KalosKagathos
Learned
I'm temporally interrupting my self-imposed exile to inform you that LoLS has finally appeared on European PSN. I grab the demo and run this thing.
Character creation is old-school. You pick a race/gender combo that decides the character's starting stats below which you can't go. Then you get a random number of stat points to freely allocate. This number can range from but a handful to tens of points. Want a lot of those? Prepare to spend half an hour rerolling. Each of 8 classes (Fighter, Mage, Priest, Thief, Bishop, Samurai, Lord, Ninja) has stat and alignment requirements the character has to meet to be able to select it. You aren't told what these requirements are because fuck you.
I'm dumped into a town. There's an inn where you can rest, a shop that sells equipment and items I'll perhaps be able to afford one day, a church that raises dead dudes, a guild that gives you quests, and a palace that doesn't do shit right now. I do some window shopping and stroll into a dungeon.
A dungeon floor is a 20x20 square grid. Passing the grid's border warps you to the opposite side. Gimmick tiles are in. I've already seen dark zones on the very first floor, and I'm going to assume that old favorites like forced telepoters will pop up later on. Most encounters are random, but some are placed by hand. The encounter frequency is relatively low. About the same as SMT II, I'd say.
The party is split into two rows, front and back, three dudes each. Back row can't attack or be attacked with melee weapons. You can't specify the target when attacking; single-target attacks will pick their target randomly. Spellcasting is Vancian: a character can only cast a fixed number of spells of any given level before needing to rest. Each character has his own inventory and can only use the items that were put there.
You can save whenever you want as long as you're not fighting something, but you only get one slot because fuck you.
10 minutes of explorations later, I encounter a hand-placed level 12 banshee (everyone's level 2 at that point) who uses some kind of wail attack and kills everyone. Instant GotY. I can only imagine the kinds of sweet, unwarranted punishment that mistress Wizardry has in stock for me.
What I'm getting at is that you should buy this game, wankers. It's only ten eurobucks.
In before Jaesun moving this thread to GG while running Skyrim in another window. Sneaky, hypocritical homo.
Character creation is old-school. You pick a race/gender combo that decides the character's starting stats below which you can't go. Then you get a random number of stat points to freely allocate. This number can range from but a handful to tens of points. Want a lot of those? Prepare to spend half an hour rerolling. Each of 8 classes (Fighter, Mage, Priest, Thief, Bishop, Samurai, Lord, Ninja) has stat and alignment requirements the character has to meet to be able to select it. You aren't told what these requirements are because fuck you.
I'm dumped into a town. There's an inn where you can rest, a shop that sells equipment and items I'll perhaps be able to afford one day, a church that raises dead dudes, a guild that gives you quests, and a palace that doesn't do shit right now. I do some window shopping and stroll into a dungeon.
A dungeon floor is a 20x20 square grid. Passing the grid's border warps you to the opposite side. Gimmick tiles are in. I've already seen dark zones on the very first floor, and I'm going to assume that old favorites like forced telepoters will pop up later on. Most encounters are random, but some are placed by hand. The encounter frequency is relatively low. About the same as SMT II, I'd say.
The party is split into two rows, front and back, three dudes each. Back row can't attack or be attacked with melee weapons. You can't specify the target when attacking; single-target attacks will pick their target randomly. Spellcasting is Vancian: a character can only cast a fixed number of spells of any given level before needing to rest. Each character has his own inventory and can only use the items that were put there.
You can save whenever you want as long as you're not fighting something, but you only get one slot because fuck you.
10 minutes of explorations later, I encounter a hand-placed level 12 banshee (everyone's level 2 at that point) who uses some kind of wail attack and kills everyone. Instant GotY. I can only imagine the kinds of sweet, unwarranted punishment that mistress Wizardry has in stock for me.
What I'm getting at is that you should buy this game, wankers. It's only ten eurobucks.
In before Jaesun moving this thread to GG while running Skyrim in another window. Sneaky, hypocritical homo.
