Posts from King's Bounty: The Legend

I've finished the game :) Throughout the playthrough, I never regretted praising the game so highly on the forum. Yes, it's truly wonderful. I don't regret spending 35 hours on it! :D There are some unpleasant aspects. It crashed a few times, once during a difficult battle. I really didn't like the labyrinth at the end of the game. When I move to another area of the labyrinth, return through the same passage a second later, and end up not where I was – that's awful. I almost died trying to find the exit, and because of the leadership increase and troop replenishment from losses, I had to run back and forth three times :( . It left a somewhat unpleasant aftertaste.

But the final opponent didn't cause any difficulties. For example, the battle with the giant orc (especially for those who have already finished the game :) ) caused much more losses to my army. I thought there would be an incredibly intense battle, in which I would win with one or two fairies :D

At the end, I married a demoness. But that's just for fun, because she's the coolest wife :D Although, in reality, she had very good slots for artifacts. For example, after trying to marry an elf, I realized that she wasn't very useful – only one artifact could be equipped on her, and even that was a modest one. And I didn't want to wait for the children to appear, and then get a random bonus at the end of the game. By the way, there wasn't a single demon in my army. :)

Overall, I recommend it to everyone! The game is worth playing, and it will definitely appeal to all fans of the Heroes series! My rating is 9.5/10

Wow! Hero in! What a libertine!:eek: 5 wives!!!:D

Wow! Hero in! You're quite the ladies' man!:eek: 5 wives!!!:D

You could have even gotten a sixth one – a gnome =) But she's too creepy =))). And I didn't use gnomes in my army anyway =)

What was the highest damage anyone has dealt? With which hero and in which version? =)

For me, it was 47k damage dealt by a Fairy (patch 1.2) =)



There was also a 48k damage, but I didn't manage to take a screenshot =(

VDV_forever I saw in the description of patch 1.6 on the website that there was another feature: The speed limit for creatures has been removed in battles. Does this mean for all of them??? Then the battle turns into a free-for-all, all tactics go to hell, and the Haste spell becomes useless. Is this inaccurate, or is it really like that?

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I also highly recommend downloading the Interactive World Map http://rapidshare.com/files/129621133/KBMap_v09_by_Infeus_.rar.html, which frankly blew me away!

Sorry, could you provide a more accurate link? Because I only see two speedometers and several sections in English.
Sincerely,
Ivanhoe.

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Excuse me, could you provide a more precise link? I only see two speedometers and several sections in English.
Sincerely,
Ivanhoe.

Click on one of the buttons below the speedometers (depending on whether you paid for benefits or not; if not, click the left one...).

In my opinion, the game is at best a three out of five. At first, you have to run around, avoiding enemies, trying to preserve your army and gather some leadership, and then, once you have enough of both, you just crush everyone without regard for losses. For me, this moment came after completing the main quest involving the dwarves. I returned to the islands, cleared everything there, and also cleared the mines. Now I'm clearing the Book of Death; I've already left 3-4 armies there. I return, buy a new army, and I have more than enough money for everything. Overall, we'll see what happens next, but for now, it's not very engaging. If you change spouses, they take half of your money, and I have about a million – it's a shame to lose that, so I'll stick with the frog. Now, what I didn't like: the camera's viewing angle, the lack of voice acting, and most importantly, the absence of a global quest, like the war with the demons and the fall of the empire in the fifth game, or like the Burning Legion or the Scourge in Warcraft. I was pleased with the spirits, especially the Reaper

You take down everyone in your path, regardless of the losses.

Well, I don't know, I was too lazy to run back and forth to replenish my troops, so I always tried to end battles with minimal losses. Except for bosses and just strong heroes.

There's more than enough money for everything.

This was the case in the unpatched version. If you play the latest version, you won't feel like you have an abundance of gold. Personally, I finished the game with about 100,000 of them. Not that much. We're not talking about the easy difficulty level. In general, patches make the game quite a bit more difficult.

If you change your wife, she takes half of your money.

