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Hey there.
I'll share my impressions too.
At first, I was very annoyed and furious...
I was upset about everything.
I started thinking that it's just unfamiliar, but no.
Now I understand that everything is good in the 5th installment: the modern graphics, the fresh ideas, and the music. What they lack is the atmosphere of the 3rd game... They're somehow too cartoonish. It doesn't mean that a magical world should shine, sparkle, and puff in all directions.
In the 3rd game, even the small details were pleasing, for example, when finding an artifact, a scene was shown describing how you obtained it. Such small details filled the game. Even the fact that flags, not icons, flutter above mines and Castles.
Of course, everything is possible in this magical world, but still. Let's imagine a movie based on Heroes. What would it be like? Would the main character rush forward, leaving a magical trail behind him, and so on...?
And the map feels somewhat lifeless. If in the 3rd game, the imagination worked at full capacity, then in the 5th, there's simply no room for it. This 3D graphics somehow shows that everything is exactly as it is and not otherwise. A forest is just a forest, and park trees are on a lawn. There's no feeling that you're going on an adventure; there's a feeling that you're just strolling around a playground. And you don't even want to go into the hero's inventory.
Heroes 3 is infinitely cozy; for example, in the tavern, there's a window with an animation, and you immediately imagine yourself sitting at one of these tables. From the window of the guild of mages, there's a view of the city. There's an animation of the setting sun, marking a new day, as if giving value to each turn (Hello, new day in this infinitely new magical world!!!) And so on. Perhaps the developers thought that everything is already in 3D, and everything can be rotated and examined, but this was their fatal oversight.
It's a pity; there was a chance.
BUT I BELIEVE THAT THE GREAT FUTURE OF HEROES LIES IN THE GREAT FUTURE!!!
I continue to play Heroes!!!
HERE!!!!! Whoever you are, may your sword be illuminated by the rising sun))))))))
Just kidding – I'm just saying that I think the same thing! In my opinion, you could get lost in the third game for hours, spending time in front of the monitor! And the 5th game reminded me more of "Cursed Lands" or, even worse, "Demigods." How can this imitation of SimCity (Castle) compare to what we saw in the 3rd game? Even my little sister didn't give the 5th game any chance, stating that it was "definitely worse than the first." I don't even want to talk about the plot, at least because the Krigans in the 3rd game inspired fear – you believed that they were devils, and it was scary to imagine what they had done to the land of hobbits, while the "deeeemons" in the 5th game evoke a bitter smile and a flashback (Warcraft 3? SpellForce?). Sigh... In short, in my opinion, it's like someone wrote "Essay - The Battle of Waterloo" instead of Tolstoy for the novel "War and Peace"... it's sad... although I'm playing and trying to find meaning.
It's just sad to realize that "The Best Strategy..." Heroes became only because something like Disciples 3 (for now) didn't appear, which, in my opinion, with all its thoughtfulness and brutality of the plots, would bury any new beginnings... continuations...
But I wish them luck... I still dream of one day witnessing the revival of the series (although maybe it's not necessary... maybe if King could still say something, he would have joined the project).
PS I can't help but say. Damn! It's not about the graphics! Heroes is life.
PSS And is it true that there are birches there?
