Gaming Retrospective - Drakensang: The Dark Eye

Drakensang is 2008 RPG game developed by German game studio Radon Labs. If you are not familiar with Drakensang fantasy world of Aventuria, it is a land of high fantasy with all sorts of magical races and creatures. Game starts as our character receives a letter from his friend and was asked to come to the city of Ferdok, turns out that some murders were happening in the city and we had to find out who or who is behind the murders. It turns out to be the work of the Dragon cultists, a cult which serve an ancient evil dragon Adrakor. Thus our party takes on an even larger quest to beat the dragon.

This is a party based RPG like Neverwinter Nights, Baldurs Gate, or Icewind Dale. For the fans of that type of RPG's, this is a game worth to take a look at. Game is based on Dark Eye rule system. Players can create a character that follows those rules, for example you can't create an Elf tank, that role must be filled with Dwarf character. There are three main talent groups, combat talents, magic talents and regular talents. Regular talents are crafting talents like blacksmithing, lockpicking, persuasion etc. Astral Energy is used for your mages that can missfire or fizzle their spells if the rolls are bad. Combat is happening in real time and can be paused to give your party orders. New setting, new plot, if you have time this is not a bad game to check out.

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