Review A Farewell to Dragons at RPG Watch

[Jason]

Tags: A Farewell to Dragons

RPG Watch had a wack at <b><a href="http://www.1cpublishing.eu/game/a-farewell-to-dragons/overview" target="blank">A Farewell to Dragons</a></b> (aka Not the Time for Dragons aka Yet Another Wonky Russian Game) and shared <a href="http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/article?articleid=141&ref=0&id=247" target="blank">this review</a> with the world.
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<blockquote>Due to the dramatically inept English localization, even being sure of the main points of the plot can be difficult at times, and getting any nuances is totally out of the picture. I’m a fan of many games where English isn’t the primary language, and I’m usually unfazed by rough translations, but this isn’t just a question of a few garbled sentences or even the often humorous misuse of words. It’s dialogue boxes that scroll through minutes of incomprehensible or nonsensical questions and answers, assigning quests that have you wandering cluelessly across multiple maps or have to be reloaded and redone several times because pertinent information is just not there. The old adage ‘Save Early and Save Often’ is indispensable here. About the only thing to be grateful for in these exchanges is the lack of voice acting.</blockquote>
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The final score is 2 out of 5 stars.

 

[flushfire]

also, perks choices are random afaik (played on hard, don't know about normal) which is just retarded. unless you save & reload before level-up you may never get 'quick learner 1' (+10% xp) early enough for it to be of any use. i also never got the higher level perks (quick learner 2? some perks have numbers on their icon im assuming those are levels) with any of the characters no matter how many times i reloaded. add to that the lack of information on perk requirements (manual doesn't help) and you get a very frustrating perk system. im puzzled as to why they didn't just copy entirely from the classics they obviously took inspiration from. downgrade ftw

 

[hal900x]

"Leaded by young sorceress Telle the hero has to grasp in intrigues"

Sounds great, I love grasping in intrigues, and other places too.

 

[Burning Bridges]

Not the time for rpgs?

 

[Andhaira]

A farewell to rpg's?

 

[Shannow]

Not a farewell to times.

 

[Ogg]

Maybe a time of farewells.

 

[Turok]

Farewell to my burro.

 

[thesheeep]

Welcome to failblog.

 

[Emotional Vampire]

Welcome to the times.

 

[tindrli]

i wonder did patches make anything better???

 

[Eyeball]

AFTD is actually fairly good for a Slavic game. Looks nice, and it had pretty decent combat and skill systems too, plus an Arcanum Ripoff-type of vibe to it.

I couldn't get myself to finish it due to the unspeakably horrifying translation into English and due to the fact that the huge open-roamy worlds really had fairly little content to interact with apart from wandering monsters, but I thought it was a good effort all the same.