The Lantern of the Laughless Saint

really fun old school vibe

This game is actually sick and really does capture the Morrowind feel. 6 player Co op is also awesome, you don't see games like this going beyond 2/3/4 player co op very often.

Game is dope, just gotta get fishing sorted for perfection.

ENJOY YOURSELF HAW-MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

The good stuff first. I really like their game design. Characters feel fleshed out and memorable, the story is mysterious and intriguing, and all of the beloved mechanics are there. My friends stats and stuff seemed to disappear when he loaded into multiplayer with me so he had to start from scratch, but it works well enough that we could play together and we had a lot of fun. Sneaking around is fun, and like early scrolls games you can level up a skill by simply performing that skill a lot. The forests feel lush and you can really get lost in a lot of their world design. At least in the early game quests seem to be plentiful and interesting. [strike]This game has so much going for it and I have no doubt I'll be changing my recommendation to "Yes" very soon. As it stands, though... performance for me is just terrible. After 30min to an hour of playing I'm sitting at 5-6 fps, which is simply not enough to even play given the combat system in this game, and should not be the case given my specs. My video settings do not seem to affect this at all. Memory usage is at 830mb which isn't crazy, and my CPU and GPU are sitting around 30% usage. Disk is hardly being used at all. It's unplayable in this state and I have to consistently save and re-load to get my FPS back. The price is a steep, especially for early access, but I understand this type of game is a huge undertaking The camera keeps moving inside my character so that I'm forced to play in third-person a lot of the time. I can forgive a lot... but I need my camera working and the game running. That's a minimum. I agree with some of the other reviews I've read that said that Unreal Engine was a bad choice for this game, but nothing they can do about that now. Hopefully they have some optimization skills in their choice engine. They're releasing multiple updates per day. I'm positive this will have my recommendation in the near future.[/strike] I'm speechless. Literally by the time I was done writing this review they had resolved both of my major issues. That's the third hotfix update released today alone. Small bugs abound, but they're clearly working hard, and they have a solid base game.

ts pretty good

I think the game is very fun but it's got a lot of bugs. If you can deal with them until certain issues are patched, go for it. The creator has already made 10 patches/hot fixes. So there's promise it'll get ironed out. Sometimes the updates break the game, sometimes they fix things and it runs better.

NerveLabs achieved something that very few Scrolls like games have with TLotLS, and that is being a Scrolls like at it's core. What made Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, Daggerfall, and Arena cool was the feeling of a deep -lively- world despite being in a small play space. Though trapped on an island, I already imagine how the wider world could be, getting immersed through my character, and thinking of backstories that fits what's already been shared through gameplay. And true to any Elder Scrolls game, I've ignored the main quest to go adventuring, I'm level seven, and I'm just now exploring the hole. I will say though, the game does have some flaws. I would like to have the ability to duel wield weapons, or at the very least have a sword in one hand and a spell in the other, for at this point there's no point in using a one handed sword over a two hander when playing a mage. I would also like to see some improvements to the alchemy ui to show what points are brew able before inputting the ingredients. As well as seeing the armor rating in the inventory screen, as I have to manually keep track of what the armor value is (I say this as someone that went with the fashion souls perk lol). If I had to score the game on a scale of 10, it is easily an 8/10. I haven't interacted with the spell-craft, nor finished the story (factors that can only raise the score), but what I have experienced is enough to say: I can't wait to see what NerveLabs has to offer in the future! TODD, WHY CAN'T YOU BE LIKE THESE GUYS AND RELEASE A GAME, AND NOT UPDATES TO A GAME THAT DOESN'T NEED THEM!!!!