I changed my wife after a tough battle, when I had replenished my army and bought a few artifacts. As a result, the frog took away very little money.

lack of voice acting

Are you too lazy to read? ;)
Actually, it would have been very, very difficult to create voice acting. The texts were corrected in every patch, and inviting actors to re-record a couple of lines is not an option. And the patches would have become larger. And the release date would have been delayed. And the game's budget would have increased. Who knows, maybe that wasn't acceptable to the developers?

no global quest

This is not an epic fantasy (like Tolkien's novels). The game focuses on a specific person and a few other important characters. And... well, it's obvious that for most of the game, the protagonist is searching for and rescuing the princess.

In my opinion, the game is at best a 3 out of 5. At first, you have to run around, avoiding enemies, trying to preserve your army and gather at least some leadership, and then, having gathered enough of both, you defeat everyone in a row, regardless of losses...

Personally, I liked the game right away, and I think most players of Heroes did too. If you remember the history of how it all started, it was after Castle Britannia that the Heroes of Might and Magic series was born...
The game is beautiful visually, and the combat tactics are definitely not monotonous (you can't apply the same strategy to all neutral creatures). The randomness is diverse, and a good spell may appear, for example, only in the second half of the game... and much more.
And here's a question - why was it necessary to return to the islands after the dwarves? Maybe you couldn't defeat someone there right away? (and you had to first level up your hero, buy stronger troops to deal with the enemies on the islands?).
Well, if all the enemies in your path are easily defeated, there is a solution - play on the very last difficulty level, it will definitely be more fun...
Or complete the game as quickly as possible - in about 10 days :)
The downside of the game so far is the lack of a map editor, multiplayer, and the inability to play as a Hero for other factions (demon, elf, or necromancer, for example).

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and regarding money - don't worry.
I completed the entire game with one wife, didn't even have children, and by the end, I had more than 6 million gold (about 6,500,000).;)

The game was enjoyable. There are a thousand pros and fewer cons. So, about the cons: 1) Terrible dialogues; 2) Terrible locations, starting with the Labyrinth of Haas (apparently, the developers were running out of time, and the publisher insisted on the game being released as soon as possible); 3) Disgusting final location (Endoria the Turtle). In more detail. Murrok: one location, and it's underdeveloped. Demonis could have been made larger (at least 2-3 locations). The Labyrinth of Haas... I won't comment. It feels like the game consists of two parts: before the Labyrinth and after. And these two parts were made by different people. Compare, for example, Darion with Murrok... P.S. And yet, The Legend is the best game of 2008, IMHO.

I like the game, I waited a long time for the noCD version from the developers (they promised it would be released early on), because I was tired of dealing with StarForce. Now I'm starting to play, but I haven't gotten very far yet.

2Kyle: I liked it too: Darion, Isles of Freedom, Kordar, Ellinia. I started to believe that perfect games actually exist. I was amazed, played for nights, slept during the day, and didn't go to work :)

I got to the Labyrinth... I didn't like it very much. Murrok is more lively. The Turtle is a complete letdown.

This happened in an unpatched version. If you play the latest version, you won't feel like you have too many gold coins. Personally, I finished the game with about 100,000. Not that much. This doesn't apply to the easy difficulty level. In general, patches make the game quite a bit more challenging.

I have version 1.6.x, and even so, I already have 800,000 on the islands. What should I do with them?:)

I have version 1.6.x, and even so, they only appear on the islands, and I already have 800k. What should I do with them?

I wouldn't call myself a good player (maybe that's the reason :)), but I also accumulated money quite slowly, and then it somehow started to accumulate very quickly. I've already described how.

Warrior]And here's a question - why was it necessary to return to the islands after the dwarves? Perhaps you couldn't defeat someone there right away? (and had to first level up your hero, buy stronger troops to deal with the enemies on the islands?).
Well, if all the enemies in your path are easily defeated, there's a solution - play on the very last difficulty level, it will definitely be more fun...

Firstly, I'm not so confident to play an unfamiliar game on the hardest difficulty level; secondly, I really couldn't defeat many enemies on the islands, and not only there, which is why I wrote that I spent more time running around than fighting before the dwarves. But now I'm crushing everyone. I think trying to beat the game as fast as possible is pointless; I'm not competing with anyone, and I'm not setting any records. I'm just playing for fun.