Also why would you tie both chance to hit AND potential damage to strength? My fighters are all amazing at their job and no one else can even hit to begin with. Many stats feel pointless for many characters, and I know you can use them for multiclassing, but still. But quite a few of the mechanics don't seem well thought out. I don't have any problem with difficult games or ones with a lot of mechanics, I like the races and classes here. Like after winning combat, you can wait on that screen to hear the fanfare flourish and end.and then loop again endlessly. It has different resolutions for all the graphics so you have blurry background art next to sharp UI. Monsters are bats and rats and rogues, the kind of people you might expect to find wandering a castle.įor presentation, I know it's an older game by now but the graphics are the bare minimum.
Even as goofy as it is, there are people to talk to who don't feel that out of place. It's shaped like a castle and feels like one, various rooms have descriptions like bedrooms or sitting rooms or even just everything being trashed. Monsters are slimes, strange spikey things, puff balls, zombie women, giant birds and other stuff, there's zero sense of cohesion. Why would anyone build all these doors? Where are the landmarks to help me get a sense of where I am? Where are the descriptions telling me what I experience in various rooms? Yes, sometimes it says "there's a lot of blood here," that feels just as randomly generated. There is no sense that this is a real place. The dungeon design feels haphazard and random, like it was automatically generated. I don't feel like I have a mystery to solve, it's just the bare minimum framing for going off and killing things. Even old Wizardries are awesome by comparison. Everyone I talk to both in town or in the dungeon says exactly what I would expect them to say ("Welcome to the tavern, have an ale!"). It doesn't take much, there's just nothing here. On the micro level I no longer care about "investigate this cave and we might grant an audience with the king." I want some kind of goal, or a character with a little charisma who sends me off, something like that. On the macro level I no longer care about gods sealing away the demons in ancient times and there was a period of peace and now evil is returning. Better presentation or more atmosphere or a little more sense/logic in the way mechanics are applied. While I enjoy these things I really need.I dunno, something more. Or dungeon crawling and mapping for its own sake. There's really no hook at all other than crunchy, arcane party mechanics for their own sake. Sorry to come here with some negativity but I started Elminage Gothic and I'm pretty disappointed with a lot of aspects of it.
And if LoLS does well, we might end up with Wizardry: City of Trapped Ghosts or whatever the proper localized term for ウィザードリィ 囚われし亡霊の街 is.
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So basically it's delayed on what seems to be a formality - the original devteam and the IP owner hadn't signed a contract for the PC port yet. “Theoretically once we release on PC and it does well, we could look into localizing and releasing that title for the first time to an English audience.” “Labyrinth of Lost Souls actually had a sequel which was never brought to the West,” XSEED told me.
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If and when Labyrinth of Lost Souls finally launches on Steam, it just might signal a new era in which the Japanese branch of the series could return to American home computers, the platform where it all began. That was the first that we heard the contract between them was still in progress or that it would prevent us from launching the game, so we had to postpone the release an hour before the scheduled time.” but their contract with GMO wasn’t prepared before the release date and we were told to postpone it.” They said that getting the contract sorted should “be a simple formality.”Īs for the last-minute timing of the delay, the XSEED rep said, “Acquire got the message from GMO’s legal department the day of our scheduled release, 5/29, Japan time, which they immediately relayed to us close to midnight, 5/28, US time. “GMO is the company who owns the Wizardry IP now,” they said. I reached out to XSEED, the Western publisher of Labyrinth of Lost Souls, and they offered an encouraging statement over email.
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