Newgrounds.com — Everything, By Everyone.

Battle for Wayland Keep - Review

Battle for Wayland Keep is an extremely successful Action RPG. It has a very nice presentation, the speakers in my opinion are magnificent (high praise at this point!) and the graphics are quite nice also be considered. However, the otherwise good overall impression hitch to childhood illnesses: the controller, for example, the modern action RPGs should be adjusted. Through the eternal with the mouse clicking but otherwise fairly exciting fights to lose much ride. What I will say this: make a further part or putting a patch. For Flash Games with such a shamelessly good presentation is very rare.

Fan.

Fun

It's fun but it lags to much. And while its lagging the enemies are just destroying me. I'ts not my computer, I have a fast computer.

Nice graphics, but very hard and gets boring

The game has a really nice graphics and I also like that betwean battles you can og around and talk to everyone and the dialoges are not as dull as we are used to in classic RPG-s. Haveing a junky and a whore in the Keep is a goot idea too.
But the battles get very hard after a while becouse as the enemy gets stronger and stronger both in quality and quantity (while you aren't get stronger that much) it requires more and more multitasking from the player to beat them. They are attacking in vast numbers from two directions and you are not only completely alone, but you mut protect a wall too, and somehow need to do this with a very slow walking speed. So good luck finding the fitting ability for eachsituation in a split second and useing them in 1-2 seconds to avoid being completely overhelmed! And if this wouldn't be hard enough the abilities often don't work, at least not instantly, I need to click several times - and aim again before each click - to finally pull them off. And becouse everything is controlled solely by the mouse you can't move while selecting one of your tricks and selecting it's impact area, so this too buyes the enemies plenty of time to damage the wall and me.
The rescources are very scarce too and much of them goes to repairs so you can't really upgrade either.
And why does it get boring after a few battles? Becouse each battle is the same just with more enemies and a few more abilities. Basically you just click around.

My suggestions:
Such intense battles can't be fought effectively with a mouse-controlled character. He should be controlled with WASD and mouse. He also souldn't be completely alone. At least that archery support they are tolking about in the keep sould be countinuos instead of just a one-time barrage of an area. But some controllable freindly fighters would be nice to have too, especially when the enemy gets really numerous and tough. This should give some more variety to the game and keep it from getting boring.

I'm going to take this is stride.

I'm going to concur and give full marks to all other reviews here. There is one point I mean to make here though and that is thinking of the systems that play your game. Anything that cant be upgraded without a minimal of cost is a detriment to the player. The top grossing of all time is Diablo2 and you know why that is? It's because it works on a 10 year old system. That being said, this game has less graphical demands then d2 does and there are major major graphic issues here. I'm happy for those who have a system that can play it and that is fine. The reason I write reviews at all is to make a developer aware of an issue and regardless of the marks it recieves they will be a detriment to any future player as well if there not fixed. FYI i wasn't able to play due to the graphical standstill as well.

Great story, great game

Aside from the lag and other issues people had (it was slow at times for me, but not a huge deal), Battle for Wayland Keep really had me hooked with its story and character dialog.
The difficulty level started out easy enough, but eventually worked its way up to something of a challenge.
I would definitely play Ortus once it comes out; great job!