NWN2 is heroic fantasy, and in heroic fantasies everyone comes back home alive.But those objections can be put aside 'three more months,' that sort of thing.Ĭonceptually, it's harder to defend. The narrator was also obviously drafted in at the last minute. The slides look fuzzy and out-of-focus, and some of the poses are strange (Casavir looks like he's doing the shot put and Ammon's about to launch into the most radical display of break-dancing ever). Technically it's flawed, as mentioned earlier. It's just a damn shame when your only defence is 'It's better than the game freezing up and crashing Windows.' Ten years ago, the endings of Fallout 3 and Assassin's Creed and Gears of War and, yes, NWN2 would have been lauded as fantastic and incredibly detailed. We're getting fussier and fussier as an audience. At least we weren't unceremoniously kicked out to a DOS prompt. There weren't any technological limitations stopping a cool cutscene like NWN2's intro I suspect the reason for the slideshow was largely due to cost (and also the clunkiness of the Aurora/Electron engines). NWN2 is a relatively recent game and could do better. Oh! Oh! Original Eye of the Beholder! That too! That said, most of those games are years old, when there simply wasn't

Anyone up for a game of Ghostbusters for the NES? How about Quake and 'ID Software salutes you!' 'Congratulations, you have escaped Jurassic Park?' Syndicate and the Atlantic Accelerator? 'A Winner Is You,' so awful it became a catchphrase?

Let's not single out NWN2 for criticism as though it stands alone. The game is generally regarded as much superior to any early D&D action games, and is considered a big step forward in playability for AD&D action games.Part 87: Act Three Chapter Twenty-Three - Can You Believe This Is The Better Ending?

You will often get into combat and prepare your wizard to cast a fireball spell, only to find that the rest of the characters have run into the fight and got in the way, completely wasting it.' The One calls Shadow Sorcerer good 'to a certain extent', and expresses that it 'never quite reaches other RPGs have managed to'. The One criticises Shadow Sorcerer's combat, stating that 'the computer has no sense of simple strategy. The One gave the Amiga version of Shadow Sorcerer an overall score of 77%, beginning their review by stating that 'it's a pity' that Shadow Sorcerer 'doesn't offer as much' as Eye of the Beholder, furthermore stating that ' Shadow Sorcerer fails in that there is either too much or too little going on at one time.' The One expresses that the refugees the player must protect 'move at such a slow pace that you can't help getting bored waiting for them' and if the player leaves them to explore, the player is punished in that the refugees are open to attack, and isn't able to get back to them in time. He concluded, ' Shadow Sorceror is for me another sign that SSI is finally getting its act together to produce games that justify the mighty AD&D licence.' Matt Regan of CU Amiga noted that Shadow Sorcerer largely lacked role-playing elements, but summarized that 'for AD&D junkies this is an amusing diversion with a novel outlook for the genre.' In Zero, David Wilson called the game 'a marked improvement in AD&D computer gaming' compared to Strategic Simulations' other output, aside from Eye of the Beholder.

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