Posts from Legacy of Darkness: Chapter One

There are bugs with the hero's physical movement on the first map (2nd location) – the Tower of Elementals near the castle prevents passage; I have to kill it with a cheat to clear the path and allow passage. Also, after the dungeon, there is no direct path; you have to jump using a cheat. Otherwise, it's great.

Excellent campaign. The plot is well-written and presented. Definitely a thumbs up!

I used to play it on an easier difficulty. I decided to replay it on General. Very easy campaign. The mission maps are as simple as pie, but I don't care; I play, not just look at the trees. There's a lot of text, but it doesn't bother me. There's a specific issue in this campaign: key enemies keep running away, even when they have nowhere to run. Also, the balance is completely broken by the joining of powerful mobs. For example, 9 dragons joined my army and ruined one of the missions; after that, I just went on autopilot. The only challenging battle was the second-to-last one against Ragnar Konung (he's well-protected against dark magic with his gear, casts shields on himself (takes a long time to break through), and once berserked my ranged units). Even he ran away into the void when he had about 60 of my Erls left. I had a Phoenix, but throughout the campaign, the castles kept giving me summoning bonuses, and only in the last mission did I get a berserk and a summon skill in the library. I got resurrection in the last castle after defeating Konung; in the first mission, there was a tome of light, and in the second, a tome of darkness. In the second-to-last mission, you get a full dragon set and can basically chill until you have an army of dragons, but that's not really necessary... the opponent is a weak Orc who sits in a castle (a cheater). Throughout the game, they hyped up and scared us with some terrible Necromancer who burns cities and destroys star systems, but in the end, I won the last battle on autopilot (and even without gear and with troops that I didn't even recruit epic fail). The battle takes place immediately after the battle with Konung, and after sweating through that, I didn't feel like replaying without a break, and I didn't even want to look at that Necromancer (screenshot of the final battle result ). The campaign is a conditional 3 out of 5 – it's too easy. But still, thanks for the game; it gave me something to do in the evening.