Honestly... It's one of those moments when I am hugely disappointed... The game itself is outright unpolished, broken, buggy and filled with issues, be it graphical or gameplay wise.

Starting off with the Story, I have nothing to complain about, a more or less fully voice acted campaign and NPCs give the game a few bonus points in my book, the story telling itself and the story are not bad either! The story is nothing special either though, it's a historical based game with a few twists of its own obviously... So there are a few cliches like the emperor/advisor/someone wanting to kill the main character in the arena by poison, cheating or anything of that sort (Gladiator anyone ?). But even though the story itself isn't that bad, there is one huge issue and that's YOU lol.

Let me explain, your character is outright bland with nothing to him, you as a player have no interest or reason to continue because you are provided with no reasons at all to actually go through the grind.

Now unfrotunately for all of us out there who like a quality RPG, this definitely does not fall under that category... Lets start with the worst of the worst...

This game looks like it was made in 2006 back when TES:Oblivion looked like a masterpiece and if this game was released back then it would probably fall under the bottom half in terms of quality, that's how bad it is...

Main menu is basically non existant, ESC button can sometimes glitch the menu, if you open the options screen sometimes it doesnt close down even after you click on ESC again so you have to do a lot of attempts to get it to close. The textures (be it the characters or the maps or everything in general) look outright horrible, pixelated and clippy. By "clippy" I mean you can see the textures overlapping with each other, one going over the other like in the stairs, columns etc... And I am running the game on the highest settings it's allowing me to put. And while I am at it let me explain the "allowing me" part, the options will not the texture quality setting no matter what you do, you can put it to the lowest or highest settings, click save and it will still remain no matter what you do.

And it doesn't stop there... Animations are a catastrophy, when the character walks then stops it feels like I just hit a brick wall, the animations also glitch from time to time but more on that in the gameplay section. The part that really turned me off was the loading screen at the start of the game, it was extremely pixelated then after a few seconds a new loading screen pops up with better textures, only to end up seeing a very outdated and pixelated main menu which wouldn't even count as a main menu.

Sigh... With that out of my chest, here's the worst part, the gameplay... Boy oh boy where do I start. The grindy nature of the game? The uninspiring RPG mechanics? The enemies? The Maps?

Let me be straight forward, all of them are outright bad. Game is extremely grindy, where you will keep doing the same thing over and over and over again until you just end up hoping you have an "auto" button like there are in mobile games, because that's exactly how this game feels like, and no offense to the devs... The mobile game equivelant of this is way better and trust me I play a lot on my phone with roughly 8-10 Gb of games on it.

What you will be doing the whole game is walk around kill the same boring enemies with their glitchy animations over and over again, the loot system is outright boring, you don't feel like you gained anything special when you get a legendary item or any item for that matter. The armors more or less look the same, the weapons are nothing special and with very little variety. There is no skill tree, it's more of a "weapon based" skill tree like it is in Victor Vran(1000 light years away from that polish though) where you have to keep grinding enemies in order to unlock the 4 skills the weapon allows you to use.

All the animations for the weapons, combos and pretty much everything are bad... When you knock down enemies, more often than not you will find them simply just glitching there, standing and then suddenly start to move... When you case your weapon's skills it feels outright boring, with no flair or anything interesting. And to make things worse, the stamina management in this game is outright broken.

The stamina bar is basically infinite, it recharges so fast you just don't really care what you're spamming, at some point in time you will come close to depleting it, but literally one second of waiting is enough to bring it almost to full again. So the stamina bar is outright pointless, so you'd think they would balance it out with the CD (Cool Down) on the skills, nope... Barely any CD on them.

What's worse the map makes absolutely no sense, there's no indicator where your main objective is, this game is not an open world title... So an objective indicator and what the player is supposed to achieve must always be there.

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I honestly don't know what else to say, I could go on about the issues in the game, but you basically get the idea... And what REALLY made me sad is that it felt EXACTLY like a cheap mobile game that (for some reason) costs 5$ when I could play better on my phone for free without paying a penny (and yes it would have an actual story ex. Devilian) and it would both look and play better.

- VERDICT - 1/10 - Outright Horrible Game


Story - 4/10 - Definitely not the worst out there, nor the best either... However it has nothing truly interesting going on but by no means is it bad.

Visuals, Design and Graphics - 0/10 - Outright horrible, bad on every single aspect. The voice acting tries to save it, but you barely even talk to people to notice the game even had voice acting (except for the commanding officer , maybe a few shops and the obvious cutscenes).

Gameplay - 0/10 - no depth, glitchy, unresponsive, grindy and boring...

And I can't believe what I am about to do... Sigh... What this game should aspire to become is Sacred 3, there I said it. Sacred 3 which holds the title as one of the worst RPGs to ever hit the PC in this decade is what this game should be aiming for.