Yes.
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I just replayed this game to check a few things and played version 1.2 for the first time.
Firstly Xanna actually speaks less now than version 1.0 and 1.1, she also no longer speaks after points she should not, these are all VERY good things.
Next Leanna, to me the worst about her character skin, she actually does a reasonable job of voice acting as well with the role she has.
Problem is Arkaine made her look so blatantly over endowed, that it takes away from the little believability in the story and acting.
In regards to her popping up, I would only guess that it's intended that she is much stronger of a mage than she know or lets on, specifically once you restore the temple power.
To me this story was given to Arkaine, by UbiSoft, of course the story is very full of holes, nothing really makes any sense when you try to follow up any single path of storyline, clearly this story was thrown together for the real stars the combat and graphics, this really is HL2 with Swords and Magic.
Sure, I wanted an great RPG that Arkaine is capable of but as they said in an interview when they moved here to Austin (iirc);
"To make the game we want to make we need to work for other companies building up our resume." or something close.
In final regards to the score I still feel the system here is currently flawed, if the base RPGWatch members have problems with it or the scoring methods of this game, seems resonable it should be looked at more closely or overhauled.
Personally I had a lot of fun with this game even though it had many problems but clearly I was able to get value out of this, as I accepted it as a scripted First Person Melee and Magic game.
I could easily give this game a 80% score, the things that did work or almost work are very high quality, which in the end made the game fun for what it is a Medieval Scripted Action game.
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I just replayed this game to check a few things and played version 1.2 for the first time.
Firstly Xanna actually speaks less now than version 1.0 and 1.1, she also no longer speaks after points she should not, these are all VERY good things.
Next Leanna, to me the worst about her character skin, she actually does a reasonable job of voice acting as well with the role she has.
Problem is Arkaine made her look so blatantly over endowed, that it takes away from the little believability in the story and acting.
In regards to her popping up, I would only guess that it's intended that she is much stronger of a mage than she know or lets on, specifically once you restore the temple power.
To me this story was given to Arkaine, by UbiSoft, of course the story is very full of holes, nothing really makes any sense when you try to follow up any single path of storyline, clearly this story was thrown together for the real stars the combat and graphics, this really is HL2 with Swords and Magic.
Sure, I wanted an great RPG that Arkaine is capable of but as they said in an interview when they moved here to Austin (iirc);
"To make the game we want to make we need to work for other companies building up our resume." or something close.
In final regards to the score I still feel the system here is currently flawed, if the base RPGWatch members have problems with it or the scoring methods of this game, seems resonable it should be looked at more closely or overhauled.
Personally I had a lot of fun with this game even though it had many problems but clearly I was able to get value out of this, as I accepted it as a scripted First Person Melee and Magic game.
I could easily give this game a 80% score, the things that did work or almost work are very high quality, which in the end made the game fun for what it is a Medieval Scripted Action game.
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