nice
its not my kind of game but its nicely done for what it is
Reviews for "Battle for Wayland Keep"
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.
My Review
The game concept is OK. The fact that you are the only soldier in action is not.
The game size is way, way too big. It causes lag.
Graphics are all-right. The visuals are not bad, could be better. The character movements are weak, but the effects are OK.
The sound is not bad. Still, could be better.
The game is not bad but not great either.
It's repetitive.
I don't understand people giving perfect scores?
There is far too much lag in this game to be enjoyable (coming from a computer with 3.5 gigs of RAM and a 3.3 GHz CPU).
The controls are iffy, area of effect spells don't want to work right. Argus just walks up to the enemy and hits him when hes clicked, and you WILL click an enemy because there are hundreds of them on screen at any given moment past week 5. I'm currently struggling to finish week 8 on medium quality.
Looks promising, but the spells need to be tweaked.
The power required may be more than most computers can take.
Looking forward to what you do with Ortus.
4/5 7/10
Try to improve upon what you have and Ortus may be greatest flash any of us have ever seen.
Mmm so and so
Controls are bad and sticky, btw how do you cancel a skill ?
there's not much use to the conversations that you make, it would have been awesome if you'd get something from all those conversations
items would be nice also :P