Review Sacred quickens the pulse at Dagon's Lair

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Sacred

Really, really tiny and hobby site, <A href="http://sites.estvideo.net/dagon/lair/">Dagon's Lair</a> has written a really, really tiny <A href="http://sites.estvideo.net/dagon/lair/softs/sacred_US.htm">review</A> of <a href="http://www.sacred-game.com">Sacred</a>, giving it fair to good ratings in most areas. Here's a brief clip:
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<blockquote>Another strong point is the huge world size and its' many non-linear quests. From the beginning, there is 70 % of the game world available, and one can directly go and explore remote regions.... if he survives it. All this makes the game very cool. If in fact the game is only hack and slash, it's doing it well. The british tested release has gore, and it seems US citizens won't have this chance, as the game will be censored for marketing reasons. About the multiplayer aspects, there is a cooperative scenario mode, a hack and slash game, with the complete world without the scenario, and a pvp mode.</blockquote>
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Yup, it's rather funny how the difficulty is distributed. You can cross a bridge on a stream in the beginning and go from an area you can handle to a sudden death zone.
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Thanks, <b>dagon</b>!
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[EEVIAC]

I've had a lot of trouble finding enemies that present a challenge (apart from those priests that drop daggers that fill up my inventory in 5 minutes. I hate leaving loot behind.) As for gore, I'm just glad that its been fixed.

 

[Malak]

Want a challenge? Go 2 difficulties higher than you are now

There is some nasty stuff in certain areas that can suck no matter how good you are, like the east area that is just nasty. Huge spiders doing massive damage, everything poisons you... I went there with 6 poison resistance, what a mistake.

 

[the_dagon]

tiny tiny tinty review

short review okay, but is the website so small ? 2mb is made only of text... and I'm alone to do it

ok Saint_Proverbius... I'll try to make it longer :wink:
...but don't count on me for the uberlong kotor review.



about difficulty distribution, you're right... at the beginning I was moving east killing dozens of orcs without trouble, then I heard my character "this region seems very dangerous", and saw an alone orc with a ridiculous bow. He killed me with two arrows...

...and it's also strange to see that regions are often inhabited with only one or two types of ennemies...

 

[Malak]

How is that strange? Lots of RPG's do it that way

And as long as you follow the main quest route you won't find monsters that are so hard. Heck, I'm lvl 33 and went straight to gold, gobbies are regularly 13 levels higher than me. But I'm built just strong enough to survive fine and get the good exp. Of course I won't go hunting a dragon anytime soon in gold, obviously I'd die.