Achilles: Legends Untold

Zero expectations and a mind set that would make me walk away uttering curses if anyone tried to push on me a game similar to Torchlight or any of the older Diablo games. That is the start situation and it's a hard one to games of this type. Got this from a bundle, no expectations but decided to try and lo and behold, there is a game here that is none of the above. First the critique: Some are disappointed 'it tries to make a souls ARPG but it's not souls'. Yes that is right but i disagree on the execution. If you strip the graphics from the maps you play you will notice it's quite typical ARPG stuff: throngs of enemies here and there and loot to pick up. It just looks good and sometimes certain spots can be a bit tougher particularly early game to mid game. Inventory management is there of course, WAY too much weapon selection stuff forcing you to focus etc. We have seen this before. Shop page talks about AI being smart. Well it sometimes is. Brutal too. Rhythm is sometimes important as some enemies take you down disrupting whatever pacing you try to build. It is even possible in a very rare situation that many enemies do a insta kill chain on you by attacking while you are taking a dive. In the end though i would not focus too much on AI as you will cheese this by constantly pressing R3 to mark enemies outside vision range so there goes that... So to me there is SOME souls here. And in my opinion a pretty decent take on it without introducing the overkill git gud parts that i absolutely positively dont have time or patience for. In this game you actually progress all the time. Just dont expect hand crafted ambushes and other clever stuff like this is Dark Souls 1. And no crestfallen warriors either sputtering obtuse lore. Despite the game being good at what it tries to portray it does NOT break into any new frontiers and i suppose that is what people are bummed about. I get that, it has so much potential to be even better. Whatever your personal vision of a good game leans into. I just accept this as-is since it's a total surprise to me as i hate this genre as a starter and have sworn off to never play it again but here we are. 16 hours in and still going.

I tried the firt time when it was very early access but even if the concept was intereting the game was very green. A few days ago i saw the launch the v1.0 so i give it a try. I just finished the game and no i did not went for new game plus, i just stay for the story wich is decent. For me the game in general in a 7/10. My playthrow took me arount 15-20 hs completing all i could.

It is a 6-7/10 game, as long as you don't try to be a completionist there is something to enjoy, but by the end it becomes repetitive and part of it is that you become way too overpowered with two handed weapons.

ED: Adding some thoughts after full walkthrough, keeping old version for history. Well, after completing the game I can tell there are some repetitive activities in the end - but both big locations the game has are not so big, so there's not much empty space between them and it's not so annoying. Combat is pretty limited though - there's almost no space for different builds, all you decide is your moveset - one-handed + shield, two handed or dual wielding. There're around a dozen of active abilities to choose from, but overall you have only one "class" - fighter. There's no ranged weapons or magic or smth. The game looks and works nicely, it's not too short nor too long, it'll end before you feel too tired of it, so it's a success. It's a small budget game totally worth it's price. Think of it as of slasher, not as an RPG, even if it tries to disguise itself as one. I'd compare it to games like Darksiders 1, not a real ARPGs. In the end, that was nice 13 hours, completing 99% of activities on the map. But it gets old pretty fast - if you'll get tired of the game by the end of first map - I'd say just drop it, second map is same old things, mostly same enemies and same activities. Minotaur and Chimera are great bosses tho, and final boss is super easy after them. After my first death the game said "get used to it, it's a hard game", but that was my only death in the game, lol. It might be difficult for those who never played From Software games or any other Souls-like, I guess, but if you ever played Dark Souls stamina management is not a new thing for you, and there's nothing more limiting you from spamming enemies with attacks and stunlocking them. Overall, it's a decent little game in an ancient Greece setting, which are never too many for me. First version: Damn, I can't believe how good this game is. I feel so bad now that I put it in backlog so far away and haven't played it before. It's not inventing or re-inventing any genres, not pushing any technology ahead of the time and not revealing next big setting or narrative that will be used by every AAA studio in next decade. This game is just a pure slasher-rpg fun, getting you back to the times when video games was about having fun, not shoving another "important" social message down your throat. It's a game from the times when Kratos was just an angry guy dismembering gods because he can, and Lara Croft was just a super-sexy overpowered girl killing dinosaurs and picking up ancient goblets in pyramids everywhere across the world who knows why. Meaning - from times, when games were actually good and fun. This game has a bit clunky movement, junky keyboard+mouse controls (don't even bother without gamepad, really), and a little weird graphical artifacts here and there (what's going on with grass on swamps, lol), BUT - it's super fun. Once I shook off the "gosh, I'm playing a B game obviously" feeling, it started to be one of the best experiences I had in years. No empty open world, no repetitive copy-paste activities, no dramatic gibberish from every damn character. Here's a location with some space to explore and find loot, there're some side-quests just to give you reason to visit every corner and fight more enemies, here're some hand made dungeons with mobs and loot, and there's lots of mobs to slice and dice, get your loot and exp to level up. Have fun. And you will.

I'm sorry but I can't bring myself to play it. first impression wasn't nearly satisfying.

Не зайшло. Як арпг - занадто нудна, як соулс-клон - занадто легка. В результаті вийшло ні риба ні м'ясо, нема ані драйву від зачисток екранів мобів і тонн лута, ані драйву від хардкорного роздовбування боса на 5% хп на стотридцятий трай. 4/10, намарно витрачений час.

Ужасная оптимизация, фризы и статтеры с начала игры, при среднем фпс в 180, постоянные дропы до 24, боевая система максимально примитивная и кривая для клавомыши. Возможно игра и не плохая, но из-за выше указанных проблема, ALT+F4 и рефаунд. Игре 3 года с релиза, а по ощущениям, как до сих пор в раннем доступе