Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is an ok game. It is a hybrid of first person action, adventure and RPG based on tabletop game system - very similar to Gothic and Morrowind (with tighter, much more compact world comparing to latter) and rich character progression. It dissapointed me because of shift of a vibe from grimdark to standard game fantasy rather early during walkthrough and there are several reasons for it: dull writing with generic-mood side quests, too evident asset use, overall loss of original mood, promised by prologue, first cutscenes and main score theme. Maybe my expectations is my problem, but on the other hand the other elements like the fighting system, which is uninventive and rather repetive or the fact that this game is mediocre by all general parameters tell otherwise. You still can enjoy it if you want a generic fantasy action-rpg. It's a labour of love of a small indie team with modesst budget. But don't expect more, there is not.

игра в целом зачет, но большой минус это прокачка, как обычно до конца не дотянули, игру начал за мага, первая локация нарастающая сложность кайф, под конец первой локации бегал как бог ваншотил. перешел на следующую враги стали чуть сильнее кайф, а потом по накатанной вниз в итоге в прокачке уперся в потолок, очки прокачки начал закидывать на ненужные перки, магия после второй локи не менялась больше никогда к концу игру ощущал скуку, финального босса шотнул за секунды, в общем под конец игра скатилась с той планки что была в начале

Ну игра прикольная, но не для 2026 года, даже скайрим по сравнению с этим ощущается плавнее и качественнее. Анимации топорные, импакта от удара нет, сложгность ветеран просто душка с перекачанными мобами и тд. Думаю олдам оверолл понравится, но если вы зумерок и хотите именно получать удовольствие от нахождения в игре а не от геймплея, которого тут довольно много и различного, то игра не для вас и увы не для меня. Думаю модеры исправят анимации подтянут графон и тд. тогда такая игра за 1к будет на уровне любой ААА параши, которую сейчас выпускают

I played a mage. The good: The first act was really good. The story, lore, gameplay, and exploration all felt new and fun. I enjoyed finding ways to make my character stronger. The enemies were difficult enough to keep it interesting. It felt like the game rewarded your for exploration and experimentation. The story and quest objectives felt mostly clear. I loved the bestiary and reading about each new monster I encountered. Many new spells I found offered a unique way to play. Unfortunately the good stuff only lasted for about a quarter of the game. -- The Bad: Performance issues aside... Shortly after the end of the first act the problems begin to arise. The story and quests become more difficult to keep track of. The game has a quest log but it basically offers nothing other than a quest marker. After a while I started to lose track of what each quest was about. It's hard to be invested in the outcome of the quests if you can't remember any details about them. Some of the quests have different outcomes depending on your choices, but it became nearly impossible to get any desired outcomes. Many of the choices are vague to the point that I didn't know they existed. The whole experience felt frustratingly unclear. I suppose if you are someone who has good memory and and likes to savescum or doesn't mind following guides, this might not be an issue. Frankly, having to flip open a wiki to finish a quest the way I want to is totally immersion breaking for me. I feel like the devs never played their own game. The second act is very frustrating to navigate. The town layout is awkward and forces you to do a ton of walking that should be unnecesary. It doens't help that the music in the town is totally bland and lifeless. I felt like I was in purgatory. Outside of town, there's not enough fast travel points. Be prepared to spend half of this game running from A to B. You do get a horse that is slightly faster than running but it's animations are like 10 FPS for some reason which is honestly kind of funny. Looking back, by the middle of the second act, I had seen most of the what the game had to offer. This is by far the worse problem I had. I could forgive the rest of the bad if it wasn't for this. Aside from some new enemies and locations, the game begins to feel very repetitive. The quests mostly boiled down to "go here and kill something". Which I think would be fine if the gameplay changed, or the quests were interesting enough. As a mage, I didn't need to change my play style much. Other than a small number of equipment upgrades throughout the game, the rest of the thousands of items I found were all useless. The main spell I was using at this point was used until the end of the game. I suppose other classes might make use of the all the items, but as a mage there was little to no upgrades to be found. The only thing that changed was my ability to kill things faster. Much of which was because of levelling up. It took the fun out of treasure hunting for me. It's a shame I was so frustrated by the time I got to the third and final act because I think it had some very interesting worldbuilding and level design. Unfortunately it wasn't enough for me to forgive the rest of the experience. The third act has you doing a number of quests which all culminate into one final quest before the end of the game. I did what the quest log told me to do, and yet I somehow failed three out of four of these quests. This again, ties into what I said ealier about the mystery meat quest design. I don't know how I failed those quests, and at that point, I stopped caring to find out and change the outcome. I ended up giving up and went and finished the game. At least the game lets you skip to the end if you want to. Overall I did not enjoy this game. It unfortunate, because I can tell there is passion there. There is a lot of interesting worldbuilding and level design, and design choices in general. There is a lot of good, but the bad is so bad it made it nearly unplayable. Perhaps the devs bit off more than they could chew or something. I really hope they make another game and try to learn from their mistakes because this game feel slike a diamond in the rough.

I'm so glad to be done with this game. Prologue Short and to the point, plus it's skippable after completing it once. Act 1 Best part of the game, the map is easy to navigate and the game feels fresh. Act 2 there is so many side quests and the map is obnoxious to navigate. Act 3 By this point I just wanted the game to be over. Map is a nightmare and all the quests are so spread out and tedious. Ending all the endings besides the True Ending suck.

it's just skyrim but better in almost every way this game should be used as an example by bethesda for what they could ve making

Хорошое дарк фентези, последняя треть игры слабовата, но так-то добротно сделали в итоге.

Horrible level design and quests just made to waste you time .. story is meh .. but the vibe of the game is nice

В какой момент стало нормальным выпускать кал? В чем прикол? Возьмем скайрим, каждый ♥♥♥♥ год, я туда возвращаюсь, сам не знаю почему. Ибо это интересно, хоть и сюжет там порой забавен. Но я возвращаюсь, здесь же, просто какой то бред сумасшедшего, расчлененки нету, бои скучные, сюжет скучный. 0 на 10. Не рекомендую.