Eschalon, Balrum and Spiderweb games are exactly the games I won't support for obvious reasons. I don't like the art style and they are DD only games.
I sincerly like the art style of Demons Age and it is released in a box - what is there to not understand?
What art style? I played in 4K resolution and it had brilliant art like frog creatures that have the same texture, color and all, as the ground they were hopping over. Great way to save money, time and effort, but a good art style that does not make.
And the totally synchronous rowers on the slave ship in the beginning, all of which looked exactly the same (and these were supposed to be main characters you were going to play the game as), brilliant. Exquisite, even.
Now let me opine about the wonderful gameplay. Combat, where you have 1 choice to make - Attack. And the enemies have the same choice - Attack. And if that wasn't enough, everything is delayed, like the engine can't even get the damn thing moving properly. You get a slow ass Enemy Turn message. Then the slow ass enemy takes their time to stand there and attack, probably missing you. Then, you get another slow ass Player Turn message. It might take you 6 or 7 rounds of this BS to kill the first creature you encounter, on "Normal" difficulty. It's absurd.
And that "real-time exploration"? You're wasting your "real time" with it. The starting area is about the size of Shaquille O'Neal's shoebox. This random guy who's supposed to be patrolling the area tells you all about how you have to go to this town if you want to earn your freedom from slavery, and whaddya know, the entrance to these weird sewers to get there is right behind him. Oh, there is one thing to find on that screen, a chest that is 10 meters to the north. It might have literally nothing in it. No, seriously, nothing. Or you might pull a sweet 3 gold, or some boring ass loot. Did I mention I found repeating boring ass loot in the first few chests alone? And great text descriptions for them, like "This makes me stronger, and you…deader." Complete with syntax and grammatical errors to boot. Lovely, really.
Story? Be prepared for the slowest voice acting you've ever heard in your life. Like the combat, it lags, in that it seems like the voice actors are continuously waiting for their queue to speak. Then, it's slow speaking. And not interesting. With no options in dialogue whatsoever, except apparently, "Skip", and "Skip All". Oohwee! I wonder what happens when I Skip All! Let me skip all this game.
It's released in a box? That is one of your reasons for supporting this? Well, I'd be very, very careful. I'm not sure if anyone will ever see those boxes. Find something else in a box. I'm sure there's other RPGs that come in boxes.
