True to the developer's name, the world map is indeed pretty Big Huge, but after nine or ten hours of aggressively-samey questing, I still had an area the size of Bermondsey to plough. Not doing so might actually give us the sense we're achieving something rather than running a failing pest control business. In a single-player game, I don't see any reason to keep respawning monsters in areas we've cleared out and done all the quests in. One might almost think Kingdoms of Whatever It Was was at some point planned to be a MMORPG but chickened out when they saw all the skulls piled up outside World of Warcraft 's cave.
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Again, the visual design is quite similar, and the main plot leads you by the nose through a parade of increasingly difficult territories full of enemies borrowed from European folklore, picking up quests from every Johnny Peasantpants whose wife hasn't come back from picking mushrooms at Monster Death Face Eater Junction. Once you get out into the world, though, the Fable comparison shrivels humbly at the urinal as we catch a glimpse of World of Warcraft 's ever-fearsome member. Every specialization path has six sequential tiers, including the mixed classes, so the person I feel sorry for is who on the development team had to come up with six different names for a sneaky wizard, or a brawny sex worker. If you're indecisive though, and have been known to spend hours picking your five films for ten bucks at the video shop, Kingdoms of Alamo is a modern thinker perfectly fine with class-mixing as long as you do it behind closed doors. But I've known sex workers who were pretty wizardly in their own way, I'll tell you that. The classes available are monumentally-standard: the rogue, who attacks quickly and stealthily with daggers and longbows the fighter, who knocks the arseholes about with 2x4s and lampposts and the sex worker, who fights by bending over, hitching up their skirt and farting venereal diseases. At first I was somewhat reminded of Fable, 'cause the art is colorful and stylized and you start off with a small amount of skill in every ability so you can figure out which one you suck at the least. They were going to make it a tactical squad-based shooter, but you know how people are. So what with this being fantasy and everything, Kingdoms of Hurbedur is an RPG. That's insane! That's like breeding a fly that eats rolled-up newspapers. What confuses me, though, is when it's implied that the coming of the one to whom prophecy is so much blank verse has itself been prophesized.
The elves - they don't call them elves, but they are fucking elves - are all doing the Lord of the Rings thing, going, "Ooh, fate has determined that our time in this realm is coming to an end", swanning about being all accepting and dignified and shit, and I imagine you could make them all feel like a right bunch of 'nanas.
I actually think it's an interesting idea, considering that in most generic fantasy, you can't walk down the street to the chemist without some prophecy saying you would. As in, if a bloke has been predetermined by fate to eat a sandwich, you can slap that sandwich out of his hands, forcing him to go to McDonald's and get hit by a bus. Possibly as a consequence of this, however, you suddenly possess the inexplicable ability to manipulate destiny. Off to a flying start, aren't we? But then you're resurrected by some experimental arcane process and set off to begin anew. Well, here's what I could decipher at the outset: you are an adventurer, and then you get killed. Mass Effect brought us a race of all-female bisexuals culturally obliged to bang anything that moves, and you wonder why I prefer sci-fi these days.Īnd another thing: why does every fantasy game practically demand we learn a second language? I start up Kingdoms of Amalur and it's like skipping ahead three tapes on the "Teach Yourself Norwegian" course: "The Tuatha are engaged in a conflict with the Sealie Fae and the Jotun in the lands of Knickknackknocky and Bingilybongilyboo." This is precisely my point - the word "fantasy" is supposed to evoke any wondrous scenario the imagination can conjure, but for some reason, we keep coming back to the elves and dwarves! Elves and dwarves, elves and dwarves, elves and motherfucking dwarves. That's generic-style fantasy, not the personal kinds of fantasy where I'm locked in a small room with a nuclear bomb in a schoolgirl outfit that can only be disarmed with a vigorous spanking. I know I can't speak for everyone - at least not until "The Device" is completed - but surely it's not just me who's getting fed up with fantasy.
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