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I'm surprised that somebody outside Russia knows about Konung series. Did you know there is also Konung 3? Among these, the first part is the best. I kinda fail to see what is Shadow Watch doing there, since it's not an RPG at all - it's a squad-based tactical combat sim. If you're into some mixed genres, why not try Disciples 2? It has absolutely great story, soundtrack and overall atmosphere - the one to match Dragonfall.
I had seen the first two Konung games listed in Wikipedia before as being Infinity Engine games. Do you have any idea whether that is correct or not? If so would be cool to try the bastard stepbrother to the well known IE games
Bullshit. They have nothing to do with infinity engine. If they do, then fuck me - us russians can really fuck it up.
All three games are actually in their own genre, some fucker in old gaming press called it "russian rpg". We have jRPG subgenre and half of the wordld likes it. And then we have rRPG and nobody knows about that. Ok. So. Konung series are three games, which have only a slight plot connection, but you can pretty much play any of these in any order. Not that it would make any difference - the games are pretty similiar. Different playable chars, different maps, different quests and a couple of new features in part 3, like "global map stategy" and "open world attempt". What you may or may not find cool/dissapointing about these games:
1. They are all soaking in slavic atmospehere and folklore. Man, now I REALLY want to play it in english. I can't wait to see how the poor guys translated all those smart-ass dialogues. And yes, you'll only fight "rusalka's", "vodyanoy's", "leshiy's" and other hard to pronounce bullshit - enjoy yer russian national monsters.
2. Char building is pretty decent, actually. It's relatively easy to bump yuorself up at the start, but gets extremely hard as you go. So you gotta decide the playstyle from the start. Wanna be a mighty-wariiror-type of Konung (which means "leader" or "ruler" - well the closest definition I can come up with. It's actually called "Knyaz" in russian, and so is the game) - bump yer pshisical atts. Wanna be a cool leader of men and take 6-8 druzhina with you? Bump yer charisma and leadership.
3. The whole game is about alchemy. Not like Withcer - even worse. You simply CANNOT complete this shit without making and popping potions. Healing, poison, experience, oil for arrows - gotta make them all! So don't throw away those empty flasks of yours.
4. Want some magic? Fuck you.
5. Want some easy mod? Fuck you. It's not just difficulty daggers - the game will fuck you right from the start and continiue on the whole time. Either you find grindspots - which aren't many or you make saome hardcore alchemy, waiting for ingridients to regrow, gathering and mixing them again and again, etc. Some chars are more easy to play, coz they all start from different spots and in different conditions. You can choose a village Konung - something like a village elde, having a small army besides you. Or you can go hardcore and play the hardest guys possible. Like the mongolian (can't remember who he was exactcly) guy in Konung 3, who starts naked and imprisoned in enemy town prison. Good luck escaping from that. It's not like prison in Oblivion, you know - you will ragequit countless times before you' ll figure it out.
But all this info will be probably useless to you. Coz how can you possibly find this game? You can't like BUY it anywhere today, right? Especially english version, which I didn't even know exists. Yeah, the russian one is still out there on russian torrents, but how can you possibly run it on modern windows? You know what, I actually have all three on old CD's. I'll try them out on Win8 and tell you if it worked our. Besides, a fucking nostalgia striked me just now. These were nice games, actually.
