped or done proberly. Now it's just dull walk from one empty corner to the next one.
Moving on to find that person that man mentioned. When you meet up with him this text displays:
Talking only makes us listen to some whining so let's ask about the netcode.
The manual gives a subtle hint about this netcode. It has this fill in the blank space and it reveals the code: "Norman Bates is a ____ "
Here are two reports available in the psycho network.
Time to move on through the empty streets. Eventually I see a girl with a baby and this text displays:
I select the pendant in the inventory and use it on the baby to get this message:
Soon it's time for the first fight so I'll be telling a little about the magic system.
The magic system is one of the more annoying copy protections I have seen in a older game. The manual gives you a precise list of runes you need to input to get a desired spell. Naturally it gives no mention of what a spell does or what class can use it.
I give all the mages some spells. Intelligence affects how many spells you can store in your characters memory. In every spell you input you can choose if the spell either a blast, cone, field, etc. That choice affects the range and casting cost of the spell among with the radius that the spell affects. Blast for example targets one character in longer distance. Cone is shorter range but three different characters can be aimed at, and a field is multiple grids.
Moving further I meet the first threat my party will face.
You are supposed to be able to scan enemies but I haven't seen where it actually works.
As can be seen the combat resembles goldbox games, although the window shows too little as the graphics are too large. It would be better if it showed a larger area instead of the miniscule one which makes simple tasks, like aiming, more strenuous. The other problem is that those statbars are a little unclear in combat, if you want more detailed information you need to go to another screen.
I thought I had better pictures of this encounter but I found out that was not the case.
The fight was for the most part uneventful. Nomask took the largest beating which suited me fine as then no character was in danger of dying.
There's no spell that can bring dead characters to live and wounds can quickly kill off characters if they are left untreated.
The game doesn't have any levels, instead the stats go up as they are used.
During the battle Dicksmoker couldn't take the heat and collapsed. Luckily the enemies that were still standing died shortly after and the party emerged victorious.
The enemies dropped a key that let me progress further and open a locked door.
I log in to the Asylum network and find this message:
Since I was a lazy bastard the full file is continued in these images.
I download the permission.
Now the city is meaningless and the party can safely forget it ever existed and go on to the next location.
