Achilles: Legends Untold Review (NightLizard)
Finally a good Greek game...after ages
Short summary
Well, i played the game on Heroic to see how it would unfolds... gameplay is somewhat easy/fair, if you press the right buttons its easy, if you try to simple be brave you're gonna suffer HAHAHAH. I thought performance would be worse for an Early access, but most of the time it had stable 120fps. Boss fights after the tutorial and some enemies are pretty cool and nice to learn the patterns. I believe this game and alaloth tried to blend Dark souls with isometric camera, this game i had a bit more fun than alaloth, so whoever is reading this, as i`ve played both, this one is a better choice, as of right now. Lastly
this game was sold for a honest price in my region which is rare these days, so i got it to support the devs too due to respecting regional prices :D.
Gameplay+pros
(Important note: i played with control...keyboard felt weird)
-Cinematics cutscenes for an indie game
- The dub of the game i found decent, personally i enjoyed Hades, but didnt liked achilles personality he doesnt sound that much of a hero....BUT HEAR ME OUT. The game let you decide between kill and spare certain bosses...i believe would be super cool if sparing people made his personality becomer more smoother in the later game, Like the honour system of red dead......
-You have some varieties of weapons
-Decent animations of weapons,equips,potions,item usages
-The skill tree reminds me a lot of grim dawn also its pretty and worth investing in a full tree.
-Easy to master if youre used to the genre.
- Before buying i kept reading their updates notes and so on, so this game really looks like it'll be finished instead of becoming an abandonware, you can pinpoint a lot of love in the making of this game, i played almost 2h, and didnt felt bored a single minute :D, but i`ll stop for now and wait for the full release.
CONS?
I dunno if they're planning to make achievements work only when the game launch, but i noticed it isnt working on early access i did 7 achievements which are described and not one of them popped up...not an issue for an EA, but i would like to see this mechanic working in the full release.