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[abnaxus]

Introduction

Neverend is Slavjank (j)rpg from the same developers as Vampire Hunters

Spoiler

Game is not Polak but Slovak. The game is extremely buggy and never really got fixed.

Following the fall of the evil Lord Enakhaan, the human race – under the rule of the powerful wizard Sarthaan – banished all non-human beings to another realm, amongst those that were driven from their land were noble warriors and mages from the race known as Auren. Now, only a few remain, lost in a world that hates them.

Agavaen is a young Auren, living as an outcast and travelling with a band of thieves.

Her magical powers are starting to grow and now, aged 15 20 she is beginning to wonder what her future might hold.

Part 1

Spoiler

The game starts with Agavaen and the merry band of misfits celebrating after getting some lewt.

However after the party two traitors rob Agavaen’s necklace and get off with the lewt.

The main character awakens next morning.

Oh man, my head feels like it’s about to blow. Ouch.

Hmm, where’s my necklace? I hope I didn’t lose it yesterday when I was celebrating.

The game mechanics are exactly the same as Vampire Hunters.

There’s a Vancian casting system of sorts. Spell recipe is necessary to write spell in spell books (trial & error probably works too), and to cast you need expendable runes.

There are six types of weapons but the long sword is best of all. With higher skill new techniques can be learnt.

There’s a storage nearby but can’t be opened yet.

If Agavaen is nice to her retadred boyfriend, he will help with comes next.

You look quite disappointed considering we finally managed to get some nice loot yesterday.

Well, I’ve already told you I didn’t sleep well…

… and secondly, go and see the captain. He won’t cheer you up much either.

Have you seen my amulet?

You mean that plaything you wore around your neck all the time? No I didn’t… but I guess I know where it could be.

Where is it? Tell me. I can’t find it anywhere. It is very important to me. It’s my only memory of my… my childhood.

Yeah, yeah, we’ve all heard that fairy tale a thousand times. If you want to know more, go and see the captain. Then I guess you’ll find out what happened to your amulet.

The “captain” is an angry douchbag.

Hey, what’s with that tone? I guess even I’m allowed to take a good nap after such a successful evening as last night!

Oh, great. I see you’re in a good mood today. Well, that won’t last long.

Because, while our little Agavaen was in dreamland, our own men were robbing us. Did you hear me? Our own men robbed us!

You’re just kidding, right?

You sly dog, of course you’re kidding! Heh. You almost had me believing you!

Agavaen, you fool! Wake up already! Wulf and Dares escaped with the loot last night.

It’s your fault that we’ve lost everything! Hmmph, it seems you even lost your amulet. I see it’s no longer around your neck.

Oh, so it’s all my fault! I guess it’s also me who stole the loot?

No, you didn’t steal it. But because of you, our band broke up. You bewitched Wulf and Dares.

I wonder what Georgie will say about this. Oh… Geooooooorgie…

Georgie helps Agavaen only if she was nice to him earlier.

Agavaen is innocent! You are an incompetent leader! Defend yourself!

Georgie at least can tank some hits. He makes the fight a lot easier.

Btw the combat system is the same as Vampire Hunters as well: turn-based with timer.

Basically the higher the agility stat, the faster you are in melee. Intelligence means not only higher damage of spells, but also quicker casting.

Unfortunately Agavaen starts the game with a chitty dagger. The captain is not worth wasting a spell.

The captain drops a short sword and a necklace.

If Agavaen is nice to Georgie again, she can make some more use of him.

I want to find the traitors who stole my necklace. Will you join me?

Hmm, I think I’d rather stay here. I don’t feel very well after yesterday.

Come on! I could really use a travelling companion.

I don’t know… I’m still a little nervous after everything that’s happened.

Come with me, just for a while. Until we reach Mildrew.

Mildrew? Phoo, I’m not showing my face around there for a while. Not after what we did there last night!

So you’re not interested in me either?

No, it’s not like that. I just have some trouble getting motivated. No, I think I’ll stay here.

Won’t you give it a try. Just for me, hmm?

Oh well. Because of you I’ll go. But I will follow you only until we reach Mildrew. I’m not going any further.

I knew you’d be a good friend. Let’s go then, towards Mildrew.

So it’s off to Mildrew.

 

[Falksi]

The End

 

[Baron Dupek]

But there is no surprsise like with this Dragon game, where it bugs out somewhere in the end?

It was made by people who made Shadow Vault, have yet to try this Fallout clone(?). Either that or MetalHeart, which I would like not to touch tbh.

 

[abnaxus]

Part 2

Spoiler

Leaving the camp leads to the world map.

On the world map there are random encounters every 30 seconds or so, scaled to the main character’s level.

More important than random encounters are fixed encounters scattered around the world map, as they can lead to good loot.

There’s a bandit guarding a chest very near the camp, we get a belt and ring here.

To the east of the camp is a temple ruin guarded by two skeletons, but one of the skeletons is too tough. We ignore this for now.

To the east of the temple is another chest guarded by two bandits.

We get here a piece of armour and a spell recipe.

The most interesting encounter are two monks right on the road leading to Mildrew.

One of the monks is level 4, Agavaen uses a fireshot on this one.

Beating these monks leads to the first level up. On each level up 7 attribute points are to be freely spent.

The monks carry a note talking about three statues somewhere on the world map.

There’s also a rune that we should keep around.

Directly north of the monks is a chest with another spell recipe.

Near Mildrew, Georgie will leave. Not really a big deal as he’s really p. weak.

To the west of the road, is a chest guarded by three doggies.

There’s another spell recipe here and more importantly, a, long sword.

After checking out most of the fixed encounters, Agavaen reaches Mildrew.

 

[grimace]

Spoiler

Whoa.

This image.

High resolution real world sky box texture on top and low poly game world below.


Living in the uncanny valley.

 

[abnaxus]

it's over guise

having to jump through hoops to simply boot the game and dozens of crashes during an hour of play is fine

but now I'm starting to get corrupt saves

Apparently you have to be legit insane to finish this game. For those interested there's a (completed) video playthrough of this game on Jootoob and I find this comment:

 

[luj1]

Spoiler

Whoa.

This image.

High resolution real world sky box texture on top and low poly game world below.


Living in the uncanny valley.

aka Heroes 3 towns