My first impression was almost entirely positive. The game’s art style is lovely, its musical score is great, and it just comes across as very polished in almost every respect. The mixture of Baldur’s Gate-like isometric exploration and Might and Magic-y first person combat works much better than I expected, making for a legitimately compelling experience. I particularly enjoyed the game’s tendency to scatter hidden goodies all over the world map, rewarding careful exploration.

Lords of Xulima has a well-designed lock-picking mini game, as well as a trap disarming mini game that is somewhat less interesting (but still pretty neat). It also features a food system to limit the amount of resting you can economically perform between fights, and (this is especially clever) terrain effects on the amount of food you consume while moving around.

Enemies on the world map never ever move, which is a bit strange, though I didn’t especially mind it. The only time this ever seems to become an issue is when it constricts the game’s level design in order to force you into certain combats. (More about that later.)

From that initial playthrough, my only real complaint about the beta version of Lords of Xulima was the difficulty of the game’s battles. They seemed pitched about right at first, but quickly became much too difficult for so early in the game. I was apparently not alone in this impression, so much so that the developers recently renamed the game’s easiest difficulty to “Normal” to encourage players to select it. (I was playing on the medium-level “Hardcore Veteran” difficulty, spurred on by in-game text which labeled it the difficulty the developers intended the game to be played on.)

With all respect to the developers, Hardcore Veteran is definitely not the difficulty to play this game on. I restarted Lords of Xulima on Normal after recording the video, just to see how different it was. Normal is perhaps a little bit too easy for my tastes in its “balanced” battles, but since you’re forced into dangerously unbalanced battles so often, this compromise becomes more than worthwhile. All in all, Normal is far more enjoyable. Your money goes farther, leveling up occurs more frequently, and most importantly, your characters will not be getting one-hit-killed by the game’s low-level enemies. What promised to be a brutal grind enabled by constant save-scumming instead became a delightful experience.

Ролевой проект Lords of Xulima, до этого момента находившийся в раннем доступе, обзавёлся неожиданной датой выхода.

Полная версия Lords of Xulima стала доступна в Steam

воины лупят еле-еле и мажут безбожно

ukdouble1, я надеюсь вы достаточно настойчивы, чтобы выбить из них дурь ответ?

Про последнюю, если не ошибаюсь, говорят, что попытаются в любом случае, но энтузиазма будет тем больше, чем выше продажи.

Храм Талиет тебе не нужен сейчас, разве что территорию вокруг замка принца Кхорнила можешь зачистить и ведьму зарубить.

Разве статую нельзя сломать?

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