Has anyone played it?

I also started back in the day with Heroes II; I remember stubbornly playing Roland's campaign then, but I never managed to complete it, getting stuck on the final mission. And not so long ago, I bought the Platinum Edition and only recently got around to trying it out; I completed the campaign for Ironfist in same first Heroes (which I had never seen before) and several separate scenarios (thanks to having an old computer, a Pentium 200). What can I say—the first Heroes turned out not to be as daunting as I expected, and sometimes even quite interesting; the castle system is very balanced with no obvious bias, and the graphics are own decent too. However, they didn't really capture my heart, as I get the impression that the authors simply ignored the plot or there isn't one here in principle. It was specifically the plot—or rather, its absence—that left an unpleasant impression, but in terms of gameplay, it is playable and sometimes even interesting.